Tag: Alderac
Posted on March 7, 2022
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February is the shortest month of the year, but I still managed to not only get a bunch of new to me games in, but they were all good! I mean, none of them were 1960: The Making of a President good (well, maybe… Continue Reading “New to Me – February 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Abstract Games, Alderac, Ark Nova, Axio Rota, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Carlo Bortolini, Clank in Space, Clank in Space Adventures: Pulsearcade, Corey Young, Cubitos, Deckbuilders, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Duel Games, Evan Lorentz, Expansions, Gravwell 2nd Edition, Hurrican Games, John D Clair, Lunch Time Games, Mathias Wigge, Paolo Mori, Pattern-Building Games, Paul Dennen, Pegasus Spiele, Push Your Luck Games, Racing Game, Reiner Knizia, Renegade Games Studios, Riftforce, Tableau-building, Via Magica
Posted on February 24, 2022
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Sorry for the long delay on posting. Regular service will be returning soon. Today I saw the announcement on Twitter that the next “saga” expansion for one of my favourite games, Space Base (designed by John D. Clair and published by Alderac Entertainment Group),… Continue Reading “Space Base – The Mysteries of Terra Proxima coming April 15”
Posted on January 25, 2022
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It’s another week so it’s time for another edition of the Top 25 Games Played (by me) of All Time – 2022 edition! We’ve gone through ten of them so far and so far they have been very cool games! I don’t really care… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 Edition (15-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Action Points, Alderac, Area Control, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Cole Wehrle, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Elizabeth Hargrave, Hand Management, John D Clair, Lunch Time Games, Matthias Cramer, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Prodigals Club, Space Base, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Vladimír Suchý, Watergate, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan, Wingspan: European Expansion
Posted on January 1, 2022
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As much as 2020 sucked for long periods of time (mainly due to COVID and the lockdowns/health issues that dominated the world), 2021 was predicted to be a year where things would start looking up. Vaccines for COVID were becoming available and people could… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2021”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Boardgames Chronicle, Combat Commander, COVID-19, Marvel Legendary, Renegade Games Studios, Stephen Buonocore, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Big Box, Wingspan
Posted on December 3, 2021
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Welcome to November’s “New to Me” post! You may notice something odd about November. No, it’s not that I had way too much Thanksgiving turkey (THANKSGIVING’S IN OCTOBER, YOU NON-CANADIANS!). It’s that three of the seven entries on this list are from Alderac Entertainment… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Dice Drafting, Erik Andersson Sundén, Grand Austria Hotel, Henry Stern, Jump Drive, Kosmos, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Molly Johnson, Push Your Luck Games, Rio Grande Games, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich, Simone Luciani, TEN, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, The Op, Thomas Sing, Tom Lehmann, Trick-taking games, Variable Player Powers, Vegas Showdown, Virginio Gigli, Whirling Witchcraft, Wizards of the Coast
Posted on December 2, 2021
by whovian223
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My first Smash Up review in almost two years! One of my pandemic lock-down games purchases (and yes, there were many…too many) was the latest Smash Up expansion, this time done as a co-production with the OP and thus including the Marvel Comics license.… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Smash Up: Marvel”
Posted on November 29, 2021
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Do you like giving it to one of your opponents, good and hard? By that I mean, of course, by overwhelming them with so much stuff that they can’t cope with it. (What did you think I meant?) Anyway, if you like that sort… Continue Reading “Review – Whirling Witchcraft”
Posted on November 19, 2021
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Feeling a little grey? Suffering from a lack of colour in your life? Have I got the game for you. TEN is the new card game published by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) and it is bright! Just look at that box. The game was… Continue Reading “Review – TEN”
Posted on November 1, 2021
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Now this is more like it. October was a great month for gaming, with me playing 19 different games in the month. This included six new to me games and two new to me expansions! What a cornucopia of games! Well, those aren’t games,… Continue Reading “New to Me – October 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alderac, Anno 1800, Ben Pinchback, Ben Rosset, Card Games, David Turczi, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Ecos: First Continent, Ecos: New Horizon, Elizabeth Hargrave, Expansions, Foxtrot Games, Gary Arant, GMT Games, Grid Movement, Imperium: Classics, Jared Saramago, Jason Zila, Jerry White, John D Clair, Justin Gary, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Mariposas, Mark Aasted, Martin Wallace, Mataio Wilson, Matt Riddle, Matthew O'Malley, Nigel Buckle, Osprey Games, Renegade Games Studios, Resource Management, Ryan Sutherland, Set Collection Games, Shards of Infinity, Shards of Infinity: Into the Horizon, Storm Above the Reich, Subastral, The Search for Planet X, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames
Posted on October 1, 2021
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Welcome to the first of what could be a series of posts, or might just be a one-shot. Basically, it’s Friday night, I’ve had a couple of drinks, and maybe it’s time to visit a pressing issue in the boardgame industry. Or maybe I… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Score Sheets for Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night Shots, OpinionTags: 7 Wonders Duel, Alderac, Architects of the West Kingdom, Clank in Space, Deus, Fantasy Realms, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Renegade Games Studios, Repos Games, Rio Grande Games, Roll for the Galaxy, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Speakeasy Blues, The City, Trains, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Wizkids