Games
My favorite board game elements
I’ve been playing board games, as a full-time hobby, for over 25 years now. And in that time, I’ve come to have some pretty strong opinions as to the things I like and dislike in a board game. I’m usually pretty open to trying anything–though I’ll probably throw a mild fit if someone tries to get…
Read MoreThe Value of Value in Miniature Painting
Paint a couple hundred Warhammer miniatures, and you’ll start to have some opinions on how a miniature should be PROPERLY painted. For myself, I’ve dialed in on two main tenets which guide all my miniature painting: There is, of course, some skill in speed painting, but today I’ll focus on the second point: the importance…
Read MorePainting in Miniature 6: Blood Bowl
I’ve talked before about how Games Workshop, despite the name, isn’t great at designing “games.” For all the work I put into my Warhammer armies, I’m not about to go recommend the actual game to anyone who doesn’t also want to paint the best miniatures on the market. However, Bloodbowl is a game that has…
Read MorePainting in Miniature 5: Finishing up Nurgle
Last month I posted my first fully painted Warhammer army, my Skaven. Hot on the heels of that post (and painted over roughly the same time period), here is my Nurgle army, also now a fully legal 2000 points! Check out the first half of my army HERE Much like my Skaven, I’ve got another 2000…
Read MorePainting in Miniature 4: Finishing up Skaven
I still haven’t caught up on photographing my backlog of painted models since I started this hobby, so these models are all about 2 years old. More importantly, they represent my first “completed” Warhammer army, including spells and special terrain…and it only took me 2 years to get there! Check out the first half of…
Read MoreMy Top 5 Tichu Memories
I went over the mechanics (in exhausting detail) of my favorite card game Tichu last time, but today, to drive home just how good the game is, I wanted to talk about some of my memories of actually playig Tichu. Board games are about sharing the experience with friends. Sitting down and playing a board…
Read MoreBrilliant Board Games 2 – Tichu
Though my board game tastes definitely skew a certain direction, you don’t always have to hide a great game system behind a mountain of plastic to get my attention. Today’s game, a partnership climbing card game is as simple as it gets components-wise: just a standard deck of cards (2-10, J, Q, K, Ace in…
Read MorePainting in Miniature 3: An Underworlds Undertaking
I’m still working through photographing all the stuff I’ve painted over the last 3 years or so as I don’t see this new “paint tiny toys” hobby losing any steam. Today I look at a bunch of “war bands” that I’ve painted for the “actually pretty good” stand alone skirmish board game Warhammer: Underworlds. Warhammer:…
Read MoreMini Board Game Reviews 8
Here are some quick reviews of all the games I’ve been playing lately. I will periodically move these titles down to the full A-Z list found HERE. I am using the following Board Game Geek rating guide to give these a score on how much *I* like these games, but all this is just, like, my…
Read MoreMini Board Game Reviews 7.5 – Fall Game Retreat 2019
Once again I headed out to Saint Louis to get an airbnb with my game group instead of all of us shelling out to go to the big Board Game Geek convention in Texas (where we would just play games with each other all weekend anyway). Once again we didn’t end up playing quite as…
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