Tag: board-games
March 23, 2018

Posh Games upgrade

But one of the things I will be using the time for is working on the update on my board game forum site, Posh Games.

This is long overdue. Official support for the version I am on ended in 2009, although I’ve managed to keep it going and secure. I have made 2 attempts, over the years, to upgrade, both vexed by the new version lacking features that are central to my website – mainly a fully integrated calendar/scheduler, allowing you to attach dates to specific topics (so people can schedule a game session, then discuss who is coming and what games to bring).

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November 16, 2017

Twilight Imperium 4 is Here!

My copy of TI4 has arrived, and it looks good. The box is better than that of TI3, which I always found to be a complete pain, due to its length. It is a normal “large box” size, but deeper, so it will be easier…

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November 15, 2017

Why I decided to buy Twilight Imperium 4th Edition

One of my favourite games is Twilight Imperium 3. It is a sprawling game of galactic domination. It is quite magnificent, and the only downside is that a single game will normally take 4-8 hours, which limits the number of times it gets played. However,…

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November 14, 2017

New Boardgame Purchases

Lately, I’ve been thinking about a couple of board games I was tempted to purchase. The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 is a brand new cooperative game based on the 1982 movie (and John W. Campbell’s novella “Who Goes There”, that it was based on.…

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December 13, 2016

Thunderbirds Cooperative Board Game

But a game based on the old kid’s puppet show Thunderbirds? 50th Anniversary Edition? Surely that’s going to be dire, no?

Apparently not. It is designed by Matt Leacock, designer of Pandemic, and has some similarites. It also has some wonderful Thunderbirds-shaped playing pieces, and a 7.8 ranking on BoardGameGeek. Oh, and did I mention it was by Matt Leacock?

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September 4, 2016

Posh Games at Hereward Wargames Show

Post from RICOH THETA. – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA Had much fun today running the Posh Games table at the Hereward Wargames Show. We were only one of about 3 tables involved with board games, but we were made very welcome, and quite a…

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July 11, 2016

Games: 8 Minute Empire/Rockband Manager

Two new games that I’ve recently bought, in my efforts to get more good short games into my collection.

They both look great – before they arrived, I was most looking forward to Rockband Manager, but having read the rules for 8 Minute Empire, I’m really looking forward to playing that too!

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April 23, 2016

New Table

My new table arrived in the week, and has spent the last few days lying on the floor. I did the necessary assembly – attaching the legs with bolts – but being solid oak it was just too big for me to turn over by…

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March 11, 2015

My nemesis, Wil Wheaton

This time last year, I signed up to support the Indiegogo campaign to raise money for a 3rd season of Wil Wheaton’s TableTop. I had enjoyed the first two seasons, and had no hesitation in contributing. Originally I signed up for the $40 contribution, which…

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July 24, 2013

Board Games!

I keep trying to whittle the boardgame collection down, getting rid of stuff that I don’t play. For this reason, I was quite pleased to trade Cowboys: The Way of a Gun – a game that looked interesting, but never made the table – for…

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July 3, 2013

Droiddippy: Diplomacy on Android

In the past, I have played quite a bit of the game Diplomacy, both face-to-face, by email, and by web. One of the appeals of online games is that you are normally anonymised, which means people don’t bring any baggage to the game about how…

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June 1, 2013

Flash Point: Fire Rescue (Board Game)

As my last purchase didn’t exhaust my PayPal balance, I treated myself to a copy of Flash Point, together with a couple of expansion boards.

One of the other guys in my group already has this, and I really enjoyed it when I played it. As I love cooperative games, I decided to pick up my own copy.

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