This is a summary of the board games that saw my most interest, investment, hobby time, playing and enjoyment in 2020. It is not necessarily a direct reflection of my all time favourite games. This year was lockdown, a reduced number…
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Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef is a worker placement game with dice upgrading, which arrived in 2020 and is set on a beautiful island resort. The game is strikingly stunning with the artwork arguably some of the best you…
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Blackstone Fortress was the third in the new series of Warhammer Quest box sets, released in November 2018, and set in the 40k futuristic universe. A group of disparate explorers delve into the labyrinth of a vast and ancient space…
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Sword & Sorcery is a great dungeon crawl box set and painting has been a long term slow project rather than an usual annual blitz and all begun back in July 2017 when it arrived. I have taken many breaks…
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Runebound has been a huge brand from Fantasy Flight games since 2004 and the 2nd edition is so well loved, and rightly so with great artwork, a beautiful map to explore and the largest numbers of expansions of any game…
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Battlelore is fantasy flight game from 2013 based in the Terrinoth world, and is a two player fantasy miniatures strategic battle that has a boardgame feel and an accessible play style. Played on a hex based board with terrain overlays,…
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A living card game is a solo or co-operative collectable expanding game where set packs of cards are issued to expand on a core set, with the same content available for every buyer. This means the game is consistent with…
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Abyss is a card drafting game where your goal is to gain the most influence and rule the undersea world. Its original release in 2014 came with five different box covers to choose from and i ended up in my…
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Everdell is a worker placement game which was released in 2018 where you construct your village adding buildings and fill it with cute woodland critters, gaining points for card combinations and achieving goals. There are a number of beautiful looking…
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Sword & Sorcery Immortal Souls is a fantasy adventure and dungeon crawler that was originally a kickstarter release in 2017, and subsequently has been released retail via a main core set and many expansions. It is a scenario based co-operative…
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