Monthly Archives: September 2014
Tuesday Screenshot – Bliiiiipsssss Innnnnnn SPAAAAAAAAACE!
Vincent Kowolik, 23 September 2014
This Tuesday screenshot is just a preview of what’s to come in a much longer AAR feature… stay tuned!
Grogheads Reviews Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front
Vance Strickland, 20 September 2014
So how does the newest installment of Battle Academy stack up to the reputation set by its predecessor? Let’s find out…
Never in the history of mankind has there been such a titanic struggle as the one played out on the Russian Front during World War II. The German army, already veterans of the new mobile style of combat with highly trained and for the most part well led troops. And the Russian Army, gutted of its leadership by years of purges, highly motivated by fighting for they very own homes, villages and cities. Locked in combat that took place across vast stretches of open farmland, or through tough urban battle grounds where every corner could bring swift death. Now you get to lead parts of the huge warmachines that clashed in Russia.
Battle Academy 2: East Front is the follow up to the very successful Battle Academy that took us through the fighting in West and in the desert of North Africa. Here you will be challenged in fighting that lasted for almost 5 years. From the opening acts of Operation Barbarossa to the death throes of Army Group Center in Byelorussia, you get to plan and execute your own tactics against the computer and other players. Are you game?
Main menu screen
The Scramble for Africa – A Civ 5 AAR (Part 12)
Scrambling in Africa
By Brant Guillory, GrogDude
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So we left off with an overture to Vicky that was not starting well…
On sale! This week only!
I’m sitting on a bunch of luxury resources; they don’t help me sitting there, so even if I sell cheap, it’s still money coming in that otherwise wasn’t.
Germany is Equally Un-receptive
It’s not like I didn’t do us all a favor by knocking the Zulus out of the game.
Fire In The Lake – First Look!
By: Michael Eckenfels, 17 September 2014
I’ve never played any of the COIN (COunter INsurgency) games by GMT (so far, there’s A Distant Plain, Andean Abyss, and Cuba Libre). To be honest, only A Distant Plain sounded interesting to me personally, though I’d heard good things about all three. When Fire in the Lake came around as a possible review title, I jumped on the chance. The Vietnam War is of interest to me and I wanted to learn some more about their COIN system, so I jumped at the chance.
I did watch the tutorial video that the designers (Volko Ruhnke and Mark Herman) produced for YouTube – you can check it out here. I highly suggest it if you’re interested in the game and want to get a feel for its flow; it’s what sold me on my choice to check this out for review. (The camera work is, well…let’s just say there’s an immediate apology from Mark on his camera work. But that’s easily overlooked.)
A review will be coming by the end of October to a beloved wargaming website near you (cough, cough). In the meantime, I thought I’d provide some teasing bits through an unboxing ceremony that, for me, has become a standard thing now with every game I buy, it seems.
The box in all its shrink-wrapped glory. This thing is thick and heavy. I love the good feel of a heavy wargame box in the morning (though it’s late in the evening when I take these pics). It feels like…well, you know. I really like the cover artwork and the subdued darkness that makes you feel like you’re staring into a quagmire. Huge props to the artist on this venture!
Tuesday Screenshot – Shogun 2
Lloyd Sabin, 16 September, 2014
What game keeps you coming back?
I have yet to win a campaign of Shogun 2, but is there a game out there today that makes losing look more beautiful? If there is, I have not found it yet.
