Sebastian_Arngrim

As every year, I am doing inventory of my pre-orders. What am I waiting for? Check out in below article! theboardgameschronicle.com/2026/03/27/my-… @gmtgames @danverssengames @SoundofDrums22 @___PHALANX @VUCASimulations @fortcircle @LederGames @colewehrle @markherman54 @JasonDCMatthews

PROJECT - OST Front 1944 set up for OCS

One of best naval wargames I’ve played is “Port Arthur” by Nuts games. Not only is it unbelievably beautiful and compact, but it has a wonderfully intuitive naval operations engine and unique battle resolution system. The game comes in a wonderfully ornamental “bento box” with a colorful board, unique ship counters, and meeples of Japanese soldiers. This is another Sea Control game, and is a better representative of this concept as a game than Kaiser’s High Seas Fleet. The goal of the Japanese is to maintain control of the sea zones where their naval transports land troops every turn. As these advance, they have the options to threaten Vladivostok, or to besiege and subsequently capture Port Arthur. The Russians must contest and dominate these sea zones to prevent the Japanese from taking Mukden and score more victory points than the Japanese by spreading their fleet thin and striking their weaker forces. By the fifth turn the Russian Baltic Fleet will arrive bringing more battleships to the scene of action. Until then, the Russians are outnumbered. Though they have more battleships, they are weaker and slower than the British-built ones of the Japanese. The naval operations and initiative system yield a bevy of action and response options at every phase, with squadrons chasing one another down, returning wounded squadrons to port, raiding into distant zones and seeking one another out in decisive engagement with maximum advantage. Battle itself is resolved using a wholly unique system of “bidding” a number of dice against the combined firepower of your squadron. If the aggregate number of your roll is less than the firepower, then you inflict as much damage as the dice you rolled. If you roll more, then the damage you inflict can be seriously impaired. Damage is allocated by the targeted player. Rolling doubles inflicts critical hits and are allocated by the targeting player. Ships can be at full strength, or at a damaged strength. They also have speeds where a squadron can move, operationally, no “faster” than the slowest ship making pursuits nail-biting affairs. But the fastest ship in the squadron determines firing order. An initiative token can be spent and given to the other player to gain incidental advantages, and a single turn can have multiple phases of battles, pursuits, sorties depending on a series of initiative rolls. The Russians need to buy time until the Baltic Fleet arrives, and the availability of the Vladivostok squadron creates a useful threat against distant sea zones the Japanese will tend to weakly patrol. The Russians need to coordinate their sorties of their more numerous battleships with that of the Vladivostok cruisers to keep the Japanese spread thin and off balance. At the end of a random series of phases that concludes a turn, by controlling one of the two landing zones they can halt or delay the advance of the Japanese army on the mainland. Preventing the Japanese Army from occupying the heights above Port Arthur is vital, otherwise damaged ships can no longer be repaired, including the latter arriving Baltic Fleet. If I have to recommend a brilliant, gorgeous, compact and quickplaying naval ship wargame, this is the one you need to start with first.

トランスギャラクティカ→SENSU トランスギャラクティカ、中盤まで20VP差近く離されていたトップに最終盤追い付き一時逆転！終了時VPで最下位転落したものの、ドリル戦略は強かった。 扇子、手札を組み合わせて20を作る。骨の数が多い1のカードなど小さい数字を含めないと扇子の完成が遅すぎる。

(1/2) For the past two days I have attended STRATEGOS - a local Warsaw convention. Great time spent with like-minded players. Yesterday we brough to the table Bretwalda - great game from @___PHALANX. What a close play it was, with super quick finisher!

@Lady_Astor My wife drops in at my sis in law’s Catholic wives’ book club when she’s able. They read stuff like Elizabeth Gaskell, cormac McCarthy, Margaret Mitchell, and Sigrid Undset. Guys don’t go.

My favourite board games, in no particular order: Axis and Allies G40 Twilight Imperium Star Wars Rebellion War of the Ring Bretwalda Root Purple Haze Werwolf Cuba Libre History of the World Viticulture Ahoy Merchants and Marauders Scythe Fire in the Lake One Hour WW2 Unhappy King Charles Paths of Glory Castelnuovo 1539 Nevsky Dune Imperium: Uprising Gallipoli: Ordered to Die Race to the Rhine Empire of the Sun Age of Napoleon Bobby Lee Triumph and Tragedy

ひっさびさにがっつりボドゲ遊べて満足🥳 ナショナルエコノミーおもしろかったなぁ 経済経営、拡大再生産系大好きだけど意外と家にあまりもってないから ほしくなっちゃった🥹 大好きなパズル系のゲームもたっぷり遊べてほんと大満足！ リフレッシュできた☺ また明日からもがんばろ🥳

Are you ready!?

Heading to Portugal tomorrow for LeiraCon. So I decided to kill a day getting my evolving Alphastrike minis primed (I’ll paint when I get back) but I wanted to play. So I stuck bookmark flags on the pieces and then made my first move. Now reading the rules in more depth.

Latest Monthly GMT Update (mailchi.mp/e8e1e3706c71/m…) presents the progress on development of Twilight Struggle Anniversary Edition. The components looks very nice and we are going to get a great product! @gmtgames @JasonDCMatthews

I was a fan, sad

Poco a poco voy avanzando la campaña de Tales from the red dragon inn. De momento sigo muy contento con el juego. Ahora en el capítulo dos nuevos enemigos y nuevas formas de pensar cada turno

You just got a call from your friends. "Let's do a game night." Problem? They mostly play UNO and Monopoly, yet are curious why you're so into it. What is the first game you are playing ?

Warrior Knights a 5 jugadores. Qué felicidad. A saber cuándo volveré a jugarlo…

「1944: Race to the Rhine」。３人会ということで、十数年積んでいたこれを投入。パットン、モントゴメリー、ブラッドレーとなって、枢軸軍を撃破しながらライン渡河の一番乗りを目指すゲーム。ルールがめっちゃ読みにくく、理解が不十分ながらもとりあえずスタート。

Beyond the Rhine (MMP / OCS) — Market Garden to the Rhine, autumn 1944. Dean Essig's OCS engine at its Western Front best. Supply, exploitation, friction. One of the great operational WWII designs. 🎖️ #wargaming #boardgames #wwii #ocs

#ZhanguoTheFirstEmpire fácil de mecánicas , 🤯 de optimización, grata sorpresa #juegosdemesamodernos #bgg @ArrakisGames

Grandísimo juego el Dead Reckoning. 3 horazas de goce total. @alderac qué magnífico juego

Colonists, all 4 eras! It's not a quick game... but really fun!