One of the things I hate in games is rolling dice for the sake of rolling dice.  I want there to be some thought which is required and I like the thought aspect to be more important than the dice rolling part.  Unfortunatel ... Read More »

St Petersburg has long been one of my favorite games.  It plays particularly well as a 2 player game and I often find myself playing it that way.  When the expansion came out I was excited.  Looking throught hte ne ... Read More »

It has been a long time since I enjoyed playing a game 6 times in a row in an evening.  I had played Race for the Galaxy before and was underimpressed.  It seemed like a less stategic and more complicated version of San Jua ... Read More »

I recently played La Citta again after quite a long break from it.  In La Citta the object to have the most people and the best way to do this is to steal the people from other players.  This done through a mechanic a the e ... Read More »

I got to play Stone Age recently and it was an interesting experience.  In the game you have a number of settlers which can go to various areas to get reasources or aquire assets.  In some areas you roll to get multiple of ... Read More »

I have many fond memories of playing Third Reich when I was younger.  I thought the game was terribly flawed but it was fun anyhow.  When I saw that it had been updated into a new game I was excited but all this faded after ... 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 »

There have been a series of Norse themed games recently like Midgard and Beowulf but the best of these is Vikings by Rio Grand Games.  It really is a shopping game where on your turn you buy a lot which includes one person and one l ... Read More »

Patrician by Phalanx games is a great little game.  I recently played Patrician for the first time and I thought it was great.  It seemed a bit like Web of Power and China but had a very interesting hand refilling dynamic w ... Read More »