Luke Evison

I'm confident that anyone who's enjoyed Littoral Commander will get a lot of out of Battlegroup Clash: Baltics.

If you want smart, concise, hobby-informed design on this kind of topic, then James is your man. (Plus, you can support a new, independent, wargame publisher!)

Im hoping to, it's in my calendar and I have booked the time off work (though Sunday might be a problem)

You're going to have to do you own dirty work Fred- no GenCon for me this year :(
But HLminiCon??? 🙏

Turning negatives into positives...

Take a look at CGE's block list and see who you want to follow.💚

Trans rights are human rights!

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Fabio Lopiano has a few posible inclusions:
Ragusa (Italy)
Merv (Turkmenistan)
Baghdad (Iraq)

Other games that spring to mind for me:
London (Martin Wallace)
Glasgow (Mandela Fernandez-Grandon)
Santorini (Gord)
Barcelona (Dani Garcia)
Ulm (Gunter Burkhardt)?

Only a fairly marginal one. Towards the end of the race your deck will run out, when it does, you pick up your wake in order. So you know what cards you will draw in the final stretch, and can check anytime. It'd also nice that your wake dissipates steadily, but that is pure theme.

A fox meeple can be slid into a little speedboat meeple. 'Sena' boards hops on the flying fish.

The first corner, a collection of jetski meeples, hare around , leaving wake cards behind them

One meeple has gone wide, skirting the table edge. The others bomb down a straight

Thr final bend, those who've gone wide are setup for the finish. Others careen off the table

Tornado Splash is a hoot, A+ table presence, as long as your table is big enough!

Oooooh noooooo, that took me too long. So I'm guessing it wouldnt be a remake of 'High Treason: The Trial of Louis Riel' XD

A Game of Occlude, cards are in columns gathered by suit descending. Some coins indicate the game state in the top right. The Punchcard level is shown.

If "Zachtonics Solitaire x The Roottrees Are Dead" isn't gobbldeygook to you, then you already know I'm telling you Occlude is great.

For everyone else: if you want calm deduction with spooky vibes wrapped in a classic card game shawl- then OCCLUDE from @tributarygames.bsky.social is great.

Congratulations Ellie!

An image with a photograph of a set-up game of Line of Fire: Burnt Moon, with illustrated robot cards arranged around tiles depicting a volcanic landscape, with the game's title and the following text with futuristic borders: "DEPLOY YOUT BOTS, CONTROL KEY SITES, ELIMINATE OPPOSITION".

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Possible, but I doubt it impacted the decision. I suspect the decision was made pre-final, and the reason the annoucenet was delayed was 2-fold: 1) Time to enjoy/breathe post final. 2) Contractual clauses around the complete (2nd) year mark. both points are pure speculation though.

Worth remembering there are 3 results for most games. Win, lose, and draw. ~23% of games are draws. So a Win% of 50%+ is probably winning twice as many games as you lose

good pub grub. I hope you get some fish and chips + gravy in whilst you are up north!

chips, please Patrick.

Want a overview of what PunchedCON is like? Thinking about going next year? Read this fantastic review:
eboracon.co.uk/2025/05/13/p...

Arcs is frickin great and a gorgeous game to boot, so glad to see it winning!

Well deserved!

Ofrenda! I'm very biased but it was one of those games that during dev I would take ANY excuse to play - and I still never got near a perfect game! If you like simple drafting, family that seem to always be bickering, and a tricksy puzzle that you've made for yourself then Ofrenda is🔥

'Bleet' or bust.

Perhaps the best way to be 😅

I'm delighted to see it! But that generates a fair few more questions than answers- are they trained for this purpose? Why only once? Does it have a little pannier- or do they hold it in their mouth? Why the umpire not the pitcher? Do pigs improve rotation?

LIZ WHAT IS THE BALL PIG?

Snood board game when?

What's interesting to me is that I'm sympathetic down to 4, and respect 5-6 as takes even if I think they are ultimately shortsighted. However 10 is as unreasonable to me as 3 is, i.e. out of touch with reality!

Personally I'm 8 going on 7, but that's partly because the framing on 8 is generous.

From your messages I think you are also 7-9, probably actually considering a 9. 10+ is a fine take at the start of a rebuild, but the greenshoots have not been there to justify anything like that 2 years in.

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The diorama recreating this incident is not to be missed: youtu.be/2RIEPKEhE2s?...

YouTube video by analog arnie SAIL Review | Pirate's Life for Me...Please?

Who knew that the niche board game reviewing needed was muppets? I love it.
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Subtext is for cowards and copyright ain't trademark. Rock'em K.

Fair, it is a day in of itself!