Rear Guard Action

So after my last lament at getting so little gaming in, this has been a good catch up. Managed to play Won By The Sword . As a recent arriva...

With Essen 2014 fast approaching, I can draw up the result of my self imposed Essen 2013 challenge. What games did I manage to play that I b...

And with Essen nearing, I've made my first draft of the list of games to look at. Some interesting stuff like 15 Dias , which is about...

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

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...

Played with Da Mike and Da Mir last Tuesday. Good times. First time I ever played In the Name of The Rose. This is and interesting deduction...

I´ve put up my list of games to watch out for in Essen at boardgamegeek.com. Serious gaming: playing King of Tokyo in bed I have star...

Summer is done, time to think about Essen. But I'm not psyched yet. I have not picked up any buzz around an Essen release. It seems some...

Apart from Fürstenfeld , last Friday we also played Evo. And while I was pleased but underwhelmed by the former, I was very pleased and impr...

Played Friedeman Friese's Fürstenfeld last Friday. This game is a true euro: it is about selling resources to breweries so you can build...

Despite the generous amounts of rum and cutlasses going round in this game, it is very well behaved. In fact, it's a bit dull. Don...

As much as I like my civilization games, there's a type of games I like even better: games which bring decay and destruction. I've...

I spent last week near the Giants' Mountains in the Czech Republic. On account of most people opting for alpine joys, there was little i...

Well then, returned home today and lots to tell and so little time to tell it. So let's start with this: One of the joys of Fortress A...

Played two games of Hansa Teutonica (or Hanzesteden , as it´s called here) on Wednesday. It's not a bad game, it's well design...

Quinns, of the Shut Up & Sit Down boardgaming blog and video reviews recently gave an entertaining if longish talk at the GameCity vide...

We tried out Mage Knight on Saturday and my intent was positive, firing off a few tweets during set up and explanation. It went really quiet...