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Headlines from a Solo Player
Mid-heavy ramblings about mid-heavy Euro board games.
"Complete, well-written, fair and balanced reviews, and my reference now to know what to buy (or not) in mid-heavy euro games."


Celtae
If you can look beyond how abstract things feel in this medium-light offering, there is a particularly good game to be enjoyed –...

Paul Devlin


Shipyard (2nd Edition)
A fresh new lick of '2nd Edition' paint, the introduction of an official solo mode - but a game that is otherwise largely unchanged from...

Paul Devlin


Amritsar: The Golden Temple
Sometimes all I want is a warm, comforting, familiar, medium weight Euro. With Elephants. Big Elephants. Big, colourful Elephants....

Paul Devlin


Great Western Trail: New Zealand
Part review. Part comparison. Part cake analogy.

Paul Devlin


Great Western Trail (Second Edition): Rails To The North
Almost essential and other than a couple of grumbles about the production, completely superb. Great Western Trail: Rails to the North...

Paul Devlin


Glen More II: Chronicles
Less of a review and more a confession: I didn’t play this one nearly enough to warrant calling it a ‘review’ as I realised quite quickly...

Paul Devlin


Great Western Trail (Argentina)
It’s GWT as you know it Jim, but with ships that periodically set sail, cities that your cattle will move around in, grain to feed your...

Paul Devlin


Sabika
Sometimes a game comes along that feels like it was made specifically just for you - ticking all of your mid-heavy Euro boxes and...

Paul Devlin


The Red Cathedral
Inner monologue: “Don’t say it. Don’t say it. Don’t say it. Don’t say it”. My actual voice: “This packs quite a lot of crunch into such a...

Paul Devlin


Maracaibo
Contrasting opinions on the multiplayer and solo games which feel very different to one another but a splendid campaign comes along to...

Paul Devlin
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