I logged 2000 plays on BoardGameGeek
About 18 years ago, I started logging all my board game and tabletop plays on BoardGameGeek. A few days ago, I logged my 2000th play (a two-player game of EXIT: The game ): See the full post here
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Asterian Kalyshi
A troop of Kalyshi for my Asterians . See the full post here
My Warhammer rulebook collection
At the time when Games Workshop killed Warhammer Fantasy, I had played it for about ten years. And before that, I played Warhammer 40.000 for about five years. During these fifteen years, I’ve accumulated quite a large collection of rulebooks and army books. Especially when I started playing Warhammer Fantasy, I didn’t just buy the book for my own army, but also the books for almost…
SPIEL Essen 2025
Essen 2025 is over, and here’s my yearly Essen post. As always, I went through all the games in the GeekPreview (1368 this year!) and picked a mixture of gamer’s games and family/kid’s games. This year, I played 12 games altogether (7 on day 2, almost on par with my record from last year). See the full post here
The 'Gaslands Refuelled' car
This is my version of the blue/white car from the Gaslands: Refuelled cover art, as close to the original as I could get it: See the full post here
Wrecked cars for Gaslands
Another terrain piece for playing Gaslands on my desert board : some wrecked cars half-buried in sand. See the full post here
SPIEL Essen 2024
A month has passed since Essen 2024, but finally: here are the images I took and the games I played this year. As every year, I went through all >1000 games in the GeekPreview . It contains about the same number of games as last year (ca. 1230 in each year, I just checked last year’s preview while writing this) , but somehow I ended up with nearly twice as much “Must have” and…
Unboxing Worms - The Board Game
Last winter, I backed Worms - The Board Game on Kickstarter. My package finally arrived this week and today, I unboxed it. This is the Mayhem Pledge - the cheaper one. The only add-on that I bought was the German language pack, because my native language is German. See the full post here
SPIEL Essen 2023
One year passed, I wrote no new post since my first Essen post, and now it’s October again…Essen time! Like last year, I went for two days, Thursday and Friday. And I went through the complete GeekPreview again and picked a mixture of complex games (for me) and lighter games (playable with kids) . I ended up with about 10 “Must have” and way too many…
SPIEL Essen 2022
This year, I was finally able to attend the SPIEL fair at Essen again. The last year I was there was 2019 (IIRC, that was my 13th year in a row) . 2020 was a virtual event because of Covid, and 2021 was in-person again, but I wasn’t able to go because of time constraints/family commitments. This year, I went there for two days, Thursday and Friday. Although I had already planned to write…
Humble Beginnings - Space Marines and Terrain
When I was a teenager in the 90s, a friend of mine owned Battle Masters (or “Die Claymore Saga”, as it was called in German) , and we played it many times. Around 1995, the same friend discovered Warhammer 40.000 somewhere, and bought the 2nd edition starter box. I was fascinated by all of this and bought a box of Space Marines and some paints, and built some terrain pieces as well. So…
Gaslands Gates, unpainted
Here are some built (but unpainted) gates for Gaslands, for the “Death Race” scenario. The “posts” on the first picture are from a TTCombat set. (it was called “Gothic Street Accessories” or something like that, but I can’t find it on their website anymore, it seems to be out of print.) The posts on the second one are dowels with some left-over spear tips…
Sacred Ground for Age of Magic: Crypta
Here’s a nearly finished terrain piece, a crypta for use as a Sacred Ground in Saga: Age of Magic. It’s based on the one in the Age of Magic rulebook (page 22 in the German book, no idea which page it is in the English book) . The base is exactly 10cm square (4 inch / Saga “M”) , the recommended maximum size for Sacred Ground terrain pieces. The basic structure is a…
Chaos Dwarf Conversions
I have a fully assembled Chaos Dwarf army (made up mostly of GW’s classic “big hat” models, plus some Mantic non-dwarf models for use as Abyssal Dwarfs in Kings of War) , which is not yet in the gallery on this site because not a single model is painted. The whole army is already a few years old, but it contains some nice conversions, which I thought would make a good first post…
Gaslands
Some cars and terrain for Gaslands. I didn’t play the game (yet), but liked the idea of converting toy cars. The terrain is meant to be used on my desert board. See the full gallery here
Asterians
A small Asterian force, used for Deadzone. See the full gallery here
Undead
The undead are my largest army so far (and the one with the most painted models). I started collecting them in 2005 and played Warhammer Fantasy with them for about 10 years, spanning multiple rules editions and multiple Vampire Counts army books. During that time, I built/converted some models that never had any official rules in Warhammer, like the cannon and the werewolves. Initially I did it…
Desert Board
I originally built the desert board for playing Warhammer 40.000 with my Orks. At that time, the only existing terrain pieces were the hills and the large skull, plus some industry terrain pieces (not shown here). When I started playing Warhammer Fantasy, I didn’t have enough terrain suitable for Fantasy because I couldn’t use the industry pieces, so I gradually built the rest shown…
Space Orks
My first complete army. I started collecting/painting and playing Warhammer 40.000 with them in 2002, until about 2005/2006, when I switched to Warhammer Fantasy. The Orks were unused in a box for years, until I started playing Deadzone in 2016, where I’m using them as Marauders. See the full gallery here