Category Archives: Board Gaming

Review: Heroica (Nathhuz) – Assembly & Game Play

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Quirkworthy

Having gone through the various stuff you get in the box and my initial impressions, it was time to get the bits put together and some adventuring done. Bob started assembling the “tiles” of the dungeon while I sorted out … Continue reading →

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Review: Heroica (Nathuz) – What’s In The Box?

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Quirkworthy

Lots of stuff. Mainly this is bags of zillions of Lego bits, as you’d expect. In fact I found it all slightly daunting. It’s not just zillions of bits – it’s zillions of different and very specific bits. I’m clearly … Continue reading →

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Review: Gears of War – First Contact

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Quirkworthy

We played the Gears of War board game again last night, and actually survived this time. The first evening of this we played 2 player, and got obliterated repeatedly. I think we played 4 times and never got to the … Continue reading →

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Lego Dungeons

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Quirkworthy

I was recently discussing different types of games and the Lego dungeon game Heroica came up. So, being something of a game junky (and just finishing DKH3) I thought that would be an amusing change of pace to have a … Continue reading →

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Dreadfleet – a Few Photos

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Quirkworthy

I seem to have acquired a copy of Dreadfleet, and thought you might like to see some photos of the sprues close up. There’s already a bunch of pictures on GW’s own site showing the whole sprues, so I’ll try … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Gaming, Dreadfleet, Tabletop gaming | 15 Comments

That’s More Like It!

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Quirkworthy

It seems that while I was out in meetings yesterday, GW decided to put up a run through of a turn of Dreadfleet. Good plan. This looks pretty much like what I’d expected: a simple roll hits, roll saves kind … Continue reading →

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Dreadfleet – Feared Cash Cow of the High Seas

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Quirkworthy

I was going to talk about the rest of the Foundry Open Day today, but I’d forgotten that it was GW’s unveiling of their latest one-shot boxed game: Dreadfleet. I’ll finish the Open Day report tomorrow. There’s a predictably large … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Gaming, Random Thoughts | 80 Comments

A Bit of Excitement of My Own

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Quirkworthy

It’s that time of year and everyone is GenCon crazy in the gaming world. Well I’m on the wrong side of the Pond, so I have to be content with just watching the videos and so on like most of … Continue reading →

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You start here, I’ll start there

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Quirkworthy

I started writing a post this morning about Dwarf King’s Hold, but it’s got rather long so I’ll finish it as an article and post it later this week. Basically, I want to talk about the Dwarf King’s Hold games … Continue reading →

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Mantic Open Day

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Quirkworthy

Another weekend, another convention! Well, an Open Day. Tomorrow Mantic Games are having their second Open Day and I’ll be there running demos of Dwarf King’s Hold and  taking part in a couple of seminars about what’s new and where … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Gaming, Dwarf King's Hold, Events | 5 Comments