I like Not War But Murder, it is a very well done game. I'm glad you are looking forward to Washington's War, you can download the playtest kit over on its topic where we have a very active playtest going on.
Tu verra LnL est un jeu assez simple, j'ai initié un ami en 2 heures tout en jouant avec lui. Pour commencer, tu as le choix. Bon... actuellement le seul jeu "de base" dispo est A day of Heroes mais il est vraiment très sympa. Le contraste entre des troupes US surentrainées et suréquipées et les milices somaliennes peu fiables mais nombreuses et téméraires est vraiment très bon. Le mois prochain il y aura Heroes of the Blizkrieg sur la campagne de France suivi de la ré-édition de Bands of heroes.
Concernant Cthulhu je me suis arrété à la 5.5, un jour si j'ai le courage (et le temps) je maitriserai à nouveau une campagne Delta Green... En tout cas, la 6ème de Sans détour semble très sympa.
Yes, I am still contributing to the Dice Tower. As a matter of fact I have a review of Red November by Fantasy Flight on the current episode (#142).
I have been playing a lot of Warhammer 40k 5th edition as of late. My son found my old models in the basement and he is really enjoying it. It is hard to tell your son no I don't play that when he wants to play so bad. My six year old daughter also enjoys playing the game and painting the minis. 40k in 40 minutes rules on Fridays nights for now.
Other than that I have played mostly ASL (as usual) as far as wargames goes. Right now I am looking forward to LnL Noville coming in my mail box soon!
The family is doing wee, and I hope yours is the same.
Nicolas, parfais... Je devrai me reabonner a Skype, mais wargameroom, a cette qualite d'etre live et simple.
Je suis souvent disponible en PM, 12:00 a 15:30, my time... J'imagine qu'on ajoute 6 heures pour la FRance... Gardons contact... Pour les fetes, je suis dispo jusqu'au 30
Thanks for the comments on 1989 Nic. Since you know the GMT cdgs I would appreciate any helpful ideas you have. Once we have a solid ruleset we can tweak some of the cards and tweak the set up. I have played the game solo a few times and it seems to work pretty well, though I think the support check mechanism might be overpowered?
By the way I have a boy 6 and a girl 1. Tough to get much gaming in when you have so many story books to read, isn't it?
thanks a lot, karen, very king of you
Daughter's adjusting well : she's 5, actually pretty happy, playing the mini-mum very well...
no jealousy at all, for now...because the dad is really careful with her of course...
Perhaps you can bring your little one and wife over for a holiday--Lancaster is a good family location, so they would not have to play boardgames to enjoy themselves. Two of my sisters are coming out with their children--and only the ones who play boardgames will end up pale from lack of sunshine :)
I will ask my friends about the two-player variant. I won the cards when I played at PrezCon, but I haven't tried it yet. The best way to learn, of course, is with other people who already know the rules; however, my husband and I and a friend learned the three-player version without too much pain. I'm learning the rules even better in my current PBEM game. I suspect that you could get involved in a beginner game that way, as well. If you would like to give that a try, I'll ask my friends (designer and playtesters) who run games like that how you can get involved.
Thanks for your nice comment! We allow the French at WBC :) You are definitely invited. If the dollar continues to plummet in value, it may be practically free for you to come over ;-) With international airlines allowed to fly to more cities here soon, perhaps airfare will go down, and just think of all the discounts you could get on products while you are here. A friend of mine from England used to fill an extra suitcase with dental floss, toothpaste, shampoo, etc. that he had purchased at Walmart. He said that even when he declared it all and paid duty it was still less expensive than buying it all at home...plus, he got in a week of boardgaming during his shopping excursion. In any case, good gaming! The next time I come to France, we'll have to get in some gaming time together.
You can create a new image scaled to the size of a card. Then use the dropper to pick a color background of a card you like (like Wilderness War biege), then use fill to fill the frame with that color. You can create another for the "deck strip").
For basic manipulation of the pictures I use Picasa2.
http://picasa.google.com/features/index.html
To design the card layout I use scribus.
http://www.scribus.net/
You can create image frames for the card background, deck strip background and the image for the event. You can create a text frame for the Text of the event, the Ops value and the "EARLY/MIDDLE/LATE YEAR" text. Also you can create any shape for the Ops value background and do a color fill for which side can use the event (or both).
It is pretty easy to do and these are free downloads.
J'adore FAB:The Bulge. PAr ailleurs j'ai bien aimé EE et un de mes amis a joué a Asia Engulfed a GMT East et il a adoré. Je n'aime pas trop les jeux de Columbia, que ce soit Napoleon, ou Quebec, Sam Grant, East Front. Je les ai tous essayé il y a longtemps et meme revendu dans la plupart des cas.
Le truc avec Europe Engulfed, c'est que tu peux jouer la seconde guerre mondiale en deux trois sessions, facon strategique. Il n'y a pas beaucoup de jeu qui nous permet de le faire en "aussi peu" de temps.
On a beua se faire pleins de partie, mais il n'arrive que rarement qu'on aille au bout de la partie, j'aime voir le "end of game".
FAB: Bulge, c'est 4 heures. Evidemment pas les premeires parties. Mais on l'a fait en 5. J'y rejouerais avec un jouer qui a experimente le jeu, 4 heures.
Pour Nappy Wars, on peut prendre notre temps... Vous surtout... :-)
La cigogne est du pour passer quand? Pour nous la derniere fois, elle s'est enervée et nous a donné un rendez vous a Chongqing... ;-)
Tu connais le site www.wargameroom.com?
Visite le, c'est tres simple, surtout pour les Card Driven Game.
Je vois que tu as Rick Young sur tes friends, J'ai joué deux parties de FAb:The Bulge a GMT East ce weekend... Excellent. Je n'aime as les block games en general, mais celui la, il est vraiment excellent.
Read "The Last Duel" by Eric Jager. Subtitled: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France. Could be a Hollywood movie??? Good.
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Chris:
Really - that's a good point. I wonder if the Audi folks realized the message they were sending out with this one. I doubt if anyone found it funny in the least.
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Tu verra LnL est un jeu assez simple, j'ai initié un ami en 2 heures tout en jouant avec lui. Pour commencer, tu as le choix. Bon... actuellement le seul jeu "de base" dispo est A day of Heroes mais il est vraiment très sympa. Le contraste entre des troupes US surentrainées et suréquipées et les milices somaliennes peu fiables mais nombreuses et téméraires est vraiment très bon. Le mois prochain il y aura Heroes of the Blizkrieg sur la campagne de France suivi de la ré-édition de Bands of heroes.
Concernant Cthulhu je me suis arrété à la 5.5, un jour si j'ai le courage (et le temps) je maitriserai à nouveau une campagne Delta Green... En tout cas, la 6ème de Sans détour semble très sympa.
David
I have been playing a lot of Warhammer 40k 5th edition as of late. My son found my old models in the basement and he is really enjoying it. It is hard to tell your son no I don't play that when he wants to play so bad. My six year old daughter also enjoys playing the game and painting the minis. 40k in 40 minutes rules on Fridays nights for now.
Other than that I have played mostly ASL (as usual) as far as wargames goes. Right now I am looking forward to LnL Noville coming in my mail box soon!
The family is doing wee, and I hope yours is the same.
Je suis souvent disponible en PM, 12:00 a 15:30, my time... J'imagine qu'on ajoute 6 heures pour la FRance... Gardons contact... Pour les fetes, je suis dispo jusqu'au 30
On pourrais y jouer, PoG, BtB ou EotS ?
Promene toi sur le site
By the way I have a boy 6 and a girl 1. Tough to get much gaming in when you have so many story books to read, isn't it?
Ted
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I just got your reguest. I guess that you are interested in the game subjects of Indochine et Algerie :-)
Daughter's adjusting well : she's 5, actually pretty happy, playing the mini-mum very well...
no jealousy at all, for now...because the dad is really careful with her of course...
any kids ? wargamers in the family ?
I will ask my friends about the two-player variant. I won the cards when I played at PrezCon, but I haven't tried it yet. The best way to learn, of course, is with other people who already know the rules; however, my husband and I and a friend learned the three-player version without too much pain. I'm learning the rules even better in my current PBEM game. I suspect that you could get involved in a beginner game that way, as well. If you would like to give that a try, I'll ask my friends (designer and playtesters) who run games like that how you can get involved.
Thanks for your nice comment! We allow the French at WBC :) You are definitely invited. If the dollar continues to plummet in value, it may be practically free for you to come over ;-) With international airlines allowed to fly to more cities here soon, perhaps airfare will go down, and just think of all the discounts you could get on products while you are here. A friend of mine from England used to fill an extra suitcase with dental floss, toothpaste, shampoo, etc. that he had purchased at Walmart. He said that even when he declared it all and paid duty it was still less expensive than buying it all at home...plus, he got in a week of boardgaming during his shopping excursion. In any case, good gaming! The next time I come to France, we'll have to get in some gaming time together.
To do the card backgrounds I use GIMP.
http://www.gimp.org/
You can create a new image scaled to the size of a card. Then use the dropper to pick a color background of a card you like (like Wilderness War biege), then use fill to fill the frame with that color. You can create another for the "deck strip").
For basic manipulation of the pictures I use Picasa2.
http://picasa.google.com/features/index.html
To design the card layout I use scribus.
http://www.scribus.net/
You can create image frames for the card background, deck strip background and the image for the event. You can create a text frame for the Text of the event, the Ops value and the "EARLY/MIDDLE/LATE YEAR" text. Also you can create any shape for the Ops value background and do a color fill for which side can use the event (or both).
It is pretty easy to do and these are free downloads.
Le truc avec Europe Engulfed, c'est que tu peux jouer la seconde guerre mondiale en deux trois sessions, facon strategique. Il n'y a pas beaucoup de jeu qui nous permet de le faire en "aussi peu" de temps.
On a beua se faire pleins de partie, mais il n'arrive que rarement qu'on aille au bout de la partie, j'aime voir le "end of game".
FAB: Bulge, c'est 4 heures. Evidemment pas les premeires parties. Mais on l'a fait en 5. J'y rejouerais avec un jouer qui a experimente le jeu, 4 heures.
Pour Nappy Wars, on peut prendre notre temps... Vous surtout... :-)
La cigogne est du pour passer quand? Pour nous la derniere fois, elle s'est enervée et nous a donné un rendez vous a Chongqing... ;-)
Tu connais le site www.wargameroom.com?
Visite le, c'est tres simple, surtout pour les Card Driven Game.
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