My new gaming table

My new gaming table has room to store 18 game boards underneath and can accommodate 15 boards on top in a 3×5 arrangement (with the end boards hanging off the ends 2″ each) or a 3×4 arrangement with room on the table at each end for papers, rule books, dice, sodas, beer, pretzels, etc.

Now I’ve got to finish the rest of the “room”, it’s really going to be more of an enclosed patio but it will be very nice when it’s done.  The roof is done and some of the wall panels have gone up.

P.S. If you are wondering, my gaming boards are 20″ x 20″.
Two reasons for this;
1) In my rules that is one square kM
2) You can actually get 8 boards out of a full sheet of MDF, you cannot do that when you try to make them 24″ x 24″

Working on some more terrain boards

Tonight I started work on 4 more Middle East boards.  I’m making these as generic Middle East boards that can be used for several regions.  I know that some areas in the Middle East are just sand forever and others are hilly or even mountainous, so I’m trying to do something that is desert with a little terrain to break things up a bit.  After all, modern MBTs facing off at 3000 meters across flat sand can be a little boring. …. so a little artistic license is being taken with my terrain boards.

Click images for larger versions.

Playing with myself again (wait, that does not sound right)

Spent some time tonight in the spare bedroom (AKA, the office, AKA the doggies room) doing some playtesting of my TAC II data and refreshing my old brain on the mechanics of TacForce.

I only played 4 complete turns but in that short time the US troops were geting their asses handed to them.  I was playing both sides, so it had nothing do to do with the players, it was mostly the luck of the dice … it seemed that every time I rolled for the US I got crappy rolls and every time I rolled for the Iraqis I got amazing rolls … that’s just how it goes sometimes I guess.

Here are a few pix (click on em to make em bigger)

Even with all the US units blowing up around her, she slept through the entire battle.