Monthly Archives: October 2016
Order of Battle Pacific: US Marines – AAR, Scenario 4 Part 2
Back to the Pacific with Airboy’s extended campaign AAR ~
Avery Abernethy, 9 October 2016
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Scenario 4 – Operations Goodtime and Blissful
Turn 5 attacking on North Mono
Order of Battle Pacific: US Marines – AAR, Scenario 4 Part 1
Back to the Pacific with Airboy’s extended campaign AAR ~
Avery Abernethy, 8 October 2016
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Scenario 4 – Operations Goodtime and Blissful
This is a complex scenario. You have to eliminate the Japanese from the two Treasury Islands Mono and Stirling. You must also heavily raid a much larger island and destroy three of four fuel dumps.
Operations Blissful and Goodtime
Car Wars – A Trip Down The Memory Fast Lane, Part 3
Our Car Wars retrospective rolls on ~
Michael Eckenfels, 7 October 2016
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CRASH CITY: A CAR WARS ROLEPLAYING SUPPLEMENT
Starting with the words “If you don’t like the way we drive, get off the streets, and the sidewalk…and the lawns…” this particular expansion was originally published in Space Gamer magazine as an article called “Sunday Drivers.” It later became a full Car Wars supplement, eventually becoming known as Crash City. Ultimately, this name is more suitable for this expansion. Both Sunday Drivers and Crash City were published in 1982, so there must not have been a lot of lead time between them, but they made do, I think, by re-using existing material, as you’ll see in a moment.
The game box.
Gaming Nostalgia – Ogre Deluxe
#TBT at GrogHeads!
Ogre Deluxe for $17?! Well yeah, back in 1987…
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Classic Reviews: Cactus Throne
Against the Odds Magazine
An early game from Against The Odds Magazine that looks at what was going on while we were recovering from the US Civil War / War Between The States / War of Northern Aggression / “The Wahr” ~
Brant Guillory, 5 October 2016
INTRODUCTION
Cactus Throne is an operational/strategic-level game that covers the war in Mexico between the Republican Mexican government forces, and the Imperial forces of France, Britain, Spain, Austria, and their Mexican allies. The war was originally fought between 1862-1867.
Although there were significant political machinations that affected the campaign, especially in Europe, the game focuses on the allocation of forces within Mexico, and control of the important areas of country.
Some of the political events are included as random events. Additionally, there are events that could have happened, but did not, such as the appearance of both Union and Confederate forces from the American Civil War. Cactus Throne does include some elements of seapower, but only to the extent that it affected the land battles. Ship-to-ship combat is not simulated.
