Le Havre is an excellent, but not flawless game that contains elements of Agricola, Caylus, and Roads & Boats. Courtesy henk.rollemanOver a set number of turns (differing only depending on number of players) and 2-3 hours, you will:accumulate resources (including food to feed yourself), build build...

Cleitus the Black is a nice guy. Hell, I even have him on my geekbuddy list... (but I'm not on his!) So when I saw his A grognards perspective: A really fun game! I was delighted that someone with some real wargaming credentials had decided to review Nexus Ops. Except apparently Cleitus the Black tu...

Many of us had unexpected guests during the recent holiday celebration. People who live down here in sunny Florida know that folks are quite likely to show up for a surprise visit in the winter months. Last week a familiar face appeared at my front door -- Mr. Spock from Star Trek!...

Last year I produced an analysis of the top 100 games through 2007 and the way that those games rankings had moved through the year. I found the exercise interesting and it seemed that others liked it too so I've repeated for 2008. To see the list for 2007 look here.The concept is that the rankings ...

The special nature of a particular year may not be immediately obvious while you're living through it. However, we might look back on 2008 as an annus mirabilis for the boardgaming hobby....

Warning: this review turned out to be some sort of hybrid between a strategy guide and a review. Having some idea what Dominion is about is a prerequisite to understanding it, so if you’re entirely new to Dominion, please go read another review that explains the principles of the game first.I’ve...

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This review is one in a series of reviews that focus on games from my pre-teen and teen years (the 80's). Many of them will be out of print and I aim to not only review the game but comment on my thoughts of them then and now - many years on. This review is also meant to serve as part review, part r...

2008-01-10 - Agricola - Agricola Solitaire2008-05-14 - Zombie in my Pocket - Zombie in my Pocket - Complete Game Package (revised)2008-08-11 - Agricola - Agricola Resource Stickers2008-01-16 - Descent: Journeys in the Dark - Descent Merged & Reorganized Rulebook2008-08-18 - Agricola - The Unofficial...

2008-11-28 - My love is not here anymore (games we used to play)2008-10-18 - Gameface2008-07-21 - Short Interviews With Each Person Who Has The Most Recorded Plays of Each of the Top 50 Ranked Games2008-04-12 - What My Non-Gamer Friends Think of My Games2008-08-18 - My personal hell (and why I will ...

Reviews2008-08-21 - Agricola - Why This Ameritrasher Loves the 'Gric2008-11-16 - Dominion - A Comprehensive Pictorial Overview: So you're wondering about the game with 500 cards that everyone is talking about...2008-03-24 - Descent: The Road to Legend - Descent: Road to Legend - What it is, What it ...

I understand the point of the wargame rankings; they give you an idea of what is popular at that time and have led me to try out various wargames that otherwise might have flown under the radar. However, I'd like to see a similar list that would give me a better indication of what the current classi...

I was skeptical of the BGG hype on Sorry! Sliders. The story was too pat: pandering megacompany (Hasbro) somehow makes a great all-inclusive game, and that "all-inclusive" bit actually includes gamers. Right. Heard that one about new versions of Risk, too. But making a slightly better game th...

Someone at amazon.com appears to have an interesting take on how these games are played......

So you own a copy of StarCraft: The Board Game or you’re interested in purchasing one and you want to know what StarCraft: Brood War will bring to the game? You’ve come to the right place.I’m going to assume you have at least a passing familiarity with the original game, if you don’t then t...

I am sorry about the downtime over the past 2 days. I am going to use some jargon here to explain things, so bear with me.Around 2pm on Sunday we suffered a master database server DIMM failure. A DIMM is a memory module that is used by our server. We have eight of them, and each one is 4 gigabytes...

I have had it with irresponsible game designers. So many of the people who create our favorite games have virtually no concern for our well-being, or the impact their games might have on our lives. Would it be so hard to include a warning label now and then?My most recent aggravating designer create...