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Camp & Hexy play head-to-head.
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GBACW SImple Rules Play (Battle TBD)

Hex 2 Hex

Scenario 29.6 The Grand Campaign, the Eastern Front
Title: 1914 Twilight in the East
Designer: Michael Resch
Publisher: GMT Games
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Session Report 5/~ (12-17 September) - 1914 TITE The Grand Campaign

Wise Guy History

Why couldn't the Wizard go on the quest?  He had a staff infection!  Join Cody as he takes a look at this semi-cooperative fantasy wargame from Blue Panther.  Will it be magic on the tabletop?  Or will it just bring darkness on game night?  Let's watch!

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TDG: The Struggle for Zorn: The Red Blight

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An Overview of the Activity on the Campaign Map, Movement and Resupply.
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Field Commander Robert E. Lee (End of Turn 3)

Hex 2 Hex

Coral Sea is the second volume in the Campaign Commander series from Francisco Ronco and Belliga 3G. While the rulebook is said to need some parsing, the game itself is said to be great. Check BGG for a semi-official corrected rulebook, or Judd Vance's homemade corrected rulebook.

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Coral Sea Unboxing

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Playing one scenario of Tide of Iron: Next Wave. This is scenario #8: "Stavelot Express". 

On December 17th, Lt. Col. Joachim Peiper of the 1st SS Panzer Division broke through the American lines and started his race to the Meuse River. By 1600 hours his advance units reached the outskirts of Stavelot. The town was jammed with supply trucks trying desperately to flee when Peiper’s tanks started shelling the town.
At dawn on the 18th, after penetrating the U.S. anti-tank defenses, Peiper’s armored units move through the town and seize the bridge. The Americans withdraw, but not before the 526th Armored Infantry Battalion is able to blow up the fuel dump that is vital to Peiper’s advance.

Clarification on the Bazooka: It gives you a normal anti tank range of 3, not a +3 (for a total of 4 in normal range).

Clarification on 5 rules that can be easy to miss (and that I sometimes forget)
- You cannot fire at long range when doing a "fire and movement"-action. Firing at long range is only possible with a "concentrated fire"-action.
- Medics will provide a +1 cover for every squad that is in the hex of the medic, not just the squad with the medic specialization.
- You can only try to "Establish contact" once every game round.
- If LOS is traced through an adjacent hex hill of the same elevation, LOS is blocked (Plateau rule)
- A unit moving in to a hex can only be attacked by opportunity fire once. If there are several enemy units within LOS set to OP, the commander of those units have 2 options. 1: Decide one unit with OP to lead the attack, then use the other units with LOS and OP as support in  "Combined fire", or 2: Fire with 1 unit in OP,  then fire with the next if the unit moves 1 more hex and so on. Again, only one OP attack may be done for every hex the target moves (within LOS).


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Tide of Iron: Next Wave - Playthrough [Stavelot Express]

Boards, Bricks & Battlefields

Part 2 of Seapower & the State rules review focsing on Movement, Logisitics, and spacial map rules.
And an extended musical outro...
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Seapower & the State 2025 - Rules Review Part 2 - Movement & Logistics

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Fast Attack boats | A Blast From My Wargame Past

Cardboard Commander

A quick overview of the somewhat self serving narratives surfacing around the 'spoofing ' of pay to promote results from 2 youtube channels in the Toxic Zone know as Euro games, which harm unaware uniformed Publishers.
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Big Board Gaming

Check out Ray's unboxing for Heat: Rocky Roads from Days of Wonder. 

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TDG: Heat: Rocky Roads unboxing with Ray

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