Posted on April 3, 2023
by whovian223
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March was a good month for gaming, with a convention and numerous lunch time plays at work as well as some hefty Sunday game days as well. As noted in my March gaming post, I played 21 games! Seven of them were even new… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Aces of Valor, Action Selection, Alderac, Bot Factory, Card Games, Czech Games Edition, David Thompson, Dice Placement, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Earth, Erik von Rossing, Garphill Games, Hidden Roles, Inside Up Games, Ion Game Design, João Quintela Martins, Legion Wargames, Lunch Time Games, Matt Eklund, Maxime Tardif, Peter B. Hoffgaard, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Solo Games, Starship Captains, Stationfall, Tableau-building, Trevor Benjamin, Vital Lacerda, War Chest, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, World War I Games
Posted on April 1, 2023
by whovian223
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March was definitely a great month of gaming. I managed to play 21 games (32 plays) in 31 days! And 15 days worth of gaming is always good. Fifteen out of thirty-one? Woo! Many thanks to Boardgame Stats for the wonderful app that lets… Continue Reading “March 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alexander Pfister, BG Stats, Card Games, Charlie Bink, Franz-Benno Delonge, Jump Drive, Jump Drive - Terminal Velocity, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Tom Lehmann, Transamerica, Trekking Through History
Posted on March 22, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s been a while since I did one of these micro-expansion Smash Up reviews (has it really been 5 months? Where has the time gone?). I had meant to do these monthly, but that promise to myself was like a new version of Glory… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Smash Up Micro-Expansion – Knights of the Round Table”
Posted on March 15, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s Wednesday and part of me is still coming down from the high of a weekend full of boardgames! For the first time since March 2019, the annual (until COVID, damn it) Terminal City Tabletop Convention was held in my hometown of Vancouver this… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2023”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Alexander Pfister, Aporta Games, Bad Company, Bingo, Bot Factory, Card Games, Christian Kang, Contracts, Czech Games Edition, Diamonds, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Eilif Svensson, Eric Mosso, Franz-Benno Delonge, Gamelyn Games, Garphill Games, João Quintela Martins, John D Clair, Kenneth Minde, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Mike Fitzgerald, Oh My Goods, Peter B. Hoffgaard, Plumpy Thimble, Renegade Games Studios, Scott Almes, Set Collection Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Starship Captains, Stronghold Games, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Thunderworks Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Transamerica, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Winsome Games
Posted on March 4, 2023
by whovian223
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February was a weird month for gaming. I missed on Sunday Funday because of doing a math trade (where I traded 17 games for a bunch of money and 5 other games!) and then I was on vacation for a week so we didn’t… Continue Reading “February 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Ben Pinchback, Card Games, Chad Jensen, Charioteer, Combat Commander, Commands & Colors: Ancients, GMT Games, Hanamikoji, Kota Nakayama, Lunch Time Games, Matt Calkins, Matt Riddle, Racing Game, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Borg, Subastral
Posted on January 16, 2023
by whovian223
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One of the common words I hear to describe some games with lots of upkeep is “fussy.” That’s when there’s a bunch of stuff on the table, you’re trying to keep straight multiple different abilities and tracks and hopefully you don’t forget anything. From… Continue Reading “Review – Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition”
Posted on January 10, 2023
by whovian223
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OrcaCon is a convention held in Bellevue, Washington in January every year. Sadly, I wasn’t able to go last year and the two years before that…well, something happened. I’m not really sure what. I went to my first OrcaCon in January 2020 and then… Continue Reading “OrcaCon 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Alexander Pfister, Andrew Parks, Atlas Games, Auction Games, Bezier Games, Bluffing, Calico, Card Games, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Charioteer, CMON, Contracts, Core Worlds, David Fooden, Deckbuilders, Drafting Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Eggertspiele, Elizabeth Hargrave, Engine-building, Gizmos, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Kevin Russ, Lunch Time Games, Matt Calkins, Monster Couch, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Nick Little, Nicolas Robert, On Mars, Pearl Games, Phil Walker-Harding, Racing Game, Rondel Games, Seals of Cthulhu, Sean Epperson, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, The Bloody Inn, Thing 12 Games, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Wingspan, Wingspan: Asia, Wingspan: European Expansion, Wingspan: Oceania expansion, Yukon Salon
Posted on January 7, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit – Now check out the Top 5!) It’s been a while since I’ve done a true Top 10 list. Last year’s Top 10 was rolled into my Top 25 Games Played of All Time. I didn’t play enough in 2020 to do a… Continue Reading “Top 10 Games Played in 2022 – #10-6”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Block Wargames, Card Games, Clank in Space, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, GMT Games, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Nick Little, Prodigals Club, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Borg, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Tile-Laying Games, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 28, 2022
by whovian223
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Sometimes we just need a little peace in our lives, especially during these tumultuous times. What can be more peaceful than brewing and selling tea? Ok, maybe a certain panda game, but other than that? I’ve heard a ton of good things about the… Continue Reading “App Review – Chai”
Category: Apps, Board Games, ReviewTags: Android, Card Games, Chai, Connie Kazmaier, Contracts, Dan Kazmaier, Digidiced, ios, Lunch Time Games, Set Collection Games, Steam, Steeped Games
Posted on December 6, 2022
by whovian223
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November was an interesting month for boardgaming. I went to my second convention this year, a relatively small (compared to SHUX, anyway!) local wargaming convention where I was finally able to get a bit of wargaming done! Considering how many wargames I now have,… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Adam Rebottaro, Almoravid, Amigo Spiel, Arcana Rising, Ben Rosset, Between Two Cities, Block Wargames, Caesar's Empire, Card Games, Christopher Badell, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Cooperative Games, David Thompson, Deduction, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Engine-building, Excape, FloodGate Games, GMT Games, Greater Than Games, Grey Fox Games, Holy Grail Games, Kevin Hamano, Kites, Levy & Campaign Series, Lunch Time Games, Matthew O'Malley, Matthieu Podevin, No Mercy, Pixie Games, Push Your Luck Games, Rapido, Real-Time Games, Rebellion Unplugged, Reiner Knizia, Richard Borg, Roger Tankersley, Route-building, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition, Sniper Elite: the Board Game, Stonemaier Games, Tim Armstrong, Volko Ruhnke, Wargames