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02/1/15

2014 Readers Choice Awards WINNERS

Who took home the coveted Readers Choice titles for games released in 2014?  Charge on and see!

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FIRST PLACE WINNERS
Unconditional Surrender (Tabletop Strategy / Historical Game)
Dead of Winter (Tabletop Sci-Fi / Fantasy Game of the Year)
EH – Mountains of Madness (Tabletop Expansion of the Year)
Thunder Alley (Tabletop Euro / Casual Game of the Year)
Imperial Settlers (Tabletop 4X Game of the Year)
The Hunters (2d printing) (Tabletop Reprint / Reissue of the Year)
Unconditional Surrender (Tabletop Game of the Year)
East Prussia ’14 (Digital Strategy / Historical Game of the Year)
Distant Worlds: Universe (Digital Sci-Fi / Fantasy Game of the Year)
EUIV – Art of War (Digital Expansion / DLC of the Year)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Digital RPG / Action Game of the Year)
East Prussia ’14 (Digital Game of the Year)

Our Readers’ Choice Awards process isn’t hard to figure out – it’s all up to you!  All year long we take your nominations in the forum threads we keep open for the whole year, and any game that’s nominated (and that was released within that calendar year) gets included.  Our editorial team helps group some of the categories together, but if you nominated it, it’s here somewhere – we only edit out the games that don’t qualify based on their release dates.

This year, we saw some excellent games nominated, and some excellent games not nominated (looking at you, Divinity!), but overall, the readership seems to have conferred the coveted “Readers Choice” titles on some outstanding games

Our bread-and-butter, the Tabletop Strategy / Historical Game, didn’t see a ton of nominations.  But to be fair it was a down year overall for tabletop wargame releases.  GMT’s Unconditional Surrender handily won with 40% of the vote. For the second year in a row, a COIN system game finished second, as Fire in the Lake had a strong showing.  Third and fourth place were both DVG games, with Fleet Commander Nimitz claiming the final spot in this category.

The Tabletop Sci-Fi / Fantasy Game of the Year voting would have been a runaway in any other year, with Dead of Winter taking over half the vote.  Xia: Legends of a Drift System finished second, and Run, Fight or Die tied with Mars Attacks for third.

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01/26/15

Happy Third Birthday, GrogHeads

We’re finally out of our terrible twos.

Three years ago, a bunch of knuckleheads were unhappy with the current state of their wargaming community, and they were just crazy (or stupid) enough to not know exactly what they were getting themselves into when one of them said “screw it – let’s just start our own site.”

GHlogo1cropOur forums opened for business three years ago today.  It took us a little longer to get organized enough to launch our front page – remember, we had no idea what we were getting into.  But we learned, we adapted, and we’ve grown.

And all of that is 100% attributed to our members, readers, and fans.  You guys have made this place what it is, and are what keeps it going every day.  It’s amazing to log in every day and see a wargaming community that shares a love of a hobby, and so many other common interests – music, movies, sports, technology, and more.

I can’t think of a better real-world summation of this place than what we saw last summer at Origins, when a group of Grogs showed up to help us run the GrogHeads Central Command, and despite none of them having met face-to-face, were clearly old friends who fell right into swapping tall tales at the bar between wargaming events and exhibit hall shenanigans.  And they’re all volunteering to come back and do it again this year.

GrogHeads is a success because of you, and we want to take the moment to pause on the journey to world domination to just simply say “thank you”.  You guys rock.

 

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01/14/15

2015 Convention Schedule

Siege of Augusta
16-18 January, Augusta, GA
Theme: The British Army in 1815;  Victory in Europe, Defeat in America, A 200 Year Anniversary

Game On!
5 – 8 Feb, Seattle, WA

  • Wargames
  • Board and Card Games
  • Monster Games, with the time and space you need to play them
  • Freefamily day on Sunday — Spouses and kids play free with your admission
  • The 10th Annual NW ASL Championships
  • OCS/TCS/SCS (if you play ‘em, you know what they are)
  • Card Games and Minis (X-Wing, Sails of Glory, and stuff with zombies)
  • Our annual swap meet
  • PLUS, beer and food served right at your table!

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01/10/15

2015 GrogHeads Readers’ Choice Awards – Voting

ed note: After the shutdown of Twiigs.com, our polls disappeared, so you’ll see a lot of headers, but no polls, on older Readers Choice posts.  We’re using someone new now, so perhaps the older polls will still be visible.

All year long we asked for your input and your nominations for the best in gaming throughout 2014.  These polls are your polls, and let our readers vote on their own nominations.  Think we missed something?  Well, we’re already looking for nominations for 2015’s best in strategy gaming.

Polls are open now, and close on 28 January, so you’ve got 2-1/2 weeks to make your voice heard.  If you nominated ’em, we’ve got ’em in a poll somewhere.  All we did was weed out the non-2014 releases and then sort them into categories.

Tabletop Games

Historical / Strategy Game

poll by twiigs.com

Sci-Fi / Fantasy Game

poll by twiigs.com

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