I wouldn’t call it awful ckick bait article. It’s just heavy games the writter happens to enjoy. It’s not like they are bad games or games with fancy IPs.

The campaign for North Africa would just be a waste of a slot, no one is actually interested in completing a play. It takes 20 years and a group of 8-10 players (yes, that’s a real player range). I would also argue that wargames are their own tabletop category. A factual top 10 most complex boardgames would be, without a doubt, 10 wargames.

Standard box sizes in general is something I’d really really like.

Sorry to link you to reddit but there is a very active subreddit /r/tabletopgamedesign, they have a ton of interesting content. Unfortunately no lemmy alternative.

Yeah, that’s also fantastic. I had a friend with a 3d printer and would ocasionally ask me to print something.

Check out this website, if you haven’t already. It lists 3d printable resources for all the games in your BGG account. Pretty neat.

I used to make organizers out of foam and they worked out ok. Unfortunately I’m not a very skilled individual and came out all crooked XD

If you have the skill to measure and cut straight, which I don’t, definitely consider buying foam sheets and wood glue on your local hardware shop. It’s so cheap!

I remember when I first got my Broken Token organizer (with player boards) for Terraforming Mars. What a game changer!

I think Wingspan is a good game but its weight is a bit tricky. My group finds it too light, my family finds it too complicated… Fantastic production value tho.

It’s sad that Wingspan is the #1 in the Family category on bgg. From personal experience it’s more like a “next-level” kind of game. Everdell at #3 isn’t doing anyone any favors either!

Dorfromantik (3x, 2p): I ended up buying it because it won SdJ and I didn’t have any tile-laying game anymore. The game starts slow and slowly adds new components and “achievements”. Kind wish it was more goal oriented, to be honest. There’s no win-condition, you just sum your points, the more points you have the faster you unlock the new components. Definitely want to play it some more but I can’t say I loved it.