Tag: Wargames
Posted on March 7, 2026
by whovian223
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Fresh off of finally playing Combat Commander on the table last Saturday, it was still nice to play an online game with one of my friends from the Combat Commander ladder. It felt like a warm glove, familiar and practical, even though I was… Continue Reading “Combat Commander After Action Report – Scenario 89 – Beneath a Steel Sky”
Posted on March 5, 2026
by whovian223
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Rob Bottos is a great guy. Not only is he kind and really interesting to talk to, but he also looks after his fellow gamers. He’s run the regular Bottoscon in New Westminster since 2007 (with one year’s break due to COVID) and it’s… Continue Reading “Bottoscon Winter 2026 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Area Control, Bottoscon Winter, Can't Stop, Card Games, CMYK, Combat Commander: Europe/Med Master Edition, Cooperative Games, Cover Your Kingdom, Czech Games Edition, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Earth, Eldritch Horror, Expeditions, Fantasy Flight Games, Fliptoons, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Hand Management, How I Roll - Youtube, Inside Up Games, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Pax Pamir - 2nd Edition, Rio Grande Games, Roll and Move, Roll for the Galaxy, Sea Salt & Paper, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Tableau-building, Take-That games, The Gang, Thunderworks Games, Wargames
Posted on February 23, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re into a new millennium! Not year-wise, of course. We are sadly still in 2026. But in looking at the Boardgame Geek game rankings, we are now over 2000. Some might say we’re getting into the dregs, where I haven’t played, or even thought… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 2001 Through 2100”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 3 Chapters, Amigo Spiel, Bezier Games, Card Drafting, Cooperative Games, Deinko Games, Druid City Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Holland '44, I Split You Choose, Lucky Duck Games, Lunch Time Games, Mr. President, New York Slice, Patchistory, Real-Time Games, Resource Management, Set Collection Games, Solo Games, Sorcerer City, Tableau-building, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games
Posted on February 16, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve done one of these BGG centuries posts, though not because I was getting tired of them. There were just more important things to post about! I enjoy writing these BGG posts, even when the games are… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1901 Through 2000”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #3, Alderac, Chilifox Games, COIN Games, Contracts, Cwali, Dice Drafting, Draft & Write Records, Drafting Games, Empire Builder, Factory Funner, Fields of Fire 2, GMT Games, Halls of Hegra, Inside Up Games, Multiman Publishing, Pendragon: the Fall of Roman Britain, Queen Games, Ravensburger, Roll and Write Games, Route-building, Schadenfreude, Solo Games, Spectacular, Studio Turbine, Tile-Laying Games, Tompet Games, Trick-taking games, Wallenstein, Wargames, Whirling Witchcraft
Posted on February 7, 2026
by whovian223
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Sometimes when you’re playing Combat Commander, you’re locked into a 3-hour epic battle where both players are totally overcome with fatigue, but you’ve reached a satisfying conclusion so it was all worth it. And sometimes things progress so fast that you’d think the game… Continue Reading “Combat Commander After Action Report – Scenario 80 – Bitter Isthmus”
Posted on February 4, 2026
by whovian223
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Now we’ve gone and done it. We’ve now reached the Top 10 games of all time, played by me at least. It’s been an incredible 5 weeks (ok, 6, but last week’s Friday post was important) of new games, oldies dropping in the rankings,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#10-1)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: 1960: The Making of a President, 2-Player Games, Action Selection, Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card-Driven Game, Chad Jensen, Christian Leonard, Civolution, Combat Commander: Europe, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Dice Drafting, Dice Placement, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Grand Austria Hotel, Jason Matthews, Lisboa, Lookout Games, Mathias Wigge, Pegasus Spiele, Prodigals Club, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Stefan Feld, Tableau-building, Virginio Gigli, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Vital Lacerda, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Wayfarers of the South Tigris, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 26, 2026
by whovian223
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Do you know that feeling you get sometimes, when you reach near the end of the game and then you realize that you’ve been forgetting a rule that would have really helped you throughout the last two hours? Yeah, that was me Friday night.… Continue Reading “Combat Commander After Action Report – Scenario #72 – Thunderstorm”
Posted on January 19, 2026
by whovian223
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Last week, I mentioned that we were starting to get into the dregs of the Boardgame Geek Top 2000 games. This week, that is just reinforced! Though there is enough decent (ok, maybe “interesting” is the better word) stuff to talk about that it… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1801 Through 1900”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: 2-Player Games, Alderac, Alley Cat Games, Avalon Hill, Bitewing Games, Burgle Bros 2, Burning Banners, Capstone Games, Card Drafting, Card Games, Cascadero, Chocolate Factory, CMYK, Compass Games, Contracts, Cooperative Games, Dale of Merchants Collection, Deckbuilders, Factory Fun, Fowers Games, Fruit Fight, Garphill Games, Hidden Roles, Kolossal Games, Kremlin, Le Havre: Inland Port, Lucky Loop, Lunch Time Games, No Mercy, Omen: A Reign of War, Push Your Luck Games, Reiner Knizia, Ride the Rails, Shipwrights of the North Sea - Redux, Snowdale Design, Tile-Laying Games, Train Games, Valley of the Kings: Afterlife, Wargames, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 16, 2026
by whovian223
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It’s another week and another entry in the Top 50 Games Played of All Time (the 2026 edition!) Of course, this is “games played,” not “games” because at only 587, my number of games played doesn’t even scratch the surface of what’s out there,… Continue Reading “Top 50 Games Played of All Time – 2026 Edition (#30-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Action Selection, Andrew Veen, Anna Wermlund, Aporta Games, Architects of the West Kingdom, Area Control, Brad Johnson, Card Games, Cranio Creations, Dan Hallagan, Deckbuilders, Delicious Games, Devir, Dice Drafting, Earth, Eilif Svensson, Flaminia Brasini, Gale Force 9, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Helge Meissner, Inside Up Games, Isra C, Kayenta Games, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Lunch Time Games, Maxime Tardif, Obsession, Peter Lee, Revive, Rodney Thompson, Schadenfreude, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Shipyard (2nd Edition), Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Studio Turbine, Tableau-building, The White Castle, Time of Crisis, Trick-taking games, Tyrants of the Underdark, Virginio Gigli, Vladimír Suchý, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Wray Ferrell
Posted on January 12, 2026
by whovian223
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We’re starting to get down into the dregs of the Boardgame Geek Top 2000 games. Not dregs in that these are bad games, because considering there are thousands of games in the BGG database, the top 2000 are still fairly highly rated. But just… Continue Reading “BGG Top Games – 1701 Through 1800”
Category: BGG Top Games Overviews, Board GamesTags: Action Selection, Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #2, Alderac, Bang!, Bot Factory, Card Games, Devir, Dice City, Dice-rolling, DV Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, Hasbro, Hit Z Road, Ierusalem: Anno Domini, Lookout Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Pearl Games, Resource Management, Rio Grande Games, Robo Rally, Rondel Games, Salton Sea, Space Cowboys, Space Station Phoenix, Staufer Dynasty, Tournay, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games