Posted on June 23, 2026
by whovian223
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Sometimes life just hands you an impossible task and you have to do your best at it, even knowing that you’re probably screwed. Sometimes wargames are like that! Welcome to another tale from the Combat Commander ladder, that monthly tournament of one of the… Continue Reading “Combat Commander – After Action Report – Scenario 04 – Closed for Renovation”
Posted on June 19, 2026
by whovian223
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One of these days, I’m going to learn that doing these Boardgame Geek century posts too early is possibly going to cause a rip in the space-time continuum, like what’s happening right about now. What, you didn’t feel that? We’ve all traded places with… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 3301 – 3400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Alderac, Bitewing Games, Block Wargames, Card Games, Columbia Games, Deckbuilders, Delicious Games, EastFront: The War in Russia, ForGames, GMT Games, Harvest, Hidden Roles, Ivanhoe, Lunch Time Games, Orbit, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Renegade Games Studios, Repos Games, Resafa, Restoration Games, Secrets, Stalingrad '42, Terror Below, Tile-Laying Games, Unmatched: Battle of Legends Volume 3, Valley of the Kings: Last Rites, Wargames
Posted on June 10, 2026
by whovian223
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A short turnaround time after the last post about this, mainly because that post was late! We’re actually getting into sections of the Boardgame Geek rankings where there are some good games that don’t deserve to be this far back, and that is the… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 3201 – 3300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Cape May, Card Games, Chai, COIN Games, Colony, Commands & Colors: Samurai Battles, Cooperative Games, Dice Drafting, Flip City, GMT Games, HUCH Games, Inhabit the Earth, Kosmos, Lost Cities: Rivals, Lunch Time Games, Palace of Mad King Ludwig, Plaid Hat Games, Plum Island Horror, Push Your Luck Games, Steeped Games, Summoner Wars: Starter Set, Tableau-building, Tasty Minstrel Grames, The British Way, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tower Defense, Track Movement, Wargames
Posted on June 1, 2026
by whovian223
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There were no conventions attended in May, but there was a 14-hour games marathon where a bunch of games were played. So I knew this would be a lengthy post! This month, I actually played more new to me games than I did in… Continue Reading “New to Me – May 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Amigo Spiel, Area Control, Asmodee North America, AuZtralia, Brett J Gilbert, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Circus Flohcati, Cooperative Games, Craig E. Somerton, Dice-rolling, DNUP, Drafting Games, El Grande, Farm Hand, First Giants, Florenza: the Card Game, Gang of Dice, Gémklub, Gst, Hand Management, Hans im Gluck, Hasbro, Heckmeck am Karteneck, Katharine Chapman, Kei Kajino, Limited communication games, Lookout Games, Luc Rémond, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Martin Wallace, Matthew Dunstan, Monopoly Deal - Card Game, Nusfjord, Placentia Games, Push Your Luck Games, Reiner Knizia, Richard Ulrich, Route-building, SchilMil Games, Scorpion Masqué, Semi-cooperative Games, Set Collection Games, Sky Team, Space Cowboys, Stefano Groppi, Take-That games, Trick-taking games, Uwe Rosenberg, Wolfgang Kramer, Worker Placement Games, Zoch Verlag
Posted on May 22, 2026
by whovian223
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Recently I was watching a boardgame Youtube video about the creator’s top 10 things that they don’t like in games (sorry, I don’t remember who it was or I would link to them). One of these “things he avoids” was “limited communication in games.”… Continue Reading “I’m Not Talking to You – Games Where You Can’t Communicate”
Category: Board Games, OpinionTags: 2-Player Games, Cooperative Games, Kosmos, Limited communication games, Lunch Time Games, Pandasaurus Games, Scorpion Masqué, Sky Team, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, The Game, The Gang, Trick-taking games
Posted on May 18, 2026
by whovian223
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One of the more recent tropes in cooperative games is the idea that players can’t talk to each other. This removes the alpha gamer issue and also can make the game more interesting. Sometimes, thematically, it makes no sense, but you can’t have everything.… Continue Reading “The Silent Cockpit – Sky Team Review”
Posted on April 22, 2026
by whovian223
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I hope you’re enjoying my weekly look at games ranked on Boardgame Geek that aren’t in the Top 1000. I know I’m enjoying writing them, because I love the discussion they can cause (though sadly not last week, because I left two hooks in… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2601-2700”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Area Control, Avalon Hill, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Comancheria, Conquest of Paradise, Cryptozoic, Dual Powers, Epic Spell Wars, Exploration, Fantasy Flight Games, First Fish Games, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Mistwind, Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars, Pick Up & Deliver, Push Your Luck Games, Solo Games, Team Games, The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus, Thunderworks Games, Victory in the Pacific, Wargames
Posted on April 3, 2026
by whovian223
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Since I wanted to get another post done this week and it’s going to take way too long to do anything else I wanted to do, it’s time for the weekly look at the Boardgame Geek rankings, century by century! Last week was really… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2401-2500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Alderac, Archaeology: the Card Game, Auction Games, Betting, Big G Creative, Bob Ross: Art of Chill, Card Games, Card-Crafting Games, CMON, Codenames: Deep Undercover, Custom Heroes, Cutthroat Caverns, Czech Games Edition, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Ethnos: 2nd Edition, Fort Circle Games, Iello Games, Jorvik, Lotus, Lunch Time Games, Northstar Games, Party Games, Pax Pamir, Renegade Games Studios, Scrabble, Semi-cooperative Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Sierra Madre Games, Smirk & Dagger Games, Stronghold Games, Votes for Women, Wits & Wagers: It's Vegas Baby, Z-Man Games
Posted on March 27, 2026
by whovian223
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Each week when I do these BGG Top Games posts, I comment about how things are getting a little thin down here in the 2000s. It’s like you’re scuba diving and suddenly your air tank is reading as near empty and you don’t know… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2301-2400”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Block Wargames, Claim 2, Columbia Games, Great Western Trail: El Paso, Harbour, John Company 1st Edition, La Granja: No Siesta, Light Speed: Arena, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Real-Time Games, Resource Management, Roll and Write Games, Rommel in the Desert, Sierra Madre Games, Stronghold Games, Tablescope, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Trick-taking games, Wargames, White Goblin Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on March 19, 2026
by whovian223
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Has it been a year already since last year’s Terminal City convention? Why yes, yes it has. This year’s event was still down at the Vancouver Convention Centre on the waterfront, but it changed buildings to a much larger room. This convention-goer approves of… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2026”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Auction Games, Card Games, Container, Cooperative Games, Dungeons & Dragons: Temple of Elemental Evil, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Eggertspiele, Faraway, Fighting Games, Flip 7, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, ForGames, GameHead, Grand Austria Hotel, Harvest, Kosmos, Long Shot: The Dice Game, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Pandasaurus Games, Perplext, Power Struggle, Push Your Luck Games, Roll and Write Games, Scorpion Masqué, Speakeasy, Tag Team, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, The Game, The Gang, The Op, Trinket Trove, Valley Games, Vital Lacerda, Wizards of the Coast, Wizkids, Worker Placement Games