Tag: COIN 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 12, 2023
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It’s time for another in a series of reviews of storage tray solutions from Rails on Boards/Cube4Me, as they endeavour to corner the market on these plastic trays. I even have a bunch of GMT counter trays that I haven’t used because of this!… Continue Reading “People Power – Storage Solution From Rails on Boards”
Posted on October 7, 2023
by whovian223
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Yes, I know it’s Saturday. But after a day of having a hole punched in our wall and then another day of long driving (which was great and I picked up a couple of awesome-looking games, but it was long), I wasn’t in the… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – The Shelf of Shame”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: A Distant Plain, Bezier Games, Brian Train, Castles of Mad King Ludwig Collector's Edition, COIN Games, Dinosaur World, GMT Games, Harold Buchanan, Kenneth Tee, Liberty or Death, Minerva, Pandasaurus Games, People Power, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, The Discard Pile, The Last Hundred Yards, Volko Ruhnke
Posted on September 7, 2023
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It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these Rails on Boards/Cube4Me storage solution posts! Partially it’s because I haven’t had any good ones to post about, and partially it’s because I bought this one way back in June and then forgot to… Continue Reading “A Distant Plain – Storage Solution From Rails on Boards”
Posted on July 11, 2023
by whovian223
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I’m really enjoying these plastic storage tray solutions from Rails on Boards/Cube4Me, and I’m enjoying writing about them! I have just about finished with the trays that they sent me to come up with some solutions for, though I am short a few card… Continue Reading “Liberty or Death – Storage Solution With Rails on Boards”
Posted on May 5, 2023
by whovian223
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We’re back to Canadian Club after some Crown Royal over the last week or two. That’s not bad, of course. It’s a mainstay! But maybe that’s why I’m thinking about asymmetry in boardgames for this Friday Night Shot. Or maybe not. Actually, the reason… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Asymmetry in Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Architects of the West Kingdom, Architects of the West Kingdom: Works of Wonder, Asymmetric Games, Capstone Games, COIN Games, Corrosion, Cuba Libre, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Leder Games, Renegade Games Studios, Root, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Viscounts of the West Kingdom
Posted on March 23, 2023
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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 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
Posted on January 10, 2022
by whovian223
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With the close of the year 2021, I have actually played 422 games since I really started playing boardgames in 2012. Since my “Top 25 Games Played of All Time” series in 2019 was predicated on my having played almost 300 games, I thought… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 Edition (25-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Brian Train, Card Drafting, COIN Games, Colonial Twilight, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Jacob Fryxelius, Jerry White, Mark Aasted, Nick Little, Nikki Valens, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Solo Games, Storm Above the Reich, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Tableau-building, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Tile-Laying Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on November 9, 2020
by whovian223
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One of my favourite Youtube boardgame personalities is 3 Minute Board Games, a channel that consists of quick and concise boardgame reviews (Editor – So, a channel that you couldn’t be part of, right?). Yes, everything you need to know in 3 minutes! I… Continue Reading “One of My Faves Makes a Game! Red Dust Rebellion from GMT Games”