Games I Own:

6-Tage Rennen  

 

a la Carte

 

Abalone

Great little 2-player abstract game

Advanced Heroquest

 

Advanced Squad Leader (ASL)

Huge game, huge rulebook

Age of Mythology: The Boardgame

Hated it – good combat system, but way too much downtime for those not involved.

Alexandros

 

Aliens

Classic single-player game.

Aliens - Expansion

 

Alles fur de Katz

 

Amun-Re

Good middleweight game, with great bidding system.

Anachronism

 

Apples to Apples

Fun party game, if you don’t use the timer.

Australian Rails

 

Awful Green Things from Outer Space, The

 

Axis & Allies Miniatures

 

Axis Allies Miniatures - The Russian Front

 

Axis and Allies

 

Babylon 5 Wars

 

Battleground: Fantasy Warfare

 

Battlelore Memoir 44 goes medieval fantasy

Battlesuit

 

Best of Dragon Magazine Games

 

Beyond Valor - ASL Module 1

 

Big City

Lovely pieces, a nice little city- building game. No-one else I know likes it though.

Boggle

Word games – I can’t play them.

Boomtown

Fun filler game

Britannia

The old version

British Rails

 

Buccaneer

 

Buck Rogers - Battle for the 25th Century Game

 

Bug Hunter - Sniper! Companion Game #3

 

Burn Rate

 

Campaign

Played this loads as a kid, got me into wargaming

Car Wars

Game about driving round in souped-up cars, shooting people. Just like Newcastle on a Sunday night.

Carcassonne

I like this, but we don’t use the farmers rule.

Carcassonne - The River

 

Cave Troll

Again, a game I liked that no-one else does.

Caylus

Not played yet, looking forward to it.

Chitin: I

 

Civilization

Old, long.

Clash of the Gladiators

 

Cleopatra and the Society of Architects

 My current favourite - fabulous game, fabulous pieces and board.

Cloud 9

Fun filler game with kids & adults

Code of Bushido - ASL Module 8

 

Colliding Circles

Bought it from the designer at a show, never seen it elsewhere. Really interesting game with LOADS of dice!

Commands & Colors: Ancients

The best game I’m playing at the moment.

Coup

 

Creeper

 

Cross of Iron

 

Dark Cults

Story telling game. Uses words. Can’t do it.

Dark Millennium The Warhammer 40,000 Collectible Card Game

It was next to the tills in WH Smiths – I’m weak.

Deadlands: Doomtown

Great CCG, shame it died

Diplomacy

Too long, too vicious.

Dragon's Gold

 

Duel Masters Trading Card Game

Beginners intro to Magic CCG

Dungeon Twister

Good, more of a chess game than a dungeon crawl.

Dungeon Twister - Paladins & Dragons

 

El Caballero

 

El Grande

Played this again recently, forgotten how good it is.

Elasund: The First City of Catan

I love this, no-one else seems keen.

Empire Builder

Crayon-based railway game, loved it in it’s day, but I’ll probably never play it again.

Entdecker

Great exploration tile game.. kids love it too.

Escape from Colditz

 

Eurorails

 

Evo

Quite confrontational, I’d like to play it more.

Falling

 

Flames of War

Lovely miniatures

Fluxx

I like this as a quick filler.

Formula Dé

Ggreat race game, once again, no-one I know likes it (sigh).

Full Métal Planète

Heaviest weight/size ratio due to metal pieces and bag of (real) rocks

G.E.V.

Great sci-fi wargame from the Ogre stable.

Gloom

Love the theme

Groo: the Game

 

Hellas

Good little 2-player game. More tactical than it looks at first.

Hera & Zeus

 

HeroQuest

 

HeroScape

Best. Bits. Ever.

Hey! That's My Fish!

Good abstract game hiding under a thin theme.

Hollow Legions - ASL Module 7

 

Hotel

Hate this, worst game ever. My kids love it, I think they play it just to annoy me.

Ice War

 

Illuminati

 

Imperium Romanum : The Clash of Legions

 

Imperium Romanum II

 

India Rails

 

Iron Dragon

 

Java

Lovely looking pieces with a great game. Or should that be the other way round?

Jungle Speed

Snap, but all growed up. Great fun.

Junta

 

Kahuna

Fun 2-player game.

King of the Elves

 

Kingmaker

 

Krieg und Frieden

Bought this on a work trip to Germany in a frenzy of game-buying. Hadn’t read the reviews.

Labyrinth Card Game

 

The London Game

 

Lord of the Rings

 

Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game

 

Lost Cities

The daddy of two-player filler games

Magic: The Gathering CCG

Fabilous CCG, if you stick to the pre-made decks, and don’t get sucked into the collecting.

Maskenball Venezia

 

Melee

 

Memoir '44

Great WW2 wargame, simple, quick enough for a couple of games in an evening, and fun with great bits.

Memoir '44 - Eastern Front

Expansions!

Memoir '44 - Pacific Theater

I

Memoir '44 - Terrain Pack

Love

Memoir '44 - Winter/Desert Board Map

Them!

Mertwig's Maze

Old Tom Wham game, fun in it’s day.

Mexica

Good

Munchkin

 

Munchkin 2: Unnatural Axe

 

Munchkin Bites!

 

Munchkin Fu

 

Mystery Rummy: Jack the Ripper

 

Netrunner

Fabulous CCG, sadly discontinued, buy a starter if you can, that’s all you need to play.

Nippon Rails

 

Ogre

 

Olympica

 

Outrage! Steal the Crown Jewels

 

Paratrooper - ASL Module 2

 

Partisan - ASL Module 4

 

Pass the Pigs

 

Pirate's Cove

I liked it, No-one else did. This is a bit of a theme here.

Plunder

 

Poleconomy

 

Power Grid

Good game, strong mechanics, but ugly board.

Princes of Florence

Wonderful game

Puerto Rico

A game with well-deserved classic status

Puerto Rico Expansion

 

Reef Encounter

 

Res Publica

 

Risk

 

San Juan

Puerto Rico in card form, good game.

Saboteur

Scotland Yard

 

Seelöwe

The first wargame I bought

Settlers of Catan Card Game

 

Settlers of Catan

 

Shadows over Camelot

 

Shogun

 

Space Hulk

 

Space Hulk - Deathwing Expansion

 

Space Hulk - Genestealer expansion

 

Squad Leader

ASL without the rulebook

Star Munchkin

 

Star Munchkin 2: The Clown Wars

 

Star Trek CCG

 

Star Trek the Next Generation Collectible Dice Game

 

Starfarers of Catan

 

Stock Market Game

 

Streets of Fire - ASL Deluxe Module 1

 

Super Munchkin

 

Theophrastus

Great in small doses, a bit of a brain-burner

Ticket to Ride

Currently the best introduction game

Tigris & Euphrates

 

Tikal

Tile game of exploring, great game

Titan

 

Traders of Genoa

Good game, a lot of interaction.

Viking Fury

 

Viktory II

 

War of the Ring

 

Warcraft - The Boardgame

 

Warhammer 40,000

 

West of Alamein - ASL Module 5

 

Wizard

 

Wooden Ships & Iron Men

 

Yahtzee

 

Yanks - ASL Module 3

 

Zombies!!!

 

Zoon