OTK Meetup 9/11/2012 – Crude Oil, CO2, 18RUHR
A redux of CRUDE OIL and CO2 with CRUDE seeing the Rig Gambit in play. We also unboxed 18RUHR for a partial learning game. Read on for a first-look at our latest 18xx.
OTK Meetup 2/11/2012 – Essen Play Week 2
While CO2 remained the highlight of the evening, lest we forgot there were nine other games (mostly card games) in-play at OTK also. We also did a 2nd visit to The Great Zimbabwe and are continued to be awed by the depth of its gameplay.
OTK Meetup 2/11/2012 – CO2
After last week’s fantastic run of Samurai Sword, Great Zimbabwe and Crude the Oil Game among others, we are back again this Friday to testdrive Vital Lacerda (of VINHOS fame) latest Essen release “CO2”. Read on to find out whether we rate this game.
OTK Meetup 26/10/2012 – Crude, the Oil Game
The third Essen new games to see first play in Malaysia was CRUDE THE OIL GAME, a reprint of the much sought after MCMULTI one of the old school Euros. Find out how we rate this game where you get to become the CEO of a multinational oil business.
OTK Meetup 26/10/2012 – The Great Zimbabwe
After everyone’s arrived – and the early birds have completed their Samurai Sword session (read sessrep here), we started with two of the highly anticipated games from this year’s SPIEL – THE GREAT ZIMBABWE and CRUDE THE OIL GAME. Read on to see how we rated The Great Zimbabwe in M’sia first play of this game. Crude Oil will be our next sessrep.
OTK Meetup 26/10/2012 – Samurai Sword
This Friday saw the first (of many) Essen Play meetups at OTK Cheras as we brought new games from Essen to the tables. SAMURAI SWORD, GREAT ZIMBABWE, CRUDE and a few other Essen releases saw play this Friday. Read on to find out more about these new games!
BGN Puchong Aug – Oct 2011
BGN Session Report Aug, Sept & October 2011 The Bumper Issue! Sorry for the months of no show here.. a combination of work, computer HDD crashing and general laziness (hides in corner) contributed to the lack of updates on this thread. Since I can’t remember most of the stuff […]
OTK Meetup 30/9/2011
Friday’s Game Night at OTK and tonight’s no exception as we saw a variety of games hitting the tables LAST NIGHT ON EARTH, CARGO NOIR, SURVIVE, TOK TOK WOODMAN, POWER STRUGGLE, 1960 MAKING OF PRESIDENT, TIKI TOPPLE, F.I.T.S, CITADELS, and FRESCO. 18TN was the R1 game for the table of veterans with Hiew getting his first toe-dip into the 18xx series and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA resurfaced as the R2 game to close out another fantastic gaming night! And special thanks to all the gamers who helped us set up the tables & chairs earlier!! You guys are the BEST!
OTK Meetup 23/9/2011
First Friday meetup at the new OTK saw train games hitting the tables here and there with TICKET TO RIDE, RAILROAD TYCOON and 1889 SHIKOKU in play all in R1. Sid Sackson also had a good day with both his CAN’T STOP and ACQUIRE being brought to the tables. Other games seen were REPUBLIC OF ROME, HEY THAT’S MY FISH, TOK TOK WOODMAN, 20TH CENTURY, IN THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON, GLORY TO ROME, SPEICHERSTADT, NUNS ON THE RUN.
OTK Cheras – Directions to Get Here
Wanted to drop by OTK Cheras but not quite sure how to get here? Get all your answers here… you can reach us via Jalan Loke Yew, Jalan Cheras (Kajang) or the MRR2.
New OTK Cheras welcomes gamers – 16 Sep 2011
BGC’s new meetup place (also called OTK Cheras) opened its doors to welcome our gamers at 2pm last Friday and they stayed till 8:30 am the following Saturday. Almost 19 hrs of gaming saw the following in action: Modern Art, first play of Eaten by Zombies, The Message, Havoc, Toc Toc Woodman, Samurai, Blokus, Cargo Noir, Warhammer Invasion, Pandemic, Glory to Colorful Rome, Troyes, Havana, 1889 Shikoku Japan and DUNE. Thanks to all who made this happened!
BGC OTK Meetup 2/9/2011
Many familiar faces were seen again in OTK Cheras! Perhaps it’s because that it’s probably the last few times that we’ll play there? 😛
BGC Meetup Report @ OTK Cheras 27/8/2011
As we look to transition from Old Town Kopitiam to new OTK, another Friday evening was well spent with the first play of ERUPTION (lava flow anyone?) and IMPERIAL being the main course. Innovation, Nightfall, 7 Wonders with Leaders, Kaigan were also seen on the tables.
BGN Puchong 27 July 2011
The Aliens have landed! And I don’t mean these guys: Although that would have been cool too. 😀 But in the form of Alien Frontiers and a whole bunch of games that arrived on our shores in BGC’s new shipment. This week also featured the appearance of the 2010 SdJ and KSdJ winners – Qwirkle and 7 Wonders. So what did we have in store for our night owls? 😛
Board Game Night (BGN) Puchong
BGN Session Report 13 July 2011 Games played: 1. Cargo Noir 2. The Speicherstadt 3. Sneak & Snitches 4. The Resistance 5. Power Grid 6. Parade 7. Ascension ___________________________________________________ Traffickers, Thieves, Spies and Power Mongers. Strange night – with themes revolving around various shady occupations. 🙂 This week […]
Back to the Classroom
Back to the Classroom Boardgamecafe.net is happy to inform there’s now another new boardgame café opening next week! Calling themselves Classroom Cafe, it’s run by two enterprising young men – CK Chong & Charlie Chung. We first met them a couple months back to explore opportunities […]
OTK Meetup 17/6/2011 – Navegador, Ticket to Ride, Carson City, Leaping Lemmings, Havoc, Antike
An evening where the BGC Retreat participants gathered for a post-retreat meetup with NAVEGADOR seeing play as our FIRST PLAY promo game, and it’s forefather ANTIKE also introduced to another group. Return of some old favorite gateway games like TICKET TO RIDE and HAVOC plus CARSON CITY and LEAPING LEMMINGS rounded up the evening.
OTK Meetup 8/4/11 – Battlestar Galactica (Exodus), Power Grid: Russia, Citadels, FITS, 7 Wonders, Sneak & Snitches, Race for the Galaxy, Homesteaders, Navegador, Mines of Zavandor, Carcassonne, Nightfall.
The OTK meetups continued to grow with 5 tables during R1 and 4 tables in R2! The Hacans were so curious about the OTK sessions they sent their Queen the Merciful to come look-see for shark food! On this nite, we appointed two Russian Power Grid Tsars. Other games in-play were Battlestar Galactica (Exodus), Power Grid: Russia, Citadels, FITS, 7 Wonders, Sneak & Snitches, Race for the Galaxy, Homesteaders, Navegador, Mines of Zavandor, Carcassonne, Nightfall.
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