Tag: Alderac
Posted on March 7, 2025
by whovian223
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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 January 8, 2025
by whovian223
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I’ve been writing this blog for almost 8 years now, doing a monthly “new to me” post for just as long (it started in April 2017, but it was about March’s games!), and I often do “best games played” of the year if I’m… Continue Reading “Top 10 New to Me Games of 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to Me, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Alexander Pfister, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Civolution, Contracts, Corentin Lebrat, Delicious Games, Devir, Dice Placement, Eggertspiele, Eric Hong, Faraway, Forest Shuffle, Great Western Trail: New Zealand, Harmonies, Jackie Fox, Johan Benvenuto, Johannes Goupy, Josh Wood, Kosch, Let's Go to Japan, Libellud, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Mandoo Games, Pegasus Spiele, Pirates of Maracaibo, Racing Game, Ralph Bienert, Rock Hard 1977, Rondel Games, Ryan Hendrickson, Shipyard (2nd Edition), Stefan Feld, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Vale of Eternity, Vladimír Suchý, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 1, 2024
by whovian223
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With Bottoscon at the beginning of the month, you knew that November would be chock full of gaming goodness. And it was! Maybe not quite as much as might have been otherwise, since we missed a Sunday game day and the next one had… Continue Reading “November 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Avalon Hill, BG Stats, Devir, Ecos: First Continent, Garphill Games, Merchant of Venus, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Schadenfreude, The White Castle
Posted on November 15, 2024
by whovian223
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Once again in November I was able to attend Bottoscon, the largest wargaming convention in the Pacific Northwest. This year, they managed to get over 150 attendees, which is amazing considering that when they began 18 years ago, they had 32 attendees. The convention… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2024 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 11 Nimmt!, 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Avalon Hill, Azul: Queen's Garden, Bang: the Dice Game, Bottoscon, Brew Crafters, Can't Stop, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cover Your A$$ets, Devir, Dice Hate Me Games, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, DV Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Ecos: First Continent, Fantastic Factories, Fryx Games, Gamewright Games, Grandpa Beck's, Let's Go to Japan, Lunch Time Games, Merchant of Venus, MESA Boardgames, Metafactory Games, Modiphius Entertainment, Next Move Games, Oink Games, Panamax, Pick Up & Deliver, Push Your Luck Games, Qwixx, Rio Grande Games, Rock Hard 1977, Roll for the Galaxy, Schadenfreude, SCOUT, Star Trek: Lower Decks - Buffer Time: The Card Game, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Take-That games, Terraforming Mars, The White Castle, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on November 1, 2024
by whovian223
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October was a really bad month. Not just for gaming, but in general as well. I was sick for a week and I’m still not feeling 100% even a week later after I went back to work. But for gaming, it really sucked! There… Continue Reading “October 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Azul, Cascadia, Drafting Games, Flatout Games, Formal Ferret Games, Gil Hova, Plan B Games, The Networks, The Networks: the Executives, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on August 12, 2024
by whovian223
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I’ve never been to Japan. I hear it’s a fun place to visit, but that hasn’t been me yet. While Let’s Go to Japan will not give you the feel of travelling to Japan, it will give you the feeling of planning your trip!… Continue Reading “Travelling on 3 Cards a Day”
Posted on August 5, 2024
by whovian223
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I knew July would be a bit of an off month for gaming, but it wasn’t too bad. However, it didn’t really hit the “new to me games” jackpot, with only three of them to write about. Funny how it’s still taken me longer… Continue Reading “New to Me – July 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alderac, AllPlay, Auction Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Couture, David Short, Ground Floor, Josh Wood, Let's Go to Japan, Lunch Time Games, Set Collection Games, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Worker Placement Games, 佐藤 雄介 (Yusuke Sato)
Posted on June 28, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s vacation time! Today was my last day of work for 4 weeks, and wow has this been needed. I’m hoping that my blog output will increase a bit this month as I have more mental capacity to actually write. But we’ll see what… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Modular Expansions & Stories”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Alderac, Alexander Pfister, John D Clair, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Oh My Goods, Oh My Goods - Escape to Canyon Brook, Oh My Goods - Longsdale in Revolt, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria - Riftlands, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria - Rise of Titans, Space Base, Space Base: Biodome, Space Base: Dreadnaughts, Space Base: The Emergence of Shy Pluto, Space Base: The Mysteries of Terra Proxima, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan: Expansion Period, Teotihuacan: Late Preclassic Period, Teotihuacan: Shadow of Xitle
Posted on June 14, 2024
by whovian223
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Yes, the bar is still open! It’s just been under renovations for the last…month, I guess. Hopefully they’ve fixed that jukebox so that it stops playing shitty music. Anyway, welcome back! I’m happy to have you stop by, have a drink, and talk a… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Box Size Preference – Room for Expansions?”
Posted on April 26, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s a Friday night and the rain has stopped! Until overnight, then it’s supposed to rain all weekend. Welcome to Vancouver! Thanks for coming into the bar, even with the Canucks game on. Sorry, I don’t have a TV. Just a jukebox that plays… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Reviews vs First Impressions”
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