Run Silent, Run Deep--A Single-Take Review of The Hunters: German U-Boats at War, 1939-43

Run Silent, Run Deep--A Single-Take Review of The Hunters: German U-Boats at War, 1939-43

We don't write many wargame reviews here on Theology of Games, but the truth is that I (Firestone) enjoy the occasional conflict simulation. The wargame I've played the most in the last year is The Hunters: German U-Boats at War, 1939-43, from GMT Games. This is a solitaire game where you play as a U-Boat captain during World War II. You'll go on patrols, attempt to sink Allied ships, and try not to get sunk. So is The Hunters the bomb, or does it get Das Boot? Let's find out!

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12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 4 Winner

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 4 Winner

Happy Friday, everyone! We're here to announce the Day 4 winner of our gigantic 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! We've had so many generous publishers chip in prizes. Please consider buying one of their games for a loved one this season. 

Today's prize is a copy of Tuesday Knight Games' AMAZING party game Two Rooms and a Boom--signed by co-designer Alan Gerding! 

Today's winner came from our YouTube subscribers. Who is that winner? Well, it's...

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12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 3 Winner

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 3 Winner

Finding a Day 2 winner created sort of a bottleneck, but now that we've run some Liquid Plumber down the pipe, we've got a few more winners waiting to be announced. Wow, that is not a great metaphor. 

Anyway, our Day 3 prize pack includes the new edition of Nefarious, from USAopoly, and Lanterns: The Harvest Festival from Foxtrot Games! This time our winner came from Twitter followers. After getting a random number from random.org, and scrolling through page after page of Followers, we had a winner!

And the winner is...

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12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 2 Winner

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 2 Winner

Here's something they don't tell you in Blogging School: Contests aren't easy to run. Don't get us wrong: We LOVE giving stuff away to people who take the time to follow along with us. The problem is that so many people don't stay connected enough to claim their prizes. We contact. They don't contact back. We wait and wait. After we wait 24 hours, we contact someone else. Meanwhile, you're all wondering who won the next prize. Well so are we!!

After numerous unsuccessful attempts at contacting winners, we're finally ready to give away the second prize in our big 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! If you've somehow missed this, we're giving away 12 prize packages, generously donated by awesome publishers. Please thank them by buying one of their games this holiday season. 

Our Day 2 prize package includes Hoyuk from Mage Company, and Conquest of Orion from Escape Velocity Games. 

Our Day 2 winner is...

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12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 1 Winner

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 1 Winner

It's here! Our first prize in our big 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! If you've somehow missed this, we're giving away 12 prize packages, generously donated by awesome publishers. Please thank them by buying one of their games this holiday season. 

Our Day 1 prize is a custom insert for The Castles of Mad King Ludwig (a fun game, BTW!), from our friends at The Broken Token. Not only that, but once we announced the contest, they offered to send one of their card-game inserts to the lucky person who wins the Game of Thrones: The Card Game prize package. How cool is that?!

 Our Day 1 winner is...

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Shout Your Block Out! Small Business Saturday!

Shout Your Block Out! Small Business Saturday!

Hey everyone! If you haven't seen it already, we've published our 2015 Christmas Gift Guide! Check it out on the bar at the top of the home page.  

Sometimes it ruffles folks' feathers that we include Amazon links in those guides, so we like to take a day every year and let folks shout out their FLGS. Also: why do some people have feathers?

So this is it! Take a minute to shout out your FLGS, or maybe you own a game store and you've got some awesome stuff going on for Small Business Saturday. Let us know about that too! Feel free to tweet them at us @TheologyofGames and @BoardgamesDaily and we'll do our best to retweet all of them! 

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