So, last time, I walked you through some key steps in saving the human race in Fantasy Flight’s Battlestar Galactica. . .this time out, it’s human hunting time as I walk you through a Five-Step Guide on how to be the best Cylon Bastard Possible.
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How to Navigate Battlestar Galactica – Playing as a Cylon
February 8th, 2012 
Todd 
Posted in Columns / Opinion 
Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Board Game Guides, Board Games, Cylon, Fantasy Flight Games 
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January 30th, 2012 Todd As a long time team sports guy, I find it odd that more people don’t gravitate to co-operative board games. I tend to love them, sure it’s fun to go out on your own, but working as a team can be fun as well. By far, the best co-op game available today is Fantasy Flight’s Battlestar [...]
Posted in Columns / Opinion Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Board Games, BSG, Fantasy Flight Games, Strategy No Comments »
A (Slightly Belated) 2011 Wrap-Up: An Individual Gamers Year in Gaming
January 10th, 2012 chris Typically all those “best of” movie, music, game, etc. lists start circulating in early December every year which I always found odd, I mean, hey, the year isn’t even over yet. So it was no surprise to me when I realized that it was already January and my perpetually behind-the-times self had missed the traditional [...]
Risk Legacy asks you to ruin your game.
January 5th, 2012 Dan If you’re a gamer there is a really good chance you have played Risk during your lifetime. There have been more versions of Risk then I care to remember. Halo, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings they have all had the Risk make over. You can play it online on the Xbox, PC or PS3 [...]
My Top Games This Year
December 30th, 2011 Dan Welcome back everyone and sorry about the non-sense of the last few days. I hope everyone had a good Holiday and got lots of games. I’m not big on the whole year end list thing, but I get asked a lot what games I really like. Instead of repeating myself over and over in various emails [...]
Gaming with the Wife Volume 2 – Battletech
November 29th, 2011 Dan Over thanksgiving as I was recovering from leg surgery I was going through my Battletech 25th anniversary boxed set. A friend of mine and I are going to start playing a little Battletech once a month. I was never into the game a a kid even though it was very popular during my prime gaming years. My [...]
Gamer Profiling, where will it end?
October 20th, 2011 Dan Just recently we had our local gaming convention we do 3 times a year. The convention itself is a full day of open gaming and while there might be some loosely planned events, the main focus is to get games on the table we don’t usually play in our weekly Thursday night sessions.
Rex so it’s not Dune exactly..get over it.
August 24th, 2011 Dan During Gen Con Fantasy Flight Games announced some new products and a few of those have come under the scrutiny of the community. One of those games was Rex: Final Days of an Empire which is based on the game system used in the 1979 classic Dune by Avalon Hill. When this game was announced [...]
OBGB Crosstalk Asks: “What game, despite your absolute love and adoration for, do you almost never get to play, and why?”
August 22nd, 2011 admin This is the first in an on-going feature here at OBGB where our six contributors are given a question to discuss, and see where that takes us. This edition sees us talking about our most loved underplayed games and somehow that takes us to the Cult of the New, card driven wargames, and the chaos [...]
Tales from the Sera Front–Early Impressions of the Gears of War Board Game
August 15th, 2011 admin Last night was a fun an spirited first game night after Gencon, with a number of new games hitting the tables. I saw a nice mix of games including: Blood Bowl, Eminent Domain, Elder Sign, Quarriors and the game that took years to get to the table: Gears of War.
Posted in Columns / Opinion Tags: Board Games, Elder Sign, Gears of War: The Board Game No Comments »
Fantasy Flight and Star Wars: A marriage made in Ewok Heaven, or a rare half-pint Wookie?
August 8th, 2011 admin First, much thanks to Dan for the excellent posts and up to date news from GenCon. I know I was checking each day to see what he saw down there. Clearly, more to come on new games, but for me, the big news hit before the con and that was this new licensing arrangement between [...]
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How Game of Thrones the TV Show should rekindle the life of the AGoT The Board Game
July 25th, 2011 admin I finally got around to finishing A Game of Thrones: Season One on Sunday Night (it was caught in the DVR back-log). The season finale was kind of a wrap-up/set-up for Season 2 as the Climax of the season was in episode nine as Eddard Stark’s head was chopped off. (I am sure glad I [...]
Tales From the Roman Empire–Expansion Edition
July 11th, 2011 admin After a short vacation and with the kids’ swimming lessons out of the way, I finally made it back to our weekly game session. I was able to play three quick games. The night started with a spirited game of 7 Wonders. Six players. A ho-hum third place finish with the winner having three guild [...]
QC in board gaming, what is going on?
June 20th, 2011 Dan I was really excited for the release of Gozilla Kaiju World Wars, really excited. However after having played the game several times I’m not so happy. I’ll be posting a review this week along with a video but the game leaves a lot to be desired especially on the rules front. So I was a [...]
Tales from the Cylon Front–The Best Cylon Win Ever!
June 11th, 2011 admin As mentioned last week, I was able to attend my normal Thursday Night gaming group for the first time in about three months and it was a fun time. I ended up playing Battlestar Galactica (BSG) and was able to pull off one of the most dominant Cylon victories of “ALL TIME.” Before I hurt [...]
