Very much enjoyed the AH retrospective, thank you.

Fun game. Thanks for the review and replay.

What edition of the rules are you using?

It's very strange attacking on the hex verses the more standard, attacking adjacent hexes. Still looks cool though.

Always like your replays. However.... at around 23:00 you attack the 3 German 8-8 which you say are unsupplied. Surely they can trace supply thru 0311 because it has a friendly unit there which negates the enemy ZOC (Rule 11.3).

I've just been browsing the back issues. Heartbroken to see no: Axis and Allies <- that was a real shock - for my money A&A is the best, and most playable, WW II tabletop game ever sold! Fortress America (not great but there are many US themed boardgames in your list) Civilisation <- Absolutely compelling game if you have 5 friends and 12 hours. Speed and Steel The Awful Green Things From Outer Space. Just some ideas. And if you're not familiar with the last it is actually quite good fun and unlike the best boardgames it is 2 player.

Well done, thank you.

Nice video. Thank you. Can you only buy Interstellar Diplomacy once?

Years ago, had lots of good times with this game and friends and children. In more recent past, used the app titled "Rail Baron Tools"

Love your intro segment, as usual! Do you know how different this game is from Bartelli's later Galaxy Command? Micro Space Empire seems difficult to purchase.

I made my own copy of this, as well as a pulp rocket version. There are pix on Boardgame Geek. It hits the table from time to time. Some simple changes I made were, planes take 3 hits before they are down, the burst card causes the number of hits on the card, in a head on you subtract the two burst numbers and the player that played the lower number takes the difference in hits. AA guns still destroy a plane in one hit. This let us develop more strategies. I would love to see this reintroduced.

Good stuff

We made a game on this board using little Risk soldiers and darts called Turf

This game is great when played with 4 players. One of the few strategic games really balanced for 4 players and a LOT of fun. Fun between the two allied players asking each other for help and coordinating war efforts.

I’m a Victor Català friend and playtester of the game and played many dozens of Downfall of Empires games. You are playing wrong note 3 on the turn track. Rússia most only atack 2 armies in all 1916, not every turn. It says at least 2, not 4x2 = 8 armies. Also note there is only one note 3 in all 1916 not like two notes 1 in 1914

Is there a 6?

This was a great game and what I played when I was 11 or 12 when I was introduced to the wargaming hobby by an older school friend in the neighborhood. It was a gateway wargame for me.

In Spain the knucklebone is known as "Taba" , and the "tabas" game was very popular in the pre-internet era. Latin Americans also play Tabas a lot.

Bought the computer version of this game for my Apple 2+ in the early 80's. You couldn't use the 'pin' mechanism which made the whole thing totally different from the board game version, not in a good way.

thanks for the video. Did you modify the vassal module to add in the charts? Link to the Module on Vassal doesnt have the charts included.

A good demonstration on why it is a really bad idea for the Soviets to try to defend the western edge of the map.

P.S. It was just recently discovered that the German rules on retreat are contradictory. There are distinct rules on how to retreat Soviets and different rules for how to retreat Germans, with the Germans having an advantage as they only check for stacking at the end of their phase and can therefore choose what to lose if there is any overstacking. But the example shows a German retreat using the Soviet retreat rules! Since it has been so much time, it is not at all clear what is intended.

This is a game where the Germans can be opportunistic as long as they keep some mech forces out of Soviet ZoCs which lock them in place. But the Soviets must have a plan starting on turn 1 in terms of where they deploy to form the main line of resistance, they cannot just play by the seat of their pants.

I think you paid 1 MP for a non-inf to go into woods, when it should be 2 MPs, which slows things down.

Great video! Well done!

Great Post! I couldn't agree more that the next generation should be introduced to Dogfight. Are you interested in continuing toward making that happen?

Where did you get a pc version of this game?

Took 11 days but I made it through in shoet lunch time and need to kill a few minutes bursts. Im going to break out my box and try it again. Now back to the 7hr 1776 game 😀

Where can someone buy knuckle bones at, I been wanting to play this game but I can't find the knuckle bone game anywhere other then the jacks styles?

It is best to use 2 SSD, one for your weapons and one for damage to your ship. This allows for in-turn actions such as weapons fire and shield reinforcements. The cumulative damage is recorded on the other SSD.

I loved 1776 with the Leader counters. It did make it more of a simulation but I preferred simulations to just board games.

Ohhhhh….looking forward to this.

Another game I purchased in my early years just to have an army roommate steal it when he left Ft Gordon. I just ordered a copy from noble knight so I can relive my youth. And I will watch all 7 hours, just not all at once. May take me a month :)

I bought this when it came out. Saw the Bakshi movie the box art is based on in the theater also. I still have the game. Haven't played it since early 80's but about a month ago a friend so it and said he would play it. That will definitely happen.

What a great game presentation complete with a historical account! I've played other versions of this fight and seem to have the best luck keeping the 7th Cavalry all formed up together and driving on the Indian village via Reno's approach using the river to help protect the right flank. That strategy diminishes the prospect of cutting off the fleeing non-combatants and instead focuses on causing maximum Indian combat casualties for the points. Again, great show!

Thank you for the review and playing this. I was a bit surprise by how the balance it was, I was expecting one side to just dominate by numbers and had a few unlucky die rolls and your eggs are cooked 😊

Is this actually playable online using the training tools you are illustrating in this video? I want it!

Been wondering about this game, I hold the believe that you can’t have too many Gettysburg games 😅 and I was curious to see what it would look like and play. The way I look at it, it’s a more colourful and just as simple-le combat wise as Gettysburg 88 from Avalon Hill. The price in Canada is rather high so I think I will just skip it. Thanks for this you help me keep my bank account full 😊

Very enjoyable play-thru! I used to play this one quite a bit on the old HexWar site and of course played the physical version. My feeble mind may have detected a mistake at the 32:05ish point in the video where the French '5' unit gets pushed back into the town. However that would be in an Austrian ZOC. There is one other hex he can go. I have the WDS version of this game, but have not yet played it. One thing really great about WDS games and other similar games is that the computer will simply not allow you to make an illegal move, unless of course there is some sort of bug. Thanks! I will go back and view more of your videos! Great work!

EVERYWHERE I GO I SEE THE FREAKY FONT

You completely forgot Soaking Off...this changes the game completely.

Great review and very timely!

Keep in mind that because Ur's ships are all system ships, they cannot adopt a stance of "escape" and cannot retreat from the systems in which they are placed

Experimenting with house rules for an even simpler introductory game... * Have the ships fire every turn (optional addition to the cadet game rules): - Disruptor Bolts: one point to arm each disruptor, but may fire twice during a turn, spread a quarter turn (4 impulses) apart [ex: if 4 points of power were allotted for disruptors, a Klingon cadet cruiser fires both disruptors on impulse 2 and then may fire them again that turn on or after impulse 6, using a 16-impule turn game]. - Photon Torpedoes: two points to arm, may only fire once per turn (get rid of the arming turn rule). - Plasma Torpedoes: four points to arm. May fire a Plasma-F every turn. Or, if you do not fire the plasma that turn, you may spend another four energy points to fire a Plasma-S torpedo the following turn (or fire a Plasma-G if using a Gorn cadet cruiser). * Simple turn modes: - Every ship may make a turn on every impulse it moves. It may make a 60-degree turn either before or after moving forward one hex. - If moving at a speed where the cadet turn mode is 2 (Fed, Gorn, Romulan: speed 7+, Kzinti: 8+, Klingon, Orion, Tholian: 9+), then the ship may make a turn only AFTER it moves forward one hex. - The ship may make a sideslip instead of making a turn that impulse. No turns may be made with a sideslip. - Shuttles, drones, and plasma torpedoes may make a 60-degree turn before AND after it moves forward one hex in an impulse. * Full-size ships using the cadet Energy Allocation Form (EAF): - When playing 16-impulse turns, the speed the ship's 32-impulse movement is halved, dropping fractions [ex: a Fed CA spends 19 energy points to move speed 19, but when playing in a 16-impulse game, it moves at speed 9, dropping the fraction, or where an Orion Raider Cruiser with a warp energy cost of 2/3 spends 14 energy points to move at speed 21, will instead move at speed 10, dropping the fraction in a 16-impulse turn]. - If using the above easy turn mode rule, full-size ships will make a 60-degree turn either before or after moving forward one hex. - If moving at a speed where the turn mode is 3 (Fed, Gorn, Romulan: speed 9+, Kzinti: 10+, Klingon, Tholian: 11+, Orion: 13+), then the ship may make a turn only after it moves forward one hex. - The ship may make a sideslip instead of making a turn that impulse. No turns may be made with a sideslip. - Shuttles, drones, and plasma torpedoes may make a 60-degree turn before and after it moves forward one hex in an impulse. - Spending energy points to activate the shields and life support may be noted in the NOTES section of the cadet EAF. This form of SFB is simplistic, but it gets the game moving quickly and eliminates that annoying "did I move straight last impulse, or what" and the players will not have to clutter up the map with turn and slip move markers. This also makes the game even easier to explain and play with new gamers which is the whole point of the cadet game. Experienced gamers can also use these house rules to quickly fight out large fleet battles.

It's a great game!

House rules to streamline SFB for more fast and fun play: No fighters or carriers, just admin shuttles and suicide shuttles (no wild weasels) and each ship only has one spare small craft dilithium crystal to install in one shuttle or drone for the scenario to make that shuttle or drone warp-capable. Otherwise all shuttles are sub-light (speed 1) and the un-crystalled drones are direct-fire drones (1 warp energy to launch, hits the same as an overloaded photon torpedo, may be fired upon by phasers or ADDs (opponent selects what range in the drone's journey to roll), if tractored the direct-fire drone is instantly destroyed, and if it hits a target at range zero, the firing ship receives d6 (1-6) hits from feedback). And all drones must be launched through a downed shield facing the targeted object, like the rules for using transporters (shield stays down for one quarter of a turn and any range zero drone feedback damage goes through the downed shield). A recovered shuttle that has a dilithium crystal may use that crystal to power a shuttle or drone in the recovering ship later. Dilithium crystals cannot be moved by transporters.

When folks get together to play SFB, it can get pretty involved. But when playing lots of ships, the game slowed down considerably especially if drones, fighters, and scatter-pack drone shuttles were used extensively. Just having a few house rules to use cadet rules, 16-impulse turns, transporter shield rules for drones (can only launch drones through a down shield), only use admin/suicide shuttles, and simplified turning really got the game moving. Slow game play (especially when people stop to look up a rule in the Commander's or Captain's sets) really sours players to this warp speed starship combat game.

Great video, glad I found your channel. I do like prestag games more than you but I confess it might me the nostalgia factor. I have been playing and collecting wargames since 1970. Keep up the great job.

What are the main differences between SFB and the FASA tactical starship games? I have owned copies of the FASA game, but never got to play against anyone.

Nice video, post the rules for downloading please :)