Spiel: Boardgaming in the UK

The winners of the 2008 IGA have been announced. In the multi-player category the winner was Agricola, designed by Uwe Rosenberg and published by Lookout Games / Z-Man Games. The winner of the two-player category was 1960: The Making of the President, designed by Jason Matthews and Christian Leonhard and published again by Z-Man Games.

Both games are excellent and their choice as award recipients does not come as any surprise. Congratulations to the designers and publishers. More information about the awards can be found on the IGA website.

The next session of the Shrewsbury Boardgames Club will take place on Friday 26th September 2008 and will be at Garry’s house. If there’s eight of us this week, which seems likely at present, I’m planning to split into two tables of four.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Right now, I’ve got four games on Ebay due to end on Tuesday. These are Goldland, Santiago, Nautilus and Cheops. Get them now while they’re still cheap.

The winner of this year’s DSP has just been announced. The winner was Agricola, designed by Uwe Rosenberg and published by Lookout Games / Z-Man Games. The complete top ten was:

1. AGRICOLA Uwe Rosenberg (Lookout Games) 
2. STONE AGE Michael Tummelhofer (Hans im Glück)
3. CUBA  Michael Rieneck und Stefan Stadler (eggertspiele)
4. IM JAHR DES DRACHEN Stefan Feld (alea/Ravensburger)
5. TRIBUN Karl-Heinz Schmiel (Heidelberger Spieleverlag/MOSKITO-Spiele)
6. HAMBURGUM Walther “Mac” Gerdts (eggertspiele)
7. GALAXY TRUCKER Vlaada Chvatil (Czech Games Edition)
8. KELTIS Reiner Knizia (Kosmos)
9. WIE VERHEXT! Andreas Pelikan (alea/Ravensburger)
10. METROPOLYS Sébastien Pauchon (Ystari)

Due to the number of keen gamers this Friday, 19th September 2008, John and I have agreed that we’ll meet at my house. Thanks to John for offering his place though this week.

Warfrog’s latest range of games, the Treefrog imprint, started in June with the release of Tinners’ Trail. The next to be released is After The Flood, a game strictly for three players, set in ancient Mesopotamia.

The game will be released at Essen and further details can be found on the Warfrog website.

Apologies for the need to cancel last Friday. I did eventually get through the floods and got through the door at 7.20pm. Anyway, barring other natural phenomena, the next session of the Shrewsbury Boardgames Club will take place on Friday 12 September 2008 at Garry’s house.

Well, the Lamont brothers are back at Essen this year with a new game, this time about husky dog racing. Brief details and how to pre-order one of the limited 1,000 copies are on the Fragor Games website.

A more detailed preview is also available on Boardgamenews. As a fan of clever race games, this one looks to be right up my street.

Continuing my week-on week-off pattern over the summer months, I am back in action this week so the next session of the Shrewsbury Boardgames Club will be on Friday 22nd August 2008 at Garry’s house.

After three weeks’ absence, I am now back and raring to play some games (well for this week, at least, as I’ll be travelling back from Canada next Friday). So our next session of the Shrewsbury Boardgames Club will be held on Friday 8th August at Garry’s house.