Posted on September 22, 2021
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We’re heading into the home stretch with our look at the Top 300 games on Boardgame Geek. I may even finish before October! Wouldn’t that be a hoot? I’ve actually really enjoyed doing this list, even as I stated last week that it just… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #220-211”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Kwapiński, Age of Empires III: Discovery, Alderac, Area Control, Area Movement, Auction Games, Awaken Realms, Blue Orange Games, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Civilization Building, CMON, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Dixit: Odyssey, Fantasy Flight Games, Frank Brooks, Fury of Dracula, Glenn Drover, Hand Management, Hidden Movement, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Imperial Settlers, Jean-Louis Roubira, John D Clair, Kevin Wilson, Kingdomino, Libellud, Lords of Hellas, Lunch Time Games, Modern Art, Portal Games, Pulsar 2849, Reiner Knizia, Space Alert, Space Base, Stephen Hand, Tile-Laying Games, Tropical Games, Vlaada Chvátil, Vladimír Suchý
Posted on September 17, 2021
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It was a close one this week. Yes, I almost didn’t get this post done so that it would post this week at all. That would break my streak and we know that we can’t have that. But here it is! We’re three episodes… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #230-221”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alien Frontiers, Area Control, Battle Line, Card Games, Clever Mojo Games, Colby Dauch, Corey Konieczka, Dead of Winter: The Long Night, Deckbuilders, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Economic Games, Escape Room, Exit: The Abandoned Cabin, Fantasy Flight Games, Funtails, Glen More II: Chronicles, GMT Games, Hidden Traitor, Indonesia, Inka Brand, Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga, Kosmos, Mac Gerdts, Markus Brand, Matthias Cramer, Miniatures, Navegador, Plaid Hat Games, Reiner Knizia, Rio Grande Games, Rococo, Rondel Games, Rune Wars, Splotter Spellen, Summoner Wars: Master Set, Tory Niemann
Posted on September 6, 2021
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Three weeks. Yes, that’s three weeks. Three weeks in a row where I’ve done an entry for the Top 300 games on BGG! Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? I know, right? I don’t believe it either! Anyway, this is the… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #240 – 231”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Points, Antiquity, Area Control, BattleLore 2nd Edition, Burgle Bros, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Contracts, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Dominion: 2nd Edition, Donald X. Vaccarino, Fantasy Flight Games, Fowers Games, Grid Movement, Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage, Imperial 2030, Jamey Stegmaier, Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga, Luke Laurie, Mac Gerdts, Marc Neidlinger, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Mark Simonitch, Minion Games, Orange Nebula, Point to Point Movement, Richard Borg, Rio Grande Games, Robert A Kouba, Rondel Games, Simone Luciani, Splotter Spellen, Stonemaier Games, Tapestry, The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, Tile-Laying Games, Tim Fowers, Tom Jolly, Valley Games, Vindication, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Posted on August 30, 2021
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What? Two editions of this list in two weeks? Could Dave be back? I wouldn’t count on it, but this is a welcome thing to see! My editor is very happy (Editor: Yeah, so happy I could almost not speak in a monotone) It’s… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #250 – 241”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Above and Below, Abstract Games, Action Points, Arcane Wonders, Area Control, Benjamin Pope, Bryan Pope, Card Drafting, Century: Spice Road, City Building, CMON, Concordia Venus, Cthulhu Wars, David Thompson, Deckbuilders, Emerson Matsuuchi, Ethnos, Gen42 Games, Grid Movement, Hand Management, Herve Lemaitre, Hive, John Yianni, Kolossal Games, Lincoln Petersen, Lunch Time Games, Mac Gerdts, Mage Wars Arena, Onitama, Osprey Games, Paolo Mori, Petersen Games, Plan B Games, Red Raven Games, Rio Grande Games, Ryan Laukat, Sandbox games, Sandy Petersen, Set Collection Games, Shimpei Sato, Tile-Laying Games, Trevor Benjamin, Undaunted: Normandy, Wargames, Western Legends
Posted on April 23, 2021
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Edit: You can catch the replay of the stream here. They confirm that tokens will be replacing minis. It will also contain the Undead & Aberrations expansion in the box. I hope that expansions will just be just cards so that even those who… Continue Reading “Tyrants of the Underdark – 2nd Edition from Gale Force 9 Games!”
Posted on March 19, 2021
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I such a timely guy, aren’t I? The first post in this series came out what seems like months ago (it was over a month ago, on February 15). What’s taken so long for the second post? Would you believe I fell asleep? All… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 300 – Play or Played – #290-281”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alderac, Altiplano, Andrew Wolf, Area Control, Auction Games, Bag Building, Barenpark, Bill Eberle, Card Games, Deckbuilders, Die Macher, Dmitry Knorre, Dominic Crapuchettes, Dune, Evolution: Climate, Forrest-Pruzan Creative, Gale Force 9, Hand Management, Hans im Gluck, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, Jack Kittredge, Julian Courtland-Smith, Kami Mandell, Karl-Heinz Schmiel, Lookout Games, Love Letter, Lunch Time Games, Michal Oracz, Neuroshima Hex 3.0, North Star Games, Notre Dame, Peter Olotka, Phil Walker-Harding, Portal Games, Push Your Luck Games, Ravensburger, Reiner Stockhausen, Renegade Games Studios, Seiji Kanai, Sergey Machin, Stefan Feld, Stronghold Games, Survive: Escape from Atlantis, The Op, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on January 26, 2021
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Given the typical Friday nights that many people are having right now, who wouldn’t want to play a game about cornering the booze market! MOB: Big Apple is a 2-player area control and action selection game that just hit Kickstarter yesterday. It’s designed by… Continue Reading “MOB – Big Apple – On kickstarter now”
Posted on January 6, 2021
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After months of waiting (I hope you weren’t holding your breath), we have reached the end of the line (for the second time). Yes, we are at the end of the Top 200 BGG games, and it’s been an interesting ride. I’ve really discovered… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #110-101”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Adam Sadler, Alchemists, Area Control, Area Movement, Awaken Realms, Barrage, Bernd Brunnhofer, Card Drafting, Christian Martinez, Clank in Space, Corey Konieczka, Cranio Creations, Czech Games Edition, Daniel Clark, Deckbuilders, Decrypto, Deduction, Descent: Journeys into the Dark (2nd Edition), Dire Wolf Digital, Dungeon Crawl, Fantasy Flight Games, Forbidden Stars, Inis, James Kniffen, Jason Little, Kevin Wilson, Krzysztof Piskorski, Marcin Świerkot, Matagot, Matúš Kotry, Miniatures, Party Games, Paul Dennen, Portal Games, Renegade Games Studios, Resource Management, Samuel Bailey, Simone Luciani, Star Wars: X-Wing, Stone Age, Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon, Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance, Tommaso Battista, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on December 23, 2020
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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 2, 2020
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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”
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