Games of the Year

For all of those who know me, I collect board games, frequent boardgame sites and and everything else that is involved with being a board game nerd. http://fortressat.com/ has a good group of people that contribute, maintain and review everything that could hit the tabletop. I ran across a piece that asked for participation in rating published games for the year, http://fortressat.com/index.php/articles-analysis/2977-fat-readers-choice-awards-its-time-to-vote-for-your-fat-game-of-the-year,and couldn't help but put something together. I thought I would share my post, and hopefully draw some traffic to a site filled with some pretty amazing forums:

Best 2-player Game

DreadFleet.

Since I missed out on Man’O’War and have been sorely tempted, but have so far refrained, to collect a couple fleets to play with, I have found peace with this offering. The models are sharp as fuck, the mat is lay you down by the fire sexy and the rules are Neanderthal simple to play. Plus, I’ve plied the old man with World Jr. Hockey Champ tickets to paint them all for me.

Best Storytelling/Thematic Game

Merchants and Marauders

Pirates, 2012’s zombies.

Best Card/Deckbuilding Game

Blood Bowl: Team Manager

As above with Dreadfleet. I didn’t get on the bandwagon 1000 years ago and have been tempted by a few teams, this thankfully sates some of that frustration/cost. Don’t have to bribe pops to paint the teams I may have picked up otherwise.

Best Adventure(Action) Game

Ascending Empires

Not 100% where else to put this. You get to flick shit across your kitchen table while building an empire based on your dexterity Skillz. The designer is obviously from the south or some such shit as he’s designed a game that requires you not losing any of your digits to frost bite….so the non-flicking variant could come in handy, good thing I keep my digits buried in various places as to avoid that Canadian conundrum.

Best Expansion

Twilight Imperium: Shards of the Throne

I LOVE Twilight Imperium. Anything that brings this monster to the table is a shoe in for best expansion.

Best Beer n' Pretzels Game

Quarriors

Lets face it, if you drink as much as we’ve been known to, rolling dice is as complicated as shit get’s. We’ve had one of our dolls fall asleep at the table because of the amount she consumed, but with all of the dice rolling fury, she has managed to tie a few one as well as complete this steaming pile of shit. For that reason alone it’s got my vote.

GAME OF THE YEAR

Ascending Empires

I do so love flicking shit, not to be confused with tossing shit, so this one for me is tops. Am I any good at it, no, but it’s fun as fuck and I look forward to getting my arse kicked the next time it hits the table/floor/fridge/my daughter.