Hello, over the past couple of months I've been working on this boardgame project. It's a Magical Girl (Mahou Shoujo) themed, but mechanically it's pretty similar to Sniper! and Squad Leader with activations, line of sight, ranged attack tables and so on.

(I currently do not produce any physical components, the game is fully in VASSAL module, but I can provide the game assets if someone wants to print it for themselves).

I wanted to show off this project and provide a way for people to try it out if they wish, so I put together this quick "intro scenario" which can be played in around 40-50 minutes and see how the game plays in practice.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yhgQObJj1il4mZjaKx3wFAv5apGYoPOusYx-MC1sZhU/edit?usp=sharing

If someone would like to give it a try, check out this beginner's guide. You can read it first or just play along with it, either solo (playing both teams) or with another person. The scenario is pretty symmetrical (or so I believe) so it should mostly play to a draw (from my own few playtests).

Here is our full website/blog about this project if you want to know more,

https://mahoushoujo-boardgameproject.neocities.org/

I'm trying to access the forum archives for some games which have very little activity on the BGG forums. Currenty it's the EFS series.

The CSW forums are of course archaic but they do have useful information. In the past I remember you could access any forum without logging in, consequently I never bothered to make an account for the website. Now it seems you are locked out from the forums as a guest user.

I have tried to request an account, that process itself can be described in the dearest of terms as being "old-fashioned". I have filled out a Google spreadsheet and am waiting for an admin to get back to me with my login credentials, which I'm starting to doubt will ever happen.

Has anyone else lately been able to create a new account for CSW? Or been able to access the forums as a guest user?