Month: March 2013

03/3/13

A Civilization V AAR – Part X

Brant Guillory, 3 March 2013

We’re ten parts into the story, and the Carthiginians are still just finding their feet in the world. You’d never know we’re playing on “quick” huh?

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Can you believe it’s 120AD and we still haven’t found any other major civilizations? Me either. Where the hell is everyone else? I kinda feel like Azz back in the old R&P last year.

 

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Building a Wonder on a Whim.

It’s not going to take too long to build the Terracotta Army, so we’ll throw it in the queue and see what we get. +6 culture is nice to have.

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03/1/13

GARPA 13 – GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory

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by Dan Pinkham and Lloyd Sabin

Is it March already? It seemed like just yesterday that we were stuffing our faces with turkey and unwrapping presents. Thankfully, for most of us, the sun is out a little longer and we can almost make out the warm glow at the end of the long tunnel of winter…it just happens to be clouded by the snow still falling. Well, our solution to the winter blues here at GARPA is to go get lost in a cupboard of junk food or throw some money at some great crowd funding projects. On second thought, why not do both?

 

 

Board Games

Loka: The World of Fantasy Chess by Mantic Games

$43,896 of a $25,000 goal funding ending March 24thloka

Chess, having been played for millennia, is one of the oldest and most time-honored wargames. To say that there are numerous variations of chess piece designs would be an understatement. So why another fantasy chess set?

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