On Saturday, Randy gave me the three games he’d ordered for me… The Spirits of Niagara expansion, Alhambra, and Yspahan. I took Yspahan out of the wrapper once I got home, and fell in love. This is a cool game! Basically, the game has 21 turns, divided into 3 weeks of 7 days each. Each turn, you can gain gold, camels, draw a card, place … Continue reading Yspahan
I picked up two new games in Melbourne on the weekend. One of them was Pillars of the Earth, which I daresay we’ll play soon enough. The other was Colosseum, which is the one I want to talk about now. The game is by Wolfgang Kramer and Markus Lübke. I’m not familiar with Lübke’s work, but Kramer is the designer of Princes of Florence – … Continue reading New Game – Colosseum
Back in the day… the day being 1986, my first year at high school… I was introduced to a little boardgame called Talisman. It was D&D as a boardgame! Cool! We played a lot of it back then, and I mean a lot of it. I have the distinction of being the person who started the Talisman Craze at my school, which saw a lot … Continue reading Talisman 4th edition endings
G’day, all! I’ve just added four geeklists to BoardGameGeek: Our short games – http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/21960Our medium-casual games – http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/21957Our medium-gamer games – http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/21958Our long games – http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/21955 These are for the purposes of my friends in Ballarat – I hope they’ll help them choose which games they’d like to play at our regular Board Game days. Feel free to browse and read the comments, however! Cheers,Merric … Continue reading Our games – on Board Game Geek
I’d like to point out that this was all Randy’s fault. If he hadn’t called me asking for a day of gaming on Saturday, we wouldn’t have had two days of gaming. I refuse to accept blame on account of being a gaming addict: Randy should have known better than to ask, knowing I’d say yes… Saturday:Watched Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End before … Continue reading Two days at Randy’s
For most of last week – pretty much Friday-Friday – I was ill with a rather annoying cold. It started as I was running the D&D games last week, and continued through last Friday afternoon/evening. By the end, the symptoms weren’t much but general tiredness and lethargy, but that’s not so good when I’m meant to be DMing. So, Friday afternoon’s Shackled City session wasn’t … Continue reading Another good weekend
Well, on Wednesday evening I headed off to Randy’s place for some food, games and TV. I really enjoyed myself, and I must thank Randy and Meagan for having me over. After dinner, Randy and I settled down to a few short games before Heroes began. We began with two games of Memoir ’44, which were closely contested affairs – we each won one, and … Continue reading More gaming
Casual Games Ticket to Ride Owned by: RandyBest Player Numbers: 3-5 Time to play: 45-60 minutes Theme: Trains!More Information Players compete to connect routes across southern Canada (and northern the U.S.A.), as shown on the tickets they’ve taken. However, there are only a limited number of routes… and they can become blocked by the other players… causing wailing, gnashing of teeth and a lot of lost victory … Continue reading Our Board Games – the Smaller ones
This list is of all… well, most… of the board games that we own that fall into the 1-2 hour range in terms of time to play; the ones that just fall into the “Casual” side of play, but require a bit more thought to set up and play. These games are further divided into the Casual and Gamer games – depending on how weighty … Continue reading Our Board Games – the Medium ones
Well, another successful weekend of gaming – and a lot of interesting games played. Once again, a big thank-you to Randy and Meagan for putting up with us. 🙂 I’ve posted all the game reports on bgg, links follow: I picked up Rich from his house, and we arrived at Randy’s at about 2pm. Troy wasn’t going to come until after dinner, so we had … Continue reading Weekend gaming
