I'd shown Sarah one of my new acquisitions last week, and, upon finding that it was just the two of us for Thursday-night gaming, she had to make a choice: play Space Empires again, or learn Bomber Command. As she put it, "It's the choice between a game I really like or one I don't know!" But she, like me, enjoys learning new games and … Continue reading First game of Bomber Command
My Thursday nights are generally spent playing wargames of one sort or another. Of late, we’ve been playing some 3-player games, but with Jon away, Sarah and I decided to play some Netrunner instead. It’s a really great game, but it didn’t really take very long to get through five games and decide we needed to tinker with our decks some more. We’d brought in … Continue reading A game of Labyrinth: the War on Terror
I was able to play Andean Abyss last night. Hooray! A four-player game, with none of us having played it before. However, Sarah and I have played Labyrinth several times, so we were familiar with some of the game's mechanics. The Cartels won, the Government got close. At one point, Sarah (playing FARC) pointed out that all the insurgents had reached their victory conditions. Which … Continue reading Andean Abyss: Thoughts after first game
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
