August 2016 roundup
02/09/2016 09:19 AM
In August, my gaming was very limited due to preparations for moving house so I only managed to play 9 games of 8 different titles, 3 of which were new to me. The new games were: The Grizzled: At Your Orders – Only tried the solo rules and ...

Mama, if that’s movin’ up then I’m movin’ out
29/08/2016 10:35 PM
Well it seems to have taken a long time but on Wednesday we’ll be moving out of our current house after having lived in it for ten years. The games room is all packed (37 boxes) and they’ll be going into storage for a couple of weeks ...

Seventh Geeklist Auction
02/08/2016 04:31 PM
Just a notice for my game group (and anyone else interested) that my seventh geeklist auction is now running until the evening of Thursday 4th August. The 24 games included this time are: Carcassonne collection Broom Service: The Card Game Say B ...

July 2016 roundup
01/08/2016 04:36 PM
In July, I only managed to play 13 games of 12 different titles, 5 of which were new to me. The new games were: Molkky – Fantastic outdoor dexterity game that I’m amazed I’ve not discovered until now (thanks Messrs. Boydell and ...

Has it really been 15 years?
21/07/2016 02:39 PM
Yesterday marked the fifteenth anniversary of my first visit to the Shrewsbury Boardgames Club. That session turned out to be an Alan Moon-focussed affair as we tried out both Das Amulett and Capitol. It also means we now have fifteen years̵ ...

Sixth 2016 Geeklist Auction
08/07/2016 10:08 PM
Having challenged myself in 2015 to reduce my collection by 365 games, which was about a third of my total collection and succeeded in selling over 400, this year I’m going to see if I can get my collection down to below 400 games, which m ...

Shrewsbury Boardgames Club session reporting
19/06/2016 12:53 PM
In advance of my house move out of the area and the fact that, from July, my ability to host / attend the club is likely to be even more limited, I thought it was time to transfer how we record the games we play to BGG. This will allow anyone (n ...

Three new games
19/06/2016 12:30 PM
This week, I got hold of three new games. The Last Spike is one I’ve been interested in for a while due to comments from geek buddies, Doug Adams and Mark Johnson. It looks like an interesting take on Acquire with a railway building theme ...

Brief Expo-sure
06/06/2016 09:53 AM
I managed to get to the UK Games Expo for a few hours on Saturday morning. Pity it couldn’t have been longer but I had other stuff that needed doing in the afternoon. Arriving just before 9.30, having parked in the train station car park, ...

May 2016 roundup
01/06/2016 02:02 PM
May turned out to be a pretty barren month for game playing as I only managed to play 11 games of 11 different titles, 7 of which were new to me. The new games were: Madame Ching – Nice set collection and hand management game that plays we ...