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Post by scalydemon on Sept 7, 2018 21:59:29 GMT -6
I played We the People at a bar over Labor Day wknd. I try to hit the table with that game at least twice a year.
Latest acquisition is a 2e copy of Hammer of the Scots. I have played and enjoyed it a few times, but always someone else's copy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2018 8:04:46 GMT -6
I've started playing Test of Honour. I don't know much about wargaming but I think the rules are very new school. The game feels more like a samurai movie battle than a historical battle.
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Sept 8, 2018 18:45:19 GMT -6
And because I know y'all live and die by what I am doing on Ye Olde Wargamme Table, I feel obliged to inform y'all that tomorrow night I will be playing a 28mm Colonials game, featuring my Sudan British against my good friend Jason's French, using his homebrew adaptation of Mongoose's "Battlefield Evolution."
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Post by scalydemon on Sept 26, 2018 18:35:12 GMT -6
My latest play was Hammer of the Scots.
Currently trying to schedule out with some amigos either a 4 player game of Time Of Crisis, or a 3 player game of Triumph & Tragedy. Scheduling a 2 player game is so easy. Scheduling multi player games reminds me of D&D game scheduling (pain in the arse)
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Post by skars on Oct 8, 2018 18:28:01 GMT -6
We had a massive warmaster game a few weeks back and it was glorious. Thousands of points on each side and just a wonderful day of gaming.
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Post by owlorbs on Oct 12, 2018 8:59:37 GMT -6
I recently played Successors third edition by GMT. Pretty fantastic.
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Post by rsdean on Oct 13, 2018 14:47:15 GMT -6
I haven't posted anything here in a long while; my club has been running a monthly campaign using Osprey's Ghost Archipelago rules, and today was one of the battle days...
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Post by scalydemon on Oct 15, 2018 18:45:21 GMT -6
They had a used copy of Hannibal: R vs C at my FLGS so I bought it. Valley games Ed. Hope to get it to the table soon. Never played it.
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Post by stevemitchell on Nov 3, 2018 11:36:21 GMT -6
I played Konigsberg from Revolution Games. This covers the Russian offensive to overrun East Prussia in early 1945. The Germans were able to defend their territory better than they did historically, so they won the game. An interesting situation and a fun system.
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Post by scalydemon on Nov 21, 2018 21:04:03 GMT -6
Last wknd I attended a wargame mini Con here locally.
Played an 8 player game of Machiavelli (got to use my 1981 AH copy), also played Triumph & Tragedy and played in a Manouevre tournament and played a game of Operation Battleaxe. Fun wknd.
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Post by stevemitchell on Dec 3, 2018 21:46:03 GMT -6
I played the big Mobile Bay scenario from GMT's Iron and Oak. Actually, this is two linked scenarios--first the Union fleet has to pass the Confederate forts, then any Union ships that manage to do so tangle with the Confederate ships in the inner harbor. The Confederates won a surprising victory here--not Admiral Farragut's finest hour!
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Post by LouGoncey on Dec 4, 2018 18:08:19 GMT -6
Played Paper War's RUSSIA FALLING solo. This game was designed with single & two-player modes,right? How are the solo rules? Did not have solo rules. Typical wargame solo rules - I played both sides. |
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Post by scalydemon on Dec 11, 2018 14:32:29 GMT -6
I got to play Hannibal; Rome vs Carthage yesterday. Fun , well balanced game with neat historical chrome. I bought the Valley Games Ed a few months ago and it was well worth the $40 for a used copy.
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Post by stevemitchell on Dec 11, 2018 20:54:53 GMT -6
I played two campaigns of Nightfighter Ace from Compass Games. The first one was short--my pilot flew 5 sorties, shot down 2 bombers, and then was blown out of the sky by a British nightfighter. But my second pilot survived an entire year of combat, with 66 sorties flown and 44 bombers shot down, and gained a batch of medals and promotions in the process. The pride of the Luftwaffe!
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Post by scalydemon on Dec 17, 2018 19:33:44 GMT -6
Got in a 4 player game of Time of Crisis yesterday @ the local gamepub. I actually won! This game is best with 4 players, the other times I had only played it with 3.
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Post by tkdco2 on Dec 18, 2018 3:59:23 GMT -6
My friends got me the Highlander Board Game. We tried it out; it's a fun game. I'm going to paint the miniatures from the boxed set.
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Post by scalydemon on Dec 20, 2018 21:58:04 GMT -6
My friends got me the Highlander Board Game. We tried it out; it's a fun game. I'm going to paint the miniatures from the boxed set. Post some pics when you're done if you get a chance  |
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Post by tkdco2 on Dec 20, 2018 22:59:58 GMT -6
My friends got me the Highlander Board Game. We tried it out; it's a fun game. I'm going to paint the miniatures from the boxed set. Post some pics when you're done if you get a chance Will do. I am experimenting with a couple of techniques, so my work may not win any awards.  |
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Post by Starbeard on Dec 28, 2018 19:55:53 GMT -6
I recently picked up Strategy & Tactics #54, which came with Dixie, basically a Very British Civil War type scenario but in the States. The hypothetical scenario is that, for whatever number of coincidences, the Confederacy successfully seceded from the Union, and in the 1930s the two countries decide to duke it out again, as part of the then-fashionable trend of conducting civil wars.
It gets highly mixed reviews at BoardGameGeek, as pretty much all magazine hex wargames do. I've read that if you squint and pretend that the armoured brigades are cavalry, and that the scenario actually takes place at the turn of the century, then it immediately jumps up in quality and simulation. Should be fun for a spin or two anyway, I enjoy wargaming despite the rules more than I enjoy refusing to wargame to spite the rules.
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Post by owlorbs on Jan 5, 2019 8:32:25 GMT -6
Recently I've played 878: Vikings (Academy), Wizard Kings 2.0 (Columbia), C&C Napoleonics (GMT) and a great, obscure game of fictional-medieval skullduggery by Al Nofi (designer of Imperium Romanum) from 1979. The latter could be used for a Chainmail campaign.  |
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Post by stonetoflesh on Jan 15, 2019 11:12:16 GMT -6
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Post by scalydemon on Jan 17, 2019 0:21:58 GMT -6
I got to attend Wargame Wednesday night at the FLGS tonight and got Race to the Sea, 1914 to the table. Fun, diceless game. Interesting design.
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Post by stevemitchell on Feb 1, 2019 14:40:50 GMT -6
Two scenarios from Stalin's Triumph, Lock n'Load's platoon-level game based on the Battle of Kursk. The Russians won the first one, the Germans won the second.
Six battles from Hollandspiele's Table Battles--Bosworth, Ivry, White Mountain, Marston Moor, the Dunes, and Oudenarde. The side that won historically won each battle.
And back to Kursk again with Platoon Commander Deluxe: The Battle of Kursk from Flying Pig Games. The Germans won the first scenario.
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Post by scalydemon on Feb 15, 2019 10:23:24 GMT -6
Oh man, call me Mr. Jones for I am jonesing for some wargmame action. Been dealing with weather stuff and kid stuff and work stuff blah  Did watch some goof flicks on Amazon and/or Netflix , Journey's End, A Bridge too Far and a documentary on The Battle of Chickamauga, also have sold a few dust collecting games via BGG market |
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Post by tec97 on Feb 15, 2019 10:36:00 GMT -6
I'm purging my game collection at the moment and as a result, I'm going to be putting a few war games up on ebay shortly. I'll put up a quick note in Classifieds.
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Post by scalydemon on Mar 18, 2019 14:32:02 GMT -6
Played a face-to-face game of When Eagles Fight , East front WWI. Very old school mechanics. Too long of a game for what it is.
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Post by owlorbs on Mar 19, 2019 8:13:41 GMT -6
I started a 2p learning game of Here I Stand from GMT. I'm pretty impressed so far. If I can convince four more people to join us for 12 hours I would definitely like to play the full 1517 game.
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Mar 19, 2019 19:09:28 GMT -6
Hmmm... six months since I've posted on this topic.
Since then, I've played too much Warhamster 40,000, not enough Dragon Rampant, and a few games of The Men Who Would Be Kings.
I've also dove headfirst into Rangers of Shadowdeep, Five Parsecs: Gang Warfare, Five Leagues From The Borderlands, and Operation: Last Train. They are all solo wargames.
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Post by scalydemon on Mar 20, 2019 9:38:29 GMT -6
I started a 2p learning game of Here I Stand from GMT. I'm pretty impressed so far. If I can convince four more people to join us for 12 hours I would definitely like to play the full 1517 game. Here I Stand is very popular here (Seattle), at a recent CON I attended there were two full tables playing it. I'm sure it is a blast with a full table |
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Post by owlorbs on Apr 10, 2019 12:29:59 GMT -6
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