Played Battletech last weekend…
matt | June 28, 2010
I thought I was doing well until my wife shot my Awesome in the head with an AC/20.
The Caffeinated Penguin
musings of a crackpot hacker
Cold wars report
matt | March 12, 2010
I haven’t been blogging much, because I’ve been keeping pretty busy. High points so far:
Played in a 5150 (by Two Hour Wargames) game. As the name suggests, it is a pretty quick system, but I’d argue that it was only so quick because half the people knew how to play, and it is *very* bloody. [...]
Miscellany
matt | November 19, 2009
Back from Carnage. Great con. Played in:
The Unexplained. Lots of fun. Bought it.
Heavy Gear Blitz. Decent, but likely won’t pick up yet another minis game. I’m not going to say it’s better or worse than Battletech – just different. Battletech is shoot, shoot, shoot, now you’re in arm’s reach, and you beat the crap out [...]
Humans innnnn spaaaaace…
matt | November 1, 2009
So, I’ve started to read The Foundation Trilogy, and it has me thinking about:
Traveller
Alternity
Full Thrust
(Primarily the last one).
Full Thrust is a very good space combat game, and the rules are available for free from Ground Zero Games website.
The main issue with them is that the rules are spread across 4 books, and later books replace [...]
Update
matt | July 6, 2009
Been busy, but still here.
I’ve updated the blog to WP 3.8.
I also had a bit of an overloaded meltdown a couple of weeks ago. Basically, the working theory was that we weren’t going to work on the house or do anything until after the potatoes went in (which happens about the second week of July). [...]
Battletech, Zombies, House stuff, Time…
matt | April 26, 2009
Last weekend, Liz and I stopped by Zombie Planet. They have Battletech league which runs Thursdays, which I will likely start attending some time in the next month (I have meetings the next two Thursdays).
Because of the above, I picked up a copy of Battletech:Total Warfare. It’s a good thing that the pages are kind [...]
