Gaming

By Chris Masucci

It is time again to revisit the lands of the far future, to a land of galactic civil war. Star Wars legion has been growing at a rapid rate in my area, its small but tight squadron based combat offers a reprieve from the mass amounts of figures of Warhammer and other micro-scale games. Repurposing a lot of mechanics from Fantasy Flight’s other games such as X-wing, any players familiar with the more ship-based star wars offering will be able to jump into legion without much issue.

By Mitch Reed

I have long been a fan of John Tiller and the newest release from covers one of the forgotten campaigns of World War Two, the campaign to open the port of Antwerp that took place in October and November 1944. The took place right after the failure of Operation Market Garden and before the Battle of the Bulge, so it does not get the rightful attention it should. In their new title Scheldt 44, the designers change that with yet another great addition to the Panzer Campaigns Series.

By Tom Gall

This article is about how to make your game table bigger, by fearlessly going to a smaller scale. In my case, I’ve been gaming in 15mm for Team Yankee and Battlegroup NorthAG, but want to convert to 10mm to get more gaming space for the same sized table. 3-D printing is a major portion of my success getting into another scale.

With NorthAG, the Plastic Soldier Company has a good line of models that continues to expand. Other companies of course can scratch the 10mm itch as well. The great thing about a 15mm to 10mm conversion is the smaller vehicles, infantry, and so on paint a lot faster. You’ll get to the table sooner and not have to invest tons of time in detail.

This past Sunday I had the pleasure of visiting Critical Hit Games in Abingdon Maryland to host some demo games of Blood & Plunder at the invitation of store staff member Matt Maggitti.

The store had only started carrying it a few weeks ago and the community of gamers were just getting into the game. A friend of the Tales of the Sail podcast Preston Jacka met me there to assist in running multiple demos at once.

Phil and I had a chance to talk with legendary game designer on his upcoming Great War Card game that is on Kickstarter now.

By John Stafford and Jim Baldrighi

Greetings fellow gamers! I’m John Stafford, co-designer of’s new World War II boardgame D-Day and Beyond (DDAB). Back in October of 2019, my co-designer Jim Baldrighi and I sat down in my basement to play the old Avalon Hill classic boardgame, D-Day. We played over the course of two evenings and enjoyed the game enough to swap sides and play again.

Afterward, as we usually do, we sat back with an adult beverage and discussed what we liked about the game and what we didn’t, and what new or improved game mechanics we would employ to make it a more enjoyable or historically accurate experience. Jim and I use such games to make “keep or sell” decisions regarding our collections, so this discussion eventually comes down to three questions: “Did we like the game enough to keep it?”, “Does it need an upgrade?”, and closely related to the second question, “Was it fun enough to redesign it to our satisfaction?”DDAB is the result of three “yes” answers.

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By Chris Masucci

After a long hiatus this weekend the community at Mythicos Studios was finally able to get out and organize a game of This was a four-player game with 2000 pts total on each side, and the allies made up of a British and American coalition faced off against the Germans in an attempt to stop them from gaining further ground at the end of 1947 comes to a close.

The two forces sported a variety of units as the US infantry force with some walker and an AT gun half-track for support. The British force aimed for a more armored fist approach with power armored infantry and lots of heavy armor. In opposition, the German forces utilized a large horde of zombies backed up by walkers, artillery, and a single light tank.

By Tom Gall

is the Plastic Soldier companies WWIII what if set of rules. It brings the Battlegroup style of rules to the early/mid-1980s which for those fans of the period can be welcome competition for Battlefronts Team Yankee.

While Covid is still running around here in Minnesota, we’re lucky that cases are generally in check, so in-store gaming is something we can do masked. D6 Games in Rochester Mn is my frequent haunt and with time around the tabletop, I’ve been catching up with gaming I’ve been wanting to do since things shut down in March.

A number of friends who are fans of Team Yankee have wanted to give NorthAG as try. This batrep is the result of one of those games. It’s a 500pt affair on a 6×4 table in 15mm reusing much of our Team Yankee hardware. The lists are at the bottom of the article.