Boo!

That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die.

Total Eclipse

And the gaming year comes to an end with a bang! This week Dave and Andrew got me out of my cave (and into Andrew's garage) to try Eclipse ... another Grail Game that promised to deliver a strategic space "4X" game experience with a minimum of fuss and time commitment thanks to modern Euro...

Double Decker

Dominion is an excellent game that I haven't played nearly enough. I haven't bothered to expand Dominion or purchase any of the various deckbuilding games that have followed in Dominion's wake because, well, Dominion is an excellent game that I haven't played nearly enough. I've played some Ascension on the iPad and I have my...

Back From The Dead!

Surprise! Geekend Forever has looked like Geekend ForNEVER most of this year, as this blog has been dormant for ten months, and not without reason -- the June "deadline" for a 2011 Geekend came and went without a peep, and this year's gaming activity has fallen to a ten-year low. My now-complete D&D campaign sucked...

Gembloux It

This isn't the Memoir '44 after-action report that I'd hoped to pen tonight, but it will have to do. As disappointed as I was to cancel our weekend M44 event, it was the right choice -- while I am on the mend I had very little energy today, and it rained, too, which would have...

Quarantine!

It is with great regret that I must announce the postponement of Sunday's Memoir '44 event. I've been sick all week, and while I expect (hope?) to make a full recovery by Sunday, I don't know if my energy level will be up to running this event. Further, I don't want any of your kids...

Train Them! Excite Them! Arm Them!

Based on email responses I expect we will have at least a dozen dirty bodies for Sunday's Memoir '44 event, so it's game on! Bring your kids by and we will turn them into plastic warriors. See you at 1:00!

Napoleon Simplex

For reasons outlined in my prior post, I decided to make a solitaire project of Victory Point Games' Jena 20. The Napoleonic 20 series is a corps-level look at big Napoleonic battles with smallish maps and twenty or fewer counters. They seem spiritually descended from the old SPI Quads, but the games are enhanced by...

Hand Solo

My life must be out of control right now, because I've felt the itch to play solitaire wargames. When everything else is a spinning maelstrom there's no better tonic than to settle in with some hexes and counters and just control things. It's meditative, entertaining, therapeutic ... and, I admit, a little bit pathetic. But...

Memoir ’44 Day — January 30!

It will come as a shock to the harumphy constituency of this blog ... but I'm going to invite (shudder) children to play games in the garage. Children? Playing games? Preposterous! It may be a fool's errand but I thought I'd try to pry my boys off of World of Warcraft for a day by...