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Star Wars Imperial Assault Chronicles – An Auspicious Beginning I wasn’t actually expecting to be playing Star Wars Imperial Assault this weekend. It’s one of those things that just sort of happens by sheer serendipity when friends and relatives decide that they’d rather play board games than watch the Super Bowl. In

Previewing The Lost Expedition: A Better Way of Dying of Dysentery Than Playing the Oregon Trail Card Game I had plenty of misgivings when someone at a recent boardgame meetup trotted out the Oregon Trail as a candidate for closing out the evening. Reviewers had thrashed it as a game that rode

November Retrospective: Deep Sea Adventure, Libertalia, A Feast for Odin, Epic Quests, and Dice Forge Christmas in less than a week! As the year draws to a close, the one certainty will be a surge of gaming going all the into the new year. Despite not doing the calculations to put a

My 2016 Boardgaming Experience in Review Board Games Overview As I remarked elsewhere, 2016 proved to be a year of transition, as a whole host of changes from 2015 reared their heads and threw my life into a bit of turmoil. I wasn’t the only one affected either; with friends getting busier

Monthly Retrospective: Railways of the World, Queue, Roll Player, Captain Sonar, and The Gallerist Another month rolls by and since I doubt any gaming will be had by Halloween, that it’s best to get my thoughts down before another month of gaming rolls in and obliterates my memories. That’s fairly easy to

Loved my introduction to Tikal, still puzzling over Tigris and Euphrates One of my gaming friends joked that I’d be blogging about yesterday’s game night. To prove him right, here’s the rundown of what happened: Tikal is a solid, fun area control game J.C. had been talking up Tikal for quite some

July Retrospective: 5 games that are new to me July was a good month in general for gaming. The summer heat’s fury upon the Southern California landscape means a lot of weekends spent indoors, with the AC, tackling a game or two. What’s made it even more enriching an experience is that

December Monthly Retrospective: Hansa Teutonica, Citadels, and Century Spice Road 2017 was a momentous board gaming year for me with nearly 50 different games played, new friends made, and new experiences to be had. 2018 will bring a lot of changes, both on the personal and on the board games front, but

Christmas Board Game Day with El Grande, Codenames, Agricola, and Five Tribes I’ve previously told you about my gaming group that consists of my coworkers. But in addition to that group, I also play in a group of seasoned gamers which includes my brother, his roommate, and a friend of mine from

Brief Notes on Twilight Struggle: Me vs. cwrmadcat A few weeks ago, I got the opportunity to play Twilight Struggle and also record the game! My opponent this game was cwrmadcat, a friend of mine from waaay back in the days where I was in public accounting all the way up in