


Rather than buying starter sets and overpriced miniatures for a tabletop war game, I’ve been more than pleased with Battlelore Second Edition. With several different building types, workers, and categories, players can all go in different paths and find victory. Players sail across the 15th-century landscape to discover new lands, establish colonies and trade goods, all while manipulating and managing an active economy track. Mac Gerdts is famous for his rondels, and this is probably my favorite of them. Texas Showdown is a brutal, clever game with a race to the bottom and I love it. Who would have thought I’d be a trick taking guy? But here we are eight years after initial reviews of Chronicle and Poison, and I have multiple trick takers on my top 100. With expansions and new card options, I can see it going even higher on my list.
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More interactive thanks to the dice and card auction/draft than most games in the genre, it allows several different paths to victory. Bright and beautiful artwork, unlike anything I’d seen on a euro before, Coimbra is a joy to look at and a fantastic experience. This game of dice drafting and resource management first caught my attention thanks to its cover.

The tight, near-cutthroat nature of this game, combined with the depth of strategy (one that changes for every species of creature), is addictive. I’m not generally a fan of long, arduous area control games, but Dominant Species really works for me. Anthony’s Top 100 Games of all Time (2020)Īt once initially overwhelming and deeply fulfilling, Yokohama has grown on me substantially in the last two years, especially as digital implementations make what was long a difficult game to get to the table easier to play. If you’re interested, you can also view the lists from 2015 when we did our original Top 50’s for episode 100. You can view the entirety of both lists on this page.īoth of these lists were built independently of one another, so it’s a lot of fun to see where they match up and where they don’t. For our 300th episode, we sat down and updated our top games of all time list, with Chris and Anthony both building their own personal Top 100 lists.
