We also got to Gibraltar where I visited the great tunnel. Not too much left there from WW II though.
Main gun room of the great tunnel
Played some SAGA, Bag the Hun and Release the Hounds. Actually got some ships I plan to use as my Russian navy. Next time a RTH battle report. Today I wanted to talk about a game I bought my son.
I bought my son the X-wing game from Fantasy Flight.
I am not a huge Star Wars guy but it was a lot of fun. It reminded me of P-40s vrs Oscars or Nates. :) The system is simple yet subtle. I really like the combat resolution routine. It uses special dice but the dice take into consideration extra factors (concentration) and critical hits all in one go; elegant. Battles are not in the vertical (except you can do an immelman) but it seems to work well. Movement is simultaneous as plotted on a wheel which is a bummer for the solitaire gamer and combat is sequental based on pilot skill. My son actually came up with a way to play solitaire which should work. Roll a D6 for each pilot to determine who goes first with highest score going last. An average pilot has a +2, Veteran +4 and Luke and Darth +6 to the die roll.
Most importantly we had a blast playing! They don't call the Immelman turns "Immelman" turns in the game but something else. So I was able to poke my son by referring to them as such!
We played everyday we weren't in Spain and got to spend some quality time together. Any game that can do that is OK in my book!
{ Sorry there are no pictures for this post. I can't seem to load pictures from my hard drive anymore. Does anyone know how to do that now? It use to be an option under insert picture.}
Cheers
Joe
Joe
ReplyDeleteI had the same problem before the summer. Probably you have reached the limit of photos allowed by Google. I circumveted this by creating a new account and giving it permissions to post in my blog :-)
I have the same problem, I used FLICKR but that gave me about 36 free photos. I just added photobucket. You can use the html link, copy and paste into the blog. The pictures will appear when you save and reopen. As a loast resort you can delete unwanted pics, or delete pics from your blog, as a final result you can pay about $3 USD per month to expand the capacity of pics.
ReplyDeleteThanks gentlemen. Delaware, I signed up for photobucket and when I pasted the link it won't work because it says it the URL is password protected.
ReplyDeleteJoe
Added pictures to their Picasa thing. Worked well. Have only used 16% of my storage now.
ReplyDeleteThanks
Joe