You’ll forgive me, I hope, if I yammer about a board game for a few minutes. It’s been a while since I’ve subjected you to such trivia.
As I have no doubt mentioned, I am a fan of the Star Fleet Battles board/wargame. Now, this is a game with a lot of rules. The “master rulebook” [...]
I had one of those weird “it’s-a-small-world” experiences online this morning. I was meeting up with my friend Jon for a Saturday morning game of Star Fleet Battles. While you’re setting up the game, you can chat with other SFB players in the “lobby” area.
So anyway: one of the people in the lobby, [...]
Oh, no. Somebody at Avalon Hill just figured out how to get me addicted.
This is going to get ugly. I can just feel it.
I’ve been playing a boardgame called Star Fleet Battles with Jon lately. Jon found a nifty program which enables you to play the game over the internet, and so, using Skype to chat during the games, we’ve thus far played out two moderately-epic space battles between a Federation heavy cruiser and its Klingon equivalent.
I’m [...]
I love board games. An entire closet in our apartment is filled with them. Unfortunately, most of them fall into the Nerdy Wargame category, and so perhaps aren’t the ideal choice for a fun after-dinner boardgame with guests.
Our lack of accessible boardgames has plagued Michele and me for some time now. To [...]
Most board gamers are familiar with the games Axis and Allies and (to a lesser extent, perhaps) Shogun. Both are deservedly well-known, being excellent strategy board games. But one game in the same general category and released at about the same time gets much less attention than it deserves–Fortress America (pictures). It’s [...]
