Tag: Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe
Posted on August 12, 2026
by whovian223
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Another week and another look at the Boardgame Geek boardgame rankings! This time we’re moving further into the 4000s, and this is where you start finding the niche games that are really good, but not that many people know about them or play them.… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 4101 – 4200”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Action Selection, AllPlay, Avalon Hill, Bezier Games, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cooperative Games, Dune: A Game of Conquest and Diplomacy, Gale Force 9, Game Makers, GMT Games, Gravwell 2nd Edition, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Level 10, Lunch Time Games, Matagot, Okey Dokey, Rebuilding Chicago, Rebuilding Seattle, Renegade Games Studios, Russian Front, Seers Catalog, Stonemaier Games, The Last Hundred Yards, Tile-Laying Games, Torchlit, Trick-taking games, War & Peace, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket, Wizkids
Posted on November 30, 2023
by whovian223
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With a convention coming in November, I had a feeling that this New to Me games list would get pretty hefty. Little did I know how hefty it would get! This was a big month for new to me games. Even better, many of… Continue Reading “New to Me – November 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, 999 Games, Action Selection, Amigo Spiel, Brotherwise Games, Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, Century: a New World, Codenames: Deep Undercover, Czech Games Edition, Devir, Dice Drafting, Emerson Matsuuchi, Empire's End, Fréderic Moyersoen, GMT Games, Hellapagos, Isra C, John D Clair, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Laurence Gamelin, Lunch Time Games, Mark Simonitch, Mike Denson, Party Games, Philippe Gamelin, Plan B Games, Saboteur: the Dark Cave, Shei S, Team Games, The White Castle, Vlaada Chvátil, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on November 14, 2023
by whovian223
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This post has been a long time coming, mainly due to exhaustion on my part. A four-day con is a long con, especially when you are playing a lot of longer games. All of that would be fine, except then I started work on… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Ark Nova, Bottoscon, Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, Codenames: Deep Undercover, Dominant Species, Flash Point, Hellapagos, Here I Stand, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Merchant of Venus, Saboteur: the Dark Cave, Starship Captains, TEN, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game
Posted on November 3, 2023
by whovian223
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Look at it out there! It’s dark and it’s only 5:00. But the bar is cozy, and it’s certainly airy with nobody but you in it. I hope you’re looking forward to a really nice weekend. I know I am! Have a seat and… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Con Anticipation”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Bottoscon, Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, Caylus, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Dominant Species, Dragonflight, Eldritch Horror, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Obsession, Star Wars: Rebellion, Versailles 1919
Posted on September 29, 2023
by whovian223
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Welcome back for another week! I’ve been keeping the seat warm for you, since it’s starting to get a little colder out. Yes, I’ve added heaters! Hasn’t brought in anymore customers, though, which is too bad. Maybe I shouldn’t have started testing these heated… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Convention Game Behaviour”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, conventions, Dice Tower West, Dokmus, Dominant Species, Dragonflight, Gizmos, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, OrcaCon, Paladins of the West Kingdom, The Isle of Cats, Thing 12 Games, Wingspan
Posted on April 14, 2023
by whovian223
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(Edit: 4/15/23) – I completely forgot one of my big annoyances regarding storage solutions: never being sure if the game’s going to get an expansion that makes the solution obsolete! Right now, my Dune Imperium box has a hodgepodge of baggies and stuff in… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – My Take on Game Storage Solutions”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night Shots, Opinion, StorageTags: 1960: The Making of a President, Charioteer, Clank in Space, Cube4Me, Folded Space, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Inferno, Insert Here, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Skies Above Britain, Viscounts of the West Kingdom
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 December 17, 2021
by whovian223
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It’s Friday, a week before Christmas, and the whiskey is flowing while I read blog posts. Or write them! I just got three new games this week from 401 Games (my Canadian retailer of choice for boardgames) and as I was eagerly ripping the… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Removing the Shrinkwrap From New Games”