Best of Board Games

How many bus drivers sell games of their own design from the driver’s seat? There is at least one, and at least one of his games is apparently pretty good. I’ll have to keep my eye out on my travels this summer, see if anyone’s selling games off the back of their truck, like with strawberries…

Some people take their board game fanaticism to extreme levels. I’d say writing lengthy pieces of fan fiction like Sunja’s Deal, a Twilight Imperium 3 fan fic, based on game flavour text is extreme. Then again, there’s the German novel based on Blue Moon and all the books based on Magic: The Gathering… so perhaps it makes perfect sense. Anyway, thanks for another tip, Yehuda.

Caylus Antidote is, of course, Snakes and Ladders. Quite an entertaining session report. Thanks for the tip, Yehuda.

Joe Gola proves - once again - he’s a real master of the keyboard and writes down an eloquent review of Blue Moon City.

Interested in Advanced Squad Leader, but don’t know a thing about it? ASL Primer I by Ekted is just what you need.

Give Peace A Chance, says Mario Lanza in his blog entry about table-talk and why reducing it sometimes might be a good idea.

Even classic games deserve a good strategy guide.

You? You want a game? OK, then click this.

Jason Little reports on a Hammer of the Scots session. Good report, but this is the sentence that tickled me:

In a change of pace, I decided to play by the rules as written (defender firing first each phase rather than simultaneously).

Call me old-fashioned, but it’s always possible that the designer thought about the rules a bit and maybe had a good reason for writing it the way it’s written…..

Two BGG Things in Matthew Gray’s weblog describes a way to make BGG a bit faster to use, but the most interesting bit is a condensed BGG Mobile. If you’re using a mobile device to access Internet in a game store and want to know if a game is any good, BGG Mobile does the job!