Astonishingly, Twilight Struggle is currently the #1 boardgame on BoardGameGeek. It’s one of my favourite games, possibly my second-favourite boardgame (my favourite is Through the Ages), and it seems that I’m not alone in my regard for it. It’s now above Puerto Rico and Agricola and sitting happily in #1. I managed to get in a day of boardgaming yesterday, aided by Rich and Robert; … Continue reading Top boardgames
Almost every weekend, I wander into Good Games Ballarat with a number of board games in my possession: some new, some old. Well, when I say old, I mean old from when I started collecting boardgames (quite recently), not when they were originally published. The modern rise of boardgames is indeed remarkably recent. The first major hit of the modern era was The Settlers of … Continue reading A few boardgames
There are quite a few games I’ve picked up recently that I’d like to get the chance to play sometime in the next few months. It hasn’t helped that there’s a lot of Other Games interfering at the moment – for instance, a big Magic tournament on Saturday, and then the BattleTech league I’m running. Mind you, BattleTech will consume my attention for only a … Continue reading Games to play…
GenCon is on this weekend, and by some strange co-incidence, the Call of Cthulhu game I had planned for this weekend won’t be going ahead. So, it looks like a no-roleplaying weekend for me, while a lot happens over in the States. As DaveTheGame said to me on twitter: “There’s only a finite amount of roleplaying in the world, and it’s all being used elsewhere.” … Continue reading No roleplaying, but some BattleLore
I’ve recently been rewriting “MechMaker”, my version of a BattleTech construction program which can do all the maths for making a Mech and then print out a record sheet. The previous version died due to an USB drive crash (for some reason, I didn’t have a recent back-up), and so after a year, I’ve almost finished the new version. Why not use something like Heavy … Continue reading MechMaker Coding Woes
I managed to get in one or two boardgames and CCGs over the weekend, but not – alas – any RPGs. My D&D group was missing someone (again) for the final session of this particular threat, so we chose to miss it. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get three people together for a one-shot D&D game either… So, I played a couple of games of Memoir ’44 … Continue reading Weekend of gaming: Magic, Republic of Rome, and other games
The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design has announced the following nominees for the 36th Annual Origins Awards: Card Game The Isle of Dr. Necreaux – Alderac Entertainment Group Martian Fluxx – Looney Labs Poo – Catalyst Game Labs The Stars are Right – Steve Jackson Games Thunderstone – Alderac Entertainment Group Board Game Castle Panic – Fireside Games Endeavor – Z-Man Games Small … Continue reading Origins Awards Nominations 2010
For those unaware of who Catalyst Game Labs are, they’re the people behind the current round of BattleTech, Shadowrun and other interesting game material. For me, they’re the people who make BattleTech, and – as a result – I’m always interested in how they’re doing. Rumours began to leak out today about problems in Catalyst-land: funds had been embezzled, and the company was on the … Continue reading Trouble with Catalyst Game Labs
While we’re still waiting for the 25th Anniversary Intro Boxed Set (soon to be retitled the “26th Anniversary” set…) and my BT campaigns are currently in a lull, Catalyst Labs haven’t stopped releasing new and old material. Mostly this has been in PDF. I’m growing very fond of pdf BattleTech books. Whilst I wouldn’t want to have the core rulebooks purely in PDF, for scenario … Continue reading New BattleTech stuff
First of all, I might need to use minis again: http://img13.yfrog.com/i/28u.jpg/ More to the point, I’ll be getting out the minis for this Sunday’s game – end of Demon Queen’s Enclave, beginning of H3. I know Nate & Adam want the minis; I’ve just been too busy to get them organised. I’ll set them up tonight so they’re ready by Sunday. We got our first … Continue reading Upcoming stuff – Minis, Republic of Rome, D&D
