What The Heck Is Gus Doing?
Hi. Yes, it’s been a while. Once I fall off the wagon of writing regularly, it’s difficult to get back on. You know how it is. So this bit you’re reading right here is my attempt to get back on the wagon.
04/28/19
Category: Featured Posts
02/6/19
Nuts! 4th Edition – Pzrjager Goes on Patrol!
Today I’ll be doing a tank patrol as the Americans in Normandy using NUTS! 4th Edition and Tabletop Simulator. I’ll be using the rules for solo gaming.
Setup
I have a platoon of three M4 75mm Shermans, each with a tank commander (TC) Rep of 5, and the gunner, loader, driver, and bow gunner with Reps of 4. Rep represents things like skill, experience, and training and will determine how well our crews fight, drive, and react to certain situations. I won’t be playing with any “Star” rules, which give your “main character” many opportunities to escape damage or death.
To keep things simple all enemies will be a Panzer IV F1 platoon. Their TC will have a Rep of 4 and the rest of their crew will have a Rep of 3.
By: Pzrjager,
02/3/19
What’s Gus Playing? Wolfenstein 2 – New Colossus!
I don’t play nearly enough shooters, or ‘blockbuster’ games. I am at the age now where the phrase ‘blockbuster’ just turns me off – I guess I’m jaded.
That said, I could not help get wound up in the hype surrounding The New Colossus. And you know what? The damned game delivered. Why it has ‘mixed’ reviews on Steam is beyond me. I don’t even care.
By: Lloyd Sabin,
01/13/19
What’s Gus Playing?: Iron Harvest 1920+
The gaming universe of Scythe, set in an alternate Eastern European 1920-era, is right up my street. Replete with steampunk, First World War tech and mechs, it is all I could ever ask for in a game.
When KING Art Games announced the Kickstarter campaign for the directly-related Iron Harvest PC Real Time Strategy game, I immediately contributed as much cash as I could afford. I also recently bought Scythe: Digital Edition PC game on Steam, which has admittedly, so far, been a lot for me to wrap my brain around.
By: Lloyd Sabin,
01/2/19
What’s Gus Playing?: Ultimate General: Civil War!
Happy holidays all! What better way to kick off the New Year than by trying out a new game, finding it to be engaging, fun and interesting, and also that I am not half bad at it? None, I say. None.
The last couple of games that I have been playing have been kicking my rear end, including Pike and Shot: Campaigns and the Warpath Campaign in Empire: Total War. I lost in both, but not by too wide of a margin margin – I held my own in most of the missions of the Gustav Adolf campaign in Pike & Shot, and I made it almost to the end date of the Warpath campaign, but I was still handed my butt in the end (see what I did there?).
By: Lloyd Sabin,
So there I was, crestfallen, beaten, depressed…when I remembered I bought Ultimate General: Civil War over the summer during the Steam sale. Reviews for this game are pretty stellar – everyone love’s it. I have always loved Darth Vader’s work in the Total War series. He’s the modder who went on to found Game Labs, the developer and publisher of the Ultimate General series…and soon, the Ultimate Admiral series. The first game under the Ultimate Admiral series, Dreadnoughts, sounds made for me, specifically, and is in beta testing now.