Posted on January 10, 2023
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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
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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 1, 2023
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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 March 10, 2022
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(Edit 4/29/22) – The Late Pledge Manager is open. If you missed it, go to the Kickstarter page and back it now! (Edit 3/22/22) – It’s live! Go back this now. Doesn’t look like you can buy any of the expansions individually I was… Continue Reading “Stronghold Games Announces 3 Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Expansions”
Posted on January 10, 2022
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With the close of the year 2021, I have actually played 422 games since I really started playing boardgames in 2012. Since my “Top 25 Games Played of All Time” series in 2019 was predicated on my having played almost 300 games, I thought… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 Edition (25-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Brian Train, Card Drafting, COIN Games, Colonial Twilight, Cooperative Games, Corey Konieczka, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Jacob Fryxelius, Jerry White, Mark Aasted, Nick Little, Nikki Valens, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Renegade Games Studios, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Solo Games, Storm Above the Reich, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Tableau-building, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Tile-Laying Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 1, 2022
by whovian223
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As much as 2020 sucked for long periods of time (mainly due to COVID and the lockdowns/health issues that dominated the world), 2021 was predicted to be a year where things would start looking up. Vaccines for COVID were becoming available and people could… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2021”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Boardgames Chronicle, Combat Commander, COVID-19, Marvel Legendary, Renegade Games Studios, Stephen Buonocore, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Big Box, Wingspan
Posted on December 8, 2021
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(Edit: This game is on my Top 25 games played of all time!) What happens when one of your favourite games gets a bit of a revamp where it’s faster and also uses some mechanisms from other games that you like? It’s not the… Continue Reading “Review – Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition”
Posted on September 29, 2021
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Another month and another “New to Me” games post. This is the 50th! It feels so good to finally be playing some new games. I’m trying to play some of the many games I bought during the worst of the pandemic (so this is… Continue Reading “New To Me – September 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: 2-Player Games, Alien Frontiers, Alien Frontiers: Factions, Alien Frontiers: Outer Belt, Arcane Wonders, Card Games, Chad Jensen, Combat Commander: Pacific, Formal Ferret Games, Gil Hova, GMT Games, Jacob Fryxelius, Kosmos, Lost Cities, Lunch Time Games, Nick Little, Onitama, Randall Bart, Reiner Knizia, Shimpei Sato, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, The Rival Networks, Tory Niemann, Wargames
Posted on January 12, 2021
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(Edit 2/16/21 – And it’s live! Lots of gameplay descriptions too. Check it out) The other shoe has finally dropped! A couple of weeks ago, I did a post about a “Terraforming Mars-esque” game that noted designer Geoff Engelstein teased on Twitter. And now… Continue Reading “Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Coming to Kickstarter”
Category: Board Games, crowdfunding, NewsTags: Fryx Games, Geoff Engelstein, Jacob Fryxelius, kickstarter, Nick Little, Stronghold Games, Sydney Engelstein, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition
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