"languish locked in L"

[winterbadger]

Points to anyone who recognizes that reference. :-)

I'm back to blogging on LJ, but my posting may take a while or look very odd, as my N key is playing Hob. And, in trying to fix it, I broke it even more. So I need a new keyboard, which will take several days, and until that I'm dealing with a very jury-jigged typing methos (or using the iPhone or iPad, which are not ideal for long typing. My but English has a lot of Ns in it!

In other news, I think once the government reopens, I need to talk to the folks at the National Weather Service. I think that the shutdown prevented them from booting up October; we seem to be having a rerun of either August or September.

Never mind, a big package came from GMT today, the Greece and Eastern Kingdoms extension for Commands and Colors. And I still have, unpunched, the two new COIN titles, Cuba Libre and A Distant Plain, that I'm itching to try out.  If only I had someone to play it with...

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[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! I've been intermittently trying to get back in the habit of livejournaling.

I'd never heard of Commands and Colors - it looks pretty interesting. I'm looking through the rulebook right now and pondering trying a homemade adaptation for pike and shot era battles.

[winterbadger]

I wasn't totally convinced by Borg's other games (I gave away my copy of Memoir '44 and I've never been moved to buy BattleCry or BattleLore). But I'm fighting an uphill battle when it comes to boardgames, as the one person locally who I know shares my taste in board wargames (a) is rarely available and (b) would rather play miniatures games where we can get more people involved. Most of my other friends here simply refuse to play any boardgame that involves history or will only play if the game is really an excuse for drinking lots of beer. I don't have anything against beer per se, but occasionally I'd like to play something a little more serious. One answer is to find some new friends to game with, but another is to try to drum up some interest in games like this that one can learn and play a couple of times in one evening.