Category: Board Games
Posted on March 7, 2025
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(See comments below for an even better example that I should have remembered! But I haven’t played it in ages so it was completely off my radar) Welcome to another Friday Night Shots! This is almost becoming a monthly thing rather than a weekly… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Expansions to be Never Played Again”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Alderac, Bezier Games, Expansions, Mandoo Games, Space Base, Space Base: The Emergence of Shy Pluto, Space Base: The Mysteries of Terra Proxima, Suburbia, Suburbia - 5*, Vale of Eternity, Vale of Eternity - Artifacts
Posted on March 6, 2025
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Welcome to another in the continuing series (8 years and running!) of “new to me” boardgames posts. In a few days, I’ll be celebrating 8 years of blogging, and one of the things I am proud of is that I have never missed a… Continue Reading “New to Me – February 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Action Points, Action Selection, Antoine Bauza, Antonio Zax, Bruno Cathala, Burnt Island Games, Caleb Grace, Card Drafting, Carl de Visser, Connections, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Endeavor: Deep Sea, Fantasia Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Havalandi, Jarratt Gray, Jonny Pac Cantin, Laskas, Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth, Lunch Time Games, MLEM Space Agency, Pegasus Spiele, Push Your Luck Games, Rebel Studio, Reiner Knizia, Repos Games, Star Wars: the DeckBuilding Game, Unconscious Mind, Yoma
Posted on February 28, 2025
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February wasn’t a great month for me overall, in terms of posting (or mental health, really). But it was a great month for games! Missing the first Sunday of the month due to weather, and then only one game on Super Bowl Sunday, I… Continue Reading “February 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Ark Nova, BG Stats, Boardgame Arena, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Devir, Dice Drafting, Harmonies, Libellud, Mandoo Games, The White Castle, Tile-Laying Games, Vale of Eternity, Vale of Eternity - Artifacts
Posted on February 12, 2025
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(Edit 6/3/25): The date’s been announced. June 16 across all platforms! Yes!!!! Even more exciting news for fans of the wonderful Wingspan app from Monster Couch! Yes, the latest (and last so far) expansion to the game, Wingspan: Asia, will be coming to the… Continue Reading “Wingspan: Asia expansion coming to digital in Summer 2025”
Posted on February 10, 2025
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After a few months’ streak of fun games that ultimately lead to more futility, it was time to see if I could end this losing streak. I hadn’t lost this many Combat Commander games in a row in quite a while! Would I be… Continue Reading “Combat Commander – After Action Report – Scenario 78 – By These Deeds They Shall Be Known”
Posted on February 7, 2025
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(Edit 8/26/25) – Apparently this has now been delayed to November, as per Jonathan Fryxelius on BGG) Double post Friday! But I didn’t want to rest on this one, because while this isn’t the biggest surprise in the world (if you read a lot… Continue Reading “Terraforming Mars Legacy – Kickstarting in September?”
Posted on February 7, 2025
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Hey there! Welcome back to the bar. It’s been a long month and a half, hasn’t it? It’s been under renovations, but we’re back! Until everything breaks down again. I’m going to try and do these posts much more regularly than they have been… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – What Does “Solving” a Game Mean?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Civolution, Cranio Creations, Devir, Dice Drafting, Dice Placement, Flaminia Brasini, Garphill Games, Isra C, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Pegasus Spiele, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Stefan Feld, The White Castle, Virginio Gigli
Posted on February 3, 2025
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Another year and another month of new to me games. It’s 2025 now and things are still going strong on the new to me front, with four whole new ones this last month! No first impressions posts this time, though, so I’ll be talking… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Akropolis, Arcs, Area Majority, Card Drafting, Card Games, Castle Combo, Catch Up Games, Cole Wehrle, Gigamic, Grégory Grard, Jules Messaud, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Mathieu Roussel, Mob Plus, Panda Panda, Set Collection Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, 宮野 華也 (Kaya Miyano)
Posted on January 31, 2025
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It’s a new year! And already we’re 1/12 of the way through it. Who would have thought it would go that fast? It’s also a new year of boardgaming, which means everything I played this month is actually unique to 2025! Unless I played… Continue Reading “January 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Arboretum, Bezier Games, Card Games, Civolution, Dice Placement, Garphill Games, Inventors of the South Tigris, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Pegasus Spiele, Renegade Games Studios, Sandbag, The Gang, Trick-taking games
Posted on January 28, 2025
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Yes, I know what you’re thinking. “Oh, another Garphill Games post by Dave…it must be Tuesday.” But this is big news for me! And anybody else who likes the South Tigris trilogy of games from Garphill, or even if you just like one or… Continue Reading “South Tigris Trilogy Expansions from Garphill Games – On Kickstarter Now!”