See the event entry at:

http://social.consimworld.com/events/event/show?id=2011369%3AEvent%3A105380&xg_source=msg_com_event#c_a88

Open board gaming, 9 AM - 9 PM, Saturday, 23 Jan 2010.

1105 W. Main Street, Paynesville, MN 56362

The map artwork for "Peter Bogdasarian's Corps Command: Dawn's Early Light" is almost done. Click o… Continue

My 9 yr old son says, "Let's make a board game out of Uniwar!" (www.uniwar.com)

Out of the mouths of babes.... :)

Rick went through and used Google maps to show where the scenarios that are included in BFP 3 Blood and Jungle take place.

There are only 41 since a number of the scenarios take place in the same location.

http://gmaps.kaeding.name/saved/bfpbloodandjungle

CAWS Game Day 46 - November 28th 2009 - was at the Charleston County Public Library St. Andrews Parish Branch.

The geeklist for Game Day 46 is here.

Next game day will be on December 12th, 2009. It will be at the Berkeley County library off Sangaree Parkway. From 9am to 3:30pm. Please see our Yahoo! group for more details.

I'll be continuing the "HOW TO PLAY EMPIRE OF THE SUN" demonstration tonight at 10:00 pm Eastern.

In this second part we will will build upon the foundation of last week's lesson and get into the heart of the game: Combat Operations!

If you were in a Game Designing Team, designing a new game for mainstream publication, what would you like to see incorporated into the game that tends to be missed out or not used in typical standard strategy games, especially the areas that really bug you?

I think my main demand for inclusion would be if the map uses hexes, then the pieces should be hex shaped, not square. Another one would be to make the hexes on the map a little bigger, even though this would make the map bigger, but it sur… Continue

Starting over with some corrected setup info, and giving the Azeris a new lease on life.

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Following the Iranian assault on Salyan, and initial capture of the city, the Iranians pulled out of the area to avoid a protracted occupation battle in Salyan. In the meantime, the Azeris have pieced together a mech infantry company, and the US landed a Stryker infantry company at the airfield to join the fight.

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These are wargames built around a book, TV show, or fictional movie. So while it's tempting to include SPI's old STARFORCE: ALPHA CENTAURI and tons of other science fiction and fantasy games in this genre, I'd like to limit this to those games that have direct lineages back to the books, TV shows, and movies that inspired them. The big question is--did they work?

Now, I'm not talking about taking something like the film KELLY'S HEROES and building a Lock 'N Load scenario, ASL scen… Continue