It is not often in the realms of Little War that one side utterly defeats another without sustaining any significant losses; but it happened in this game in which the Knights of the Order of the Red Lion were repulsed and destroyed as they attempted to storm the Green Dragon [Read more…]
Last Thursday I introduced my English class at the Ajina-dai community centre to the game of chess. Here in Japan the two most popular classical two-player board games are igo and shogi. Shogi is a variant of chess, played on a 9 x 9 board, with 20 pieces per player. [Read more…]
Early in March 2011 we played another game of “The Princess in the Tower” in which the Knights of the Order of the Red Lion successfully rescued the Princess, just as they did in the first game we played. Here is the photographic storyboard complete with commentary! [iframe: src=”https://www.bluemelon.com/iframe/home.seam?userurl=hirohurl&folderurl=minifiggames:princessinthetower2-&rootUrl=minifiggames:princessinthetower2-&styleType=WORDPRESS” width=”100%” [Read more…]
Back in February Eileen-chan and I spent an evening at home playing with Lego, a “minifig game” using minifigs from the “Kingdoms” and “Castles” series and also some “peasants” drawn from the “Cities” series. Scenario: The Red Lion princess has been captured by Green Dragon soldiers and locked in a [Read more…]
Eileen-chan has become keen on LEGO®. This is to be encouraged as LEGO® offers excellent scope for gamers. I am especially keen on the Kingdoms series and have dreams of building a large scale LEGO® campaign game loosely based on the Crusades, and drawing inspiration from the Microsoft Age of [Read more…]
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