Burning Banners, 2 players
My friend got a copy of Burning Banners and I've wanted to play it for a while, so we started up a VASSAL game of the first scenario. Chris Farrell thinks it's great and that's intriguing enough for me to try it already (go read his newsletter, some of the best gaming writing out there). First scenario, as it tends to be, is just a little two turn toy.
My first impressions are pretty good, it's a cute, fun little thing. It's quite a light wargame in its basic bones by the standards of a wargame that was released by a wargame company---Compass. Burning Banners is also quite punchy and has high wristage with the dice, a big change from the incredibly tense agonizing play of Almoravid I did with the same friend (good tense and agonizing, to be clear). It's actually compelling me to pick it up and get it in my collection at some point; it's certainly GORGEOUS. So far, the rules are in pretty good shape too, though we haven't cracked the advanced rules. Hopefully we can go linearly through a lot of these, it's a good VASSAL game to do sharing files over discord as it's IGO UGO and not many reactions in its base version.
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