Category: Board Games
Posted on December 28, 2020
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Most years, I get to play at least 100 unique games, based on conventions and my Sunday game days. Sadly, due to COVID, that didn’t happen in 2020. My wife willingly played a bunch of games with me during our lockdown, so the fact… Continue Reading “Top 5 Games Played in 2020”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Architects of the West Kingdom, Capstone Games, Card-Driven Game, Clank in Space, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Fryx Games, Garphill Games, Jacob Fryxelius, Matthias Cramer, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Big Box, Tile-Laying Games, Watergate, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 23, 2020
by whovian223
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‘Twas the day before the day before the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. (Certainly not this blogger.) The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Vital would… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #120-111”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Acram Digital, Age of Steam, Alan R Moon, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, Ben Cichoski, Bob Naismith, Card Drafting, Carl de Visser, Chaos in the Old World, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Cranio Creations, Daniel Mandel, Darwin Kastle, Days of Wonder, Dead of Winter, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Endeavor: Age of Sail, Eric Lang, Fantasy Flight Games, Francesco Nepitello, Hand Management, Isaac Vega, Istanbul, Jarratt Gray, Jonathan Gilmour, Legendary Encounters: an Alien Deck Building Game, Marco Maggi, Martin Wallace, Modular Board, Plaid Hat Games, Point to Point Movement, Rüdiger Dorn, Robert Dougherty, Roberto Di Meglio, Set Collection Games, Star Realms, Ticket to Ride: Europe, Train Games, Upper Deck, Vinhos: Deluxe Edition, Vital Lacerda, War of the Ring, White Wizard Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 22, 2020
by whovian223
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This appears to be a “week before Christmas news extravaganza” but I hope to get a review done this week too (or something, at least). However, I just stumbled across this on Boardgame Geek and I had to shout my “huzzahs!” to all of… Continue Reading “Works of Wonder – Architects of the West Kingdom expansion”
Posted on December 21, 2020
by whovian223
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(Edit – 12/23/20 – If you want to see a cool video that actually mentions both new expansions, see Bezier Games’ Instagram post about it.) We had a feeling it was coming. When Bezier Games posted on Boardgame Geek asking for suggestions for what… Continue Reading “Castles of Mad King Ludwig Collectors Edition – Coming January 2021”
Posted on December 17, 2020
by whovian223
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Geoff Engelstein, one of my favourite game designers and people on Twitter (and also host of the Game-Tech segment on the Dice Tower podcast) was being mysterious the other day on Twitter. “Hate to vague tweet, but got to playtest and see the final… Continue Reading “New Terraforming Mars-esque game from Stronghold Games?”
Posted on December 11, 2020
by whovian223
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Long-time readers of this blog know that I’ve had a kind of love-hate relationship with the app version of one of my favourite games. While Terraforming Mars is still in my Top 10 games played, the digital version had a bumpy ride after its… Continue Reading “App Review – Terraforming Mars – Prelude Expansion”
Category: Apps, Board Games, ReviewTags: Android, Asmodee Digital, Card Drafting, ios, Jacob Fryxelius, Steam, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars Prelude
Posted on December 9, 2020
by whovian223
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After three weeks or so, it’s time for another entry in the BGG Top 200! We’re almost done, which you would think would mean that I could actually get these done in a timely manner. But, you know, COVID and everything. Yeah, I do… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #130-121”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, A Game of Thrones: the Board Game (2nd Edition), Action Selection, Andreas Steiger, Area Movement, Auction Games, Benoit Turpin, Bezier Games, Brian Lewis, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Christian T. Petersen, Chronicles of Crime, Cooperative Games, David Cicurel, Deduction, Deep Water Games, Dinosaur Island, Don Eskridge, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Glenn Drover, GMT Games, Indie Boards & Cards, Jonathan Gilmour, Kosmos, Lucky Duck Games, Manuel Rozoy, Martin Wallace, Mindclash Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Negotiation Games, Pandasaurus Games, Peggy Chassenet, Railways of the World, Richard Amann, Roll and Write Games, Set Collection Games, Social Deduction Games, Space Cowboys, Storytelling Games, T.I.M.E. Stories, Targi, Ted Alspach, The Resistance: Avalon, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Trickerion, Viktor Peter, Welcome To..., Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 2, 2020
by whovian223
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(Edit: For those of you coming here from the Boardgame Chronicle article about our game, welcome! I hope you check out the rest of the blog. If you’re finding this page some other way, check out that blog for the Roman side of things.… Continue Reading “Caesar: Rome vs Gaul PBEM Report”
Posted on December 1, 2020
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Another month and another COVID month where I actually have some new stuff to talk about! Kind of. Expansions aren’t necessarily the same as playing “new” games, but they are still cool, right? You’re not one of those that hates on all expansions just… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2020”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, Devin Low, Dice Placement, Keith Matejka, Marvel Legendary, Marvel Legendary: Champions, Roll Player, Roll Player: Monsters & Minions, Thunderworks Games, Upper Deck
Posted on November 24, 2020
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Good news for Terraforming Mars fans, at least those in the digital realm! The boardgame app which has been controversial, derided, had the developer shut down, and now is a fairly decent app, may now be getting even better as of December 8. Asmodee… Continue Reading “Prelude Coming to Terraforming Mars on Steam December 8th”
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