Wow! It's been some time since my last post. One reason for this is that I have been playing more PC games than boardgames. Guild Wars took a lot of my spare time since September '07. And then there was the addictive 'Company of Heroes' and it's extension 'Opposing Fronts'. Playing CoH is like playing with miniatures, except that they move around on its own as ordered...and it really feels like the genre it's supposed to represent. It's really fun, especially playing online with real people. Despite playing more games online, I still kept up my regular boardgames sessions, but the number of times online games were played far outweighed the number of times boardgames were played.
Another reason for the lull in my posting was that I did not play any spectacular new knock-yer-socks-off Euro boardgames from Essen '07. As in '06, there were lots of reproduction games where mechanics were borrowed from older games and rehashed into a set of mish-mash newer games.
This year, 2008, I will be concentrating on wargames - board and miniatures. I will play the odd Euro when I feel like playing the odd Euro, but Flames of War, AT-43, and MMP, GMT and pre-Hasbro Avalon Hill games will satisfy my gaming appetite.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
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