Could be the furthest along we've gone where things still feel like it could utterly collapse in either direction. This game is rough. I thought Twilight Struggle was rough, but that game is rainbows and cupcakes next to the emotional brutality of PoG

Texas is still planning to kill Robert Roberson clayjak.substack.com/p/theres-sti...

100% will happen... www.thebulwark.com/p/dirty-proc...

30 years we've waited for an answer...

First game of PoG for @nwinches.bsky.social and I some time ago. Just the intro scenario to learn the game. We've finished 3 games since and have yet to learn this lesson. Seriously - those three all ended badly because of supply.

USPS prices are going to increase Oct 5th through at least the end of the year. You know - like everything else, the prices keep going up on everything. At what point will our dear leader save us money and lower prices?

First PoG (on Rally the Troops) loss. I'm hoping this is more like the pattern of Labyrinth games I played against @nwinches.bsky.social - a bunch of losses followed by thrashing him over and over once some things clicked ;)

The learning curve on big games like Paths of Glory can be rough. First there are the rules and game mechanics (there seems like there are lots of little exceptions in the rules). Then there is figuring out how those come together in the general flow of play.

Kimmel’s original comments were as follows: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...

Playing Paths of Glory as the Allies. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG??? All the French do is retreat... 😜

ME (playing Paths of Glory, taking my first action): Every option I have will lose me this game. Why am I soooo bad at this?

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NO WAY! @ccxvii.bsky.social is amazing. rally-the-troops.com/paths-of-glory

Got my email notice. Its an honor to have bought this. C3i Magazine will never be the same with Rodger gone, but with your support I hope to keep publishing work that honors what he helped build. I hope you enjoy Rodger's swan song. It's beautiful, just like he was. Thank You, Steve MacGowan

OMG Transparent stick notes!!! Every war gamer needs these. (literally search "transparent sticky note" on amazon or whatever, they are not hard to find). www.facebook.com/share/r/19Km...

The dice said no (a lot) to me in my first outing. I'm not done, but I think the writing is on the wall. This one tough and really tough if you roll poorly for a whole turn

Holiday weekend means games right? Pulling out Stalingrad: Advance to the Volga - 1942. Both How-To-Play videos I watched had rules mistakes, but the game flow seems pretty straight forward.

The un-played war games in my collection is getting out of control. I did manage to play South Pacific (using the CDG solo system) to learn the EotS mechanics and think it'd be fine against a real person but don't love it solo. I think I'm going to try Stalingrad: Advance to the Volga next

Paid it forward a little today I hope. Taught someone how to play Cuba Libre so they could get started on their COIN journey. I learned CL as my first COIN and remember looking at the tiny map and having no clue what I should do or what was about to happen. I hope I helped explain away some of that

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Its that time @rapidsjason.bsky.social

This sucks for all of us. I hope my order last week is enough to last me for a bit. I'd like to thank the administration for having no idea how economics work, but being really good at bullying others. 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 cube4me.com/announcement...

I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity. It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.

@nwinches.bsky.social and I playing a lot of Toy Battle on BGA - its fast, simple and yet you cannot NOT pay attention to what is going on. Our favorite is winning by placing the DUCK (the worst piece). Today my last piece was the duck, which Nathan killed off my rack. I immediately won by points

@markherman54.bsky.social I need some help understanding this example. The 4 Japanese ships have a total attack strength of 53 and roll an 8 (=1x) so they should have dealt 53 damage not 36. As the US forces all defend at 1/2 strength, shouldn't ALL (including the Marines) been eliminated?

Been learning Empire of the Sun via walking through the play through and reading the pertinent rules and now through using the CDG solo system to play the South Pacific scenario. Rules and systems are not too bad. Above average on the learning curve, but playthrough->rules and back has helped

Bannon said it - they are going to hit American's with the firehose of bullshit. People don't have the ability to track it all and after a while don't care or are overwhelmed. This is the kind of stupidity that breaks things that are important washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/05/u...

I don't want to like Toy Battle as much as I do, but it is a great little game that plays super fast.

FitL+Fall of Saigon solo update (as VC) This was the state after the last coup of FitL (no winners allowed until FoS). I have a good lead, but have to last until the very last Coup. Saigon fell to the NVA 2 seconds after I took this picture. VC got to Tet AGAIN (super unfair). This is a long game

It official. If you hate AI and what it can do, you are wrong. youtu.be/Afetnw70S04?...

17 cards left in the base Fire in The Lake game before starting the Fall of Saigon cards. Just finished 2nd coup card, so there is a lot of play (at least 11 cards) before the last coup. 17+4 min before FoS coup where I could possibly lose. I (VC) am currently up by 4 pts over the NVA bot.

Last month I got to play 4p Andean Abyss F2F! Been on a COIN kick since (AA on RtT, Vijay on RtT, Red Dust via Vassal, and FitL solo on the tabletop). Today I completed the "career grand slam" for AA - having now won with each of the three factions against real players in 4-player games!

Finally through the first coup round of Fire in the Lake+Fall of Saigon (medium, nobody can win until FoS, I can't win unless I get through all 6 coup rounds). I'm playing the VC I have nowhere to go but down at this point. Will probably do a lot of picking at ARVN and NVA where I can for a while.

Anyone going to CSWE this week?

ugh www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

NVA make a move. First coup coming Its monsoon season, need to do something as the VC first. Still a long way to go

Lots of DCU excitement for Superman and what might be next. Lots of questions about Batman. Instead of a Batman movie, Gunn should pick a batman villain and make them the centerpiece. The bat family can be the antagonists and don't have to carry the film. We don't need the hero origin stories then.

All setup to solo (I randomly drew VC-blue) Medium scenario for Fall of Saigon. That means playing all the way through 36 (plus 3 coups) before anyone can win. To win solo, I have to make it through the FitL cards and 3 more coup cards in the FoS set (24+3). This is going to take a while...

Fire in the Lake + Fall of Saigon + Tru'ng - so much stuff...

Watergate app for sale ATM - if you haven't played it, it is probably the best short CDG out there. So many things to balance quickly. lots of tug of wars and a mean balancing act with your cards (so many cards are removed after playing them). It is really a well done game.

Sea Wolves - put down 9909 tons of allied shipping. Result? Partial success. Though I snuck into the port of Oban, apparently I didn't get any intel out of the deal, so didn't rank a better outcome. I had two ships get away with damage, but I the amount of dud torpedos kept me from sinking them.

Sea Wolves Solitaire (deluxe) - About the same level (ish) of complexity as a Lambo game book. Pretty cool so far!

No attention span ATM - finished my solo game of Conflict of Heroes. Pulled out Sea Wolves Solitaire to learn. Also bought digital versions of: Clank!, Watergate, and Lock N Load Tactical. Just need to find some focus...

Conflict of Heroes - solo Germans trying to sneak around and kill the Russian tanks before the tanks take out the supply carts

Jul 13th, shipping at USPS going up Services will increase by the following amounts: Padded Flat Rate Envelope: +4% Legal Flat Rate Envelope: +9% Small Flat Rate Box: +3% Medium Flat Rate Box: +11% (to 18.48 or 21.25) Large Flat Rate Box: +7% (to 25.67 or 28.14) Have fun selling online Currently:

duh... "The Mythical Man Month" was published 50 years ago. How the F**K do people in software not understand why developing good software is hard and time consuming? For the record, when AI "takes over and tries to kill us"? I'm going to send a null and AI will fall over ordep.dev/posts/writin...

Re-familiarizing myself with the solo play (and rules in general). Really a fun solo system (Conflict of Heroes:Awakening the Bear! + solo module)

Livestream, so you will want to rewind, but if current events have you down, this puts our place in the universe into grand perspective. Also, we live just outside an asteroid belt that we didn't know was there? Holy crap... www.youtube.com/live/Zv22_Am...