Tag: The Networks
Posted on November 1, 2024
by whovian223
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October was a really bad month. Not just for gaming, but in general as well. I was sick for a week and I’m still not feeling 100% even a week later after I went back to work. But for gaming, it really sucked! There… Continue Reading “October 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Azul, Cascadia, Drafting Games, Flatout Games, Formal Ferret Games, Gil Hova, Plan B Games, The Networks, The Networks: the Executives, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on October 18, 2024
by whovian223
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I know what you’re thinking. Two Friday Night Shots posts in a row? That must mean Dave got the jukebox fixed! It’s amazing what paying your work people can actually do. Maybe that’s why I can’t keep a bartender? Anyway, welcome back! Pull up… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Top 1000 BGG Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: 1960: The Making of a President, Arboretum, Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Combat Commander: Pacific, Cosmodrome Games, Czech Games Edition, Deep Water Games, Fantastic Factories, First Rat, Formal Ferret Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Last Will, Metafactory Games, Pegasus Spiele, Renegade Games Studios, Smartphone Inc, Spyrium, The Networks, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Ystari Games
Posted on January 21, 2024
by whovian223
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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 December 22, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s the last Friday before Christmas and all through the malls, too many creatures were stirring, so much so that I would rather carve Shem Phillips’ initials into my hand with a penknife than go shopping. I think that’s how that old Christmas poem… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Catch Up Mechanisms”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Auction Games, Cryptozoic, Daily Magic Games, DC Comics Deck-Building Game, Dice Drafting, Food Chain Magnate, Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism and Other Ideas, Formal Ferret Games, GMT Games, Isle of Skye, Mayfair Games, Power Grid, Rio Grande Games, Shadow Kingdoms of Valeria, Splotter Spellen, The Networks, Twilight Struggle, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, Worker Placement Games
Posted on February 7, 2022
by whovian223
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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 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 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 May 14, 2019
by whovian223
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Quick news post today (I promise a review is coming later this week). Long-time readers know of my love for The Networks (designed by Gil Hova). Not only did I give it a glowing review, but it made it into my Top 5 games… Continue Reading “The Rival Networks Coming from Formal Ferret Games”
Posted on February 14, 2019
by whovian223
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Happy Valentine’s Day! What a fitting day to share the love I have for my Top 5 Games. We’ve reached the end, those of you who have been holding your breath to see what my Top 5 games played are. Hopefully you didn’t hold… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (5-1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andrew Veen, Architects of the West Kingdom, Area Control, Brad Johnson, Clank in Space, Clank in Space: Apocalypse, Deckbuilders, Dire Wolf Digital, Formal Ferret Games, Gale Force 9, Garphill Games, Gil Hova, GMT Games, Paul Dennen, Peter Lee, Renegade Games Studios, Rodney Thompson, Shem Phillips, SJ MacDonald, The Networks, The Networks: the Executives, Time of Crisis, Tyrants of the Underdark, Worker Placement Games, Wray Ferrell