Tobold's Blog

Most of the board games I bought at the Spiel in Essen this year still remain unopened in my shelf. On the one side I have been playing a lo...

One month and 160 played hours into Europa Universalis V I now feel familiar enough with the game to be able to say whether I recommend buyi...

Europa Universalis V has been out for 4 weeks now, and I have 155 hours played. That is basically equivalent to a full time job. It also mea...

I played my second run of Europa Universalis V in ironman to the end, and all I got was an achievement. It's an achievement that not man...

Words have meaning. Historical words have historical meaning, and often are a reminder of real history, which is important. Misusing these w...

Europa Universalis V patch 1.0.8 is announced for tomorrow. And while some patches were smaller hotfixes, they didn't skip any version ...

The graph below shows my current game of Europa Universalis V, which is my second game overall. It shows the tax base of my country, Mecklen...

There is an argument to be made that the big gaming publications are increasingly irrelevant, and gamers find better information about wheth...

Bigeye wanted to know how the historical aspects of EU5 work, and I'll explain the basics in this post. Note that I ended my first game ...

I continue my series of short reviews of the board games that I bought at the Spiel Essen 2025, as I play them one by one. This week I am pl...

In my current run of EU5, I encountered a minor bug. An interaction with a vassal continued, while I had released that vassal into independe...

After 48 hours played, I decided to stop my first game of Europa Universalis V in 1480. The second century went a lot faster than the first....