Category: Board Games
Posted on October 3, 2025
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I love months where I play a bunch of games that I have no experience with. September gaming was great for the number of plays, but even better for the new to me games that I got to play! I especially love it when… Continue Reading “New to Me – September 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 3 Chapters, 5 Minute Marvel, Action Selection, ADC Blackfire Entertainment, AllPlay, Amigo Spiel, Area Control, Area Majority, Auction Games, Bag Building, Ben Eisner, Bitewing Games, Bomb Busters, Calimala, Card Drafting, Card Games, Connor Reid, Corné van Moorsel, Deduction, Dennis Northcott, Drafting Games, Druid City Games, Ecosystem: Coral Reef, EGO, Etherstone, Fabio Lopiano, Galactic Cruise, Genius Games, Hisashi Hayashi, Ian Moss, Joe Hout, Kinson Key Games, Koltin Thompson, Korea Boardgames, Lunch Time Games, Matt Simpson, Pegasus Spiele, Real-Time Games, Reiner Knizia, Simone Luciani, T.K. King, Thundergryph Games, Tim Eisner, Trick-taking games, Virginio Gigli, Waddle, Wonderland's War, Worker Placement Games
Posted on September 30, 2025
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September was a weird month of gaming, mainly because I had a huge number of plays compared to August, but actually fewer games! Part of that was because the final two Sunday game days were dominated by a huge game of Wonderland’s War (details… Continue Reading “September 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Bezier Games, BG Stats, Cover Your A$$ets, Days of Wonder, Final Girl, Final Girl - Panic at Station 2891, Garphill Games, Grandpa Beck's, Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Rebel Princess, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, The Taverns of Tiefenthal
Posted on September 27, 2025
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I’m not a huge fan of real-time games, mainly because my brain doesn’t make decisions that quickly and thus I often find myself behind everybody else. Cooperative games can be a little different, because everybody’s trying to help each other and you’re not competing… Continue Reading “Real-Time Heroes – 5 Minute Marvel Review”
Posted on September 24, 2025
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Some people don’t like “take that” games, where you are actively trying to harm your opponent (not literally, of course, unless you’re playing a game in some action movie against a mad villain who has made this a kill or be killed situation). These… Continue Reading “Stop Stealing My Stuff! – Cover Your Assets review”
Posted on September 20, 2025
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Anybody with any horror movie knowledge has heard of The Thing, directed by John Carpenter. This 1982 movie takes place on an Antarctic base with some kind of organism or creature inhabiting people and slowly assimilating all of the members of the scientific team… Continue Reading “It Could Be Anyone! – Final Girl – Panic at Station 2891 Review”
Posted on September 17, 2025
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This is another “first impressions” post about a new game, a game that I’m not sure I will get three plays of but yet one I want to talk about. As I said in my Friday Night Shots post about first impressions, this is… Continue Reading “First Impressions – Galactic Cruise”
Posted on September 8, 2025
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I love playing games that are new, even more when they’re older but still new to me! You know what I love even more? Having reviewed a bunch of them already so I don’t have to try and condense a description of them for… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 7 Empires, Action Selection, Area Control, Bezier Games, Bruce Glassco, Card Games, Card Shedding, David Thompson, Drafting Games, Fabio Lopiano, Final Crisis Game, GMT Games, Ladder-Climbing, Mac Gerdts, Nestore Mangone, Pandasaurus Games, Petr Mojžíš, Rio Grande Games, Roger Tankersley, Salt & Pepper Games, Seers Catalog, Shackleton Base, Solo Games, Sorry We Are French, Star Trek: Missions, Taylor Reiner, The Bell of Treason, Trevor Benjamin, Witchcraft!, Wizkids
Posted on September 6, 2025
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Have you ever played a game where the worst mistake you made in the game was 2-3 days before you played it? Now I have! Welcome to another adventure in the exciting Combat Commander ladder, that monthly tournament of one of the finest games… Continue Reading “Combat Commander – After Action Report – Scenario C – Ichiki Attacks”
Posted on September 1, 2025
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It’s nice when a month of gaming comes together in unexpected ways is better than you expected it to be. I was surprised by July’s gaming numbers, considering I was off. August came around and I was going to be missing one Sunday due… Continue Reading “August 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Card Games, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Combat Commander, Cooperative Games, Days of Wonder, Five Tribes, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Kosmos, Mancala games, Stonemaier Games, The Gang, Tides of Trade, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Wingspan
Posted on August 31, 2025
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Solo games make a great thing to do when you’re working at home and want to take a lunch break to enjoy some games. David Thompson, Trevor Benjamin, and Roger Tankersley already have a wonderful solo game called Resist! that almost brought a tear… Continue Reading “Witch One Will You Convict? – Witchcraft! Review”