{"id":374,"date":"2021-04-04T10:50:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T17:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/?p=374"},"modified":"2021-04-04T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T17:56:15","slug":"at-my-signal-unleash-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/2021\/04\/04\/at-my-signal-unleash-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"At my signal, unleash hell."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish there was a better solo system for this game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-375\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cca_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cca_cover.jpg 436w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cca_cover-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cca_cover-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had this game in my collection for a while, probably over a decade, but I can count the number of times I&#8217;ve played on one hand.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve played more games of Memoir &#8217;44, also by the same designer (Richard Borg), than I have this game, and the only time I played against a human opponent was at Dice Tower 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-380\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/m44_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/m44_cover.jpg 599w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/m44_cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/m44_cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/m44_cover-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I decided to revisit C&amp;CA because I had preordered a Samurai version of the game sometime last year.\u00a0 As I was browsing Amazon for expansions (I got the 1st and 6th expansions over the years, Greece and Eastern Kingdoms, and Spartan Army, respectively) I saw a damaged copy of C&amp;C Napoleonics on sale for almost 50% off retail price.\u00a0 I&#8217;d never played any Napoleonic wargame, but it&#8217;s been something I&#8217;d wanted to try, so I ordered it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-376\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ccn_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ccn_cover.jpg 440w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ccn_cover-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ccn_cover-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cool, I thought, I&#8217;m going to play this one as soon as it comes in.\u00a0 I was planning to develop a bad French accent to use while playing.<\/p>\n<p>The next day I got an email that the game I had preordered had shipped.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-377\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ccsb_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ccsb_cover.jpg 450w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ccsb_cover-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ccsb_cover-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welp.<\/p>\n<p>So in the span of a week I&#8217;ve gone from 1 of these games to 3 variants, or 2 to 4 if you include Memoir &#8217;44.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, it&#8217;s still possible to play these games solitaire, with one of my plushies or action figures on the opposite side of the board to represent my opponent, but they&#8217;re more fun and challenging when playing against a live person.<\/p>\n<p>For now, it&#8217;s time to assemble the playing pieces for the Samurai Battles game.<\/p>\n<p>Stand by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish there was a better solo system for this game. I&#8217;ve had this game in my collection for a while, probably over a decade, but I can count the number of times I&#8217;ve played on one hand. I&#8217;ve played more games of Memoir &#8217;44, also by the same designer (Richard Borg), than I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,69,68,70,34],"tags":[73,71,72,41,35],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commands-colors","category-commands-colors-ancients","category-commands-colors-napoleonics","category-commands-colors-samurai-battles","category-memoir-44","tag-japanese","tag-napoleonics","tag-roman","tag-tabletop","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}