Tag: Card-Driven Game
Posted on August 23, 2025
by whovian223
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There’s something about a meaty game that plays in 45 minutes that just appeals to me. It makes for a nice lunch but it still exercises the brain a bit. Adding historical flavour is just the icing on the cake. I really enjoyed Mark… Continue Reading “Defiance or Appeasement? – Bell of Treason Review”
Posted on August 3, 2025
by whovian223
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It’s funny, but no matter how bad a month might be as far as playing games, I usually get a decent number of “new to me” games played. I thought July would be slow, but it ended up being pretty normal. I also thought,… Continue Reading “New to Me – July 2025”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Arcane Wonders, Betting, Blue Panther Games, Card-Driven Game, CMYK, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Eggertspiele, Era: Medieval Age, Eric Olsen, Flip 7, Hot Streak, Jon Perry, Land and Freedom, Matt Leacock, Polyomino Games, The Op, Tile-Laying Games, World Wonders, Zé Mendes
Posted on May 2, 2024
by whovian223
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After a really full March, where it seemed like I played one game a day (ok, that’s only if you average it out, but still), April was a wasteland for gaming, sadly. Missing two Sundays, not as many games during lunch at work (if… Continue Reading “April 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Capstone Games, Card-Driven Game, Combat Commander, Daily Magic Games, London, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Oh My Goods, Osprey Games, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Villages of Valeria, Viticulture, Viticulture: Tuscany, Watergate, Worker Placement Games
Posted on February 11, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s been a long journey getting to this top 10. Not so much in weeks, as these posts have appeared for 5 weeks just like the previous Top 25 did (or they should have, but I’d forgotten that I took a much too long… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#10 – 1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, Action Selection, Ark Nova, Brad Johnson, Capstone Games, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Christian Leonard, Clank in Space, Combat Commander: Europe, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice Placement, Dire Wolf Digital, Earth, Engine-building, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Inside Up Games, Jason Matthews, Mathias Wigge, Maxime Tardif, Paul Dennen, Prodigals Club, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Time of Crisis, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Wray Ferrell
Posted on October 24, 2023
by whovian223
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Twilight Struggle is one of those long-standing classic wargames (oops…I don’t want to get into that argument) from GMT Games about the Cold War from 1945 to 1989. It’s long, it’s 2-player, but its gameplay has stood the test of time to make it… Continue Reading “Review – Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa”
Posted on September 8, 2023
by whovian223
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Welcome back to the bar! I’m so happy you chose to regale us with your presence when it’s such a clear and sunny evening out there. Have a seat, let me turn the music down a bit (who the heck put Air Supply on… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Birthday Wishes of Unplayed Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: 1960: The Making of a President, 51st State Master Set, Alderac, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Dice Placement, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Portal Games, Rally the Troops, Roll Player, Santa Monica, The Barracks Emperors, Thunderworks Games, Time of Crisis, Wargames
Posted on April 16, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit: 4/18/23) This was not announced in this month’s newsletter, so I’m assuming it will be in the May one. Interesting that it’s already on BGG and a blogger is talking about it, though (not me, the blogger that GMT RT’d) Lots of GMT… Continue Reading “Twilight Struggle: South Asian Monsoon Coming From GMT in 2024”
Posted on March 23, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s been a couple of months since my “highlights” post for the monthly GMT Update, though that is mostly because the best parts of the February update made their own posts. This month had some great stuff and other cool updates in it, so… Continue Reading “Highlights from the March 2023 GMT Update”
Category: Board Games, GMT UpdateTags: 1848: The Springtime of Nations, Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East, Card-Driven Game, COIN Games, Commands & Colors: Medieval, GMT Games, Men of Iron: Tri-Pack, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, The Barracks Emperors, The Guerilla Generation, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Wargames
Posted on August 31, 2022
by whovian223
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August turned out to be a good month for gaming after a smaller July. Not only 30 plays of 22 games, but 11 new to me ones! That means (Gulp!) the “New to Me” post is going to be a bit late this month.… Continue Reading “My August 2022 Gaming”
Category: Board GamesTags: Action Selection, Card Games, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Combat Commander: Europe, Deckbuilders, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Lunch Time Games, Paul Peterson, Renegade Games Studios, Roll and Write Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Smash Up, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tom Lehmann, Worker Placement Games
Posted on August 24, 2022
by whovian223
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I was completely surprised to discover that my last post about the monthly GMT Update was from December 2021. I know I said I was taking over for the Players’ Aid while their written blog was kind of back-burnered due to real-life stuff. They’re… Continue Reading “Highlights From the August 2022 GMT Games Update”
Category: Board Games, GMT UpdateTags: Card-Driven Game, CDG Solo System, COIN Games, Falling Skies, GMT Games, Iron Storm: The First World War (1914-1918), Labyrinth: The War on Terror, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Last Hundred Yards: Mission Pack #1, Playdek, Skies Above Britain, The Last Hundred Yards, The Last Hundred Yards Volume 3: The Solomon Islands, Tri-Pack II: Battles of the American Revolution, Wargames