Tag: Bottoscon
Posted on January 1, 2026
by whovian223
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Happy New Year, everybody! I hope you had a wonderful and safe holiday season and new year’s celebration last night. Maybe you were out celebrating, or just having drinks with friends? Or maybe you were even asleep? Whichever it was, I hope it was… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2025”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: 1989: Dawn of Freedom, Architects of the West Kingdom, Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, Ark Nova digital, Assyria 2nd Edition, Berlin Wartime Thriller, Boardgame Arena, Bomb Busters, Bottoscon, Bottoscon Spring, Cascadia, Combat Commander: Europe, Cover Your A$$ets, Doomlings, Final Girl, Forest Shuffle, Friedrich, Grand Austria Hotel, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Raiders of the North Sea, Rally the Troops, Simon Scarrow, Skara Brae, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Time of Crisis, Vale of Eternity, Vijayanagara, Wingspan, Wingspan: Asia, Yucata
Posted on December 1, 2025
by whovian223
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I knew November would be much better than October for my gaming, because there’s a really nice 4-day convention in November. I didn’t expect that it would be this much better, though! In November, I managed to play 36 games a total of 57… Continue Reading “November 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Bomb Busters, Bottoscon, Card Games, Combat Commander, Cover Your A$$ets, Deckbuilders, Doomlings, Dune Imperium, Ecos: First Continent, Final Girl, Galactic Cruise, Hansa Teutonica, Inventors of the South Tigris, Inventors of the South Tigris - Era of Experts, Lunch Time Games, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, SETI, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on November 11, 2025
by whovian223
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This past weekend was the 19th annual Bottoscon convention at the Inn at the Quay in New Westminster, Canada. We’re almost at 20! The con is run by Rob Bottos, a great guy who has taken to heart what many of us Canadians have… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, AllPlay, Aporta Games, Artipia Games, Bad Company, Bottoscon, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cascadia, CMON, CMYK, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Devir, Diamonds, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Flatout Games, Galactic Cruise, Gizmos, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jackie Fox, Kinson Key Games, Kosmos, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Oddland, Origin Story, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, Roll and Move, Schadenfreude, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Pepper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, The Gang, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 1, 2025
by whovian223
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Happy New Year, everybody! I hope you had a safe and happy New Year’s Eve celebration last night, or at least just spent the changeover with your loved ones. Some of you may even have been asleep! As I did last year and for… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2024”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, Boardgames Chronicle, Bottoscon, Clio's Board Games, Combat Commander, Combat Commander: Europe, Dragonflight, Dune Imperium, Dune Imperium - Rise of Ix, Earth, Friedrich, Harmonies, Heavy Cardboard, I Found Bigfoot, Oh My Goods, OrcaCon, Our Family Plays Games, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, Players' Aid, Raiders of the North Sea, Space-Biff Reviews, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Thing 12 Games, Time of Crisis, Wingspan, Zilla Blitz
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 January 1, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s Monday and 2024 is upon us, almost sneaking up on us like a wily coyote hunting a roadrunner. As is my tradition over the past 4 years or so, I wanted to do an update on how this blog, and my gaming, is… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2023”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Andean Abyss, Ark Nova, Boardgames Chronicle, Bottoscon, Clio's Board Games, COIN Games, Combat Commander, Dragonflight, Earth, Jump Drive, Marvel Legendary, OrcaCon, Players' Aid, Rally the Troops, Roll to Review, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Prelude 2, The Last Hundred Yards, Time of Crisis, Wingspan, Zilla Blitz
Posted on November 14, 2023
by whovian223
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This post has been a long time coming, mainly due to exhaustion on my part. A four-day con is a long con, especially when you are playing a lot of longer games. All of that would be fine, except then I started work on… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Ark Nova, Bottoscon, Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, Codenames: Deep Undercover, Dominant Species, Flash Point, Hellapagos, Here I Stand, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Merchant of Venus, Saboteur: the Dark Cave, Starship Captains, TEN, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game
Posted on November 3, 2023
by whovian223
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Look at it out there! It’s dark and it’s only 5:00. But the bar is cozy, and it’s certainly airy with nobody but you in it. I hope you’re looking forward to a really nice weekend. I know I am! Have a seat and… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Con Anticipation”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Bottoscon, Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, Caylus, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Dominant Species, Dragonflight, Eldritch Horror, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Obsession, Star Wars: Rebellion, Versailles 1919
Posted on July 1, 2023
by whovian223
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(This was supposed to go out last night, but instead it’s going out tonight. Pretend it’s still Friday, ok?) It’s another Friday, and it’s vacation time! Yes, I am off of work for an entire month, not returning until July 31. But since it… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Game Length”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Alderac, Almoravid, Amigo Spiel, Architects of the West Kingdom, Bottoscon, Combat Commander, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Here I Stand, Lunch Time Games, No Thanks, Players' Aid, Space Base, Twilight Imperium : 4th Edition, Wargames
Posted on December 1, 2022
by whovian223
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November was a good month of gaming, even with missing my final week’s game day and it being harder to get games in at work. I’ll of course talk about the “new to me” games in this month’s post (probably next week) but I… Continue Reading “November Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: BG Stats, Bottoscon, Combat Commander: Europe, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Raiders of the North Sea, Terraforming Mars, The Pursuit of Happiness, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Gates of Gold, Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Keeper of Keys
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