Battles

Bloody Faith Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away from God are brought near through the blood of Christ’s death. Where would the self-help and business media be without the secret habits of highly successful people? Almost every week there’s a new article outlining a high-flying individual’s behaviors—with the implied promise that using the same techniques could deliver us fame and fortune, too. You’ll hear how top CEOs like Elon Musk begin work early, skip breakfast, and divide their time into small, manageable tasks. Other inspirational figures are more idiosyncratic in their habits. Bill Gates, for example, would reportedly rock backwards and forwards in his chair while brainstorming. This was a bodily means of focusing his mind that apparently spread across the Microsoft boardroom. Further back in history, Charles Dickens carried around a compass so he could sleep facing north, something he believed would contribute to more productive writing. Beethoven co...

Even with over 40 years of gaming a new set of rules can make you a rookie all over again.  Over the years I have watched games of Chain of Command and enjoyed how the game played.  Jim Owczarski and his merry band over at Panache Wargaming play CoC on a regular basis and Table Top CP have run countless games also and so I decided to learn to play the game.   Wow, I made every rookie mistake a first time gamer would do.  Chain of Command has a lot of subtleties to it and that is what makes it a great game but it will take some time to learn how to play well. My first mistake was simple but now with hindsight so obvious.  The very nature of the attacker and defender have rolls that can not be ignored and you will learn that lesson fast in this game.  As the defender it was up to me to make the attacker find me, fix me and then develop an assault to beat me.  I did not listen to the GM and pay attention to the type of force that was coming at me and I th...