European Theater (Turn 4) Allied forces come ashore in Greater Germany, but take heavy losses in the face of stiff resistance from the Italian defenders that have poured north to defend Berlin. The Germans take Karelia and Leningrad. Russian forces continue to
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War Room continues with Turn 3. At the end of movement, the situation is as shown in the video above. In the European Theater… German bombers seek out American troop transports in the Atlantic. US and UK Fleets put to sea in
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We finished two rounds of our global War Room board game the first night. This will be our first game and a learning game for us… For those of you not familiar with the game, War Room is a game covering the
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Five cities competed to be the most populous city in America during our two games of Suburbia: Collector’s Edition this month – New York / Yellow (Chuck), Los Angeles / Purple (Doug), Chicago / Black (Peter), Washington, DC / Red (Scott G.),
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Chuck (Santa Maria Pizza or “SMP”), Doug (Duck Diner or “DD”), James (Xanga Blues Bar or “XBB”), and Scott G. (Gluttony Inc. Burgers ‘GIB”) sat down to play a learning game of Food Chain Magnate. The only player with any experience was
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Onward to Venus The Russian Empire (Purple, Chuck), The British Empire (Red, Wil), America (Green, Tim), and the German Empire (Yellow, Jeff) fight for dominance of the Solar System in this H.G. Wells / Steampunk / Victorian-era themed game. The game is
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Battle of Trafalgar We played the historic Battle of Trafalgar from the Napoleonic Wars using miniatures some time back, but I never posted anything about it, so I thought I would share some highlights from the battle… Night 1 The
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Scott G. and Doug played 1960: The Making of the President as the Kennedy (Blue) and Nixon (Red) campaigns, respectively. We played the Z-man Games version of the game, which differs from the current version that is published by GMT Games. Scott
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The Games of Thrones: The Board Game We finished a 6-player Game of Thrones session this week. The Houses were as follows: Stark (Dominic), Lannister (Wil), Greyjoy (Doug), Baratheon (Jeff), Martell (Chuck), and Tyrell (Peter). The game started with the Houses
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Eclipse Of the five empires competing for galactic domination, four were non-human – the Eridani (better tech to start, but fewer resources / discs make it a challenging play) – Peter, Draco (friends of the Ancients) – Wil, Mechanema (builders – cheaper
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