Despite a beautiful Memorial day weekend Boldo's has 8 players come down to play in a Warhammer tournament.  Two Dwarfs, a Vampire Count, a Bretonian, a Nurgle demon, an Empire and two Lizardmen armies vied against each other.&# ... Read More »

Well after long last I finally got a Deamons of Chaos book into my hands and it is some good.  In general the demons are a little worse but much cheaper.  They also do not pop as in the last edition which is a huge bonus ev ... Read More »

10 Wheel of Sun and Moon -- For a deck that can search this is the ultimate recycler

9 Impromptu Raid -- Finally a chance to play huge creatures and it works well with

8 Knollspine Invocation -- Gets r ... Read More »

There was a time that the seal of spiel des Jahres meant a game I could not wait to try.  They were not always my favorite game but once upon a time all the winners were at least new, innovative and worth playing.  Unfortun ... Read More »

Well Hard Boyz is finally over and I hope the 11 local players who managed to field armies had fun.   I only observed a bit of the play but it seemed like most of the players complained a lot about the games.  As s ... Read More »

I recently pulled out the old favorite Family Business by Mayfair Games and played it with a group of college students.  This simple card game of killing off other mobs to be the last gangster standing still has the ability to capti ... Read More »

Recently I was talking to a Vampire Count player That had just played a game and his magic had failed him.  He required his magic phase to create a lot of models and when it did not then he was helpless. He had spent 1100 on charact ... Read More »

The last two fantasy books have been quite a disaster for Fantasy and now the demon book is going to throw another aweful book into the mix.  These books have all introduced blanket abilities which are a problem, are full of broken ... Read More »

Magic's newest set Shadowmoor has an interesting Rochester connection.  One of the designers of the set is an RIT graduate and Boldo's Alum Sean Fletcher.  For those who do not know Sean was a frequent player at the store i ... Read More »

With the release of the vampire counts I think that magic at tournaments is entering a binary phase.  Either you go huge or go home.  The Vampires introduce another army that will consistently field 12 or so dice effective ... Read More »