Tag: Terraforming Mars
Posted on May 12, 2023
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Hey there. It’s Friday night, the Canadian Club is flowing just a little bit, and it’s time for a little light-hearted discussion about the news of the day. No, not the news that apparently there could be water under the ice on some of… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – What Game Mechanism Do You Hate?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Dexterity Games, Escape: Curse of the Temple, Factory Fun, Gaia Project, Galaxy Trucker, Ice Cool, Jenga, PubMeeple, Real-Time Games, Terra Mystica, Terraforming Mars
Posted on May 8, 2023
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(Edit: 5/15/23) – More news about this from designer Jacob Fryxelius on Boardgame Geek. He gave a breakdown of what’s going to be in this 54-card expansion, as follows: “If you play with all expansions (Venus, Colonies, and Turmoil): Use all the new cards… Continue Reading “Terraforming Mars – Prelude 2 Expansion Coming to Kickstarter Soon”
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 December 1, 2022
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November was a good month of gaming, even with missing my final week’s game day and it being harder to get games in at work. I’ll of course talk about the “new to me” games in this month’s post (probably next week) but I… Continue Reading “November Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: BG Stats, Bottoscon, Combat Commander: Europe, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Raiders of the North Sea, Terraforming Mars, The Pursuit of Happiness, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Gates of Gold, Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Keeper of Keys
Posted on May 13, 2022
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The Terraforming Mars app has had an up and down history. So much so that for a while, I wasn’t going to buy it (though I eventually succumbed). And it has greatly improved over time, especially with the Prelude expansion. However, one thing players… Continue Reading “App Expansion Review – Terraforming Mars: Hellas & Elysium Maps”
Posted on March 30, 2022
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(Edit: 5/13/22) – The review is live! Go check it out. (Edit: 5/11/22) – And they’re out for real! No more beta. Available on all platforms. Watch this space for a review of the expansion in the next few days Exciting news from Asmodee… Continue Reading “Terraforming Mars App: Hellas & Elysium Maps Now in Beta”
Category: Apps, Board Games, NewsTags: Android, Beta, Fryx Games, ios, Jacob Fryxelius, Steam, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars Prelude, Terraforming Mars: Hellas & Elysium
Posted on February 7, 2022
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We’re almost to the end of my Top 25 games played of all time, 2022 edition, and there may have been a few surprises. I know there have been some new games, and some games have fallen drastically from their 2019 ranking. I feel… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 Edition (#10-6)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andrew Veen, Area Control, Card Drafting, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Apocalypse, Deckbuilders, Formal Ferret Games, Fryx Games, Gale Force 9, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, Hand Management, Jacob Fryxelius, Paul Dennen, Peter Lee, Renegade Games Studios, Rodney Thompson, Set Collection Games, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, The Networks, The Networks: the Executives, Tile-Laying Games, Tyrants of the Underdark, Viscounts of the West Kingdom
Posted on September 1, 2021
by whovian223
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What’s this, out of the wild? Cue Marlin Perkins! Yes, it’s a “New to Me” games post! For the first time in a few months, I’ve actually played some new games, so I get to tell you about them! Yes, it’s been 4 months… Continue Reading “New To Me – August 2021”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: Contracts, Cranio Creations, Daily Magic Games, Dice Drafting, Flaminia Brasini, Jacob Fryxelius, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Resource Management, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Simone Luciani, Stan Kordonskiy, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Big Box, Virginio Gigli, Worker Placement Games
Posted on March 17, 2021
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It has definitely been a long year. As mentioned in my 4-year anniversary post on Monday, this year has been especially hard for me, personally but also as a gamer (this is not to diminish how hard it’s been to so many people, especially… Continue Reading “Post-COVID Gaming”
Posted on January 12, 2021
by whovian223
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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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