I just finished a solo play of scenario four, “The Battle of Bloody Gulch” from Band of Brothers: Screaming Eagles. It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot about the game. I’m looking forward to playing more and learning more about the
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Band of Brothers – Preparing for The Battle of Bloody Gulch
So far, I’ve played the first three scenarios of Band of Brothers: Screaming Eagles and have set up the fourth scenario, which I hope to play today. The photo above shows a close-up of the initial deployment of the 101st Airborne in Carentan. Doesn’t look
Continue readingBombing the Reich: A weekend playing B-17 Flying Fortress Leader
This weekend, my regular gaming group wasn’t able to meet and it was rainy most of the time, so I dug into one of my solitaire only games, B-17 Flying Fortress Leader. I’ve only played one other of DVG’s Leader series games (although I have several
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I knew that I was getting a lot of Heroes of Normandie and Shadows over Normandie stuff, but I’m shocked at how long it’s taking to organize everything. I’m down to the last few bits, but still need to change out some of the stuff
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Back in July of 2015, I started a “Solitaire Games List” on Board Game Geek (BGG) to keep track and rate the solitaire games that I have either played or are in my collection to play at a future date, starting with one of the
Continue readingGaming this weekend
This past Saturday, I met up with some friends to play games. There was another guy at the game store looking to play, so he joined us as well. We started off playing Stock Pile because we thought another guy might be playing as well,
Continue readingKnights, Merchants, and Traders
This weekend I met up with two other board gamers and we played three different games: Lancaster, Marco Polo, and Stock Pile. None of us had played Lancaster or Marco Polo before, but I read the rules and watched a few videos ahead of time,
Continue readingFriday Gaming Update – Soldiers, Knights, and Farmers
This week I’ve been spending a lot of time learning the rules for Heroes of Normandie and playing some solo scenarios (just playing both sides to the best of my ability) and it’s a great game. At some point soon, I plan to do a
Continue readingCannibalism, Gambling, and Cowboys
What do these three topics have in common? The three games that I played last week. The first game we played was a game I had never heard of (for good reason) called Chew. It’s based on a comic book by the same name and
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