Trash Culture

Seems like an age since I’ve written one of these, so will have to do either recent material or quick skips. Either way you’ve got a lot of Matt Thrower linkage goodness to other sites in the works.Board GamesThe big feature this week is a review of the Dungeon Command release sets, Sting of Lolth and Heart of Cormyr. The combination of tactical miniatures and card decks, compatible with other WotC products and released in modular format has a lot of promise, but these initial offerings don’t live up to the potential. Games start out with plenty of interest...

Tastier than a slice of pie, it’s Bolt Thrower time again. I’ve got one more review to shoehorn in over on NHS, and then hopefully we can take a short break from these.

Heard the one about the man who asked for a 69 in his ice cream? It's Bolt Thrower time.

It’s trash culture time. I’ve always been fond of the number 13 because daft people think it’s unlucky. Enough said.Board GamesThe big feature this week is a review of Lords of Waterdeep. I like the game a lot, particularly the way in which the designers seem to have quite deliberately research all the common grievances with the genre and set out to improve them all. And with the partial exception of the theme, they’ve largely succeeded. It’s still a Euro and it’s still occasionally dry and dull but for the most part it’s a pleasing marriage of good strategy...

They’re coming at you thick and fast, a veritable storm of fire. It’s Bolt Thrower time yet again, although there shouldn’t be too many back-to-back versions. I plan to use the opportunity to catch up on some longer-running trash culture themes that I might miss in my fortnightly snapshots.GamesOne of the reasons I picked Commands & Colors: Ancients last week was as an introduction to this weeks’ review of Commands & Colors: Napoleonics. It owes a lot to its predecessor, including some holdovers of rules that aren’t entirely necessary, but has enough clever new stuff in it to make...