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The ‘Named Pilot’ thing for Corsair Leader is a limited backer thing, meaning only a certain number of backers can claim that add-on/reward.
It’s a ‘nice to have’ thing for me, but if it’s limited, I wouldn’t want to prevent someone who really wants it to have it.
So yeah, I’ll just get the game. And the neoprene mat for Hornet Leader.
The Kickstarter for Corsair Leader launches tomorrow afternoon. I’ve already decided to back it.
One of the more pricier add-ons is naming a pilot in the game. You pick the type of plane, and the name you choose will be the pilot for that plane, in all copies of the game.
As I pondered whether or not to use my own name, I did a quick Google search for Filipino World War Two pilots, and came up with a couple:
So there’s precedence for a Filipino WWII pilot. Those these two flew P26 Peashooters for the Philippine Air Force’s 6th Pursuit Squadron.
And I’m gonna have him fly one of the first WWII models that I ever built, a $2 kit from Woolworth’s, circa late 1970’s.
F4F Wildcat
Solitaire wargames update!
I picked up Tiger Leader a while back, in a ding-and-dent sale at Game Kastle. I never got around to playing it due to other games that occupied my time.
After playing a couple more of DVG’s ‘Leader’ games, I decided to pick up Sherman Leader, and this one came with an upgrade kit for Tiger Leader.
And after punching the counters and sorting the cards, both are ready to go.
I don’t know which one to try first.
Do I invade Poland or defend the Philippines, both of which are campaigns in their respective games.
Or recreate the North Africa campaign?
Though I did pick this up last year (and haven’t played) as well:
Decisions, decisions…
Gato Leader has been played!
Dismal result, I chalk it up to learning the game. Though I did manage to sink the Yamato.
Corsair Leader is going to Kickstarter this week, so that may stay on the list a bit longer.
And with Sherman Leader arriving tomorrow, this list is still as long as it has been since November.
Actually, it’s longer, with Gloomhaven, Dinosaur Island, and a couple of Legendary deck building games (Firefly and Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
I think I’ll be playing some sports games in the near future. A year ago I meant to replay the 2010 World Series, which I didn’t.
Last year I bought the print-and-play version of this game. I printed it, but never got around to actually cutting out the parts to play it.
Next week, Dan Verssen Games is starting a new Kickstarter for a printed version of the game, updated and improved from the print-and-play version.
This may be one of the few Kickstarters that I do this year, since I’ve cut back considerably on my KS pledging.
This is one of those games that I rarely played because it didn’t have a solo player option. There have been homebrew instructions for it, but I never got around to trying them.
Recently Fantasy Flight Games released a mobile app for this game that allows for 1-4 players to run a campaign. I downloaded it and finally got a chance to play with it.
I played the tutorial, and learned that I needed a refresher in the basic rules.
We’ll see how often I get around to this game.
Maybe they’ll add porgs.
Spent most of my afternoon organizing the gigantic boardgame known as Gloomhaven.
The box is massive, and is packed with rules, cards, miniatures, and lots of cardboard parts (tokens, counters, the board).
Luckily I found a cheap system to sort and store all the parts, involving some Plano tackle/storage boxes from Dick’s Sporting Goods.
The alternative is to get some laser cut storage solution that costs almost as much as the game.
Nice as it looks, I can’t justify it.
Game play report soon, I hope.
Watching Ken Burns’ Baseball on MLB Network.
The commercials show that they’re doing MLB divisional previews, which I think may be premature, with the Winter Meetings coming up and Spring Training a couple of months away.
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If the Giants do not get Mike Stanton, maybe they should pick up free agents Brandon Morrow and Curtis Granderson from the Dodgers.
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There I was, the black grandson of a slave, the son of a black sharecropper, part of a historic occasion, a symbolic hero to my people. The air was sparkling. The sunlight was warm. The band struck up the national anthem. The flag billowed in the wind. It should have been a glorious moment for me as the stirring words of the national anthem poured from the stands. Perhaps, it was, but then again, perhaps, the anthem could be called the theme song for a drama called The Noble Experiment. Today, as I look back on that opening game of my first world series, I must tell you that it was Mr. Rickey’s drama and that I was only a principal actor. As I write this twenty years later, I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
― Jackie Robinson, I Never Had It Made
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I do miss baseball. As I do every year, after Thanksgiving Day.
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I’m gonna play a couple of games of my 1967 San Francisco Giants season replay.
Glenn and Dave contemplate our next move, once Nelson added terrain pieces to the map
Our intrepid crew. My character is the little bitty grey koala bear
Empty Diet Pepsi bottle doubling as the main power core in engineering