"Roll dice and kick ass!"

At a loose end and getting a bit stir crazy Wednesday evening, I called Tony to meet up for a couple of beers. His assent was to be expected...

My article earlier this month about download dependence and Open Source has inspired me to write more about software. My practical and...

It was just last month that a CC:P@BGG thread led me to the scrub's blog Triple Point Blank Fire . Seeing the scrub unleash the vaunte...

Dave had to cancel due to work, so we were the regular crew of 4 for games yesterday. That 5-player game of Battlestar Galactica just keeps...

When I was a kid, I played several classic family strategy boardgames, like Risk , Campaign and Diplomacy . Older, and into wargames, my in...

Regular readers might remember me talking last December about the Two Fat Ladies West End restaurant, good enough to join a shortlist of m...

Rumours confirmed? Andy sent me an email the other day, tipping me to threads at the Bell of Lost Souls and Ain't It Cool News , betwe...

Another spate of cancellations left us numbering just 3 yesterday despite Dave's being able to turn up again. So it looks like our 5-pl...

A Frozen Hell I was tipped to A Frozen Hell on Conflict of Heroes @CSW back in December . The games Badger and I played last October of...

I noted a fortnight ago that I'd been picking up copies of GMT's house magazine C3i , for the sake of the Combat Commander materi...

Last week, an inbox update from Matt at Forbeck.com opened: "My pal Keith Baker (the man who created Eberron among many other g...

Crimson Skies We had our regular complement of 4 yesterday after last week's 2-player session . Andy brought his Crimson Skies model...

I've been meeting a whole new social circle in recent months, many of whom turn out to like games, or are full scale geeks even. So yest...

Sitting geeking and spodding as you do, the Firefox update alert popped up, too quick for me to click it before it popped down again. So it ...

A spate of cancellations reduced last Sunday's session to just Donald and me. We'd been having such fun with games of Battlestar Gal...

A busy week left me unable to finish clipping the Commonwealth counters in my new Combat Commander: Pacific set, so that Badger and I tem...

... is chickpeas with winter vegetables and saffron . This variation on the Turkish turlu turlu substitutes winter vegetables for the medit...

From the readpile Top of the pile now is Matthew Parker's Monte Cassino: The Story of the Hardest-fought Battle of World War Two . T...

Battlestar Galactica All present and correct come lunchtime, Andy, Donald, Tony and myself set straight to the game of Battlestar Galacti...

Battlestar Galatica Back in December ' My 2009 gaming wishlist #2 ' outlined my hopes for FFG's new Battlestar Galactica: the...