2021 Wrap Up and Most Played Board Games

MMP's Standard Combat System North Africa: Special Rules (2021)

Still playing Days Gone!

 

#PS5Share, #DAYSGONE Deacon is the best #ps5 pic.twitter.com/w68AkCWzGj

— Gamer Hudson (@copterplays) December 11, 2021

Operational Combat Series: Design a Scenario Part 6 (GB2 #OCS)

Operational Combat Series: Design a Scenario Part 3 (GB2 #OCS)

State of Play October 2021 - News Recap | PS5, PS4

Setting Up OCS TBL - Arras Scenario (Livestream)

Enemy at the Gates Scenario 4 German Setup (OCS)

Enemy at the Gates Scenario 4 Soviet Setup (OCS)

Operational Combat System Hungarian Rhapsody: Nebelwerfer Nightmare! (4K)

Battalion Combat Series: Panzers Last Stand - MSR's, Recon Objectives an...

Battalion Combat Series for Dummies: AV Support Assignment

Battalion Combat Series for Dummies: Counters and Overview

GMT Games Downtown - My Attempt at Raid Planning (1965 bridge target)

GMT Games Red Storm - Anti-Aircraft Attack and Pilot Bail Out

GMT Games Red Storm - Radar Search and Lookdown Rules Discussion

Silver Bayonet - GMT Games - Bombardments

Quick Look: Three Crowns Game Productions Stargard Solstice (2021)

Silver Bayonet - GMT Games - Intro and Assault Example

Quick Look: It Started Here IA Drang 1965 (2017) - Lock and Load Publishing

Grand Tactical Series (GTS): Where Eagles Dare Part 2: Direct Fire Examp...

As a reminder tracked vehicles cannot enter woods unless on a road in column but I broke that rule in this video for cool factor This video is a mish mosh of two tanks firing on each other, opportunity fire and a little historical data on one of the units involved. The entire video is chock full of goodness and watch for a roll of "0"! All my social media links: https://beacons.page/gamer.hudson #wargaming #hexandcounter #boardgames #boardgaming #MMPGames #GTS

 

MMP's Panzer Battles 11th Panzer (SCS Series) - Rules Overview (2021) (4K)

Hudson's 2021 Gaming Channel Update (July 2021)

Kingdom Death Monster 2021 Update: New Purchases #KingdomDeath

#Heroclix War of Light Sinestro Corp Scenario Pack Unboxing (2021)

#MarvelUnited Kickstarter Unboxing and #Heroclix Update

Marvel Crisis Protocol Building She-Hulk (2021)

Marvel Champions Gameplay: Thor vs. Rhino Normal Mode (2021)

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Lets Build the Warlord Thanos! Full Build Video ...

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Unboxing Thanos, Black Dwarf and The Maw (2021) ...

First attempt back at Marvel Champions LCG ends in disaster

I decided to take on Rhino with Under Attack modular set thrown in. With Thor I made a 50 card Justice deck. It didn't work so well as the 4 card hand limit killed me and I couldn't pay for the expensive cards I had in the deck. 

In the end the combo of Sandman coming out and my inability to play cards to get rid of thwart killed me and I lost due to the scheme being completed. I did get a couple of nice attacks in including a hammer throw but in the end I was playing catch up like I normally do in this game and just never felt ahead of the battle.

Trying again this week with a new trimmed down 40 card deck. 

Marvel's Avengers Final Campaign Mission (2021)

General Grievous and his flunkies Star Wars Legion

Last night I finished assembling 4 light saber Grievous and let me tell you it was not easy. His legs sucked and so did his arms and the instructions are very vague. 

I also assembled some B2 Super Battle Droids since they were super easy and did not have many parts to put together. Now I have to move on to the regular troops.

You can view some older assembly streams of Kingdom Death Monster on my You Tube page if you want to see how I assemble things but that is not Star Wars related

GMT Games has a hidden Vietnam 1965-1975 P500 page

Well well this is interesting...a complete rework of the original master. Can't add it to my cart YET, as I think the page is not live or it is crashing the site.

From the site:  https://www.gmtgames.com/p-911-vietnam-1965-1975-gmt-edition.aspx

"For many of you, as for us, the mere existence of this announcement is a dream come true. That we get to work on it is just icing on the cake.

Vietnam 1965-1975 has always represented the quintessential grand operational Vietnam game for us. The systems all work together beautifully to evoke the feel of the war whether playing the focused scenarios or the sweeping breadth of the campaign games. To that end, let us tell you what to expect with this reprint edition.

But first, we want to let you know what this reprint is not: it is, most emphatically, not a reimagining of the game. There will be no major rule changes. No chrome will be added. Although we are well aware that the available historical record on Vietnam is vastly expanded since the original publication, the game has always been an abstraction of the conflict as opposed to a meticulously exact reproduction of every fact. The intent with this edition is to clarify where needed and change only if necessary.

With that said, let's get on to the good stuff! The primary goals are to bring the components up to a modern standard and to clean up any ambiguity in the rules. This will be done using both the collected wisdom of the community as well as Nick's input through close consultation as to his original intent on some of the thornier questions."  #GMTGAMES

The ultimate corporate game scam Anthem has its development stopped

As seen here

https://blog.bioware.com/2021/02/24/anthem-update/

one of the biggest gaming scams of recent times (right up there with all the idiots that pre ordered Cyberpunk 2077) is finally being stopped by its own development team. The only thing disappointing is the way they ripped off consumers and got away with it. Need more? How about this great Kotaku article:  https://kotaku.com/how-biowares-anthem-went-wrong-1833731964

"I know this will be disappointing to the community of Anthem players who have been excited to see the improvements we’ve been working on. It’s also disappointing for the team who were doing brilliant work. And for me personally, Anthem is what brought me to BioWare, and the last two years have been some of the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my career.

Game development is hard. Decisions like these are not easy. Moving forward, we need to laser focus our efforts as a studio and strengthen the next Dragon Age, and Mass Effect titles while continuing to provide quality updates to Star Wars: The Old Republic."

 

 

Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes 2021 F2P Beginner Farming Guide

Pax Kidur gets a lightsaber Star Wars Old Republic MMO Gameplay (2021)

Many Star Wars Legion design leaks and upcoming releases

While this blog is not 100% Legion based, it is what I am into at the moment and so it is nice to see new news coming out.

Most of the leaks are posted on the Legion Holonet blog so you can read them here

https://starwarslegionnews.wordpress.com/

Here is a preview

 

Legion building continues

Not much to report on the miniature front so far, just a little building and still gathering paint and supplies from Ebay and the stores. I like to have everything I need to fight at least one battle before even attempting to play the game and I am still thinking of doing tutorials for the game in bite sized chunks on my YouTube channel.

 

 

Let Star Wars Legion begin!

I have sold my Imperial Assault collection to kick start my Legion collection. What have I done? Not like I don't have a zillion other games to play right now. 

I got 2 core sets of the Clone Wars and no I do not plan on mixing my eras together that is just stupid. I plan to focus on Clone Wars battles but do expect to be able to use Palpatine and wookies since they were in the prequels and Clone Wars TV Show.

I also snagged Dooku and Anakin to be alternative commanders. Got a nice playmat some paint and some other random battlefield add ons coming as well.

There is a solo system I plan to use here: http://www.crabbok.com/custom-content/legion-ai-system/

 

 

 

Bloodborne The Boardgame Kickstarter Box Reveal (2021, CMON)

GMT Games announces GMT ONE

Here is the latest from the GMT Games monthly newsletter and it includes some great news from the solitaire front, something I have lobbied about for a while!

We are proud, then, to announce an in-house development studio dedicated to enabling Solitaire gamers to enjoy the wide variety of multiplayer games that GMT publishes: GMT One. Some of you may have noticed the GMT One logo on the front of the Tru'ng Bot Update Kit for Fire in the Lake.

GMT One will help bridge the gap in knowledge and experience between our multiplayer designers and the skills and techniques used to craft Solitaire experiences and support these designers in creating top-notch designs. Our design group includes the designers who built the Solitaire systems in Tank Duel and Gandhi, and we will partner with designers like John Butterfield, Mark Herman, Volko Ruhnke, Harold Buchanan, Mike Bertucelli, and others to create best-in-industry Solitaire experiences for you.

Today, we are very happy to announce two new games with GMT One solo systems: Prime Minister and In the Shadows. Both of these games include simple, card-based Solitaire systems which enable the player to continue to play the game as if playing against a human opponent. The main difference between these systems and traditional 'bots' is that care was taken to make sure that the bot does not take more work to run than the game takes to play. Usabililty, Clarity, and Simplicity are the three key pillars of GMT One's Solitaire designs.

How To Play Electric Football PART 1

My new blog is up and its dedicated to the national past time of football! It will cover boardgames, video games and electric football dealing with the NFL. 

You can get there here: Old NFL History

Cyberpunk 2077 with Vehicle Handling Mod and controller settings (PC, 2021)