Hoping you will be doing some Commands and Colors: Ancients segments in Grogscape now you are dis-illusioned with Battlelore after the afore mentioned “incident”

Great show, keep it up!

The good news - with good behaviour I might be allowed out next time.

Actually, no, the real reason was that we did the sound check, got the levels right, specifically told Paul how far to be from his Mic etc. He them promptly sat back about 2 feet from his mic, so we had to do a lot of boosting etc.

Honestly, I work with amateurs!

I do have a question. What happened to Paul’s microphone during part of the show? He sounded like he was far away. Was Mike upset that Paul smoked him at a game? Tsk Tsk.

Once again, thanks for the feedback - it’s great to hear you’re all enjoying the show

GROGnads - a session report or even just turn run-through would be great. I’m not sure why I’m finding it so difficult to get this one to come together in my head! The delay between sessions was too long, which was our fault, but I think the main thing that finally made us put it to one side was the repair rules - we just couldn’t work out when in the turn repairs happened, whether a ship had to be in port for the whole turn after you’d repaired it, and if so, how you’d mark it as ‘repaired’ but not ready for action, etc. Mike was going to look on BoardGameGeek for a turn order summary - not sure if he found one. We’re still really keen to play it, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Norman - yeah, The Fury of Dracula is in the can, but currently it’s a pretty big can! I think we’ve got about three hours of stuff as we just recorded the whole thing, and we really need to get it down to an hour and a half max (though even that might be about 80 minutes too long!). We’ll get this out just as soon as we (aka Mike!) can get the post-production done. I’m not sure how well this type of segment will work, but hey nothng ventured, nothing gained! All feedback will be appreciated when this airs!

Mr Six - thanks!

Herb - Mike and I got Combat Commander to the table last night and are playing again on Sunday. But I’m not going to say what we think of it yet - you’ll all have to tune in to Show 15 to find out It’s great to see people showing their support for the show with the microbadges - the more the merrier!

Russell - That’s great to hear - we’ll continue to do our best not to disappoint! On the review side we take our responsibilities pretty seriously. We always want to do the game justice and give our listeners as much info as we can so they an make an informed decision about whether or not it’s for them. This sometimes makes our reviews quite long, but that’s the style we’re comfortable with. We won’t always all like a game - in fact we often have differing views and I like to think that’s one of the strengths of having three of us - so you get three opinions for the price of one! And don’t worry - ‘Into the Grogscape’ is here to stay! Thanks for the heads up on the ASLSK tutorial - I’ll check it out.

Thanks again for taking the time to share your thoughts, guys!

Later!

Si

On a more constructive note, the review of the Fagin game worked really well. You played it, you talked about the good and bad points, you interviewed the designer to work through some of the issues. That all held together really well.

As for “into the grogscape” keep at it like Herb says. I agree that the issue is how frequently you come back to games and how fresh the rules are in your head.

As a side note to Si - just spotted a new ASLSK#1 tutorial on BGG.

Cheers
Russell (aka Collywobbles on BGG)

The ranks of the Gamescape microbadge holders grows! Six total owners when you recorded the show (including me), but now there is a seventh. I wonder what the count will be up to when the next show rolls around….. I am anxious to find out.