Patch came over yesterday for some more gaming. We went with an afternoon full of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Things went pretty fast, we got through six (three sets of two) scenarios with plenty of time left over. We've done six before, but these were bigger scenarios and we finished earlier ( Read more... )

Well, thanks to holiday business, the group of players for this month slowly winnowed down, until there were two. Patch made it over yesterday, and we had a day of Commands & Colors: Ancients again ( Read more... )

Patch actually lives some distance away (near Sacramento), but he's in the area about every other week for an RPG group he's involved in. This Sunday, I actually got him over on one of those weekends without the rest of the gang.

We had a fun afternoon of breaking in my new set of Commands & Colors: Ancients. He's played it a time or two before, ( Read more... )

Had Mark over today for wargaming. It was his turn to pick, and he had originally wanted to do Spartacus, which both of us think looks interesting. But, he hadn't gotten a chance to get it to me ahead of time, and we're trying to avoid one of us teaching the other cold during these meets ( Read more... )

Well, we were scheduled for a continuation of an interesting Soldier Kings game yesterday, but Patch was unable to make it, so we had to adopt Plan B for the remaining four of us.

Which we quickly decided was a day of Commands & Colors: Ancients. This was another first time for Zjonni, but it's a simple and fast game. All told, we managed ten two ( Read more... )

Had msimon3256 over yesterday. We had planned this to be a play through of the 3rd Crusade in Onward Christian Soldiers (which I haven't played yet, so I'd like to try it), but he had an urge to play Commands & Colors: Ancients instead, so we went with that instead.

The original box for C&C:A is massive, and he has all three expansions, each of which is ( Read more... )

Well, the gang got together for an afternoon of wargaming this Sunday. patch_bunny, msimon3256 and Jason came over for Commands & Colors: Ancients. It's a short game, and we all managed 4 playings of it each ( Read more... )