Randy and I have been playing a few World War 2 games recently: Combat Commander: Pacific and Memoir ’44 (with the Campaign Book) in particular. Our game in the Pacific Theatre last night was dreadful for my marines: we were landing on a beach where Randy’s Japanese had a most incredible defensive structure. The initial landing saw the death of all three of the first … Continue reading Back in World War 2
I’ve been a bit busy recently. The good news is that I seem to be a little ahead of the game at work; I’ve sent a pile of report templates away to be proofread so it looks like I’ll actually be able to make them available in good time to the teachers. Yay! Sunday’s D&D session saw us almost reaching the end of Pyramid of … Continue reading Back and Forth
It’s been something of a busy week. I’ve been setting up all the end-of-semester reports at work, which is actually coming along nicely for once; I think I’m ahead of the deadlines. I’ve also been working on the computer room booking web interface, and that’s looking good as well. Gaming? Well, I spent last Sunday afternoon at Good Games, the new game store in Ballarat, … Continue reading It’s been a busy week…
Well, MilSims have apparently sent me Arcane Power. Which means I’ll probably have it on Wednesday evening. That should make the arcanists in my D&D campaigns happy. We’ve got seven or eight encounters left in Pyramid of Shadows. It was a better session this weekend, although there wasn’t enough roleplaying with the Far Realm cultists to properly amuse Nate and Adam. Greg was hilarious playing … Continue reading Arcane Power
Well, after reading Queen of Shadows for the second time (and then The Invisible Ring yet another time), I’ve got to say that it is definitely Anne Bishop’s strongest book for a little while. It’s much, much better than The Invisible Ring, despite drawing on that book for some of its resonances. One of the truly exceptional things about Queen of Shadows is that in her Black Jewels trilogy, Anne Bishop told the … Continue reading Anne Bishop – Queen of Shadows
Arriving in the post on Monday: Empire of the Sun (The Pacific War, 1941-45) – a Card-Driven wargame by Mark Herman Caesar: Conquest of Gaul – one of the Great Battles of History series. Also by Mark Herman (and Richard Berg). C3i Magazine #17. (Yes, they’re up to #21 yes; I’ve been getting back-issues!) CCoG became a lot more interesting after the "Great Battles of Spartacus" expansion … Continue reading New Wargames
Wandering into a bookstore last night, I found that the latest Anne Bishop book had been released: The Shadow Queen. I bought it and, after getting home from playing wargames with Randy, I read it. It’s not that long a book, despite the 400+ pages (there’s a lot of white space). It was very enjoyable, though. It meant I finally got to sleep a way past midnight, but … Continue reading Books and games
I’ve spent part of the last week playing one of Richard Berg’s Great Battles of History games: SPQR, Great Battles of the Roman Republic. This is a game I bought early last year (IIRC, or maybe late in 2007), and I played the introductory scenario, one of the simpler scenarios, and then put it away for a bit. Now it’s out again, and I’m … Continue reading Romans vs Barbarians
I’ve posted pictures of a large part of my game collection on multiply and on boardgamegeek. 🙂 I’m running out of room. No, can that, I’ve run out of room. Some time ago. Things are needing to go into storage now… Continue reading Game collection
(Oh, Adam & Nate… could you forward a link to this to Greg in case he forgets to check Multiply again… ) Greg’s PC in our Pyramid of Shadows adventure has suffered the ultimate fate… she’s turned into a werewolf. Well, sort of. She thinks she’s a werewolf, and so that’s enough for the rest of us! Greg and Josh managed to fail some really important Endurance and … Continue reading Greg’s new PC
