Games – Meditations

April 22, 2020

Railway Empire

Yes and no. It’s a tough choice even though I know I’ll be putting more hours into this. It is one of the better…

January 24, 2018

I came upon this book while reading ‘The Wall’, a story about the construction and general history of Hadrian’s Wall. It mentioned this Roman game…

August 2, 2017

Bird’s Opening leading to Stonewall Attack is one of my favourite chess openings these days. Admittedly, all of my friends know this now and…

July 29, 2017

I find Risk to be an entirely invigorating game. The standard methodology of the World map is, however, not nearly as interesting as the…

July 4, 2014

I just noticed a hnefatafl game… and it sounds interesting. For those who do not know, hnefatafl is an old Norse game, which focuses…

June 4, 2013

As I’ve mentioned before, I have restrained from commenting much on games in the past. Or, at least, I have avoided commenting on the…

May 27, 2013

I’ve generally avoided commenting on games for some reason, but I do remember having posted on Crusader Kings II some time ago. That is…

July 20, 2012

Amongst the many things I’ve wished to post here, has been the relatively recent experience for me of the computer game ‘Dear Esther’. While…

February 25, 2012

Having recently bought the new Paradox game Crusader Kings II, I have already managed to spend a fair amount of time trying to carve…