Tag: Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition
Posted on May 16, 2025
by whovian223
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Has it been five weeks yet? No, it hasn’t! Welcome back to the bar, only a week later. You must have seen the lights on in the window, or maybe the fire that’s in the corner. We should probably put that out. Anyway, it’s… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – How Important is Art?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Ascension, Charioteer, Circadians: First Light, CMYK, Fryx Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Quacks, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: the Dice Game
Posted on July 1, 2024
by whovian223
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I wasn’t really expecting much for gaming in June, mainly because of Father’s Day but also because I wasn’t sure how many lunchtime games we would get in. There was a lot of stuff going on at work that was taking the place of… Continue Reading “June 2024 Gaming”
Posted on February 4, 2024
by whovian223
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How our tastes change over time is always kind of interesting to look at. As a kid, I loved Brussels Sprouts! Now, I really really hate them. Ok, I’m kidding…nobody sane likes Brussels Sprouts. But you get my point! Things you like as a… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2024 Edition (#20-11)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Amalfi: Renaissance, Andrew Veen, Area Majority, Card Games, Cole Wehrle, ctr, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Deep Water Games, Dice-rolling, Elizabeth Hargrave, Fantastic Factories, Fryx Games, Gale Force 9, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Kayenta Games, Lunch Time Games, Nick Little, Obsession, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Peter Lee, Rio Grande Games, Rodney Thompson, Schadenfreude, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, Sydney Engelstein, Sylex, Tableau-building, Takeo Yamada, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Trick-taking games, Tyrants of the Underdark, Underwater Cities, Vladimír Suchý, Wehrlegig Games, Wingspan, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 1, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s Monday and 2024 is upon us, almost sneaking up on us like a wily coyote hunting a roadrunner. As is my tradition over the past 4 years or so, I wanted to do an update on how this blog, and my gaming, is… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2023”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Andean Abyss, Ark Nova, Boardgames Chronicle, Bottoscon, Clio's Board Games, COIN Games, Combat Commander, Dragonflight, Earth, Jump Drive, Marvel Legendary, OrcaCon, Players' Aid, Rally the Troops, Roll to Review, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Prelude 2, The Last Hundred Yards, Time of Crisis, Wingspan, Zilla Blitz
Posted on September 22, 2023
by whovian223
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Good evening! Welcome back for another week. I’m so happy you could join me. Truth to tell, it gets a little lonely behind the bar in this place, even on a Friday night. Maybe I should actually unlock the doors so people could come… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Player Interaction”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: 1960: The Making of a President, Age of Innovation, Agricola, Caverna, Lords of Waterdeep, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Sagrada, Terra Mystica, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Wingspan, Wingspan: European Expansion
Posted on June 9, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s Friday. A long week is finished and it’s time to sit back, relax, have some good food and a drink of some kind (whatever kind you like). There’s plenty of soft music in the background too. This isn’t so much of an issue… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Expansions: Yea or Nay?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Architects of the West Kingdom, Architects of the West Kingdom: Age of the Artisans, Combat Commander, Expansions, Fire in the Lake: Sovereign of Discord, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Teotihuacan, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Discovery, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Foundations, The Last Hundred Yards, The Last Hundred Yards Volume IV: The Russian Front, Viticulture, Viticulture: Tuscany, Wayfarers of the South Tigris
Posted on May 9, 2023
by whovian223
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When Stronghold Games announced that one of my favourite games, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition was getting not one, but three expansions, I was pretty excited. And judging from the hits on that post I just linked, you were too! My friend who owns that… Continue Reading “Expansion Review – Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Discovery & Foundations”
Category: Board Games, ReviewTags: Action Selection, Fryx Games, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Nick Little, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Discovery, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Foundations
Posted on May 5, 2023
by whovian223
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We’re back to Canadian Club after some Crown Royal over the last week or two. That’s not bad, of course. It’s a mainstay! But maybe that’s why I’m thinking about asymmetry in boardgames for this Friday Night Shot. Or maybe not. Actually, the reason… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Asymmetry in Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Architects of the West Kingdom, Architects of the West Kingdom: Works of Wonder, Asymmetric Games, Capstone Games, COIN Games, Corrosion, Cuba Libre, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Leder Games, Renegade Games Studios, Root, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Viscounts of the West Kingdom
Posted on May 1, 2023
by whovian223
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After a robust March of gaming, April took a bit of a downturn. The lack of a convention along with missing a Sunday game day and being off for a week so there were no lunch time games that week, all of that combined… Continue Reading “April 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: BG Stats, Card Games, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Cyber Station 11, Combat Commander, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Folded Space, Galaxy Trucker, GMT Games, Real-Time Games, Renegade Games Studios, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Discovery, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Foundations, Wargames
Posted on February 6, 2023
by whovian223
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January 2023 was a great month for gaming, especially with OrcaCon and everything. I’ve already told you about the new games I played, but here’s my month in review. (Many thanks to BG Stats for the ability to do stuff like this!) For me,… Continue Reading “January 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: BG Stats, Block Wargames, CMON, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Contracts, Drafting Games, Gizmos, GMT Games, Jacob Fryxelius, Nick Little, On Mars, Phil Walker-Harding, Richard Borg, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
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