Author Archives: Tom Buxbaum

Fabricator General Transmission 1: Welcome to the hobby

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“In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”   These are words that every Warhammer, and likely every miniature gamer, has heard before. The slogan to the most popular miniatures game ever produced, Warhammer 40k. The … Continue reading

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Captain’s Log 6- Coffee is for Closers

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Welcome back gang. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and is fully stuffed with Turkey. Next week I’ll be publishing an article that centers around gift ideas from the different employees here for what to get that Board Gamer in … Continue reading

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Captain’s Log 5- A Well Sleeved Society is a Polite Society

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Greetings gang, I’m back in the booth to bring you another hot one, straight from the presses.  Today’s musing will be about whether or not to sleeve the cards in your board game collection (and perhaps not a moment too … Continue reading

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Captain’s Log 4- Beauty is….

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Today, I want to talk about something that is often over looked in our assessments of board games, the artistic direction of games. I know there are games out there that have been made or broken on the art direction … Continue reading

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Captain’s Log 3- The Weight of One’s Own History

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Perhaps this blog post might have been better titled, “How I learned to stop worrying and love games that have a finite number of plays”. Or perhaps it shouldn’t. Really the gist of this post will be, “I’m nervous about … Continue reading

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Captain’s Log 2- The End of the Entente Cordiale

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Welcome back gang to week two of my little corner of the blog. Today I want to talk about some current events in the board game world. Specifically I’d like to dedicate this blog post to the break up of … Continue reading

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Captain’s Log 1: Introductions Are Required

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Hello Gang, Welcome to the inaugural blog post by your local board game specialist here at The End games, Tom. I thought I’d start off my first blog post by discussing a little about myself and what games I like, … Continue reading

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