The First Game: Empires and Alliances
I will at some point say more about myself and my history in this hobby, but just to give some sort of context I will say that while I have been involved in the hobby (mostly solo) for a long time, and never completely withdrew from it, in the past couple of years I discovered the modern renaissance of boardgaming, which led me to the modern renaissance of historical (board) wargaming. I have been gathering my old games and expanding my collection for a while, and while I've known about Vassal for a while I finally got tired of thinking to myself that I'd get around to figuring it out later, sat down and actually made it happen. I've chosen as my first Vassal game Empires & Alliances by Compass Games . Here's what you need to know about the game: Era: World War I Location: All of Europe and part of Asia Minor; Caucasus front and Middle East handled abstractly. Focus: The land war Units: Mostly corps, a few divisions Scale: Approximately 30 miles per