Tobold's Blog

The board game I have played most often over the last 2 years is Dune: Imperium, designed by Paul Dennen, and published by Dire Wolf. Paul D...

I ordered an item for around $5 from Amazon here in Belgium today. Amazon Belgium is relatively new, and Belgium is a relatively small count...

As expected, my gaming in the last month was dominated by Europa Universalis V, with over 180 hours spent in the game, and another bunch of ...

If you are reading or watching international macroeconomic content, you probably encountered stories like this: Country X is worrying about ...

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...