EuroStrategy Game Hosting

Although over a dozen people regularly host games for Seattle Board Games, in roughly the past six months (June 1, 2023 - November 16, 2023), only the people below have hosted specific eurostrategy games:

• Dan

• Shawn

• Mike H.

• David Scheftel

• Tim Schroeder

• MJ

• Sam C.

• and me (Joseph Boland)

Almost all our hosting has been done independently.   Shawn and I cohost occasional Age of Steam games, and David and I have, at times, jointly hosted events as well as managed the calendar for EuroStrategy Games.  

We may want to get together every 3-6 months to share experiences and discuss issues (like no-shows, or Meetup's limitations).   And we could consider cohosting more often.  There are trade-offs, but cohosting allows for larger events, mitigating the no-show problem and sometimes allowing for a full teach for new players while experienced players get right into a game.  Cohosting can also ease the work of introducing a complex new game.

2024 Candidate Games

In the lists below, numbers in parentheses show each game's BGG strategy game rank.

Lists A through D below are games I'd like to host or cohost.  These include some games I've never hosted or, in most cases, even played before: Gaia Project, Root, Lisboa, Maracaibo, The Gallerist, Dune Imperium Uprising, Stephenson's Rocket, Die Siedler von Nürnberg, and Taj Mahal.

I neither own nor plan to buy or host the games in the final list (E).  But others may want to, and in most cases, I'd be happy to play if someone else hosts.

Locations & Times

I'll continue to host at The Missing Piece and Cafe Cosmos and will experiment with Third Place Books.   Third Place Books meets most of my hosting criteria (see below); however, their tables are on the smallish side.