Last Blitzkrieg is on my queue for Probably Next Big Game, but I've got Army Group North eating the table at the moment.

Martin's is fantastic. I have no witty wargaming tie-in.

Orders wrapped around cigars at Antietam is *not* chrome; the character of the battle isn't the same without it. "Last Blitzkrieg" has *anti-chrome*; instead of a one-off secret weak bridge or foreknowledge, Essig says "just use the dynamite rule like the others. Ahistorical but it works."

Chrome is the stuff that doesn't fit organically into the game system rules but gamers would scream if it weren't there - particularly for low-impact events. The Greif teams at Bulge.

I loved his Red Thunder

I found it oddly defensive of McClellan, assigning him a lot of credit for broad-strokes goals at odds with his performance in his army positions.

Highest paid! So much of UNC's mess was entirely stupidly predictable, but *highest paid*. God only knows what they're sniffing in addition to their own farts (please assign Samer to this beat)

Something I thought of later is that I have no idea if the new print has this error - I only bought All Good Things in this batch since I had the others

I call Rock *specifically* to make the Simpsons reference

Substantially more productive content than my featured thread last year, a piece on "kingmaking isn't real" that served double duty as a massive troll job

I am terrified of sorting my played-as-a-kid dumped-all-the-pieces-loose-in-the-box yes-the-expansions-too set into any sort of order #boardgamenightmares

Oh, JDA. Yep, that's good and sufficient context right there.

Craziest I've seen: