At 11.52 a.m. on 20 September, Rolf Hilse, on board U-48, received a coded message from Günther Prien in U-47. He had spotted a large eastbound convoy heading to Britain, and since U-48 had the latest most advanced radio equipment, he asked her to report this news to Dönitz at his command post in Lorient. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Board Games'
04 07 1942 21:36: “Convoy is to scatter”*
August 22nd, 2011 · 11 Comments · Board Games, Design, Wargames
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Board Game UI
May 31st, 2011 · 9 Comments · Board Games
Monday night was a twofold attempt to figure out games and being stymied. On the computer end, it was Paradox France’s Pride of Nations; it’s not that it’s complicated as much as it is that I just didn’t have the patience last night to sit through five tutorials that mostly amounted to me scrolling through [...]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 94: Home for the Holidays
December 9th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Board Games, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
We were on a good run and it couldn’t last forever. A pleasant light little seasonal chat about how to cope with the gaming constraints of visiting our families went off the rails when we realized that that topic would only last us about forty minutes. I made the mistake of pushing us forward [...]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 67: Experimenting With RPGs at Rabbitcon
June 2nd, 2010 · 8 Comments · Board Games, Design, Podcast, RPGs, Three Moves Ahead
Oy. Troy breaks his computer and therefore sounds like he’s calling in from a submarine. But the rest of show is a long discussion about Games Masters experimenting with RPG and miniature mechanics. Julian and Rob discuss a fascinating game session before the team digresses onto iterative learning in game design and whether games [...]
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Design Notes Again
March 7th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Board Games, Me
I’m meeting my neighbor for an afternoon of Maria. I’ve spent the morning reading the rules (I missed Sivel’s earlier Frederick) and they seem pretty clear cut. The first thing I did, though, was turn to the design notes. One of the constant themes of both Flash of Steel and Three Moves Ahead has been [...]
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Best Boardgames of 2009
January 27th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Board Games
There are a lot of these lists every year, but I always link to Bill Abner’s for personal and professional reasons. His summaries are very brief and He also mixes his 2008 and 2009 games, which you can give him grief for over there. Our tastes generally line up, so he’s a reliable metric for [...]
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