I was finally able to get a Gorilla Pioneer Squad for Dust. There are still a few units like another SSU Walker and maybe the helicopter. As well as another walker for the Axis. I would like to get the Mythos, IJN, and Merc forces as well but I may have to wait for another reprint.
Bought
Dust Tactics – Gorilla Pioneer Squad – 3
Painted
May total – figures bought 3, figures painted
Running total 2026 – figures bought 75, figures painted 6
I finally finished painting some figures this year.
Even though I still haven't played Star Trek Away Missions, I picked up the last set. The only thing left it the Q figure that was in a store mission set. I think that I'm going to put off getting that until I've played a few games to see how I like it.
Bought
Star Trek Away Missions (Scotty) - 4
Painted
Star Trek Away Missions (Borg) = 6
April total - figures bought 4, figures painted 6
Running total 2026 - figures bought 72 figures painted 6
Jan
Space Battle: The Mattel Intellivision and the First Console War by Jamie Lendino
A Wanted Man by Lee Child
Warhammer Armies – The Empire (6th edition) by Alessio Cavatore
Warhammer 40,000 (8th edition): Urban Conquest by Games Workshop of Nottingham
Misdirection by Jennifer Blackstream
Feb
Military Modelling by Donald Featherstone
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
Sacrifice by Jennifer Blackstream
Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz
Mar
Oathmark – Battles of the Lost Age by Joseph McCullough
Warhammer 40,000 (10th ed) Boarding Actions by Games Workshop of Nottingham
Shroud by Jennifer Blackstream
With Hot Lead and Cold Steel by Arthur van der Ster
Stevenson at Play by Robert Louis Stevenson
Slowing Down to the Speed of Joy by Matthew Kelly
Apr
Uncle John’s Heavy Duty Bathroom Reader by the Bathroom Readers’ Institute
The Wargaming Pioneers: From H.G. Wells to Captain Sachs by John Curry
Scrappers by Robert A. Faust and Andrew N. Davies
Floor Games & Little Wars by H. G. Wells
Lion Rampant second edition by Daniel Mersey
I was able to prime a bunch of the figures I have from Don’t Look Back. I had also bought a bunch of STLs from Black Site Studios last year. I was finally able to get some of them printed and primed. They are moving up on my painting list. I am currently finishing off the Borg from Star Trek Away Missions. They cut in front of the Orc Bloodbowl team that has been sitting on my painting table since 2024.
BSS – Great Dane Good Boy – 1
BSS – Lake Camp Killer – 1
BSS – Meddling Kids – 4
BSS – Mr Pumpkins – 1
BSS – Mystery Gang Van – 1
Painted
Mar total – figures bought 8, figures painted 0
Running total 2026 – figures bought 68, figures painted 0
Rank Last Name
1 1 Space Hulk
2 2 Circus Imperium
3 4 Diplomacy
4 3 Family Business
5 6 Assault on Hoth
6 7 Illuminati
7 10 OGRE
8 5 Warhammer 40,000 (up to 3rd)
9 9 Bosworth
10 8 Icebergs
11 12 Risk
12 11 Walk the Plank
13 22 Car Wars (up to 5th)
14 NEW Acquire
15 14 Cash ‘n’ Guns – second edition
16 34 Daytona 500
17 NEW Tetris Link
18 NEW Tiki Topple
19 NEW Super Mario Bros. Power Up Card Game
20 NEW No Thanks
21 NEW Downforce
22 NEW King of Tokyo
23 NEW Don’t Look Back
24 NEW Unmatched – Little Red Riding Hood VS Beowulf
25 18 – 1st Ed Groo the Game – 2nd edition
26 26 Blood Bowl
27 26 Fortress America
28 NEW Samurai Jack: Back to the Past
29 NEW Fallout Shelter
30 31 Tsuro
31 15 Sushi Go
32 NEW Pandemic: Contagion
33 NEW Marvel Splendor
34 27 Go
35 28 Star Wars: The Queen’s Gambit
36 19 Race Day
37 29 Conquest of the Empire
38 30 Battle Masters
39 33 Battleship Galaxies
40 NEW Transformers Armada: Battle for Cybertron
41 36 Car Wars Card Game
42 38 Guillotine
43 37 Camel Cup
44 13 Survive: Escape from Atlantis
45 NEW Disney Haunted Mansion: Call of the Spirits
46 NEW Monopoly Empire
47 83 Canasta
48 35 Rocketville
49 NEW Cathedral
50 20 Highlander: The Card Game
51 NEW Sorry! Sliders
52 82 Resistance
53 89 Colt Express
54 NEW Love Letter: Batman
55 84 Wits and Wagers Family
56 NEW Blitz Bowl
57 21 Crimson Skies (WizKids)
58 41 Hey, That’s My Fish!
59 16 Bang: The Dice Game
60 51 Zombie Dice
61 53 Dilbert Card Game
62 52 Cthulhu Dice
63 23 Scoville
64 NEW Disney Villainous
65 NEW Batman: Gotham City Strategy Game
66 NEW Tantrix
67 42 Pitch Six
68 NEW Get Lucky
69 NEW Dust Tactics Revised Core
70 54 Rules with No Name
71 50 Zombies!!!
72 56 Shogun (Ikusa)
73 81 Monopoly
74 57 Aliens
75 62 Chess
76 59 Canvas Eagles
77 40 Horrorclix
78 63 Girl Genius: The Works
79 45 Cardline – Animals
80 24 Heroclix
81 58 Search for the Emperor’s Treasure
82 47 Timeline: Music & Cinema
83 48 Spooks
84 65 INWO
85 17 Monty Python Fluxx
86 64 Elixir
87 90 Word Thief
88 86 Iota
89 NEW Space Marine Adventures: Rise of the Orks
90 NEW Pamplona: Viva San Fermin!
91 39 Star Wars Miniatures: Starship Battles
92 60 Dragon Dice
93 NEW Timeline Challenge
94 NEW Space Marine Adventures: Labyrinth of the Necrons
95 92 Yahtzee: Free For All
96 NEW Domination
97 61 Pente
98 NEW Exago
99 44 Blokus Trigon
100 46 Blokus
I last did a list of my top 100 games back to the end of 2015. It is a good exercise but not something that I would want to do every year. But to revisit a decade later seemed like a good idea.
So 30 new games made it into my top 100. Well, new to me. The oldest of these new games Is Domination from 1963, and Acquire from 1964, and the newest games are Groo the Card Game second edition, and Munchkin – The Nightmare Before , both from 2023.
Some of my games have slipped. My top 12 remains my top 12 but the order has changed slightly. But there are 5 games that are new to the list that dropped in the top 20.
The highest game to have fallen off of my top 100 was Pandemic, which was 43 last time. This was replaced by Pandemic Contagion, but even Pandemic Hot Spot: North America ranked higher than it and helped to drive it off of the list.
The game to have dropped the farthest and still remain on the list was Monty Python Fluxx which fell 68 points. This is probably due to us not having played it in the last five years. The game that was on the list before that has risen the most is Canasta, which rose 36 points, despite not having been played in the last five years.
These are the ones that almost made the top 100:
100
Rank Previous Game
101 NEW Dixit!
102 NEW For Sale!
103 NEW Dune (Parker Brothers 1984)
104 55 Fluxx
105 69 Unexploded Cow
106 78 Chill: Black Manor Morn
107 87 Empire Builder
108 NEW Space Marine Adventures: Doomsday Countdown
109 NEW Bob Ross: Art of Chill Game
110 91 Qwirkle
111 NEW Lanterns
112 85 Scrabble Slam
113 NEW Unspeakable Words
114 67 Quiddler
115 70 Junta
116 71 Toss Up!
117 72 Risk: Balance of Power
118 73 Star Warriors
119 77 Hive
120 79 Filthy Rich
I picked up another one of the basic 55 plus a few extras.
I bought Buzz Bombers CIB for $18, and Q*bert for $15, with $10 shipping.
I got a Zaxxon for $30 + $32 in shipping.
It also included a Mousetrap, but it does not seem to load. So I still need to get a cart and the overlays,
I still consider it a fair price for the Zaxxon, so I'm good with it.
This now puts me at 50 out of the 55.
I also got some Colecovision carts - Front Line, Gorf, Smurf Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, Tarzan, and Time Pilot - for $42. Now I really have to clear the power switch on it.
