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- Jul 14
Action Retrieval Now!
Yesterday (13 July 2022), I blethered with Bez on her live stream about the game mechanism of Action Retrieval. If you'd like to hear the...
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- May 15
SSG at UKGE!
At this year’s Expo we will be presenting our Pocket Campaigns series of games variously designed by David J Mortimer and Alan Paull, Lux...
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- Apr 11
Making of Kings, April 2022 update
https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/news/tabletop-gaming-magazine-podcast-season-2-is-here/ https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/Store/Back-Issu...
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- Mar 25
SSG at UK Games Expo: helpers needed!
Would you like to attend UK Games Expo, but haven't sorted it out yet? Would you like a free hotel room there? Surprised Stare Games is...
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- Mar 9
AireCon 2022
Surprised Stare will be at AireCon 2022 in Harrogate from Friday 11 March to Sunday 13 March. We'll be setting up on the Thursday...
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- Feb 27
Making of Kings, February 2022 update
Gibsons Games have just created a signup form for people who would like to receive information about the launch of their new edition of...
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- Feb 19
I can has reprintz
Tiffany has the reprints of The Cousins' War and The Ming Voyages. Shipping starts to customers from Spiral Galaxy Games early next week...
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- Jan 1
Gaming Goals for 2022
Following in the footsteps of seemingly everybody else, I thought I’d trace out some gaming goals for 2022. In my experience, this trace...
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- Dec 18, 2021
Wargames – increasing complexity?
A caricatured view of the history of wargames suggests that there was a Golden Age when there were very few wargames around, and they...
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- Dec 14, 2021
The Cousins' War and The Ming Voyages reprints
Our reprint of The Cousins' War and The Ming Voyages is due for delivery in early February 2022. It's taken an almost impossibly long...
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- Sep 28, 2021
Another Kingmaker Milestone
I've handed over the redeveloped Kingmaker prototype to Gibsons Games down in Sutton. This marks a line-drawn-under-it moment in terms of...
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- Sep 14, 2021
Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk game design.
A comparison of professional wargaming and recreational wargaming design processes 2019 was a very important year for professional...
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- Sep 6, 2021
The Museum of Board Games
Tony Boydell and The Museum of Board Games. Interviewed on the BBC.
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- Aug 16, 2021
Some musings on Policy, Strategy, Operations, and Tactics
TACTICS A definition: The deployment of friendly forces and engagement of a part of the enemy forces by them. Usually, with the purpose...
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- Aug 10, 2021
Lots of Kingmaking!
A post about the redeveloping Kingmaker game from Gibsons.
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- Aug 3, 2021
New website, new blog!
Welcome to Surprised Stare Games’ new website. We’ve switched to Wix to give our site a more modern look, because our old site was rather...
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- Aug 3, 2021
Designing an ideal introductory wargame
With Dr Lewis Pulsipher In which Lew and I have a deep-dive ramble about designing ‘the ideal introductory wargame’. We discuss some, to...
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