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- Aug 9
SSG at BritCon 2024
SSG will be there on Saturday 10 August! Come and see our range of board games, including all our popular Pocket Campaigns series of...
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- Jul 16
SSG at Attack! 2024, 20-21 July
We have tables at Attack! 2024 this weekend (20-21 July 2024) at Devizes in Wiltshire. This is a large wargame show, and Dave Mortimer...
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- Jul 1
Kingmaker special: a 3D insert for your new game
I take no credit for this amazing artifact - a specially designed insert for Kingmaker: the Royal Relaunch. This add-on product (not an...
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- Jun 12
June 2024 conventions
UK Games Expo 2024 June started with UK Games Expo. Well, more accurately, May ended with it, but I always think of Expo being a June...
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- May 24
SSG at UK Games Expo 2024
The UK's biggest games extravaganza, UK Games Expo, takes place between 31 May and 2 June 2024 - only a week to go! Surprised Stare Games...
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- May 13
Mission Command: Normandy - Pushing in a German Outpost 2
This post is a session report for Mission Command: Normandy, our WW2 miniatures ruleset. However, it is deliberately incomplete, as I...
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- Jan 30
Vapnartak!
Vapnartak is a wargames show held at York Racecourse on 4 February 2024 and run by the York Wargames Society. As a result of a late...
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- Oct 17, 2023
The Cousins' War on Brain of Britain
Our game, The Cousins' War by David J Mortimer has hit the big-time! We have featured as a question in Heat 10 of the Brain of Britain...
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- Sep 25, 2023
It's nearly Spiel time again!
5-9 October 2023 Hall 3, 3A114 - Surprised Stare Games' stand COME AND SEE US! It's been a year already since Spiel '22, though that's...
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- Aug 15, 2023
War of the 3 Sanchos: last 2 days
We are about to enter the last couple of days of our Gamefound campaign for War of the 3 Sanchos. We have a bit of a sprint still to do...
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- Jul 18, 2023
War of the 3 Sanchos: Live on Gamefound!
Exciting news! After a long gestation period, War of the 3 Sanchos is now live on Gamefound... You can find out more about the game on...
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- Jul 10, 2023
War of the 3 Sanchos: Follower discount
As an acknowledgement of your extra help in supporting our project at the early stage, we are giving a Follower gift of £1 off your...
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- May 30, 2023
SSG at UK Games Expo 2023
It's Expo time of year again! Surprised Stare Games will be at the UK Games Expo, 2-4 June 2023 at the NEC in Birmingham. Do come and see...
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- May 15, 2023
Kingmaker on The Dice Tower
Today is the official retail launch day for Kingmaker: The Royal Re-launch. To mark this milestone, and my involvement as developer of...
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- Apr 1, 2023
How to set up Kingmaker the Second
I'm not an expert at making videos, as you can tell if you watch any of them. However, after making an unboxing video of the new...
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- Mar 26, 2023
Presents from Gibsons: Unboxing Kingmaker
A big hooray on Saturday 25 March 2023, when my long-awaiting package arrived from Gibsons. Here's a video about what happened next......
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- Mar 22, 2023
Pondering Mechanics with Bez: Sealed Bid Auctions
It's that time again! 10:00 today (Wednesday 22 March 2023), I'll be blethering about board game mechanics with Bez. This morning it's...
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- Mar 16, 2023
3 Sanchos and Bugs in Harrogate
A quick resumé of our outing to AireCon '23 at the Harrogate Convention Centre Charlie and I headed north in the snow on Thursday 9th...
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- Mar 8, 2023
Pondering Mechanics with Bez: Once Around Auctions
It's another Wednesday Bether for me with Bez Shahriari! We continue examining the different auction systems. A series inspired by...
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- Mar 6, 2023
AireMail
Surprised Stare Games will be at AireCon Thursday 9 March to Sunday 12 March! To be a bit more precise, we don't have a full exhibitor...
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- Feb 22, 2023
Blethering with Bez about Multi-Lot Auctions
Today (22 February 2023) at 10:00, I'll be blethering with Bez about Multi-Lot Auctions. We may touch on Keyflower, El Grande, and...
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- Feb 14, 2023
3 Sanchos: Now previewing on Gamefound
Please sign up to our Gamefound preview page at: https://gamefound.com/projects/ssg/3-sanchos. You can also find the page by going to...
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- Feb 8, 2023
Pondering Mechanics with Bez: Fixed Placement Auctions
This morning (Wednesday 8 Feb 23) at 10:00 UK time, I will be chatting about Fixed Placement Auctions with the terrifically talented Bez....
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