Something very strange happened to this gamer in the month of April, and it crept up on me slowly, stealthily, and when my attention was pointed in a totally different direction – I went an entire evening without once thinking of board games. To be more precise, I went an entire evening without getting onto the internet and looking mindlessly at BGG for a bit, … Continue reading And out the other side

Last time I posted I wrote about my ever-changing collection and how I constantly adapt and refine it in order to reflect my current game-playing needs. Even in the few days since I wrote those words two further games have gone to new homes, maybe to be replaced by shinier and more suitable candidates in the future, but we shall see. I did post that … Continue reading My top 5

As far as my collection is concerned I like to run what I think of as a fairly tight ship. Once upon a time, excluding the games that end up at the backs of everybody’s shelves, I had a collection of a single game – Carcassonne – and from that point I have expanded, contracted and expanded again to my current total of 88. Thirteen … Continue reading Collect or play?

Ernest Albert, known to all as Bert, was an Artificer Engineer aboard HMS Magnificent, and although he could not have suspected it at the time, he would become a British submariner towards the end of the war, called to HMS Dolphin, the home of the Royal Navy Submarine Service on 13th March 1918. Now, though, below decks and on patrol in the late days of … Continue reading Raiders Of The Deep

I doubt that I will be the only person reading this article who grew up in the age of video games, and I would wager that many who hold this magazine have spent countless hours in front of computer or TV screen, controller in hand, forging great civilisations from the ground up in games such as Pharaoh or Masters Of Orion. Whether on earth or … Continue reading Civilization: A New Dawn

Make no mistake, we are living through strange times at the moment, enforced lockdowns and self-isolation forcing us into a bizarre new reality.  Many of us are finding that our creative juices, squeezed out of us for so long by the man, are beginning to flow again, while there are others who find that the notion of sitting in front of Netflix for night after … Continue reading Games for a lockdown