Next up, Inflection Point, Kalach, from @calvinboy24.bsky.social and @multimanpublishing.bsky.social

The best part of this game Notre Dame sitting home furious about how terrible it is while they lost to BOTH of these teams

Between youth hockey games and under a winter storm, I'm playing around with how to crack open the line in Frank Chadwick's "Battle for Moscow"

Woman: The baby is mine Woman #2: No it's mine King Solomon: Both of you say this baby is yours. Hang on a sec *types* ChatGPT: Cutting the baby in half is your best move Solomon: Someone get me a sword ChatGPT: Also pre-heat the oven so it's nice and hot when you cook the juicier half of the baby

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Initial setup for @gmtgames.bsky.social Army Group North, kicking off Barbarossa toward the Baltic States and eventually Leningrad. #furloughgaming #boardwargames

Inflection Point by @calvinboy24.bsky.social @multimanpublishing.bsky.social finishes with a narrow German win when 5th Mech can't advance one last empty hex and all the other SNAFU rolls come up bust #furloughgaming #wargames

Thanks for suggesting @allplay.bsky.social Ruins, @maudineormsby.bsky.social - you should have heard my son's yell when I dropped six 25s to win the game.

@gmtgames.bsky.social proposal for 2025 counter errata sheet for Space Empires. These are actually from way back at the Close Encounters expansion but they've never been fixed. Labels didn't get left-right reversed on the sheet and so front/back doesn't match

EMERGENCY GAMETEK POST open.substack.com/pub/gametek/...

@markherman54.bsky.social Mark. Mark. *10 maps??!?* (just listened to your conversation with @playersaidblog.bsky.social )

6 player Multiverse with @meeplelady.bsky.social!! @gmtgames.bsky.social

you're welcome

Operation Watchtower studies learning @markherman54.bsky.social South Pacific at the hockey rink - CA screen of Rabaul plus CV standoff doesn't carry enough power to force the landing.

First stab at an EotS offensive, executed badly. Savo Is. counterattack should commit naval even if the carriers hold offshore. Best way to learn is playing badly and then asking why history didn't work like that. #boardwargames #hockeyrinkgaming

Checking the road network for opening moves at Chancellorsville in Rebel Fury by @markherman54.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social . 19 moves to get Hill and Colston to the far edge of command range. Gotta fill time at youth hockey practice somehow #boardwargames

As an East TN native, @djackthompson.bsky.social's Rebels Against Rebellion with @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social was the highlight of my @sdhistcon.bsky.social online - great asymmetric push-pull on a corner of the ACW. #boardwargames

4P Shikoku 1889 today. I went and made a space to drop a station token to open a productive route and then forgot to place the station - next player blocked it. 4th place 🫠 #boardgames

Longstreet takes Missionary Ridge at the Battle of Chickamauga in @markherman54.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social Rebel Fury. CSA VP win #boardwargames

Study time for a teaching game this weekend. Gotta make sure I'm conversant with how it works in *this* one. #boardgames

Playing introductory scenarios of @leebwood.bsky.social Wing Leader from @gmtgames.bsky.social tonight #boardwargames

I was NOT prepared.

Played Chris Handy's FAR, which has 137% of the meanness of Carcassonne in the tiniest package. #boardgames

Very excited about this pair!

Welp, guess we're doing this just in time for Christmas youtu.be/S5ZSDCvUwN8

Carnival of Chaos! Forced movement ram into a Killer Pillar for a double kill, then a Chopper Strike on the last turn to KO a small car and knock out the Scrap leader's eligibility to win. Tina is most pleased! @restorationgames.bsky.social

@restorationgames.bsky.social @425suzanne.bsky.social this chrome effect is AH-MAY-ZING

Fort Wayne's off-center benches and penalty boxes are always a favorite

Aftermath of a first game of Abducktion, collecting duck patterns with a UFO

First hot appetizer of the day is up - sausage balls (see alt text for recipe and life hack)

This is your PSA reminder... The best way to eat leftover dressing/stuffing is by cooking it in a waffle iron.

How 10 famous artists would plate Thanksgiving dinner. The Jackson Pollock & Seurat ones are pretty good. [thisiscolossal.com]

OCS Luzon. Initial Japanese (Yellow) attack in the south (air strike plus conventional attack) goes well - drive up the road toward Manila, or seal off the high-AR enemy on the flank? Pressing for the main objective but the bypassed enemy could sit on the supply line. #boardwargames (fixed typo)

@restorationgames.bsky.social @425suzanne.bsky.social got my Carnival of Chaos shipping notice arriving in time for Friendsgiving; what feature should we make sure to pull out first?

Crossbows & Catapults is perhaps the purest of Restoration Games' restorations. Those who want deeper strategy than the 1983 original will be disappointed, but those with children are in for a treat. My review: spacebiff.com/2024/11/18/c...

@alanb7777.bsky.social first, wonderful to find you here. Second, apologies in advance bsky.app/profile/adam...

Don't look at the news Don't look at the news Don't look at the news (Looks at the news) Oh, for fuck's sake

First game of OCS Luzon. Japanese vanguard crossed the river and took crossroads of Carmen Field, but setbacks in supporting attacks left a void that Philippine reinforcements rushed into. Japanese schedule now under the gun.

Really interested in trying to get my kids onboard with this one

Wargame organization! All the Axis aircraft for *all* the @gmtgames.bsky.social Wing Leader modules in one @cube4me.bsky.social tray. #wargaming

Punched, sorted, and clipped - all 2800 counters of MMP's "Third Winter" #wargaming #boardgames @cube4me.bsky.social

Umpires conferencing for Kriegsspiel at Origins 2024

Totality, with planets

This week's Feature Unboxing is very special: a look at REBEL FURY from @gmtgames.bsky.social, with a fabulous assist from the designer, Mark Herman! Check it out at youtu.be/1iZ9I7Nq3vk

Rebel Fury from @gmtgames.bsky.social arrived today. Love the detail of providing 3 copies of info markers to run 3 simultaneous games across the various maps