F you Bari Weiss. t.co/olxQ4mRuZJ

Thanks @nwinches.bsky.social ? Merry Christmas! (I might have hurt my back taking this picture)

This was the moment where it went from trippy to amazing

I show 226 games in my collection, but I'm pretty sure at LEAST 26 are things I'm trying to sell or trade. As much as I'd like to get to 150 or less, I suspect a LOT of what I'd like to get rid of just doesn't have a bunch of interest out there, so I'll probably be closer to 250 than 150 next Dec.

My end-of-the-year reflection - cult-of-the-new games: The best of those being either Crossing the Line: Aachen 1944 OR Red Dust Rebellion

Starting my end-of-year reflection in gaming with my solo plays (not including digital). Its been a while, but I really enjoy the Pathfinder ACG. Wargame wise, D-Day at Omaha Beach is top notch and Conflict of Heroes: Eastern Front solo is also good. I tried a fair amount vs what I tried last year.

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This weekend was Hex-and-Counter weekend with @nwinches.bsky.social - Crossing the Line: Aachen 1944, Fighting Formations: Grossdeutschland Motorized Infantry Division, and South Pacific (EotS). Two were new, and I had to recall everything to explain SP - my brain hurts

Got to play @vucasimulations.bsky.social 's Crossing the Line: Aachen 1944 with @nwinches.bsky.social this weekend and I was really impressed with the game. The systems are really engaging for activation and combat. I'm looking forward to trying it again.

Good weekend of gaming with @nwinches.bsky.social - played South Pacific, Fighting Formations (original), and now playing Crossing the Line: Aachen 1944 lots of hexes and counter :D

7 PoG games: 1st (short, rules learning) 2nd longer, we had no clue what we were in for. 3-7 RtT - lots of lessons learned, feel stuck. Starting to watch other games and what they are doing. Learned: RtT's "dice" are just as mean to other players as they are to us. They hate everyone

This is old, but for folks grabbing the new Combat Commander - here are a few Litko upgrades you can grab to pimp up your set (and truly, you will hope for a spreading blaze every game just to see it on the map). boardgamegeek.com/thread/45881...

Combat Commander 20th Anniversary Ed. Clipped and sorted in @cube4me.bsky.social trays

Introduce yourself using a food you refuse to eat, a film you’ll never watch again, a song you can’t stand 1. Lots of choices, but stinky food - cheese, durian, etc. NOPE 2. Burn After Reading - not funny, none of the characters had an ounce of redeeming qualities. 3. Clapton's Wonderful Tonight

Step daughter doing her senior work at Chapman to get her degree in Film Production. She's assigned to producing this film for a grad student. Any donations welcome. Thanks for looking! www.gofundme.com/f/taste-shor...

The feels of playing Paths of Glory are like when your sports team loses.

Limited War indeed. Paths of Glory is just brutal with @nwinches.bsky.social

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.

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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

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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.