Category: Board Games
Posted on January 17, 2024
by whovian223
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Just like last year, I wanted to do a post talking about books I’ve read that I would really recommend to people. These aren’t going to be the “Top 5 books” or anything like that. I don’t want to restrict myself. When I’m reading… Continue Reading “5 Great Books Read in 2023”
Category: Board Games, Book Reviews, Top 10Tags: Alexander Watson, Connie Willis, Dan Willis, In the Shadows of the Empress, James S.A. Corey, John Pike, Leviathan Falls, Lincoln's Wizard, Nancy Goldstone, Peter Harmsen, Ring of Steel, Shanghai 1937, The Georgia Alchemist, The Road to Roswell, The Thirty Years War, Tracy Hickman
Posted on January 14, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s only been two years, but it’s that time again! The 2022 edition of my “Top Games Played of All Time” was predicated on my having played just over 400 games. As of the end of 2023, I had played 534 games in total.… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#50-41)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Abstract Games, Action Selection, Alderac, Andreas Schmidt, Blood Bowl Team Manager, Board & Dice, Cape May, Chad Jensen, Charlie Bink, Cranio Creations, Daniele Tascini, David Thompson, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Dominant Species, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Engine-building, Fantasy Flight Games, Flaminia Brasini, GMT Games, Heaven & Ale, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Lunch Time Games, Michael Kiesling, On Mars, Paul Dennen, Set Collection Games, Simone Luciani, Teotihuacan, Thunderworks Games, Trekking Through History, Trevor Benjamin, Underdog Games, Virginio Gigli, Vital Lacerda, War Chest, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 12, 2024
by whovian223
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Welcome to the new year! Sorry that the bar was closed last week, but I was off doing something much more fun than trying to figure out what I wanted to write about that week. With last week also full of other posts, I… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Game Promos – Yea or Nay?”
Posted on January 11, 2024
by whovian223
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One of my favourite games out there is Ark Nova. For some reason it just scratches a whole bunch of itches (ok, maybe that came out wrong) and I really enjoy playing it. I’m in 2-3 games of it on Boardgame Arena and I’ll… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Ark Nova: Marine Worlds”
Posted on January 9, 2024
by whovian223
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Another year, another OrcaCon has passed. I first went to OrcaCon in 2020, but then some world-wide event that I can’t seem to remember stopped me from going again until last year. I wish it would come to me. Anyway, this last weekend was… Continue Reading “OrcaCon 2024 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, BLAM Games, Card Games, Claim, CMON, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Dice of Crowns, Dice-rolling, Engine-building, Far Off Games, Fire in the Library, Funforge Games, Gizmos, Guild Academies of Valeria, Helvetiq Games, Hit Me!, I Found Bigfoot, Kompromat, Matches, OrcaCon, Our Family Plays Games, Pegasus Spiele, Port Royal, Puppy Pile, Push Your Luck Games, Quantum, Quined Games, Schadenfreude, Set Collection Games, Splito, Studio Turbine, Thing 12 Games, Trick-taking games, Tricky Dicks, Vanuatu, Weird Giraffe Games, White Goblin Games, Wryknot Games, Xia: Legends of a Drift System
Posted on January 4, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s a new year, but let’s take one last look at the old year before we continue on! December was not a huge month for new to me games, as I detailed earlier. But quality trumps quantity, so even though there are only three… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Bag Building, Card Games, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Garphill Games, Hand Management, Kayenta Games, Obsession, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tichu, Trick-taking games, Urs Hostettler
Posted on January 2, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s a brand new year! And as I mentioned yesterday, I plan to continue blogging at the pace that I kept up last year. Maybe even more, though I’m not sure if that would kill me or not. After the blog review yesterday, you… Continue Reading “December 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, Bag Building, Capstone Games, Combat Commander, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Hand Management, Kayenta Games, Obsession, OrcaCon, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, Wargames
Posted on January 1, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s Monday and 2024 is upon us, almost sneaking up on us like a wily coyote hunting a roadrunner. As is my tradition over the past 4 years or so, I wanted to do an update on how this blog, and my gaming, is… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2023”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Andean Abyss, Ark Nova, Boardgames Chronicle, Bottoscon, Clio's Board Games, COIN Games, Combat Commander, Dragonflight, Earth, Jump Drive, Marvel Legendary, OrcaCon, Players' Aid, Rally the Troops, Roll to Review, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Prelude 2, The Last Hundred Yards, Time of Crisis, Wingspan, Zilla Blitz
Posted on December 29, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s the last Friday of 2023, and possibly my last post, so I hope you all have a wonderful new year’s celebration and everything that is good in the upcoming year. I want to thank you again for stopping by, having a libation or… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Trick Taking Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Bezier Games, Card Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Diamonds, GMT Games, Schadenfreude, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, The Barracks Emperors, Tichu, Trick-taking games
Posted on December 28, 2023
by whovian223
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To end the year (other than tomorrow’s Friday Night Shots post and maybe something for Saturday/Sunday, I don’t know yet), I thought I’d write up one of this year’s most fascinating Combat Commander games I’ve had that wasn’t actually part of the monthly ladder.… Continue Reading “Combat Commander After Action Report Supplemental No. 3 – Scenario #42 – Rumanian Defiance”
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