After their recent repulse, the rebels have regrouped, moved by the flank, and thrown a brigade over the river but Dominion forces are already on the scene. I really need to work on the lighting in my room. Taxes, yard work, household taxes, preparations for Huzzah, some local volunteer stuff, and….and….and suddenly I felt like I needed to play a simple, meaningless, solo game. Well … Continue reading They’re Back!
“and on the right the veteran Rossius, Lord of Belmontia stood surrounded by his bold horsemen” Today’s game with the Greenwood Wargamers was a live test of Jeff’s Huzzah game: Gaugamela! using the Epic C&C Ancients system. It was good to see some familiar faces on the table. Well good to see the ones around it too but Jeff kindly gave a home to what … Continue reading Thundering Hooves in the Valley
Three weeks to go. First mock up of the layout. There are more troops on hand than are needed but those selected will be be inspected and touched up before embarking. First priority at the moment is the table. The convention table will be 12″ longer and 6″ wider than mine so I have to keep that in mind. Still lots of work to be … Continue reading Three Weeks and Counting
Today I “Hungout” at Rob’s place 2,000 km away for a playtest of our Ambush scenario for Huzzah. End Game. The ambushers will retire and the wagons will make it through.Photo by Rob since I couldn’t figure out how to do a screen capture on the new version of Google Hangouts. We had a host of unrelated technical problems but we overcame them and managed … Continue reading An Ether Wargame
It’s been a long and winding road for mascot racer SuperTuxKart, but after more than ten years of continuous and dedicated progress, the team has finally announced the release of build 1.0, marking an important development milestone for the project. As quoted from the official release post: Yes, if you have followed our development a bit, that might be a bit of a surprise. But … Continue reading SuperTuxKart 1.0 release
It had to be tried. The Grand Experiment grinds to a halt as the list of unresolved rules questions begins to grow exponentially. I had previously tried a similar approach using the Square Brigadier but this was going to be less abstract and enable me to fight reasonable recreations of small historical actions like the Battles of Ridgeway and Cut Knife Creek. It took nearly … Continue reading Well, I did have my doubts BUT…..
Since my logical mind was having trouble figuring out exactly what my emotional mind was looking for, I decided to try laying out the soldiers and more or less pushing them around to see what developed and let the rules take shape as I went. So far it seems to be working. 5 turns in, this encounter battle is starting to develop nicely. Here’s what … Continue reading Reconnaissance by Fire
Having made a comment about randomness in my Saturday post, I spent a fair amount of time yesterday thinking about it and thinking about various comments until it hit me that I was way off track. The problem wasn’t a lack of randomness and fun, (I’m not really keen on either of those) but once mentioned that stuck with me. The actual problem would be … Continue reading Words. Choose them carefully.
It occurred to me this week that one possible reason that several of my recent games have seemed a little dull is that I had again allowed my suppressed suspicion of randomness to coax me into limiting the range of possible combat results. I suspect its a byproduct of having played too much WRG Ancients at too young an age. At least I’m not rolling … Continue reading What to do on a Sunday?
The hide-and-seek simulator The Dark Mod (TDM) has had a new release as of last week. For those who don’t remember, TDM is a Doom 3 mod-gone-standalone that aims to recreate a similar game experience to that of Looking Glass Studio’s Thief series. It is known amongst both stealth game aficionados and free software enthusiasts as a project of exceptional quality, with a dedicated community … Continue reading Out in the shadows: Dark Mod 2.07 released
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