Been busy with a few things this last week or two, but have had the opportunity to play the new Battletech (mixed – some stuff is really good, some stuff… really?), also have played space empires 4x again, though we’re not quite done with that game yet, and last but not least got a multi-ship Talon game in where I played the federa… Earth forces, and the Klin…. Talon forces… managed to kick my ass through judicious use of drones and disruptors, in what was largely a pyrrhic victory.…
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… of Long Range Missiles. And SRM’s. And PPC’s. And lying chunks of metal. I’ll let you know how this goes. 
First – thanks to the guys I played with for the hours of gametime, discussion, and also going over a recent draft of this to provide a couple corrections. Review I’ve got a love-hate relationship with GMT games, the company. On the one hand, they consistently put out high-quality games, with outstanding materiel quality and with excellent rules that are as simple as they can be, where the game graphics and abstractions still provide an excellent feel. They’ve also survived for decades in a nic…
I just bought a game expansion I cannot play, and it’s Jeffro’s fault. OK, to be entirely fair, Eric Raymond was my gateway drug for piquing my interest in *[Commands & Colors: Ancients](http://www.gmtgames.com/p-627-commands-colors-ancients-6th-printing.aspx)*, but it was Jeffro who made post after post showing gameplay of *[Talon](http://www.gmtgames.com/p-581-talon-reprint-edition.aspx)*, and more recently, *[Space Empires 4x](http://www.gmtgames.com/p-533-space-empires-3rd-printing.aspx)*.…
For those who don’t know, GMT [https://www.gmtgames.com/]is the company responsible for the absolutely amazing Commands & Colors: Ancients [https://www.gmtgames.com/c-6-commands-colors-ancients.aspx] (of which I have a copy) and Talon [https://www.gmtgames.com/p-581-talon-reprint-edition.aspx]which has shown up at Castalia House on more than a few occasions. They’re also known for a series of “COIN” counterinsurgency games such as Cuba Libre, Liberty or Death, On a Distant Plain, and Fire in th…