Well, with Christmas (and the gifts) done, I finally can post and enjoy my new gains.
To start, Rob bought me Conflict of Heroes: Price of Honour - Poland 1939, an expansion to the Conflict of Heroes series. I've never managed to play more than the first 2 firefights from the first game (Awakening of the Bear), despite really liking the rules. Let's hope I can get some time and drive to get it and this expansion on the table. Thanks Rob!
Next, the girlfriend bought me a Nook, from Barnes and Noble. I'm in love with the thing. Currently, I'm reading Anabasis by Xenophon. More on all of this in a later post.
When I came home from spending the weekend with the girlfriend's parents, I found on my doorstep a copy of GMT Games' The Spanish Civil War. I had apparently ordered it, and long forgotten about it (I had canceled all my GMT preorders earlier this year because of financial constraints). That was a pleasant surprise, I don't own a single game on the subject, and I've heard good things about this one.
Finally, I received a ton of free ASL products, to help assist with playtesting, as well as being a better player. This included a bunch of the old ASL Annuals, which was a huge surprise. I'm almost done clipping the counters for Beyond Valour, and once that's done, you can be sure to see several battle reports of Advanced Squad Leader as I work to gain more proficiency with the rules and tactics.
I got a ton of other great gifts, but they aren't really relevant to my wargaming, so I won't list them here.
Anyway, hope everyone's Christmas was awesome!
OK, so what is it going to take to play a few firefights!? :) The whole office is going to take a road trip to your house to force the issue soon.
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Uwe
Uwe Eickert
Academy Games
Ah! Hahah, okay okay, I'll work on getting the rules down this week. Hopefully by the end of the week I'll put this on the table again (with some AARs on here), and it will certainly get some play at PrezCon. Rob definitely loved the game, so I know I'll have no issue getting an opponent :).
ReplyDeleteThanks, and Happy New Year to you too!