Hasn’t the month gone fast? A little too fast.
Spoiler alert, but this months gaming stats are a little disappointing. Not a great number of games played.
Hopefully July will be better.
Ok here comes the bgstats stats with all that cool data.
And finally here is the little progress on the gaming challenges.
See you next month.
Stepping out of that ol’ Tardis vacated by some time lord or other that I borrowed it from. It looks like we’ve arrived at June 2016 to see what I was playing then.
I’m not sure if June was our last month of playing the Pandemic campaign but I think we were at least getting close to its conclusion.
Guilds of London was picked up at UKGE (my copy was signed by the designer) and was a pretty solid game. It’s only real drawback was the steep learning curve with the iconography.
Marco Polo a great dice placement game, and those game breaking variable player powers. Great fun.
It’s interesting that five of the months top played games are “pocket” sized games that finished in under forty minutes. That filler game bracket.
Ashes is a great lcg, with unique mechanics such as picking your starting hand from your deck, and the use of dice. It’s such a shame that the publisher screwed it up which relegated it to a niche game in that space.
Here is the full list of games played in June.
That’s the trip to the past over and done with. Time to pop back into that police box and try to return to the present day.
A new month and time for that brain dump of useless info about my gaming for the previous month.
As per usual for these posts I’ll just post the info with no waffle.
Here we go…
Now the “raw” data.
Finally an update on the progress made on my gaming challenges.
Another month nearly gone, which means I’ll be sharing the monthly gaming stats with you in an imminent post. But before then it’s time to jump in that ol’ Delorean and revisit May 2016.
Yep we were still working our way through the Pandemic Legacy Season 1 campaign. Still enjoying its twists and turns.
The stand out game of this month looks like a game only a select few have played and that’s Ladybug Lunch. An enjoyable little card game. For the record the game was designed by Jonathan so contractually I have to say that. If I remember correctly his daughter has a card named after her in it. Which is scant consultation for knowing I am and will be forever the reigning Fenland Gamers Bohemian Villages champion.
And that’s a nice segway into saying we played Bohemian Villages this month. For some reason this game never got the love it deserved. It definitely flew under the radar. Which is a shame. It’s a great little game.
Nations the dice game I enjoyed (it’s still in the collection) and was part of a small trend at the time of producing dice versions of a particular game.
Traders of Osaka was a purchase after seeing Wil Wheaton and pals play it on a Tabletop episode if memory doesn’t fail me. Once again a nice game that should get to the table more often.
Ok time for some stats…
And now for those that like lists here is one.
That’s about it for this post see you around the same time next month for another flashback.
Last day of the month, my birthday, and all gaming done.
So it’s time to share my stats for April.
Now for the “raw” data.
Finally my game challenge progress.
It’s getting close to the end of the month and time once again to look back to days of old and see what I was playing way back when.
So it looks like we were still working our way through the Pandemic Legacy Season 1 campaign.
I’ve not played any Fluxx game in years. They are fun. Might have to dig one out and get it to the table. Mustn’t forget the house rule that if the game hasn’t ended within 30 mins to stop playing. Else it will go on forever.
I miss Android Netrunner. It is a great game, just oozing theme. Shame it joined that long list of dead games (yes I know fans are doing new stuff for it).
Not sure when I last played a physical copy of Star Realms. All my game play is with the digital version. But that won’t stop me backing this years Kickstarter for it!
Ok here are the months gaming stats.
Here’s that complete list of everything I played in April 2016.
See you in next months flashback.
Ok I know I usually do these posts at the start of a new month. But I have no gaming planned until Saturday. So I thought I’d get a head start and bore you with the stats for March now.
So less waffle…
I had this idea this morning as I drifted in and out of sleep to do a series of posts that look back at yesteryear and the games I was playing that month.
Obviously there is only so far I can go back as I have only been recording game plays in the bgstat app since December 2015.
I thought I’d start the flashbacks with that first full year of data that I have, which is 2016.
I’m not going to do news headlines for the month. But the mess that is Batman v Superman hit the cinemas in March 2016. As did the dire sequel to Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen (which I took Nathan to see).
So what were my top 9 games that I played back in March 2016?
Only Android Netrunner from those 9 is no longer in my collection. I still have very fond memories of playing the game. In fact I still use it as a measuring stick that I judge similar games by. I still rate the game very highly. Still love the Android universe.
Obviously I play a lot of Star Realms and Epic the Card Game but digitally. I just don’t get the opportunity to play either as physical games. It might even seem a little odd if I did!
Batman Love Letter still gets to the table. Still a great version and my favourite Love Letter.
Five Tribes, 7 Wonders, and Discoveries need a bit of gaming love with a return to the table. Maybe that could be a new challenge at some point, games that haven’t been played in over a certain number of years.
Let’s look at the stats summary for the month.
For those with even less of a life than me, and wish to see the complete list of games I played that month. Here you go.
That was a cool little exercise. Let’s do it again real soon.
I do feel a bit guilty about these posts where all I do is post the months stats without any comment. They seem a very lazy post to do!
But hey ho, it is what it is!
Here are this months stats.
Finally here is the current progress on the gaming challenges I created at the start of the year.
It’s a new month, and it means it’s time to share my gaming stats from the bgstat app for last month.
I’ll stick to the “new” format of just presenting the stats with no rambling commentary that was just waffle anyway.
Here are the “raw” stats for the month. Don’t forget the time stat is b.s. as I don’t record this. It’s what ever the app uses as a default.
Now for the challenges summary.
