Good evening everyone and welcome back. Tonight Amanda, Hector, Eddie and I sat down for a game of Dead Reckoning, a card crafting pirate game by John D Clair. I had meant to review this game back when we first played but for some reason we never got around to it. Fear not, the review... Continue Reading →
Good evening everyone! Earlier this evening Amanda and I were joined by our ever-faithful owlbears Hector and Eddie for a game of Ark Nova. Rave reviews of this game, often compared to Terraforming Mars, have been making the rounds online and it wasn't easy to get a hold of until now. Can the game some... Continue Reading →
Greetings everyone! Today Amanda, Hector, Eddie and myself sat down for a game of Lizard Wizard, a kickstarter I have been anticipating for some time. I have heard it described online as a "Raccoon Tycoon 2.0" however I never played that game. I was originally drawn into the kickstarter by the art, but was convinced... Continue Reading →
Good evening everyone, earlier today Amanda, Hector, Eddie and myself sat down for a round of one of my favorite euro games: Keyflower. Keyflower is part of the series of "Key" games and by far my favorite of the series and neither Amanda nor the owlbears had a chance to try it before. It also... Continue Reading →
Good evening everyone and welcome back to the first review in our 2021 yuletide gaming event. Amanda and I were joined as usual by our faithful owlbears Hector and Eddie for a quick, but certainly not light, game of Onitama. Onitama is ostensibly a game about dueling martial arts schools, but is really a very... Continue Reading →
Good evening everyone, although it was not today that we played, Amanda, Hector, Eddie and myself recently sat down for a game Paladins of the West Kingdom. Paladins is a game in Shem Phillip's excellent "X of the (cardinal direction)Y" series, where Y = the West Kingdom. I originally picked this one up entirely based... Continue Reading →
Welcome back everyone! Amanda and I are joined today by Hector and our new owlbear Eddie for a game of the big book of madness, which for a game published by Iello, is surprisingly complex and deep. While it can be said that any board game is basically an exercise in probability management wrapped in... Continue Reading →
Greetings everyone! This evening Hector, Amanda and myself gathered to dig into Ryan Laukat's back catalog with City of Iron, 2nd edition, which is the first game in the Arzium setting, which is home to "Near and Far", "Above and Below" and the upcoming "Now or Never". Although I am a fan of both Laukat's... Continue Reading →
Good evening everyone. Tonight is a fine night for the beginnings of an epic quest and so Amanda and I, joined by our trusty dice guardian Hector, began our quest with Gloomhaven: Jaws of the lion. For those not in the know, Gloomhaven is the current number one ranked game on boardgamegeek.com and is generally... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year Everyone! To ring in the new year and conclude our 31 days of Yuletide gaming, Hector, Amanda and I played a game of Vindication. Vindication is a game I had my eye on for some time, but it is difficult and expensive to pickup outside of kickstarter. Luckily I got it at... Continue Reading →
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