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Malaysia Scenario Design: 09 Balance

June 16, 2019Rat6

I have to admit that much of my planning for convention games is centered on imagining all the ways things can go horribly wrong. This can take all sorts of forms, be it missing figures or components, broken terrain or… Continue Reading →

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Malaysia Scenario Design: 06 Forces

June 5, 2019Rat6 2 Comments

This is Ed tagging back in to discuss force structure and playtesting the scenario. Now that we’ve gotten a draft map to use, it will be much easier to work out some of the rough edges on the way to… Continue Reading →

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Malaysia Scenario Design: 03 Vision

May 27, 2019Rat6 2 Comments

So this is Ed, back in the writer’s chair to reclaim my blog (at least for this week)! The other day after reading what I had originally written for this blog post, my wife asked me, “What do you love… Continue Reading →

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Bungle in the Jungle: Malaya CoC Campaign, Game 1

January 14, 2018Rat6 4 Comments
Photo of Japanese figures in jungle terrain representing Malaya in 1942

A few weeks ago my friend Caleb came down to test out my new game room and play his first game against Japanese in Chain of Command. Since he had a platoon of Perry Desert Rats that hadn’t seen the… Continue Reading →

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RVA, Real Life and Urbanmatz Gaming Table Review

January 1, 2018Rat6 2 Comments
Ed in the new game room

So, I’m back to blogging after a long hiatus. Real life has been something of a rollercoaster over the past year, as we’ve purchased a house, done renovations, moved across state from Alexandria to Richmond, VA and I’ve managed to… Continue Reading →

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Review of The Red Army Handbook, 1939-1945

September 18, 2016Rat6

Title: The Red Army Handbook Author: Steven J. Zaloga and Leland S. Ness Publisher: Sutton Publishing Release Date: 1998 Format: Hardcover Pages: 240 One of the challenges of making sense of the combat on the Eastern Front of World War… Continue Reading →

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