The last month has been a bit wargame-lite. I've gone into a different role at work which has added 75-90 minutes a day in travel / morning prep, so I've spent less time painting and playing and more time looking at boardgames online!
New purchases include:
Littoral Commander Indo-Pacific and Littoral Commander Baltic. These are going to be great additions to the collection. Have played Indo-Pacific once in person with four players and once over VASSAL with two. Plenty to go into with these near-future warfare studies but that's for another time.
Memoir 44 battle map expansions Through Jungle and Desert, Sword of Stalingrad, and Tigers in the Snow. The ready-to-play maps are just so convenient that it would have been criminal not to get them! I have plans afoot for multiplayer games so these will make that goal much simpler.
A Victory Awaits. The great Tetsuya Nakamura's version of Barbarossa on three maps using the A Victory Lost system. I decided to bite the bullet on this - A Victory Lost is still the most fun I've had with a WWII operational game, and while it's a bit tough on the wallet importing this from the States I couldn't allow it to sell out without getting a copy. Will I get to play through the whole thing? Not sure, but I hope so. Also playable one map at a time, so will be good value for solo play.
Lots here (or on the way here) to keep me busy.
Anyway, just about time to turn in so I can get up bright and early for my commute!
Adding time to the commute doesn't sound great but hopefully the new role is worth it. Best of luck with it!
ReplyDeleteThanks MJT! It's something I can get my teeth into, which is always good.
Delete‘ I couldn't allow it to sell out without getting a copy’. Exactly This!
ReplyDeleteNice selection and I am increasingly moving to ‘one mappers’.
I also like the 'learn one system but play many games' approach as I get older!
Delete