Sunday, 8 March 2015

The State of Boardgames

So, as you can see from the above I have quite an extensive board game collection it's currently around 115 games. I guess you could say I've been gaming since I was a kid. Apart from all the usual family games I first played Dungeons & Dragons when I was about 7 and soon picked up Cyberpunk 2020 and then moved into the Whitewolf Storyteller series. I role played right through my teenage years and into my early 20's, although I didn't really have a regular group and fell out of the habit. I'd still be up for playing a one off game every now and then. Very tempted to try and find a game of Paranoia.

During my teens I started playing/collecting Magic: The Gathering. It's still a great game, as long as you play sensibly and don't fall down the pay to win hole. I still have all my old cards and occasionally stick a deck together. 
I also used to play the Star Trek card game from Decipher, although not quite as much as Magic. Still an fun game and I don't want to part with my cards.

It was during the early 2000's that I picked up on the new 'Modern' board Gaming revolution (?). Typically my introduction was via the Settlers of Catan route. Followed by Carcassonne and various 'filler' games (mostly The Great Dalmuti).

For the last couple of years I've been distracted from the usual 'Euro' style game and have been focused on Warhammer 40k. Another game I used to play with my brother back in the early 90's. I ended up getting back into it when I started painting some of the minatures from our normal board game collection. It's a great game, long, complex and fairly unwieldy. I really like the seemingly endless choice of units and army builds. Models are expensive, but the store support is excellent. And there's always eBay!
I also really enjoy painting minatures and I'll be discussing painting in more detail in future blogs. 

So that's where I am at the moment. Playing the occasional Euro and even less frequently 40k. 

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