Posted on March 12, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s been a few months since I’ve done a Smash Up expansion review. Between the Christmas holidays and work stuff getting the way, it’s taken a while to get the required three plays in to review the first of the five new expansions I… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000”
Posted on March 10, 2020
by whovian223
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We’re a little late with the “New to Me Games” post for February, but there is definitely a good reason. Last week was the Cult of the New to Me fundraising car wash! Unfortunately, the flyers I sent out and put up had the… Continue Reading “New to Me – February 2020”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alderac, Area Control, Barrage, Brander Roullett, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card-Crafting Games, Cranio Creations, Dead Reckoning, Deckbuilders, Dice of Crowns, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Expansions, Football Highlights 2052, Frank West, Fryx Games, Gary Arant, Ian O'Toole, Jacob Fryxelius, John D Clair, Justin Gary, Lunch Time Games, Mike Fitzgerald, On Mars, Sean Epperson, Shards of Infinity, Simone Luciani, Stone Blade Entertainment, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Turmoil, The City of Games, The Isle of Cats, Thing 12 Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tommaso Battista, Ultra Pro, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
Posted on February 4, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s a brand new year! And this time, I can actually say that while talking about 2020 games (unlike last month). January was a busy month for new-to-me games. I went to two conventions on back-to-back weekends (that was a lot of fun but… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2020 (Part 1)”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Area Control, Bag Building, Bunny Kingdom, Caleb Grace, Card Drafting, Circadians: First Light, Corey Konieczka, Daily Magic Games, Dice Placement, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, Henry Audobon, Horizons, Iello Games, Isaias Vallejo, Keymaster Games, Levi Mote, Living Card Games, Lunch Time Games, Marvel Champsions: the Card Game, Michael Boggs, Nate French, North Star Games, Parks, Pick Up & Deliver, Point to Point Movement, Push Your Luck Games, Renegade Games Studios, Richard Garfield, Rick Holzgrafe, Set Collection Games, SJ MacDonald, Star Wars: Outer Rim, Tableau-building, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Tile-Laying Games, Tony Fanchi, Villages of Valeria, Wolfgang Warsch
Posted on January 28, 2020
by whovian223
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I was really excited to see the news that a 2-player version of the wonderful Gil Hova design The Networks was going to be released and be on Kickstarter in January. I was so excited that I announced the news as soon as I… Continue Reading “Rival Networks Now on Kickstarter”
Posted on January 6, 2020
by whovian223
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It’s that time of year again! Time to look back at 2019 and see what games I played this year and which ones I definitely want to play again. Also, which ones can be left by the side of the road looking all forlorn… Continue Reading “Top 10 Games Played in 2019 (10-6)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Apocalypse, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Formal Ferret Games, Frosted Games, Fryx Games, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, Jacob Fryxelius, Lunch Time Games, Matthias Cramer, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Paul Dennen, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Terraforming Mars, The Networks, The Networks: the Executives, Watergate, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 3, 2020
by whovian223
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Happy New Year! As we start the new year here at the Cult of the New to Me, we want to look back at the previous month, because looking back is what we do! That’s right. We never talk about the new to me… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2019”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Alexander Pfister, Bluffing, Bruno Cathala, Card Games, Crowd Games, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Dice Placement, Exploration, Filip Miłuński, Granna Games, Great Western Trail, Great Western Trail: Rails to the North, Hurrican Games, Lunch Time Games, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Nagaraja, North Star Games, Simone Luciani, Space Explorers, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Théo Rivière, The Taverns of Tiefenthal, Tile-Laying Games, Warsaw: City of Ruins, Wolfgang Warsch, Yuri Zhuravljov, Zman Games
Posted on December 31, 2019
by whovian223
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Gil Hova’s The Networks is in my Top 5 games played of all time (at least as of earlier this year) so I was kind of excited to hear about the 2-player version of the game, called “Rival Networks“. Now it finally has a release… Continue Reading “Rival Networks to hit Kickstarter on January 28”
Posted on December 30, 2019
by whovian223
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Everybody likes exploring ancient tombs and seeing what the artifacts there may tell us about our ancient ancestors. Right? We all have an inner Indiana Jones inside us, striving to get out. Or maybe it’s just me? Anyway, with the 2019 game Nagaraja from… Continue Reading “Review – Nagaraja”
Posted on December 23, 2019
by whovian223
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Once again I happen to be current in regards to having new Smash Up expansions! Even though this review is four months after my last expansion review (blame Abomination: Heir of Frankenstein for that one, since it held up my pre-order for two whole months!) Makes… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Smash Up World Tour: Culture Shock”
Posted on December 19, 2019
by whovian223
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After looking at a couple of games from GMT that are getting close to reaching the magical level of the P500 track (it takes 500 orders for them to be “given the go,” so to speak), let’s get much more immediate. In this month’s… Continue Reading “Red Flag Over Paris from GMT Games”