I'm nearing 40, and have been playing serious boardgames for 25 years starting deep within the Avalon Hill years. A Canadian, indefinitely residing in Australia. Always looking for opponants and gaming buddies.
July 4,2007: My Top 10 list contains the top 10 games I'm most itching to play. My Hot 10 list is my last 10 purchases (#1 being most recent).
Aug 8, 2007: I'm broke.
Nov 14-30, 2007: I'll be away in India. I'll miss you all!
Dec 4, 2007: Back from India and my Secret Santa gift has arrived!
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/25338/item/545669#item...Apr 9, 2008: Lack of money beginnning to be apparent as my Wishlist exceeds 100 games!
Apr 18-20, 2008: Attended ConVic 7. Had a blast playing a wide variety of games (including a 6-player game of C&C:A, Crokinole Tournament and 11 games I've never played before) and meeting a bunch of great Aussies.
June 7-8, 2008: Attended A.G.E - Australian Game sExpo. Managed to play 31 games in the two days and another 11 games the night before and the day after, finishing the long weekend with 42 games played, 21 games played for the first time.
BGG MILESTONESOct 4, 2007 - Purchased my UberGeekBadge
Dec 7, 2007 - Hit 1000 Thumbs
Mar 4, 2008 - My first Geeklist to hit 100 thumbs.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/29097/page/1Apr 23, 2008 - Hit 2000 Thumbs
BGG QUOTESTom Hancock on Friedrich, which for me summerises 'wargames', and to some extent games which use dice to a tee:
"How does direct conflict "mess up" the decision matrix? Because things are unpredictable and open ended? It sounds like it expanded the decision matrix beyond your comfort zone, and you interpreted that as a lack of "strategic depth." For people that enjoy far more complex decision trees with nearly infinite outcomes due to what the other players do, this would be a very strategically deep game.
Sounds to me like you dislike wargame-style decision matrices, NOT that the game isn't strategically deep."
