Grant from @playersaidblog.bsky.social The Players' Aid gets to the last card of @josephnschmidt.bsky.social The Landing: Gallipoli game. Will he clear The Nek??? Watch to find out! theplayersaid.com/2025/11/30/s...

All Catastrophe games are on sale now, 20% off using Cancer2025! And we just lowered the price of Zurmat to $50 and Patria Libre to $40. (and pleasantly surprised to see Zurmat made Grant's 2025 buyer's guide!) Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Another nice review of Arabian Struggle, but this time, in French! dystopeek.fr/jouer/wargam...

Another dramatic gameplay with Arabian Struggle. This game usually creates an interesting story with each play.

Fighting the 20 year struggle in Afghanistan. Conflict of Wills goes to Afghanistan, another playtest here at U-con

Battling out what the Constitution is going to look like. Federalists have the edge, can they keep it? A More Perfect Union

Jim and I are playtesting War of Giants at U-con yesterday. Nice little con not too far away

Making example layouts to help our layout artist making the True Command rules

Just received prototype PREPRINTED blocks from Blue Panther! No stickering here if you get this upgrade for true Command.

Another Monday, another Ancients fight for True Command!

Well done Tim & Nick!

I sent this segment of Rules to Patrick, our artist, and upon looking at it later realized it could be mistaken for a ransom note...

Stole this from the Board Game Design Lab FB post. I would have loved to lose at Risk playing Jimi Hendrix.

I'm guessing folks are tired of hearing about my custom dice travails, but check out what one of our designers did: He made individual stamp, then stamped each die face. Brilliant!

Just found this unboxing video of Insurgent Algeria. This is a game that flies under the radar until you play it, and then folks love the game! Ask me to play it at a convention: plays fast, easy to teach, I have no idea what I'm doing, so I almost always lose... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ3g...

Yesterday we (Oreo and I) were visited by CMU's game crew to pick up some of their games from our little warehouse. Oreo was a big help, as you can imagine.

Attention Vaultdwellers and Wastelanders! It's THAT day... If you have no idea what I'm talking about, well, your grandkids sure will in 2077...

Last night I gave Old King's Crown a solo spin. Beautiful game, lots of stuff going on, but I think I really like it.

Was unloading a shipment received in our warehouse and this map was used as a buffer between cartons. This map is gorgeous, even in its beaten up condition!

Another playtest of True Commands Ancients today with @gamingthepast.bsky.social . Today we worked on facing, morale & rally, which brought up other commander moves as well.

Just backed this, what a cool idea! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fer...

Received in as a submission. Looked it up, and its a video game... Love the enthusiasm though!

The English rampaging at the end of Crusader Kings! Maybe better than Fief???

Yin and Yang, future game for @capstone-games.com . Very euro-ey with area control

Playing River of Gold at the inaugural CapCon! Have no idea what I'm doing in this game ... But I think it's fun @capstone-games.com

First North America play of Afghanistan: Decades of Strife. Went very well for a prototype

Question for my esteemed Bluesky colleagues. I've got a game we're doing on the Baltic crusades, and the designer (whose family is from the region) has authentic Baltic runes in the game. Is the ugunskrusts symbol, the 2nd down on the left, acceptable?

My wife (!!!!) suggested we play this, Battle Masters, last night, and I simply could not say no... Highlights below

Likely going to Capcon @capstone-games.com next weekend with @boardagain.bsky.social. I'll have some games to playtest... anyone interested in joining me?

Grant has a nice write up about Martin Melbardis' (designer of campaign Fall Blau) siege works. Martin has some really interesting roll and write games

Ok, finally have a workable set of prototype dice for True Command. The saga is finally over!

Getting our boxes to send out to previewers. Should have the dice arriving today

Heh everyone! Steve at Blue Panther is running a sale on our games! www.bluepantherllc.com/collections/...

Our graphics artist is getting the rules for True Command worked out. Nearing the end on this game!

True Command custom dice: OK, not perfect, but 100% usable for a prototype. Steve's work at Blue Panther!

Well, happy to discover that Arabian Struggle was nominated for the Summit award for 2025! And congrats to the winners!

Today's focus is the card system for Scarper, which is a unique system but allows the Western front of WW1 to be played in an hour

@meeplelady.bsky.social heads to New Orleans, eats great food (totally jealous) and plays Arabian Struggle! I think she even liked it... (the game that is, it's pretty clear she loved the town) www.boardgamemeeplelady.com/2025/08/19/s...

Just getting started on the True Command KS setup.

Esteemed colleagues, anyone want to help a newbie figure out what I should be doing when looking for a publisher for a biography I've been writing for a fellow Soldier?

We are going back to U-con this November! Looking forward to much cooler weather then. We are figuring out what events to run right now. www.ucon-gaming.org

Check out this awesome GUWS event with Brian Train! www.eventbrite.com/e/idiosyncra...

@ilyakudr.bsky.social Ilya's been busy with the lighthouse game!

Working on the basemap for the lighthouse game

The day has finally arrived! Battlegroup Clash: Baltics is available to order! Order it below, or, if you are in the US, wait a bit, and I should have it available on our Catastrophe website once the dust settles. www.sapperstudio.com/battlegr

Version 2 of the True Command printed dice is better. But not quite there yet...

First playtest for the lighthouse game tonight! Went really well....

Starting to work on cards for the lighthouse game to begin playtesting.

Yesterday made the first draft of a 4 page play example for True Command. While not a complicated game, there are a lot of new/unusual working mechanics that we think would benefit from a detailed action by action explanation.

Tim has another playtest with the Afghanistan game. Looking good, but the Talibot is still too easy to defeat.