Recent content by jwb3

I'm fine with bocage. I do think the revised WA rules feel excessive, but I can only assume they were all put in to resolve problems other people had with the old ones. Having said that, bocage in ASL is not very "realistic" and does not penalize the attacker in some of the ways it...

On Saturday, another game of Continental Express (which I should add is a pretty simple filler game, nothing more... but also cheap and portable). Also two games of Between Two Cities, which I may or may not have mentioned before; each player is drafting city tiles to build two cities, one...

I also just played Codenames for the first time, on Saturday, and it was fun. A little light for my ideal, but a good party game without being too brainless. What else? Patchwork (2-player only, good), Category 5 (always a good filler), Continental Express (train game a bit like Ticket to...

Okay, that's one understanding *totally* demolished! :) Good information (as always from you). Really? I had no idea they were that short. In fact, I always thought the US troops would have trouble seeing over the side of the M3. It seems my youthful collection of WWII models -- which...

My understanding of the rationale was that it related to halftracks generally having firing ports for small arms. As well as giving a covered firing position, those would tend to provide the support you mentioned. Add it all up and you get that, overall, shooting at people from a stationary...

And remember, no Legos were harmed in the making of this movie!

I've never liked their maps either. The map for Hallowed Ground was relatively attractive compared to some of the OCS ones, and was certainly very "realistic" looking, topographically. But I never did figure out exactly how they intended us to play some of the resulting LOS situations and...

Comments based on This Hallowed Ground, the earlier version of G'burg: I agree that the C&C rules are a lot of the fun. I was always disappointed that they had so little meaning in the smaller more playable scenarios. Of course, one can argue that's what the monster scenarios are for, but...

What were the extras from the General?

I loved the Mahjong version that was part of the OS for some of the last-generation Windows versions. I was really kind of bummed to install Windows 8 and discover that it wasn't there. There are Mahjong apps in the App Store, but it wasn't just the game that I liked, it was the whole look and...

Playing Eclipse PBEM by VASSAL right now. Very nice module, mostly. What the heck is "sLander"? John

Played a game of Carcassone with an expansion, Inns and Cathedrals or something. Inns were interesting, cathedrals annoying. Then a game of Stone Age. After being behind all game I racked up a huge number of points from river cards (5 x 8 people, 4 x 9 food, 4 x 5 tools, etc.) but the leader...

Don't have the scenario or maps handy but I'm pretty sure the answer is: That's not one alternate hexgrain, it's two hexgrains/alternate-hexgrains. The first goes from O23 to V22. The second goes from V22 to X20. IIRC the first part follows an alternate hexgrain, the second follows a...

Actually, what it says is that HIP/Concealed units which break or pin do lose their HIP/concealed status, even if they're out of all enemy LOS. This does not necessarily say anything at all about what happens if they pass it unpinned. I know when we played an Aerial Bombardment, we ended up...

Because it was, or the Germans thought it was, a factory used to make nails. But that doesn't mean it was a Factory in ASL terms. An ASL Factory is more like a steel mill, a warehouse, or maybe even a large auto-body shop -- very high ceilings, mostly empty space, few interior walls, random...