The Maine Gamer: Archive

Jan 9th

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Boardgamegeek announces Golden Geek 2011 award...

Boardgamegeek announced this year’s Golden Geek award winners via Twitter at BGGcon this past weekend. Congratulations to all the winners! Game of the Year: Dominant Species. Best Family: 7 Wonders Best Strategy: Dominant Species Best Wargame: A Few Acres of Snow Best Abstract: Paris Connection Best Cardgame: 7 Wonders Best Thematic: Mansion of Madness Best Children’s Game: Tier auf Tier:...

Nov 21st

Tabletop Gaming Modeling Tips and Tricks via Make...

Gareth Branwyn (editor-in-chief of Make Online) has written a wonderfully detailed article revealing some of his tips and tricks for model building and crafting in tabletop miniature gaming. In the early aughts, I ran a popular and well-regarded tabletop wargame modeling and converting site called 40K Konversions. It was dedicated to all forms of modeling related to the Warhammer 40,000...

Oct 26th

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Jay Tummelson of Rio Grand Games displays the components of the new Anniversary Edition of Puerto Rico. (Earlier today, live from Essen Spiel in Germany).

Oct 21st

SnowCon Game Master registration is open!

Interested in running a game at SnowCon Maine? SnowCon Game Master registration is now open! SnowCon GMs will also receive a swank, exclusive SnowCon t-shirt! Visit http://snowconmaine.com/main/run-a-game for the details. Attendee pre-registration will open November 1st.

Oct 17th

Oct 13th

A Drunken Bastard's Brief Review of Red Dragon Inn

First off let me spoil this review but stating that I thoroughly enjoyed playing this game, and not just because I won. As I sit amongst my winnings I foggily recall that I got together with a group of my old fraternity brothers from college. Apparently someone brought along copies Red Dragon Inn (1, 2 & 3) by Slugfest Games. It’s a decent game in its own right, but toss into the mix...

Oct 5th

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Creating a Wargame Hex Grid in Adobe Illustrator

tgov: Recently I have been having a conversation via email with another wargame designer regarding the drawing of wargame maps. He has provided some wonderful insight into the process he uses and I asked him where he gets his blank hex grid he uses for most maps. He sent me the file he uses and mentioned that there had to be an easier way to make hexes for a wargame map than using a scanned...

Aug 29th

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Northern New England BGG Meet-up, August 13th,...

Attention northern New England BGG users and fellow board gamers from across the state Maine! The Maine Gamer is happy to announce the Northern New England Board Game Geek Meet-up, August 13th (Saturday) in Brunswick, Maine! We’ve reserved a large, air conditioned community room at the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick for this day long event. Bring your favorite strategy, war and family...

Aug 3rd

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The Industrialist: A Free Home-brew Settlers of...

A few weeks ago I released a home-brewed victory card expansion for Settlers of Catan called “The Industrialist”. I’ve made a slight revision to the rules and the card text. The revision is now incorporated into the original post along with the revised victory card. The text on the card was changed from “2 Victory Points! The first player to acquire 2 factories and...

Jul 28th

Jul 27th

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Maine Historical Wargamers Association Flea...

Join the Maine Historical Wargamers Association on Saturday August 6th, for their first annual Wargamers Flea Market and Game Day at United Lodge in Brunswick. Browse tables filled with miniatures, books, board games, maybe complete armies, even a vendor or two! Bring some of your own to sell or to trade. The flea market will run from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon at the United Lodge, 65 Baribeau Drive,...

Jul 23rd

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Fantasy Flight Games is Hiring

Interested in working in the hobby gaming industry? Fantasy Flight Games of Roseville, Minnesota, publisher of many popular board games, card games, roleplaying games, and tabletop games, is hiring for the following positions (details about each position available in the pdf documents linked below): Associate Graphic Designer (pdf, 464 KB) Associate LCG Designer (pdf, 456 KB) ...

Jul 14th

Jul 11th

Z-Man Games acquired by Filosofia

Twitter and BGG are agog with the news that Canadian game company Filosofia has acquired Z-Man Games. Apparently this news was divulged at the Origins Game Fair over the weekend. Hopefully we’ll see an official press release from either company sometime this week. The folks at the Tric Trac web site have “Le scoop du samedi!” regarding Filosofia’s acquisition. For those...

Jun 26th

Jun 22nd

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Maine Game Designer: Patrick Rael

The Maine Gamer would like to introduce the Maine Game Designer as our first recurring feature. Our first featured Maine game designer has combined an obvious interest in history with that of boardgames. Bowdoin College Associate Professor of History Patrick Rael is the creator of Plantation, a game in which players compete in building plantation empires in the New World. Plantation is a deck...

Jun 13th

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Jun 10th

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Jun 8th

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The Industrialist (Free Home-brew Catan Expansion)

A factories and wealth expansion for Settlers of Catan (revised) By Mark Leaman The Industrialist victory point card may be used with basic Settlers of Catan or with either (or both) the Harbormaster card expansion and the Rivers of Catan expansion found in Catan: Traders & Barbarians. You may use the gold coins and Glassworks markers (as factory markers) that come with Catan: Traders...

Jun 2nd

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