2023 Gaming: A Year in Review

2023 A YEAR OF GAMING

The year was filled with a lot of gaming, both board games and miniatures games.

I played in 11 miniatures games, 2 miniatures campaigns (10mm WW2 North Africa which has 4 simultaneous battles raging as I type this, and a 15mm ACW campaign), and 99 board games (Euros or Wargames).

Here is a summary of the year with the miniature games having a scale value beside them. I hope 2024 keeps me active in the gaming realm and I plan on running at least a half-dozen miniature games this year. 

1 x Conan (28mm)

1 x Gunfight Royale (Minis)

1 x WW2 Horrors of War (28mm)

1 x Dead Run - Modern Zombies (20mm)

1 x 55 Days in Peking (board game)

1 x Fire & Stone 

6 x Crusaders Thy Will Be Done

4 x Brian Boru

2 x No Peace without Spain

2 x War of the Triple Alliance

3 x Verdun Steel Inferno

1 x Aztec War (18mm) playtest of a Commands & Colors variant.

1 x Hansa Teutonica 

1 x Lords of Waterdeep

7 x Castles of Mad King Ludwig 

2 x Scarface 1920 

4 x Terraforming Mars 

1 x Star Trek Ascendancy

2 x Tiny Epic Pirates

1 x Assault on Gallipoli

1 x South Pacific (Empire of the Sun scenario)

1 x Evolution - weak game, won't play that again.

5 x Welcome To - this was a very different and fun game. (games are quick)

1 x FireFly

1 x For the People

1 x Battlestar Galactica

2 x SpaceCorp

2 x Suburbia

1 x History of the World (meh)

The Crew (7 missions) (5 missions)

2 x Pandemic 

2 x Piacenza, 1746

1 x AuZtralia (EB, Paige, Bill, Linda)

3 x Charioteer

1 x Rise of the Roman Republic (a big difficult mess)

1 x AMFS (A Most Fearful Sacrifice) - Outstanding game and production quality

2 x Joan of Arc

1 x Eclipse

1 x Sekigaraja (EB, Steve*)

2 x Empire of the Sun

3 x Cascadia

1 x Architects of the West Kingdom

4 x Lost Ruins of Arnak

1 x Formula De

2 x Pursuit of Glory

1 x Falling Sky (COIN game)

3 x Horrified

1 x Fertile Puffin (Fall-In) 40mm (Bill Koff's game)

1 x WWI Fire & Fury (Fall-In) 12mm - not a fan of how this worked.

1 x Here I Stand

1 x Battle of Pea Ridge ACW - 6mm Alter of Freedom (very cool)

1 x Battle of Perryville ACW - 6mm Alter of Freedom

4 x Downfall sessions

1 x JAWS

2 x Cryptid

1 x Pandemic Rome

Whew! That is quite the assortment of games with Castles of Mad King Ludwig getting the most repeat plays. 

Cheers!

Eric