Thursday, August 23, 2007
This week has been a great one for getting my war game on.
On Sunday and Monday, I played through the first Ambush mission. Unfortunately, while I thought I had just eeked out a victory with exactly thirteen victory points, it turns out I didn't take enough VPs off for my two incapacitated -- and one dead -- soldiers. I actually lost the scenario by three victory points. Comments on BoardGameGeek suggest the first mission is actually pretty hard, and winning it generally means few to no casualties (which probably means somehow completely avoiding the minefields).
Tuesday night was a step back in time to the 14th Century with Dave Bloomberg and Men of Iron. As a fairly simple and straightforward game of medieval warfare, Men of Iron quickly became a must-have. The Poitiers scenario we played was a fun, even if Dave had a rather lucky streak for activation rolls (his French just rolled over my defending English; it was brutal). I need to buy this game, especially now that I know the second game in the series will focus on the Crusades. It would also be very suitable to solitaire play.
I introduced Rich to Sergeants! on the Eastern Front on Wednesday night, and he proceeded to kick my ass. I made some critical errors, and there are things I know I would do differently as the Germans in that scenario now that I've thought about it, but Rich played quite well and focused on his objective. It still came down to the eighth turn, where my engineers were just about done wiring the bridge -- so it was close.
I wish I could play war games this much every week.
On Sunday and Monday, I played through the first Ambush mission. Unfortunately, while I thought I had just eeked out a victory with exactly thirteen victory points, it turns out I didn't take enough VPs off for my two incapacitated -- and one dead -- soldiers. I actually lost the scenario by three victory points. Comments on BoardGameGeek suggest the first mission is actually pretty hard, and winning it generally means few to no casualties (which probably means somehow completely avoiding the minefields).
Tuesday night was a step back in time to the 14th Century with Dave Bloomberg and Men of Iron. As a fairly simple and straightforward game of medieval warfare, Men of Iron quickly became a must-have. The Poitiers scenario we played was a fun, even if Dave had a rather lucky streak for activation rolls (his French just rolled over my defending English; it was brutal). I need to buy this game, especially now that I know the second game in the series will focus on the Crusades. It would also be very suitable to solitaire play.
I introduced Rich to Sergeants! on the Eastern Front on Wednesday night, and he proceeded to kick my ass. I made some critical errors, and there are things I know I would do differently as the Germans in that scenario now that I've thought about it, but Rich played quite well and focused on his objective. It still came down to the eighth turn, where my engineers were just about done wiring the bridge -- so it was close.
I wish I could play war games this much every week.
// posted by Chris @ 10:41 AM 
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