I’m meeting my neighbor for an afternoon of Maria. I’ve spent the morning reading the rules (I missed Sivel’s earlier Frederick) and they seem pretty clear cut.
The first thing I did, though, was turn to the design notes. One of the constant themes of both Flash of Steel and Three Moves Ahead has been a [...]
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Design Notes Again
March 7th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Board Games, Me
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Best Boardgames of 2009
January 27th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Board Games
There are a lot of these lists every year, but I always link to Bill Abner’s for personal and professional reasons. His summaries are very brief and He also mixes his 2008 and 2009 games, which you can give him grief for over there. Our tastes generally line up, so he’s a reliable metric for [...]
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Republic of Rome
October 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Board Games
This is Bruce’s big idea, and I couldn’t help but get swept up in his mania. Regular listeners/readers probably know that it’s not common for Dr. Geryk to get energized in favor of anything post-Reagan, so his recent call for the two of us to conscript friends/colleagues and the like for a game of the [...]
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Diplomacy – With Hats
September 23rd, 2009 · 11 Comments · Board Games
This is great.
Via Darius Kazemi’s Twitter.
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Done With Blood Bowl Solo
July 9th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Board Games, Review
If strategy games are about understanding and then defeating a system, then Blood Bowl has been thoroughly understood and defeated, at least at the single player level. Time to find my league opponent and beat his brains in.
Bill Abner has done a better job analyzing the AI than I ever could, but I figured I [...]
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Blood Bowl Early Moments
July 2nd, 2009 · 8 Comments · Board Games, Review
Bill Abner has noticed a lot of AI blunders in Cyanide’s Blood Bowl which shows just how much more he knows about the game than I do. My solo campaign Elf team is getting hammered, mostly because I’m still getting used to how differently all of the teams play.
Though it looks like a sports game, [...]
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