Tag: Avalon Hill
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 13, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s time for another century of Boardgame Geek rated games, getting down into the second half of the 2000s and seeing what’s there. This one isn’t quite going to be the bonanza that last time’s was, but there are definitely some good games in… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2501 – 2600”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 999 Games, Archeos Society, Avalon Hill, Capstone Games, Cooperative Games, Corrosion, Covert, Daily Magic Games, Fireside Games, Flow of History, GMT Games, Guilds of London, Hellapagos, Lunch Time Games, Negotiation Games, Quests of Valeria, Renegade Games Studios, Rise & Decline of the Third Reich, Semi-cooperative Games, Set Collection Games, Space Cowboys, Star Trek Panic, Tableau-building, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Twilight Struggle: South Asian Monsoon, Valletta, Versailles 1919, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Posted on March 21, 2026
by whovian223
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As we get further and further down the BGG rankings, the pickings are becoming increasingly slim. But it’s also made me think a little bit, considering some of the games that show up in each century. I know, thinking is dangerous, especially for me.… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2201 – 2300”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 5 Minute Marvel, Alderac, Area Control, Area Majority, Ascension, Ascension: Rise of Vigil, Avalon Hill, B-17: Queen of the Skies, Caesar's Empire, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Cease and Desist, Citrus, City of Iron, Civilization Building, Cooperative Games, Deckbuilders, DLP Games, Dragonfire, GMT Games, Hearts, Holy Grail Games, Levy & Campaign Series, Nevsky, Real-Time Games, Red Raven Games, Route-building, Smash Up, Solo Games, Spades, Spielworxx, Spin Master Games, Stoneblade, Unconditional Surrender, Wargames, Weimar, Wizards of the Coast
Posted on January 19, 2026
by whovian223
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Last week, I mentioned that we were starting to get into the dregs of the Boardgame Geek Top 2000 games. This week, that is just reinforced! Though there is enough decent (ok, maybe “interesting” is the better word) stuff to talk about that it… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1801 Through 1900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Alderac, Alley Cat Games, Avalon Hill, Bitewing Games, Burgle Bros 2, Burning Banners, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Cascadero, Chocolate Factory, CMYK, Compass Games, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Dale of Merchants Collection, Deckbuilders, Factory Fun, Fowers Games, Fruit Fight, Garphill Games, Hidden Roles, Kolossal Games, Kremlin, Le Havre: Inland Port, Lucky Loop, Lunch Time Games, No Mercy, Omen: A Reign of War, Push Your Luck Games, Reiner Knizia, Ride the Rails, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, Snowdale Design, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Valley of the Kings: Afterlife, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 7, 2026
by whovian223
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Another break in the weekly schedule, but that’s because of New Years, a new month, some end of the year stuff, and all of that. I hope your new 2026 year has been treating you well so far! We’re back with another century of… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1601 Through 1700”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Alderac, Area Control, Asymmetric Games, Auction Games, Avalon Hill, Board & Dice, Capstone Games, Card Games, Daily Magic Games, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Eerie Idol Games, EmperorS4, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Granna Games, Inventors of the South Tigris, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Merchant of Venus, Nagaraja, NEOM, Pick Up & Deliver, Sanctuary, Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game - Clone Wars Edition, Tableau-building, Terracotta Army, The Old King's Crown, Tile-Laying Games, Titan, Trains: Rising Sun, Villages of Valeria, Walking in Burano, Warsaw: City of Ruins
Posted on December 18, 2025
by whovian223
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I really like how successful these posts have been! There has been some true engagement as people have gone through the lists and talked about their own experiences with them. I know the last post was Sunday, but let’s get back onto that weekly… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1401 Through 1500”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Ancient Knowledge, Arcane Wonders, Area Majority, Avalon Hill, Betrayal at Baldur's Gate, Bezier Games, Blacklist Games, Cooperative Games, Dale of Merchants 2, Deckbuilders, DVG Games, Foundations of Metropolis, Hidden Roles, HUCH Games, Iello Games, It's a Wonderful Kingdom, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, Pavlov's House, Pegasus Spiele, Rio Grande Games, Route-building, Royals, Scorpion Masqué, Seas of Strife, Snowdale Design, Star Trek: Captain's Chair, Strasbourg, Street Masters, Tag Team, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vanuatu, Whistle Stop, Wizkids
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 June 23, 2023
by whovian223
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Welcome back! Belly up to the bar and let me get you a drink of some kind. Doesn’t have to be booze. It’s Friday again. The week has kind of flown by, though that could be because it feels like I have a million… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Pre-Order Extravaganza!”
Category: Board Games, crowdfunding, Friday Night ShotsTags: 401 Games, Alderac, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Boardgame Bliss, CMON, Compass Games, David Thompson, Gamefound, Garphill Games, GMT Games, kickstarter, Marvel Legendary, P500, Resist!, Smash Up, Smash Up: Excellent Movies Dudes, The General, Trevor Benjamin, Western Front Ace
Posted on August 12, 2022
by whovian223
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(Edit 9/26/22 – The launch is live! Go here to back it.) (Edit – the Kickstarter was supposed to start today (September 9), but it’s been postponed to September 26 out of deference to Queen Elizabeth’s death) Here’s a light, Friday post for you… Continue Reading “Kingmaker Coming to Kickstarter on September 9 From Gibsons Games”