Rear Guard Action

[Skips obligatory excuses for not blogging enough] So there was a challenge for playing boardgames at Therewillbe.games and although...

It's that time of the year again! Somewhere early January, packages start arriving across the world with over aged games and possible ot...

Ok, so I won a game, but that is not the most important in life. It's gaming with friends and that's been good lately. The Chri...

Something happened to me on Friday that I though would never happen. I played a game I never understood and that I dislike.The few times I...

Okay, I know, it's a bit late. But great nonetheless! The idea started a few years back on Fortress Ameritrash , reversing the Sec...

It's been a long time, but I came back to playing The Prince: The Struggle of the House Borgia (sold as Borgia in the Netherlands)   las...

Played a second game of Wir Sind Das Volk last Friday, this time as the Ossies. The game is quite unforgiving of mistakes on the East Germa...

'Wird Sind Das Volk' was the rallying cry of the protests that heralded the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the German Democratic R...

Played a nice game of Scythe last Friday. Despite the nice mechs, this is a eurogame with a possible tendency towards multiplayer solo. I m...

We're a couple of weeks on, but no reason not to briefly glance back at what I learned in Essen this year.   It was a relaxed tri...

So with Essen 2014 project accomplished , we can turn to the Essen 2015 loot. I kept it down to six games. The Ice and the Sky as well...

After failing to play all last year's acquisitions before the 2015 edition of Spiel, the opportunity presents itself a week after going...

This year I played more games than before. The best playing experience of all was  Blood Rage . The game has the variety, screwag...

This year's visit to Spiel was the most relaxed and pleasant in years. I hadn't prepared much, I didn't tweet and I didn't ...

With Essen nearing and the Essen 2014 list still not complete, in August I managed to slip in a game of Marchia Orientalis, or the Ostmar...

Well, only a few days left before Essen. As in the last few years, I'm trying to play all the games I bought at Essen before the next is...

Look what I found under the Christmas Tree today! With not a little trepidation I removed the paper cover, revealing the dread... ...

Well, more like 8 minutes. And even that is understating it. Last Friday we first started with Mission Red Planet , a Secret Satan gif...

Interesting outcome. New research links aggression after video games to the mechanisms rather than violent content. So it´s the designers fa...

Spurred on by my lack of progress on the boardgaming resolutions for 2014, I spent part of last week reading the rules for 8 Minute Empir...