Last Thursday, I arrived at the World Boardgaming Championships in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with a "flexible plan" (which is just one step above no plan at all) of how best to enjoy this annual trek to the highlight event of the Boardgame Players Association.
Ridere, ludere, hoc est vivere.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
World Boardgaming Championships 2012: Quick note upon return
I just got home earlier tonight from the World Boardgaming Championships (WBC) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A quick note before going to bed, with more to follow:
- 7 Wonders: quarterfinals, and the loss of a card
- "Ethics in gaming" seminar
- Agricola with the Interactive deck
- Wooden Ships and Iron Men: Made the finals but lost
- Acquire: Still learning
- "East India Company" demo/playtest
- Heartland Hauling: first impressions
- War Time: Reprise
- Mars Needs Mechanics: Gaslight supply and demand
- Trains Planes and Automobiles: My first event as GM
- Acquisitions: Chicago Express, St. Petersburg, and Leaping Lemmings
- A gift: 1949 edition of Clue
Thursday, August 2, 2012
East India Company: Turn sequence re-work pays off
After work today, I got a fourth playtest of "East India Company" with my friends Brian G. and Frank H. Earlier this week, I'd completely reworked the turn sequence to improve the flow of decision-making and order of events, plus I added a couple of commodity tiles to the initial set-up to open up the early game.
Monday, July 30, 2012
East India Company: More playtesting, more adjusting
My family and I did another run-through of "East India Company" this weekend with my wife, my 19-year-old son, and my mother-in-law, of all people, who isn't afraid to learn something new from time to time. I made some adjustments to correct the issue with the pace of the game this time, and I wanted to see how effective they were.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
HistoriCon 2012: A Submariner's Life and a Gathering Storm
I must say that HistoriCon offered many more lecture opportunities than I've seen at my favorite boardgame conventions, WBC and PrezCon. After the "Battle for Manila Bay," I turned my sights to a series of presentations by historians on topics of interest.
Monday, July 23, 2012
HistoriCon 2012: High Noon and the Battle of Manila Bay
High Noon
Friday morning at HistoriCon opened with a demonstration of High Noon (designer and self-publisher Leo Walsh), a home-grown 19th Century Western skirmish game. Leo had a large, elaborate Western landscape set up in 25mm scale - right down to gullies that descended below table-top level and bald eagles that graced some of the rock formations. The rules were pretty detailed, and I particularly liked the wounding mechanism (example to follow).
Image (c) Leo Walsh Used by permission |
Sunday, July 22, 2012
HistoriCon 2012: Borg Attack
Thursday afternoon at HistoriCon 2012 saw me in command of Star Fleet's task force at Wolf 359, assigned to stop the approaching Borg cube that threatened Earth. The task force consisted of approximately twenty capital ships and perhaps ten interceptors. The fleet focused nearly all firepower on the Borg propulsion systems to slow its progress toward Earth. The Borg destroyed a number of Excelsior-class and other major starships with its torpedo missiles and did considerably damage to the fleet with beam weapons and collisions, but our unrelenting focus on propulsion turned out to be successful, as we rendered the cube dead-in-space outside weapon range from Earth.
HistoriCon 2012: A boardgamer's reflection
HistoriCon came to Virginia this year, and though miniatures gaming takes a distant second to my boardgaming preference, I couldn't let the opportunity pass to spend at least a couple of days in the world of scratch-built terrain and tape measures. Inexcusably, I forgot to bring a camera both days that I attended, a virtual crime at a miniatures convention.
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