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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

That Blighted Reach!

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A couple of weekends ago I was at HandyCon. I feel very lucky to have this really first rate con more or less on the doorstep (an hour's...
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Time to ditch Cosmic Encounter?

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I have had mixed success introducing Cosmic Encounter to gamers who have never played it before. About 50% of the time it goes down really w...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

My shelf is famous now?

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I was recently featured on Actualol, Jon Purkis's excellent and long-running video channel. He had invited viewers to submit a shelfie a...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Do I love Earthborne Rangers yet?

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I spent the two weeks leading up to Christmas in the USA, visiting my son Phil who back in early 2024 moved to Richmond VA, taking my daught...
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Friday, January 02, 2026

1830 at work

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I have recently – over the last couple of years or so – been renewing my interest in 18xx games. This is  largely thanks to the 18xx.games w...
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Friday, March 18, 2022

Nimrods away

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Last weekend I got together with a group of old boardgaming friends that I made (mostly) back in the 90s when I lived in Salisbury. We hired...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2022

This is the way (is it?)

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My squadron of X-Wings about to (unsuccessfully) take on the Mandalorian and his dodgy friends Last week I finally returned to our local Sta...
Monday, February 14, 2022

Time of Crisis

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Actually not that much of a crisis. I've been playing Time of Crisis solo against the bot from the Iron and Rust expansion. The bot is c...

Shades of a classic

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Marc Reichardt's recent article over on There Will Be Games, The Question of Consumption , hit a nerve for me, especially this sentence:...
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Tuesday, February 08, 2022

The past is another country

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Blogger informs me that nimrods boasts 1,482 posts! Reading back over my past writings is a bit cringe-making, actually. Many of my attempts...
Monday, February 07, 2022

Blogging about board games since 2001

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My very first entry on nimrods was posted on Thursday, April 19, 2001. Two posts actually – the first was a session report on a weekend-lon...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

The wayward genius of Phil Eklund

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I've just been playing Pax Renaissance, the latest masterwork from Phil Eklund at Sierra Madre games, playing it through solo to get t...
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