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& Asia…

Not sure how, but over the past month I have from one VASSAL game in progress to a handful.

I'm Playing Bastogne (SCS) with Steve Arthur - live. 

I'm playing PGG (SPI) with Gesine live 

AfrikaII via PBem with Anthony Lazaroski

and Saratoga with Anthony as well!

Finally NBS system Vimiero from Talavera with 

I have a really exciting game of DAK2 going in the real world right now, as well as A Most Dangerous Time.

Then finally a Play by…

I needed to create flags in a hurry! So I wrote a program that does just that you can check out the details here >>

http://nbixel.tumblr.com/post/51198547852/one-of-the-things-i-like-to-avoid-is-repetition

this is a new one for me:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/12275514#12275514

Whilst I guess I was not contributing content to the actual discussion at hand and responding to the off topic (now deleted by poster) in the thread...7 days? niiice.

I get the message.

Bah.

How pathetic.

This year as an optional assignment for my political science class on peacebuilding and civil conflict, I gave my students the option of writing an interactive story rather than the usual research papers using Inklewriter. Four groups decided to do so, and the result is four online…

Played another three Combat Commander games (three Tournament scenarios using RPG) with my Dad

No time to waffle as such just to stick up a bunch of pics I took during the games.



My Russia Rifle Companys assault German Detachment on hill…

Several (well four) games ongoing at present using Vassal (and ACTs for couple).









First up WW2 Barbarossa To Berlin against Greig.

My Eastern Front…

Teutoburger Wald depicts the battle which took place between three Roman Legions under the command of Govenor Varus, and a confederation of Germanic tribes.

Varus was en-route to winter quarters when he and his three Legions were caught in a cunning trap. Surrounded on all sides, this was to be a battle of pure survival.

The outcome for Varus was not good. He and his three Legions were destroyed, leaving this to be the worst (or very close to) defeat for…

The Final Campaign of the Eternal Struggle Against Neocolonial Exploitation had begun, and the 1^st Revolutionary Combat Brigade of the People’s Democratic Republic of East Norkea had been…

Many games come oh so very close to being good, or event great, but don't...quite...make it. That's the topic for this episode, noble failures. Even if they didn't completely succeed, from a design or a market perspective, these games deserve respect. (Many wargames included.) Plus, Tom reviews Eclipse, both the new iPad version and the original boardgame.

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