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Giant Fighty Robots
Published on 30 Jan 2007 at 8:50 am.
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This weekend Rick and I went to Dreamation, a gaming convention in nearby East Brunswick. On Friday we played in a couple of excellent indy RPGs (Primetime Adventures and Mortal Coil). Saturday we met up with a bunch of the excellent nerds of NerdNYC, and in the afternoon we played Mechaton.
Mechaton is a wargame of […]
Upcoming Games from Fantasy Flight and Days of Wonder
Published on 21 Sep 2006 at 6:36 pm.
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To me, Fantasy Flight and Days of Wonder are two of the best game companies out there; their games are top quality and have great components. I’m definitely looking forward to some recently announced titles.Most exciting to me is Days of Wonder’s BattleLore. This is a light fantasy wargame in the vein of the WWII […]
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Street Soccer
Published on 10 Oct 2005 at 10:02 pm.
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StreetSoccer is a great little 2-player board game I stumbled across on BrettspielWelt, the German boardgaming portal.
The rules are pretty simple. Each “coach” has 4 players and a goalie. A roll of the die determines how far the ball is kicked. You must use the entire die roll. You can “hook” a kick by […]
Lord of the Rings Miniatures
Published on 19 Sep 2005 at 5:51 pm.
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Over the past few months I’ve been getting into Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings miniatures game. The rules are flexible enough to allow everything from small character-driven skirmishes all the way up to sieges. I’ve only played a few times, but I’ve got quite a pile of figures waiting to be painted. (It never […]