February saw a nice variety of games being played at the club each week. The month started off with Walt Williams hosting a WFG 2.0 Almost Written scenario set during World War II. Lately Walt has been experimenting with smaller game boards to speed up play by making it easier for opposing sides to come into combat contact. Instead of having to maneuver for a number of turns, opposing forces find themselves in the thick of the action right at the being of the game. As usual, Walt had a full complement of players for his game that ran throughout the evening. The other game of the night was “Pikeman’s Lament” that was put on by club member Ed Strecker. The game is set during the late Renaissance period and rules are from the Osprey series of games loosely based on their Lion Rampant rules. This was the first Ed has brought these rules to the club and the game was play-test of the rules. Here is a short recap of Ed’s scenario for the game: "The Muscovite's are trying to rebuild some old frontier defenses. The Turks, allowing their Crimean Tartar vassal to lead, have launched a raiding force into Muscovite territory to impede progress."
The feature game of the second weekend of February was Risk 2210 AD, which was put on by Nathanael Skiver. Based on the classic board game, Risk 2210 AD adds many sci-fi features to the game including the ability for players to control territory on the moon. The game allows players to: “Conquer on land, raid under the sea, and battle on the dark side of the moon with your massed armies of machines in this exciting post-post-apocalyptic version of the classic game! Recruit unique commanders to yield higher attack/defense bonuses and hoard precious resources to seize the initiative from your opponents.” Sci fi games are not played as often as historical games at the club, but there is interest with a good sized group within the CSGA.
The third Saturday had a sports based game and a fantasy game being the major games played at the club. To celebrate the Daytona 500, Jeff Scott put on a road race game so club members could test their abilities at driving a NASCAR racer. For those not interested in racing,, Peter Hope put on a Gloomhaven scenario for those wanting to battle the undead. Definitely two widely different types of games were played that Saturday night.
To wrap up the month, Luis Nunez put on a Sci-Fi skirmish game on the 23 of February. Luis is one of club members who particularly likes sci-fi games and normally puts on several games throughout the year. Being a skirmish game, players commanded small groups of combatants fighting for the objective of the game. Having such games are a great change-of-pace from the normally larger multi-unit historical games that are routinely play here. Thank you Luis and the rest of the CSGA members who put on game this month at the club.