Tag: Deckbuilders
Posted on February 19, 2023
by whovian223
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With the last Viscounts of the West Kingdom Kickstarter (way back in…I can’t remember when!), Garphill Games decided that rather than release expansions for this great games in dribs and drabs, as well as then finally releasing a Deluxe box for the entire game,… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Viscounts of the West Kingdom – Gates of Gold”
Posted on February 16, 2023
by whovian223
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Undaunted: Normandy is a wargame/card game combination designed by the excellent designers David Thompson and Trevor Benjamin. It was published in 2019 by Osprey Games and I actually wrote about how excited I was when it was first announced. Then I never bought it.… Continue Reading “First Look – Undaunted: Normandy app on Steam”
Category: Board Games, First ImpressionsTags: Bookmark Games, David Thompson, Deckbuilders, Lunch Time Games, Osprey Games, Pavlov's House, Steam, Trevor Benjamin, Undaunted: Normandy, Wargames
Posted on February 13, 2023
by whovian223
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Shem Phillips and S J MacDonald of Garphill Games fame, seem to have a side job in addition to designing great games. They are the Adepts of Alliteration! That’s why all of their expansions have brilliant alliteration. Works of Wonder, Age of Artisans, and… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Viscounts of the West Kingdom – Keeper of Keys”
Posted on February 4, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s a brand new year and hopefully it will be better than last year. Though last year wasn’t too bad, compared to the two before. It’s January (or February, but we’re talking about January) and that means a new beginning where we’re not sure… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 9 Lives, Alban Nanty, Alexander Pfister, Andrew Parks, Bites, Block Wargames, BoardgameTables.com, Brigitte Ditt, Calico, Card Drafting, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Contracts, Core Worlds, David Fooden, Deckbuilders, Eggertspiele, Flatout Games, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hand Management, Kevin Russ, Minigolf Designer, Nicolas Robert, Pearl Games, Richard Borg, Rondel Games, Stronghold Games, Taiki Shinzawa (新澤 大樹), The Bloody Inn, Thematic Games, Tile-Laying Games, Wolfgang Ditt, Yukon Salon
Posted on January 26, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit: 10/13/23) – Nothing big, and no pictures, but apparently the Ant-Man & the Wasp expansion is due out on December 6. ICv2 has also confirmed that Kang, Yellowjacket, and Ghost are the Masterminds. It’s not direct from Upper Deck, so maybe not? But… Continue Reading “Marvel Legendary Update – 2023”
Posted on January 13, 2023
by whovian223
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Wow, the second part of my Top 10 Games played in 2022 is being posted just a week after the first part. I’m already scoring a blog win! Last week I posted games 10-6 of my Top 10 Games played in 2022, and there… Continue Reading “TOP 10 GAMES PLAYED IN 2022 – #5-1”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 2-Player Games, Architects of the West Kingdom, Architects of the West Kingdom: Age of the Artisans, Architects of the West Kingdom: Works of Wonder, Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Chad Jensen, Combat Commander: Europe, Combat Commander: Pacific, Deckbuilders, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Mathias Wigge, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tableau-building, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
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 January 3, 2023
by whovian223
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December was a curtailed month for games. The last game I played was on December 13 (or December 16 if you count my Combat Commander ladder game I played on a Friday night). Between a Sunday Funday being snowed out, Christmas falling on a… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Asger Granerud, Bruce Glassco, Card Drafting, Charioteer, Daniel Skjold Pedersen, Days of Wonder, Deckbuilders, Eilif Svensson, GMT Games, Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Helge Meissner, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lunch Time Games, Marvel: Remix, Matt Calkins, Racing Game, Revive, Set Collection Games, Wizkids
Posted on November 29, 2022
by whovian223
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Anybody who follows this blog even a little bit knows that I am a big Shem Phillips/Sam MacDonald fan. I was first introduced to Shem with Raiders of the North Sea (a game that has fallen a bit in my estimation but I still… Continue Reading “Review – Viscounts of the West Kingdom”
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