Once again we're into the summer, and that means outdoor activities. Especially for Eric, as he has younger kids. One of the advantages of having older kids is that they come and go as they want,...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2012/06/on-hiatus-again.html
Eric's choice again, and he wanted to revisit GMT 's Commands & Colors: Napoleonics , specifically the new Spanish expansion, which adds the, umm, Spanish to the British, French, and Portuguese ...
This post won't be one of my longer ones. Events in real life have delayed this post a bit, and I don't really have a whole lot to say, in any case. It was my choice, and I wanted to give the n...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2012/03/rains-in-spain-fall-mainly-on-plains.html
Next on the table was my choice, and, after playing complex treatments of various battles and campaigns, I wanted to try the new Martin Wallace war game, Test of Fire. This is a simple treatme...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2012/02/simple-pimple.html
Eric's choice again, and he decided that next on the table would be the recent release from GMT , FAB: Siciliy , the second in the Fast Action Battles series, the first being FAB: Bulge , which I...
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For our latest session, Mike had wanted to give Martin Wallace's latest game, Test of Fire: Bull Run 1861 , a go. This is an American Civil War game covering the first battle of the war: First Ba...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2012/02/it-doesnt-quite-float-off-table.html
Mike and I returned to the table these last few weeks with GMT's latest release, Fast Action Battles: Sicily . I'd played the first FAB game, The Bulge, a couple times soon after it was release...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2012/02/sicily-calls-us-again.html
My choice again, and for this week I proposed the recent Academy Games release, Strike of the Eagle. This covers the struggle between the Polish and the Soviets in 1920, although strictly speakin...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2012/01/eagles-striking.html
The last two times Mike and I have gotten together, it's been to go over the new block game from Academy Games, Strike of the Eagle (SotE). This game covers the Russian/Polish war that occurred j...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2012/01/block-battle-in-poland-film-at-11.html
On the table this week, at Eric's request, was A Few Acres of Snow (BGG entry ), a newish title from Treefrog Games , by Martin Wallace. Now, there are a couple of things here that you probab...
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Last week, Mike and I got Martin Wallace's newish (and controversial – I'll get to that) euro-wargame A Few Acres of Snow (AFAOS) onto the table. I bought it mostly due to it being a Wallace ga...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2011/12/dissing-quebec.html
Last week, Mike and I got the new Combat Commander: Resistance! onto the table. For those who don't know, this expansion presents Partisans as their own force. There's a new deck of cards and ...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2011/12/resist-you-must.html
After a long period of time when we were playing long games that weren't really conducive to blogging, we've decided to get back to shorter stuff and resuscitating the blog. There's been a lot of...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2011/12/resisting-combat-commander.html
I'm going to dispense with the cliches and “tap tap is this thing on?” crap. The blog died, the blog is coming back. Mike and I haven't been idle, by any means, but we haven't been doing t...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2011/12/two-sides-take-two.html
Our latest game has been GMT's Clash of Giants II (BGG entry ), the Galicia scenario in particular. On reading through the rules for this one I was concerned that it was simple. Bordering on si...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2011/03/sound-of-giants-clashing.html
As previously hinted, Mike and I recently got GMT's Clash of Giants II onto the table. This is their (now OOP) game on the battles of Galicia and First Ypres from World War One. The game was des...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2011/03/giants-clashed.html
In the past few sessions Eric and I have been playing Fury in the East (BGG entry ), a one-map WWII East Front game from MMP that covers the first 9 months of the Barbarossa Campaign. This game ...
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Mike and I gave Fury in the East another go. After the first aborted affair , we got our questions (mostly) answered, and gave the game a second shot. We fully expected our play to last at least ...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2011/02/disappointment-in-east.html
The last two weeks, Mike and I have been playing Fury in the East game included in the most recent Operations Special Issue published by Multi-Man in the summer of 2010. This is a remake of a ga...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2011/01/familiar-ground.html
As promised last week, on the table this time was Washington's War (BGG entry ) from GMT , a remake of the old Avalon Hill game, We The People (BGG entry ). I'd never played the original before,...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2010/12/washington-wins-his-war-again.html
Most categories of wargames can point to a single game that started them off. For block wargames, for example, you can point to either L'attaque or Napoleon as being the starting points. For hex-...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2010/12/valley-forge-wasnt-needed-this-time.html
Well, after a rather extended hiatus, we're baaaaaaaack! It wasn't really a hiatus, as such, just that our plan didn't really work out as we'd thought it would. Our OCS Korea game has been going...
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And, we're back. I'd like to say I did something interesting in the year it's been since you heard from me on this blog, but (other than a wonderful trip to Europe with my wife for a combo 10th ...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2010/12/back-to-fun-bits.html
The OCS Korea (BGG entry ) game is ongoing, but this evening we took a break. Partly this was just me wanting to play something different, and partly due to the warm weather, which makes the gar...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2010/08/from-korea-to-nebraska.html
OK, it's been rather quiet in here for some time now, so I thought it was about time to post something to show we're still around. We're currently in the middle of our long-planned OCS Korea ga...
http://twosidestothecoin.blogspot.com/2010/05/helloo-helloo-helloo-helloo.html