Episode #3 of We Intend To Move On Your Works by the Homo Ludens crew just dropped! This week, @DrCrossbows and Pierre Vagneur-Jones talk about Steve Ruwe's The Late Unpleasantness with @fredserval.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-3-late-unpleasantness-we-intend-to-move-on/id1585574987?i=1000613850183

Late last year I drafted @victoryfish into playing Kingdom of Dyflin, the expansion to Great Heathen Army by Amabel Holland, with me. It was a lot of fun and now after some time I have written quite a few words on both the game and its expansion. https://www.stuartellisgorman.com/blog/review-great-heathen-army-and-the-kingdom-of-dyflin-by-amabel-holland

Playing a venerable classic at the moment: Manassas by Rick Britton, first published over 40 years ago. Playing it in multiple sessions, this is about 4 hours into the game and not quite halfway through the battle. So far I'm really liking it - very interesting design.

New year, new project. This year I'm planning to deep dive into ACW games to consider how the represent history and the influence of the Lost Cause. I've got some initial reading and a small stack of games to try but would love recommendations for more of either.

For the last 6 weeks we've been play testing some extra cards for RFOP. I wanted to show a couple of them here.
Let's start with "La colonne Vendôme". Built in 1806-10 it was commissioned to celebrate Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz. During the Commune, painter Gustave Courbet argues that the monument is a tribute to chauvinism and warmongering and therefor should be disassembled and preserved in the Hôtel des Invalides.