Montanaman. Games | Profile | dave_au. I started out with games playing Go. A while after that I heard about Set and got myself a copy, and it was a hit with my girlfriend, my family and my friends. Sometime after that I saw a list of boardgames on a website that I frequented, which listed Go along with Settlers of Catan, Puerto Rico and a handful of other games. Then I ran into another list on another site, and then another. This happened over the course of about a year, after which I started doing some research which very quickly led me to BGG. I read a large number of reviews and eventually ordered Carcassonne and Puerto Rico.
I've recently gotten into BSW and other avenues for online games - as well as being a great way to play some games with friends and family from all over the place it's also helped guide some of my purchasing decisions. I moved to Brisbane in late 2009, and have started going along to the Critical Mass and LXG gatherings, which are awesome. Ozboy. Ianjohn. Ozvortex. Check out my blog at Check out my YouTube channel at I also enjoy playing video games on PC, Xbox 360, Wii & PS3, however my online gaming is mostly with the PS3 and PC.My gamertag on PSN is DocShatgun.My Steam Account name is Ozvortex. If you send me a friend request please let me know your BGG username. I log all games played. Boardgames are logged per play, however video games are logged per day (i.e. no matter how many times, or how long, I play a specific video game on a single day I only log 1 play of that particular video game). Some random facts about myself: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Tomster. Ibn_ul_khattab. My avatar is a painting a friend of mine did recently of me, it has changed so watch out Our podcast The Noise Before defeat has been released, check it out join our guild as well, feed back both negative and positive is appreciated. I'm an American that has lived in New Zealand for 16 years. I grew up playing miniature wargames and republic of rome. I eventually gravitated towards wargames. I also like euros and some AT. I'm trying to rate using the BGG guide, but I am still updating them all, this should skew them higher. Top ten are my top ten favourite games. My list of favourite images I've had declined and probably for good reason to be honest. ZirkvandenBerg. I discovered wargames in the early 1980s in South Africa. I was in the army at the time, but had far more interest in make-believe games than the unpleasant and morally complex real stuff. I played mostly lightish wargames, briefly peaking with Squad Leader and Up Front.
Through sheer stupidity I sold most of my games. In 1998, I moved to New Zealand and took up the hobby again when my son got old enough to play. I'm attracted mostly to game theme, the narrative aspect and the social interaction, rather than being very competitive. As I play more, I become clearer about my own tastes and realise that BGG rankings don't mean a hell of a lot to me. I do business writing for a living and write fiction for fun. Peter Palmer. Minedog3. Marketplace. Shawn_low. Topkat. GeneSteeler. I've been playing video games since I've first seen a computer screen. I primarily like games with some strategic element as opposed to just button mashing. (ie. Prefer Bioshock over Doom) On VGG you'll normally see me commenting here: Video Games Beaten by VGGers in 2013. Although I have been known to visit the arcade or write the odd review. I've been playing serious boardgames for 30 years starting deep within the Avalon Hill years.
Melissa Dreger AustraliaBallaratVictoria My bestest gaming buddy! My Friendless Stats Page Recent Plays My Top 10 list is my favourite games that I really want to play that are not on my Hot 10 list. My Hot 10 list contains the top 10 games I'm playing currently or currently playing a lot of. Secret Santa Dec 4, 2007: Back from India and my Secret Santa gift has arrived! Feb 5, 2009: Secret Santa arrived! Sep 24, 2009: 340 Games owned!!! Dec 2, 2009: Secret Santa arrived! Full details here. b5mith. Gomez. Wolvendancer. NYMAN. Toirules. Iddon. Chief_Chemist. Ross_menzies. Dougadamsau. Johnnebauer. Lawrence Hung. Lawrence Hung a CPA working for an internal audit department of a public company. My leisure time is spent on 1. watching movies 2. playing board wargames (WW2, WW1 and Ancients) 3. PC computer games (wargames, strategy, RPG, on-line games, soccer management, simulation games etc.)4.
Listening to Music (Alternative, Independent, Melodic Trance music)5. Taking care of Loretta the Beauty I have a special interest in military history (especially the Russo-German War "the Eastern Front", in WW2). I played board wargames over 30 years. I am a Catholic and like to read religious/ philosophic/ economic books. I am a geek of the classical economics, of Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, Ronald Coase, Steven NS Cheung, and although I don't believe in it, Karl Marx's utopian economics. My all-time favourite movie directors are (in no particular order):*Francoise Truffaut*Jean Renoir*Christophe Kieslowski*Alfred Hitchcock*Akira Kurosawa The BGG Hot 10 are the current favorites. Railroader. Irreg77. Atraxrobustus. Petegs. Hi I'm Pete.And it's about time I introduced myself.I'm a librarian who loves to play Wargames and Ameritrash and Euros as well.My collection contains too many unplayed games but I'm trying to get through them one at a time.
See here for more information.I've also started writing reviews and the geeklist listing my reviews can be found here.As someone who finds their reading (something I love to do) inspired by the games they play I've started a record of the books that my games have insipred me to read, which is here.I've also just started a blog to record my playthroughs, which can be found here. My top ten list is a list of some of my favourite games and my hot ten list is a list of the games I'm reading rules for or playing at the moment. Flkiss2003. Wargaming since mid-1970s - first boardgame: Russian Campaign (Jedko, pre-AH version) and haven't stopped since. Favourite eras: Ancient, ACW & WWII - at strategic, operational or tactical levels. Favourite publishers: GMT, Gamers, GRD and the sadly missed SPI & GDW. [Also sadly missed are the pre-TSR style S&T and XTR's Command magazines. C3i is a great support for their great games.] Given time/space constraints in life am getting more into the single map "card driven/area movement strategic" games like PoG, WtP, FtP, Hannibal, Successors, etc.
Lately getting into Lock 'n Load series of tactical wargames and the DVG Leader solitaire games ... more fun and no need to refer to an arcane ASL-sized "phonebook" of rules (and exceptions to rules). PC gaming intensively since 2005, starting out with FPS games and finally joining my son on PS3 commencing in 2013. Regularly review and blog at GameSpot as Perth2008: Aussie550. About me : I like poetry, long walks on the beach andpoking dead things with a stick... The young one chillin out.. ..and psyching out Dad. [c] "There may be other universes based on all sorts of principles, but ours is based on war and games.
" - William S. "When we are in game worlds, many of us become thebest of ourselves. "There is a curious thing about the human mind.When we play games, we get the most fascination fromthose that satisfactorily combine skill and chance...there is sort of optimum middle where order andrandomness go together. " "Gaming should be the necessary means by which people who are really involved in crisis continuouly game out their skills. " "We were not making silly-ass games to amuse our contemporaries amongst the baby boomers. "The game was not mere practice and mere recreation; it became a form of concentrated self-awareness for intellectuals"-Hermann Hesse 'The Glass Bead Game' 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) Da pyrate. Earthboot. Southern_cross_116.