Don Stone

A ten year daily streak (3 leap days). #FlowFree #DailyStreak #StupidStreak

@SpaceRumsfeld And lesson learned. Defend Hawaii (and the fleet) as your first and most important priority. Just do it.

Another Christmas Cookie day with my daughter — family traditions!

@markherman54 Also if you google for “GMT Churchill Rules” the first hit is a link to the original rules hosted on the GMT. Also boardgamegeek. Probably the reason o never realized there were second edition rules.

@markherman54 Ah, that makes sense. In your experience do people often misquote the second edition rule? It seems quite clear. I’d think most of the “misquoting” is from diligent careful readers.

Churchill Broken Alliance victory where Churchill’s 47 VP exceeds the US/USSR score 46 by one VP allowing Churchill (high score) win. This is the most misquoted rule where it is said the person with the second place score wins. Only if first cannot beat the combined scores.

Traces of War by Vuca. Calling it after turn five with the Soviets close to victory. Very fun and easy to play game. Must try it again.

@unityofcommand Typo on the chart — conference five is labeled Oct 1942

New DLC: Kursk 🔥 a 16-scenario Soviet campaign, starting at Prokhorovka and including 1943 operations around Smolensk, the Dnieper crossings, and along the Black Sea coast. ➕ bonus: Zitadelle 43 German mini-campaign. 📅 October 19th!

@ChrisDokish I hesitate to bring it up … but this success correlates with the closing of the O … causality?

Pitt is still playing in the NCAA tournament, and North Carolina, Duke, Virginia, Louisville, Syracuse, Florida State, and NC State aren’t. And Pitt football was ranked the last 2 years. Better start putting respect on that name.

D-Day at Omaha Beach designed by John Butterfield. Catastrophic loss on turn 13 with 8 reduced regiments in the 29th division. Fantastic game.

@agauntpanda @markherman54 Ignorance, now corrected.

How is this game still sub-500 orders? It's a multi-game pack that includes Stalingrad AND Guadalcanal AND Gazala! This feels like the perfect accompaniment to @markherman54's recent C3i battle games. Come on people. gmtgames.com/p-773-no-retre…

Second game, also “seemed” to be going well until the imperialist powers swarmed the Nautilus in Act III. Imperialist Powers Victory.

First game of Nemo’s War. Was going well until a few bad treasures and a last disastrous snake eyes on on incite check pushed me to the notoriety limit. Defeat! Nautilus sinks and Captain Nemo list to history.

Fontana Dam in western NC

Quiet moment in crazy crowded Gatlinburg TN — 2 hour drive in traffic from Knoxville and another 1.5 hours to park — but a fun town tonwalk around — and sitting down for a nice dinner with the family now.

@wargamehq Two. And I used to joke that I had to give up playing ASL because it used both slots.

Tried #ThroughTheAges again, two-player, easy AI — won by 7 — but still have no real idea what I’m doing or why I won — will try again soon.

Not a clue what I’m doing in the well-regarded #ThroughTheAges — against easy AI — will have to fix that.

STUFT on turn 16! All three helicopters but not a single Fair or Rain/Snow turn after. And two gale turns after the landing. Some fortunate Argentine Discipline results retreated everyone into Stanley. But as expected, ran out of time. 0-5.

Trying to beat Mrs Thatcher’s War. Fourth serious try. This particular game is mostly going well, EXCEPT for the clear weather on turns 7, 8, and 9, i.e., no landings at San Carlos yet. And now, live, the weather roll for turn 10 ... 7 means rain ... a little hope remains.