Summer Heat & Gaming Madness

Ok…first off I’m posting this update in three places so if you see the title more than once or go ‘wait a minute-I just read this’ you’ll know why.

Wow, long time no post…but that doesn’t mean I haven’t worn all the markings off my keyboard…again…

First, all the projects are cooking so I’m back to 20 hour days again. It has been a wild summer so far, re-entering the wargame scene with a vengeance (and a battle cry) and sorting out all the custom content for the Arkham Horror boardgame that is floating around the interwebs…and a word of warning-back up your backups and then make a back up of that back up…seriously…this Megaupload fiasco (which is BS like most nonsense these days-invalid search warrants, whole thing gets tossed anyway, never even slowed down the pirates and the communities that use file hosting legitimately have to suffer…f*** heads…) has managed to eat up the time I had slotted for getting the first major articles for Darkness over Dunwich finished. Now I have to stop what I’m doing and get re-focused on things that make your skin crawl after sweeping through the history of wargaming (wow...lots to catch up on).

And, speaking of wargaming, GMT games recent release of Red Winter is getting high marks. I brushed it off as a minor title to start with but after further study I must say they seem to have hit the target (pun? No pun?...whatever) with this one.

I am trying to bring my A-game with these first two outings of the journals. I have plenty of material…almost too much…it’s just getting everything right that drags things down. These are not intended as one-shot publications. As I believe I have mentioned I’m trying to do (for now) 3 of each a year on an alternating schedule. That leaves plenty of time for those ‘oh s***’ moments that are inevitable.

Still exploring Kickstarter for these projects but not quite decided yet. And then there is that pesky website to finish.

Anyway, I hope your gaming is going well this hot and messed up summer and look forward to fall when maybe everyone can take a minute and relax and just enjoy the simple entertainment that gaming is at its best.

More soon…

Still Churning

So between the heat and the always unexpected...whatever...I continue to chug along at a sluggish rate...but chug nonetheless!

The website should be up soon. My domain fees are due and GoDaddy is offering a discount on certain services so it sounds like now is the time.

Storms causing me to shut down my gear everyday this past week killed finishing the index page and sub indexes for CRoA but I have had a chance to catch up on some documentaries I have been waiting to watch and I have developed a severe addiction to wargame play through videos so whenever the foul weather kicks in I just power up the beast (a true Frankenbox of a machine) and check out a wargame I have never heard of. It all works out.

Speaking of the wargames topic, that has been the focus this weekend for the first issue of CRoA. Classic gaming in my book = wargames so I am working on a column for the CRoA journal (and hope to get another enthusiast involved who is WAAAAY the hell more knowledgeable on the subject than myself) and hope to have a series starting with 3 classic WW2 events - Operation Barbarossa / Battle of Stalingrad / Battle of Kursk - or what I like to call 'Three Strikes and Hitler's out'. I want to cover various game releases of each of the events covering what are considered the best options for play and any free / low budget options as well for those just getting started.

Ok...time to knock out another doc-a 'Battle of Stalingrad' that had slipped through the cracks on me (I collect basically any video I find on the the second world war. I have studied it since I was a child).

Till next time.