Inspired by other fellow bloggers (#cliosboardgames, #rockymountainnavy and #Dude! Take Your Turn!) I also looked back at my 2019 as far as played wargames and boardgames are concerned. I am lucky to use Board Games Stats app so creating some interesting statistics was really easy. Let us have a look into details below!

That was a good year – 61 different games played 255 times. Of course, many of them were the smaller and shorter ones, but still I am glad that on average 2 out of 3 days were with some game! Well, that is of course the trick of statistics – there were days when I played one small game 6 times, and days with one large wargame, but I do not mind.

There were really many players I had a chance to sit down with at the boardgame table but not surprisingly, the tops three are my wife and most ardent wargaming hobby supporters – Marcin and Kuba. I am big fan of all historical and war-alike games thus 2-player sessions are most common.

And now to the most important and interesting statistics. The BGStats divides all your played games into couple of categories:
- centuries – played 100 times or more – well, in 2019 I was not biased on any of my favorite games so much to play more then 100 times in one single year. But it was not so always – in 2016 I played Commands Colors Ancient 165 times…
- quarters – played 25 times or more; here we have three leaders – the newest installment of Commands & Colors series: Medieval (27 plays), the great adventure and RPG game – Gloomhaven(27 games) and a very short but interesting and pretty repayable Fantasy Realms (26 games)
- dimes – played 10 times or more – here is quite a nice representation, starting with my all-time-most -played-game: Commands Colors Ancients. I am really glad that I managed to pull 18 games of ROOT. Other three, Colt Express, Dobble or For Sale, are either short euros or games I played with kids.
- fives – played 5 times or more – only three of them, but again you see Commands Colors series title – The Great War. Azul is always worth a time and Saboteur– recently acquired – the game which you can play up to 10 people!

In the second part of the report, except for many games I played with my children, there are some interesting titles like Time of Crisis, Combat Commander, No Retreat! or Conflict of Heroes. All of them I would like to play more in 2020!
No Memoir ’44???
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Unfortunately, not as much as I would like to . There was one large play (https://theboardgameschronicle.com/2019/02/10/eng-memoir44-d-day-landings-a-really-large-format/) and also we were greeting New Year with Memoir (https://theboardgameschronicle.com/2020/01/08/eng-memoir44-winter-wars-in-breakthrough-format/). Maybe more in 2020!
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Out of nowhere i became 5th gaming mate last year? Only thanks to one title-Gloomhaven, feeling weired with that. With such pace it’ll take another year to finish it (for the first time). Bad thing about Gloomhaven is that it takes tons of your time and doesn’t allow playing more strategy/war games . Also no Twilight Empire for quite some time, difficult to find time and people to spend whole day on it.
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Excellent list thank you compiling it.
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Great list! Colt Express totally surprised me. I wouldn’t have thought that of you (not that it’s a bad game, it’s not).
And surprisingly, your link to my post didn’t generate a pingback! I would have checked this out even sooner if I had seen that.
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Thanks! I play Colt Express extensively with my children (they love it!) As for the pingback thee is an option to switch it off – maybe that is what happened…
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Ah yes. It is a great game for that! It’s amazing what we find out about people. 🙂
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