Axis and Allies

By the end of the month I’ll have enough of the core game and expansions for Memoir 44 to cover practically all theaters of World War II

  • The core set has US and German army playing pieces.
  • Mediterranean Theater has a British army and rules for Italian troops, using the German army pieces.
  • Eastern Front has a Russian army.
  • Pacific Theater has a Japanese army.
  • Winter Wars expands the ETO to cover Christmas 1944 and the Battle of the Bulge.
  • Winter Desert Map is more for aesthetics than anything else.

I have plenty to keep me busy with this game, I think.  Though I am looking at the map series expansions, specifically the one with Japanese and Russians fighting early in the war.

Incoming: Memoir 44

Remember when I mentioned a rabbit hole?

Arriving today (March 21):

Arriving tomorrow (March 22):

 

Arriving next week (I hope):

I think that covers everything I need for now.  The Winter Wars expansion may come later.  And I’m still not sure about the air power expansion.

 

The New Rabbit Hole?

15 years after it was released, we played a game of Memoir 44, at Dice Tower West in Las Vegas.

The game itself was on my radar for many years, but for one reason or another I simply ignored it.

But once Nels and I played a game, we both agreed that it was a good game.  So much so that I finally ordered a copy of the base set, which appears to be out of print.  Along with all of it’s expansions.

I’ve been able to find a few of the expansions locally and online, and I’ve picked up a couple and may end up getting more of them in the future.

Right now my white whale/holy grail is the Pacific Theater expansion, which has always been my chosen area of interest in World War II.  I seem to be able to find all of the expansions EXCEPT this one.

Here’s hoping I can find a copy.  Or it gets reprinted in the near future.

 

Red Alert!

Today I discovered that Modiphius Entertainment has a skirmish-level miniatures rules set for their Star Trek Adventures RPG miniatures.

And they’re free!

I took it as my excuse to finally pick up these sets:

I may pick up Klingons later.

Battletech

I just spent my morning working on something that may never see the light of day.

 

I created a ‘Mech lance for Battletech.

Gavin’s Grenadiers, a mercenary unit consisting of the above silhouetted mechs.

I also created the Mechwarriors for them:

The names came from an online random name generator.

This is how my brain works sometimes.

I see little plastic or metal game pieces for a game that I haven’t played in years (hell, decades) and I’ll come up with more backstory than necessary for them.

If I had the energy to do so, I’d come up with fiction about them, but I’m not that well versed in Battletech fluff/background.