I’m now mostly over the cold I’ve had for the last week and a bit. Hooray! I was never happier that Martin cancelled Friday’s Star Wars session because it allowed me to recuperate a lot. Unfortunately, I had to cancel Thursday’s boardgaming session, which would have probably found Randy, Sarah and me playing Android. I was well enough on Saturday to get to the … Continue reading Weekend fun – Le Havre, Age of Empires, Magic
Le Havre is a port city in France. Le Havre is the new game from the designer of Agricola. Guess which one I now own? Yes, alas, I don’t own a town. However, in the stakes of really cool games, Le Havre is very close to the top. The game is about developing the port city: building or buying buildings, harvesting goods and then manufacturing them into more useful … Continue reading Le Havre
I’ve been a bit busy recently. The good news is that I seem to be a little ahead of the game at work; I’ve sent a pile of report templates away to be proofread so it looks like I’ll actually be able to make them available in good time to the teachers. Yay! Sunday’s D&D session saw us almost reaching the end of Pyramid of … Continue reading Back and Forth
I’ve spent part of the last week playing one of Richard Berg’s Great Battles of History games: SPQR, Great Battles of the Roman Republic. This is a game I bought early last year (IIRC, or maybe late in 2007), and I played the introductory scenario, one of the simpler scenarios, and then put it away for a bit. Now it’s out again, and I’m … Continue reading Romans vs Barbarians
For those uninterested in my BattleTech posts, I’d advise looking elsewhere. This is going to be one of a series of posts looking at the Starterbook: Sword & Dragon campaign from the perspective of someone who is currently playing it, and finding one or two relatively minor problems that need fixing… or just wants to tinker with it a bit. So, here’s the first bit to … Continue reading Sword and Dragon – Maintenance and Updates
Madness! I’m on page 5 of the most active session reporters to bgg (of 64 pages) with 18 session reports. Continue reading BoardGameGeek
