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Jeff Hiatt Been a gamer and a hobbyist since I was a wee lad. Can't remember a time in my life when it hasn't been present one way or another.

Browsing Archive: November, 2021

The Silver Bayonet

Posted by Jeff Hiatt on Tuesday, November 23, 2021, In : Miniatures 

Lately I have been looking at Osprey Publishing’s new skirmish game ”The Silver Bayonet”. It has been quite the buzz among some of my friends and I got interested in it enough that I picked up the rules.

If you are familiar with Frostgrave, Stargrave, or Rangers of Shadowdeep this game will be familiar territory to you.

The premise is that during the Napoleonic wars undead and other magical creatures have appeared on the fringes of the various battles. You are charged with creating a ...


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Junk to Terrain

Posted by Jeff Hiatt on Sunday, November 14, 2021, In : Miniatures 

One of the perks of being a board gamer is that I get a lot of little really good tough boxes I don’t use. Sometimes they get used for things around the house. Sometimes I just never take the expansions out of them. But there are times when I get them, and I have nothing to put into them. Then I'm forced to think about throwing them away or something else.

Recently, I got a copy of Dinosaur World. If you're familiar with that game there was a lot of expansions that came with it. It was pre...


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Daimyo Rebirth of the Empire Review

Posted by Jeff Hiatt on Sunday, November 14, 2021, In : Boardgames 

Daimyo Rebirth of the Empire

Back in July of 2020 I was looking at this project when it was on Kickstarter thinking I was going to back it. I ended up not doing so and I kind of regretted it. I happened to luck into somebody that was selling a new unopened copy of this locally and picked it up.

First Impressions

When I opened this up, I thought to myself this is a colorful and busy looking game. Started reading the rules and there are some bits of it that remind me a lot of Scythe. looking...


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