Tag: Area Control
Posted on September 2, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re halfway through the 4000s in our weekly look at games on the Boardgame Geek top games list, and things are looking up again. Slightly. Last week, I had only played two of the games in that century and I was beginning to despair… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4401 – 4500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, AllPlay, Andreas Odendahl, Area Control, Arkham Horror: Final Hour, Battalion Combat Series, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Card Games, Carlo A Rossi, Christopher Wray, Cooperative Games, Cosmic Encounter Duel, Dean Essig, Dice Drafting, El Burro, Fantasy Flight Games, Francisco Gradaille, Frank Brooks, Game Makers, GMT Games, Greg Olotka, Ignacy Trzewiczek, La Granja, Lane Battler, Last Blitzkrieg, Levy & Campaign Series, Lunch Time Games, Michael Keller, Multi-Man Publishing, Neuroshima Convoy, Oops You Did It Again, Paul Peterson, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, Pollen, Portal Games, Reiner Knizia, Smash Up, Spielworxx, Stonemaier Games, Todd Michlitsch, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket
Posted on September 1, 2026
by whovian223
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August was a booming month for gaming, despite there not being any conventions or anything. Well, maybe not “booming,” but certainly better than last month! Lunch time games at work certainly helped matters, plus there were a few Sundays where multiple games got played.… Continue Reading “August 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: 7 Wonders Duel, Area Control, Auction Games, Bezier Games, BG Stats, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Combat Commander, Dice-rolling, Engine-building, Final Girl, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Hobby Japan, Inventors of the South Tigris, Inventors of the South Tigris - Era of Experts, Lunch Time Games, Renegade Games Studios, Rumble Nation, Tile-Laying Games, Up or Down, Van Ryder Games, Vegas Showdown
Posted on August 28, 2026
by whovian223
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That’s the sound of a medieval nation in the throes of civil war. Also the sound of dice hitting the table! Both sound ominous. Rumble Nation is a dice-chucking area control game where players are attempting to take over as many provinces as possible… Continue Reading “The Distant Sound of Thunder – Rumble Nation Review”
Posted on August 7, 2026
by whovian223
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July had no conventions or anything, but yet it somehow managed to almost have as many new to me games as June did. The fact that all of these were shorter games, unlike last month, made things a bit different though. I’ve now played… Continue Reading “New to Me – July 2026”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 25th Century Games, Area Control, Auction Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Hobby Japan, Michael Kiesling, Ratzia, Reiner Knizia, Rumble Nation, Set Collection Games, Up or Down, Wolfgang Kramer, Yogi Shinichi (与儀新一)
Posted on August 1, 2026
by whovian223
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July is always going to be a bit of a slower month for gaming, mainly because I’m on vacation for a large portion of it. That means no lunchtime games! Though I was able to get a bunch of Final Girl plays in, which… Continue Reading “July 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Area Control, BG Stats, Card Games, Devir, Dice Drafting, El Grande, Final Girl, Garphill Games, Hans im Gluck, Inventors of the South Tigris, Lookout Games, Multi-use cards, Oh My Goods, Salt & Pepper Games, Solo Games, The White Castle, The White Castle - Matcha, Van Ryder Games, Witchcraft!
Posted on June 24, 2026
by whovian223
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Another short turnaround time for this Boardgame Geek century of games post, because I have another Friday Night Shots post ready to go, so I didn’t want this to go out on Friday too. You all are getting so lucky with these! Or at… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 3401 – 3500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 7 Empires, Abracada...What?, Action Selection, Ape Games, Area Control, Area Movement, Avalon Hill, B-17 Flying Fortress Leader, BLAM Games, BoardgameTables.com, Card Games, Cooperative Games, Dandelions, Deduction, Dice Placement, DVG Games, Exploding Kittens: NSFW Edition, First Martians, Lunch Time Games, Mayfair Games, Medici: the Card Game, Party Games, Patrician, Portal Games, Push Your Luck Games, Rio Grande Games, Roll and Move, Semi-cooperative Games, Solo Games, Splito, Storm Over Arnhem, Tuesday Night Games, Wargames, World Championship Russian Roulette, Z-Man Games
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 20, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s Wednesday, the middle of the week, so how about a middle post about Boardgame Geek rankings? I mentioned last week that I’ll keep doing these until I hit a week where I haven’t played anything. That ain’t this week! I should remind folks… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 3001 – 3100”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 1923 Cotton Club, 9 Lives, Action Selection, Alderac, AllPlay, Area Control, Avalon Hill, Board & Dice, Card Drafting, Card Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Fields of Fire: Deluxe Edition, Firestarter Games, GMT Games, Kingmaker, Looping Games, Lunch Time Games, Point Galaxy, Reforest, Sierra West, Solo Games, Stratego, Tableau-building, The City, Trick-taking games, Wargames, What Were We Thinking, Worker Placement Games
Posted on May 7, 2026
by whovian223
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Doing these weekly posts about these centuries of “top games” on Boardgame Geek have often been interesting because of the conversations they’ve sparked with friends and fans. But they’ve also been interesting because I’ve seen some unexpected movement in the games I’m seeing. For… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2801-2900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Alley Cat Games, Amun-Re, Amun-Re 20th Anniversary Edition, Area Control, Assyria, Auction Games, Bingo, Block Wargames, Brotherhood & Unity, Card-Driven Game, Colt Super Express, Columbia Games, Compass Games, Dice-rolling, General Orders: World War II, GMT Games, Hurrican Games, Indie Boards & Cards, Kokoro, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, New Amsterdam, Osprey Games, Programmed Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Richard III: The Wars of the Roses, Roll and Write Games, Silent Victory, Solo Games, Via Magica, Wargames, White Goblin Games, Worker Placement Games, Ystari Games
Posted on May 1, 2026
by whovian223
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I knew this month would not be as good as last month. No conventions! But I was still able to get some solid gaming in, though maybe not as much as usual. One Sunday I wasn’t able to make it and the lunchtime games… Continue Reading “April 2026 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Area Control, Auction Games, BG Stats, Card Drafting, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Deckbuilders, Dice Drafting, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Dune Imperium - Rise of Ix, Faraway, Faraway: Under Starry Skies, Pegasus Spiele, Schmidt Spiele, Strasbourg, Tableau-building, The Taverns of Tiefenthal