Hollandazed: Thoughts, Ideas, and Miscellany — Mary Russell
CUBE PARTY
They're here! The cubes for An Infamous Traffic have arrived. It took slightly longer to pay for them then it did for them to land on our doorstep. (You can read about our adventures in international finance here.) On Saturday, 1 October, Tom and Mary had a cube party! Friends were invited. Friends came. Friends spent their Saturday afternoon bagging 10,000 tiny blue cubes, and talking movies, Steven Universe, ballet, board games and just catching up. So, with meager provisions... ...our intrepid cubepokes began to corral them little cubies. And the pile of cubes... ...grew smaller... ...and smaller... ...and smaller......
"DO WE HAVE ANY HEXIDECIMAL GAMES?" (by Tom Russell)
RIW recently moved into a new storefront (their old shop having been burnt to a crisp by the restaurant next door), which is less claustrophobic and brighter, but sadly lacks pics, so here is their logo. Before we discovered our Friendly Local Game Store (FLGS), RIW Hobbies in Livonia, we went to The Other Game Store. The Other Game Store was paradise if you were into minis, but rubbish if you were into board games, having a shelf dedicated to Munchkin, and another shelf where they squeezed in everything else, "everything else" being only the most popular of Euro-style games....
HERE WE GO
Hollandspiele is a new company dedicated to the publication of historically-based wargames in handsome and affordable boxed editions. You're probably asking, "Okay, so what makes you any different than any other wargames company popping up these days?" And, sure, that's a fair question, and it's one we've thought about for a long time. The answer is a bit... complicated. Because it's not like we went into this thinking up a sexy "hook" or gimmick that we can use to stand out for the sake of standing out. We didn't spend a whole lot of time trying to gin up a...