While not a massive fan of historical battle recreation games – not something I generally seek…
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Calvin’s Commentaries: Wizard’s Garden
As a bonafide fan of abstract strategy games I am quite surprised it has taken so…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Parks
If you are a sucker for great looking games then you will be blown away by…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Aristeia
The best games, or perhaps these days, like movies, almost all games, end up with expansions.…
Calvin’s Commentaries: WatchGuard
This is a somewhat different review in the sense it’s not about a particular game. Instead,…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Forest Fighters
Personally, I like deck builder quite a lot. Ditto the group as a whole. But, as…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Dice Settlers
So let’s start here with a statement of preference, I do not like dice. I’m pretty…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Up and Across
As a lover of abstract strategy games, it’s always interesting to get my hands on essentially…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Coldwater Crown
If you like fishing, and I count myself among those who do, then Coldwater Crown is…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Sovereign Chess
In the world of board games, one thing which is not in short supply is chess…
Calvin’s Commentaries: 11:59
You really have to be intrigued by a game that comes in a neat little tin…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Grey Cells
Often we think of role-playing games as those set in the world of swords and sorcery…
Calvin’s Commentaries: V Commandos
There are times when your first impression of a board game can simply be wrong. Such…
Calvin’s Commentaries: El Alamein
A few weeks back I reviewed Barbarossa, a deck builder based on the Second World War…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Flint and Feather
A handful of miniatures and a table covered with terrain and you have the basis for…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Rone
As a gamer who is fairly confident in saying he had the first Magic the Gathering…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Martial Art Battlefields
It was just a year ago April that Martial Art from designers Adrian Marrs, and Jonathan…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Hardback
This week’s game is one I personally had been very much looking forward to playing. Deck-builders…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Girl Genius: The Works
When it comes to game designers James Ernest is one of my favourite. Ernest’s best game…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Direwild
The idea of using deck building as a core mechanic in a dungeon-crawl game is not…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Barbarossa
Dominion is usually seen as the grandmother of deck building games, hit the stores in its…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Tanto Cuore
Tanto Cuore originally launched in 2009, and the deck builder has seen a number of additions…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Trinity
I have to say out of the mail wrapping I was immediately impressed by the packaging…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Hand of Fate: Ordeals
Sometimes the ‘fluff’ that accompanies a game’s ruleset just grabs you. “You, traveller, have been chosen…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Linear Pursuit
There is always something generally positive about simplicity when it comes to abstract strategy games. And…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Dice Throne
Some games just impress from the time you glimpse the box on a shelf, through to…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Tank Chess
When I first saw that there was a game called Tank Chess I have to say…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Castle Siege Chess
When it comes to chess variants there are dozens, if not hundreds. Most are roughly thought…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Romans vs Britons
Romans vs Britons is yet another outstanding two-player abstract strategy game created by Jon Hather and…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Helionox: Deluxe Edition
Deck builder games have become a definite area of interest for our gaming group. It helped…
Calvin’s Commentaries: Libraria
When it comes to abstract strategy games there is a lot to be said for simplicity.…