In August 2005 I made a big deal about passing the 5000 hit counter for all time. That took about nine months. May 2006 on its own will have 5000 hits. Plus the few dozen who get the feed through Feedburner or Bloglines or Google Reader or what have you. Traffic is growing steadily and […]
Entries from May 31st, 2007
Klett Quits, Column gets Stapled
May 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment · PCGamer
PCGamer’s editorial staff would probably say that their big strength is their ability to grab exclusives. For me, the big strength is their columns. They have genre specialists writing every month, including Desslock on RPGs and Andy Mahood on simulations. I’m hard pressed to think of two better people for those particular genres. (Games For […]
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Soviet Thoughts on Turn One
May 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment · AARTwiStr
There are only three scoring cards in the Early War and all appeared this turn, which means it’s likely none will turn up until Turn 3 and the deck is re-shuffled. So Turn 2 will be a mess. Turn 1 was a special kind of mess, since we both tried to get points very early. […]
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Twilight Struggle Turn One
May 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments · AARTwiStr
If you missed the basic description of the game, here it is. As usual, Bruce plays the good guys, the Americans. That leaves the Soviets for me. Socialized medicine for all! Here is the starting position. Each turn opens with a headline phase in which each player must play an event from their hand. TURN […]
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Twilight Struggle: A Primer
May 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments · AARTwiStr
Twilight Struggle is relatively new to me, and probably very new to many readers, so I’ll add explanation wherever I can. First, the basics. The game has ten turns, each turn marked by “phases” – i.e., each player takes turn playing cards. Every card has a point value (from 1 to 4) and an event […]
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After Action Reports
May 31st, 2007 · Comments Off on After Action Reports · AARTwiStr
Here is a list of all the AAR’s I’ve done so far, listed by game. Click on the title of the game and it will take you to the category page designated for that title. The reports are, blog style, in reverse chronological order, so start at the bottom and read up, I guess. I […]
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