June 2011
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Dominion Wednesday
With some pestering, I got Jeff to sit down and play some Dominion with me tonight. I had recently sleeved the rest of my Dominion cards and was eager to try some new cards. We did stick to Base+Intrigue+Prosperty still, and I used my iPod app to select a kingdom set for us:
(Thanks to Dominion Deck for the visuals!) Notice that there are no +Card Kingdom cards yet also a Goons attack which...
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And they're off!
I got my power assignment for my PBeM Here I Stand game. I will be playing as the English power! This means I can ignore the rules about Piracy and Theological Debates. Which, thank the Anglican God, because I am still overwhelmed a little bit. The game designer’s website also has strategy tips for the first time player. I don’t really consider this cheating per se, more like...
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Game Overview: Here I Stand: Wars of the...
So, in honor of my first ever Play By Email experience and first ever Here I Stand experience, I thought I would give a brief overview of the components of this game. Admittedly, I have a very poor grasp of the rules (so far) but I thought I should punch everything out and try to set up the game so at least going into this PBeM session I’d know the terminology. I realized about 1/3rd of...
Ch-Ch-Changes
Hello fellow work-avoiding Ludocrats-
Before I head off to the lesser of the Twin Cities to meddle in their politics, I thought I’d alert you to what is probably already obvious upon visiting this page—things, they are a-changin’. You can now ridicule me (and anonymously!) in a comments section. So, that’s nice.
Another sea change for my board gaming life: I have taken...
“Oh Boy. I have too many board games.”
– Me realizing how few of my board games I’ve played and how after a few of my pre-orders show up I need to go on a buying hiatus. At least until Fall.
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Game Overview: Command & Colors: Ancients
Well, this will be a relatively brief update but I knew that if I didn’t give my fan(s?) something to chew on over the weekend (where I will be in Winstead, MN at a country music festival) they would tar and feather me. So, inspired by Days of Wonder’s new computer game version of Memoir ‘44, I decided to show off one of my board games that matches the mechanics—Command...
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Dominated.
It was tough to wade through 70,000 lines of excel at work knowing that there were Ludocrats planning on delving into whatever game I wished tonight. Even though Jake was butt dart material and reneged on his desire to board game, we had two new Ludocrats and perennial favorite Nate over for a session around the 1814 table. I presented battlestar galactica, pandemic and dominant species. Even...
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Manoeuvring, Again
Jeff uncharacteristically offered to play a game tonight and asked if there were any I was “itching to try.” I opted for Manoeuvre again because it’s a pretty simple game and is hella fun. I chose the Russians and gave Jeff the Brits—I picked out a map with only hills and forests and off we went. I was hitting pretty hard in the first half of the game but Jeff started...
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I'm like a bird
I spent the Sunday playing softball, watching The Verdict and finally getting in a board game date with Emma also known as: the Reason this whole thing started.
See, it was April, I think, and Emma had invited me to make phone calls to St Paul delegates on behalf of an amazing school board candidate Louise Seeba. Now, I don’t live in St. Paul, but Emma is awesome and she promised that...
“Should we get the FedEx man a Christmas Card?”
– Jeff, after the FedEx man dropped a second shipment in two days of boardgames.
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