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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 5135452" data-attributes="member: 3586">A few notes from someone who has played some of these games...Board Game Castle Panic - Fireside Games Endeavor - Z-Man Games Small World - Days of Wonder Space Hulk - Games Workshop Steam - Mayfair Games Incredibly - or perhaps not so incredibly, given my current state - I've played all of the boardgames on this list. Castle Panic is the least of them by a fair way. It's okay (perhaps) for young children, but not much more than that.Interestingly, three of these games are rereleases or rethemes: Small World was originally published as Vinci, but the job Days of Wonder has done with it is astonishing. It'd be a worthy winner. Steam is a redone Age of Steam and has a fair bit of controversy about it, due to the ongoing legal issues between Martin Wallace and Winsome Games. It's a very impressive game, though. Space Hulk is now very old-school, but the components are brilliant and the game is still solid. Endeavour is a nice eurogame with a lot of good gameplay; it also has a superb box; the components are good but on a level below those of Small World and Space Hulk.Honestly, of the remaining four games, I can't really guess which would win.Roleplaying Game Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space – Cubicle 7 Entertainment Eclipse Phase – Catalyst Game Labs FantasyCraft – Crafty Games A Song of Ice And Fire – Green Ronin Publishing Supernatural Roleplaying Game – Margaret Weis Productions The only one of these I've even looked at is Doctor Who. It needs to win. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Miniatures Rules BattleTech: Strategic Operations – Catalyst Game Labs HAVOC: Tactical Miniatures Warfare – Voodoo Ink Publishing Larger Than Life – Two Hour Wargames Warhammer 40K: Planetstrike – Games Workshop Warmachine Prime Mk II – Privateer Press Warmachine has been getting a lot of very enthusiastic fans at my FLGS; although I'm unlikely to investigate it due to my love of BattleTech, it's done some very, very good things.Game-Related Book BattleTech: 25 Years of Art and Fiction – Catalyst Game Labs The Best of All Flesh – Elder Signs Press Cthulhu 101 – Atomic Overmind Press Deluge – Pinacle Entertainment Group Legend of the Five Rings: Death at Koten – Alderac Entertainment Group That BattleTech books is very, very nice. I hope it wins.Historical Board Game or Expansion The Hell of Stalingrad – Clash of Arms Games Richard III: War of the Roses – Columbia Games Conflict of Heroes: Storms of Steel – Academy Games D-Day at Omaha Beach – Decision Games Unhappy King Charles – GMT GamesThe only game here I don't know anything about is The Hell of Stalingrad. (Research says it's made by a small game publisher, has excellent reports of the game play, less so of the components).Richard III is the latest in Columbia Games' set of block games; if you've played Hammer of the Scots, Richard III is similar in tone: good fun, not especially groundbreaking.The same could be said of Conflict of Heroes: Storms of Steel, the follow-up to the previous year's Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear. It doesn't quite work for me, but it has gorgeous components and good game play.D-Day at Omaha Beach is unusual: a solo wargame (two players can play it, both taking the same side - that of the invading forces). Nice concept, and good game play.Unhappy King Charles is the latest in a range of Card-Driven Games from GMT Games. It's another excellent game that is sitting on my shelf demanding to be played. (Unfortunately, there are several wargames sitting next to it *also* demanding to be played).Once again, very hard to decide between these ones; I'd be happy to see any one of them win it.Cheers!</blockquote>

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