Tag: GMT Games
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 February 1, 2023
by whovian223
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I promised at the end of last year that there would be one more of these storage solution posts coming, with me buying Almoravid from GMT Games but not having actually picking it up from our US post box. I finally did, and while… Continue Reading “Almoravid – Storage Solution from Rails on Board”
Posted on January 23, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s a brand new year and time for another adventure from the ongoing saga of the Combat Commander ladder. The ladder, run by the remarkable Patrick Pence of “Patrick’s Tactics & Tutorials” fame (you really should go check that channel out), is the only… Continue Reading “Combat Commander After Action Report – Scenario #67 – The Orient Express”
Posted on January 19, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s been a few months since my lost post about the monthly GMT Update! That’s not GMT’s fault. They do it monthly. I just haven’t had a lot to say about the more recent ones. At least nothing that really seemed blogworthy. How many… Continue Reading “Highlights From the January 2023 GMT Games Update”
Category: Board Games, GMT UpdateTags: 2-Player Games, A Gest of Robin Hood, Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East, Atlantic Chase, Away Team: The Voyages of the Pandora, Bayonets & Tomahawks, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Commands & Colors: Napoleonics, GMT Games, Inferno, John Butterfield, Justin Fassino, Levy & Campaign Series, Lunch Time Games, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, Red Flag Over Paris, Seljuk: Byzantium Besieged, Storm Above the Reich, The Barracks Emperors, The Last Hundred Yards, Time of Crisis, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea
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 January 1, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s the new year and welcome to 2023! As has been my tradition for the past 3 years, here is my annual post about the year that was, 2022 in this case. Unlike last year, where I talked about how 2021 really should be… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2022”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Ark Nova, Bayonets & Tomahawks, Boardgame Arena, Boardgames Chronicle, Capstone Games, Cat Lady, Combat Commander: Europe, GMT Games, Jump Drive, Marvel Legendary, Monster Couch, Rio Grande Games, Space Base, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Wingspan
Posted on December 30, 2022
by whovian223
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One more for the road. It’s near the end of the year so it’s time for one more post about storage solutions! This time, we’re going to be talking about the Cube4Me storage solutions for Time of Crisis from Rails on Board. Time of… Continue Reading “Time of Crisis – Storage Solution from Rails on Board”
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