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 December 19, 2023
by whovian223
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If you’ve been following this blog for more than a fortnight, then you know that I’m a big fan of many Garphill games, especially those designed by Shem Phillips and S J MacDonald. They seem to be a fan of trilogies, with the North… Continue Reading “Review – Scholars of the South Tigris”
Posted on November 16, 2023
by whovian223
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One game mechanism I really like is dice rolling and engine building (ok, that’s two mechanisms). Who doesn’t like chucking a bunch of dice? Ok, Len in the back, maybe. But otherwise, who doesn’t? Fantastic Factories doesn’t let you chuck a ton of dice,… Continue Reading “Review – Fantastic Factories”
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 August 31, 2023
by whovian223
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Dragonflight was my first convention ever, back in 2015 (I think). It’s held at the same hotel in Bellevue, Washington, as OrcaCon is held (though the hotel rooms are a lot more expensive, being in the Summer instead of January like OrcaCon). Thus, it… Continue Reading “Dragonflight 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Archaeology - The New Expedition, Area Control, Artana Games, Capstone Games, Card Games, Cascadia, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dice Placement, Dokmus, Dr. Finn's Games, Dragonflight, Ecos: First Continent, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Flatout Games, Grandpa Beck's, Herbaceous, Indie Boards & Cards, John D Clair, Prodigals Club, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Rise, Route-building, Set Collection Games, Social Deduction Games, Space Cowboys, Speakeasy Blues, The Resistance, Thurn and Taxis, Tile-Laying Games, Unlock: Heroic Adventures, Valley of the Kings, Z-Man Games
Posted on June 11, 2023
by whovian223
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There are games that are just complex for the sake of being complex. The rules are really intricate, each phase has like 10 things to do, and everybody spends 10 minutes trying to figure out what to do on their turn. Then there are… Continue Reading “Review – Wayfarers of the South Tigris”
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 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 January 30, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit 3/1/23: And it’s now live!) (Edit 2/16/23: It’s coming 6 days earlier! The new Kickstarter date is March 1) (Edit 2/2/23: Get notified when it goes live by going here!) Two posts in a day, but this announcement is worth it! Today on… Continue Reading “Scholars of the South Tigris from Garphill Games Coming to Kickstarter March 7”
Posted on September 20, 2022
by whovian223
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September has been a weird month. School has started again, so work has been busy. I just haven’t really felt up to writing anything, but I don’t usually let that get in the way of doing at least this post. However, things have just… Continue Reading “New to Me – August 2022”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Area Majority, Auction Games, Blue Orange Games, BoardgameTables.com, Carnegie, Chris Handy, City-Building Games, Dandelions, Dice Placement, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Economic Games, Engine-building, Flashpoint South China Sea, Gavin Birnbaum, Ginkgopolis, GMT Games, Harold Buchanan, Las Vegas Royale, Long Shot: The Dice Game, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Matthew Dunstan, MOB: Big Apple, NEOM, Next Station: London, Paul Sottosanti, Pearl Games, Perplext, QE, Quined Games, Ravensburger, Rüdiger Dorn, Roll and Write Games, Stefan Feld, Steve Finn, Takashi Sakaue, TGG Games, The Castles of Tuscany, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Xavier Georges
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