Tag: Shem Phillips
Posted on April 1, 2024
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Aloha! (Saying this for my friend who’s out on a cruise, even though she’s not technically going to Hawaii but somewhere just as warm). You may be wondering. “Dave, why are you wearing socks with sandals?” I would say that you should just keep… Continue Reading “New to Me – March 2024”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Action Selection, Alannah Kearney, Allen Chang, Ape Games, Blob Party, Bombyx, Card Games, Card Shedding, Challengers, City Building, Delta, Franz Couderc, Game Brewer, Garphill Games, Gotcha Gotcha Games, Ikhwan Kwon, Johannes Krenner, Kanban: Driver's Edition, Loosey Goosey Games, Lunch Time Games, Markus Slawitscheck, Of What's Left, Pam Walls, Pandasaurus Games, Party Games, Pegasus Spiele, Renegade Games Studios, Rise to Power, Sea Salt & Paper, Set Collection Games, Shem Phillips, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, Stronghold Games, Surfosaurus Max, Taylor Reiner, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Track Movement, Vale of Eternity, Vital Lacerda, Word Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on March 26, 2024
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What do you do if you love ships but you’re afraid of being out on the water so you can’t actually go sailing? Especially if you’re a Viking? You get a job building them instead of sailing them! That’s the premise of Shipwrights of… Continue Reading “Review – Shipwrights of the North Sea – Redux”
Posted on February 19, 2024
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(Edit: 3/12/24) – It’s live! Go back it here. In my sick doldrums last week, I missed the announcement from Garphill Games that the next (and final) entry in the South Tigris trilogy of games, Inventors of the South Tigris, is coming to Kickstarter… Continue Reading “Inventors of the South Tigris Coming to Kickstarter March 12”
Posted on February 11, 2024
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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 January 28, 2024
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When I was first talking about movement on this list between 2022 and 2024, I wasn’t sure how much movement there would be in the Top 10. Those games are still great, shouldn’t they stay up there? Of course, some games might supplant them,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#30-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Alexander Pfister, Architects of the West Kingdom, Bezier Games, Block Wargames, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Chad Jensen, Cole Wehrle, Combat Commander: Pacific, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Daniele Tascini, David Thompson, Devir, Dice Drafting, Eggertspiele, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Hans im Gluck, Isra C, John Foley, Kai Jensen, Kei Kajino, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan, Muneyuki Yokouchi, Oink Games, Renegade Games Studios, Resist!, Richard Borg, Roger Tankersley, Rondel Games, Root, Salt & Pepper Games, SCOUT, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Solo Games, The White Castle, Trevor Benjamin, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 21, 2024
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Two weeks and two entries into this list. Maybe I’ll be able to actually do this weekly, unlike in 2022! It was interesting doing a Top 50 rather than a Top 25. Some games have fallen enough that they wouldn’t even be listed if… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#40-31)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Alderac, Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Block Wargames, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Contracts, Cosmodrome Games, Daily Magic Games, Darwin's Journey, Dice Drafting, Dice-rolling, Economic Games, Eilif Svensson, Formal Ferret Games, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Helge Meissner, Ivan Lashin, John D Clair, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Nestore Mangone, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Ravensburger, Renegade Games Studios, Revive, Richard Borg, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Smartphone Inc, Space Base, Stan Kordonskiy, Stefan Feld, The Networks, Thundergryph Games, Tile-Laying Games, Virginio Gigli, Wargames
Posted on January 4, 2024
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It’s a new year, but let’s take one last look at the old year before we continue on! December was not a huge month for new to me games, as I detailed earlier. But quality trumps quantity, so even though there are only three… Continue Reading “New to Me – December 2023”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Bag Building, Card Games, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Dice-rolling, Drafting Games, Garphill Games, Hand Management, Kayenta Games, Obsession, Renegade Games Studios, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Tichu, Trick-taking games, Urs Hostettler
Posted on December 19, 2023
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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 October 5, 2023
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I received the Kickstarter version of Paladins of the West Kingdom: City of Crowns a long time ago, but I was having trouble getting the base game to the table. There was no way I was going to get the expansion out without playing… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Paladins of the West Kingdom: City of Crowns”
Posted on October 1, 2023
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As 2023 steamrolls ahead, another month of gaming is complete! September actually was a slight step back from August, even though I didn’t miss any game days! However, there were fewer days at work where we had lunch free to play. In addition to… Continue Reading “September 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Auction Games, Brad Johnson, Card Drafting, Cube4Me, Deckbuilders, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Molly Johnson, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Point Salad, Ra - The Game, Rally the Troops, Renegade Games Studios, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Time of Crisis, Time of Crisis: The Age of Iron and Rust, Wargames, Wray Ferrell
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