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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 4h

Top 5 games to watch out?

Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 16h

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 1d

After-movie teaser from our 48h analog gaming event Blackout Gaming 4!! Extra big tanks to @roxley.bsky.social @restorationgames.bsky.social full after-movie is coming!!

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 4d

Test prints for my Tricks of War Shogun’s Gambit prototype game!

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 4d

youtu.be/PtgSWQWuj80?...

Soooo stoked for this project!!

Vampire Lords board game | playthrough | how to play

YouTube video by EZBoardGames

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 4d

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 4d

A lot of revolting parishes due to confiscation…

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 4d

RH won with 5 justice in the second Royal Inspection….

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 5d

A Gest of Robin Hood! @fredserval.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 6d

When its gud… its gud!

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 7d

A 11 our of 10! 🫠 General Orders + feudal Japan… im in! @djackthompson.bsky.social @ospreygames.bsky.social

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 7d

@djackthompson.bsky.social @ospreygames.bsky.social

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 7d

Spoiler!! Tricks of War: Shogun Gambit is in work! A 2 player trick taking line-battle card game set in feudal japan! Super stoked for this one!! Use the power of four clans 🦁🐍🦀🕊️to win on various battlefields, siege the enemy castles and capture the enemy Daimyo!

Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 7d

5p Play-test of my action programming hidden movement battle royal game… improved weapons and actions!! And most importantly positive feedback and a lot of fun! So it’s on a good way!

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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 10d

The design diary for General Orders: Sengoku Jidai hit @boardgamegeek.com last week!

Missed it? Now find the deep dive from co-designer @djackthompson.bsky.social on our website blog as well: https://bit.ly/42qIsTP

// AVAILABLE NOW // https://bit.ly/4jeCg8d

A close-up photo of a board of General Orders: Sengoku Jidai, with an illustrated ability card laid beside it, a handful of custom dice scattered on top of it, and various red and black wooden meeple placed around it.

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 10d

AFAOS just has something magical… dont know what it is… but i love the idea and the table presence of it!

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 15d

Apart the platform to stream, super cool!!

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · 24d

gamefound.com/en/projects/... As an of Valachian super curious about this project!!!

Vampire Lords by Couple of Games

As the fires of war burn across XVth-century Romania, the vampires emerge from the shadows, ready to claim dominion over the realm of mortals. Will you rise to rival the legend of Vlad Dracula? Sink y...

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Naked Cardboard @nakedcardboard.com · 26d

Here's the cover art for Brian Asklev's Baltic Empires. Gorgeous! @zweigefuhle.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social

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The Players’ Aid @playersaidblog.bsky.social · Aug 23

And on my 4th play I score 11 VP and become Shogun uniting the clans of Sengoku Jidai Japan. 1 objective shy of becoming Supreme Shogun! A fun, lite, fast-playing and beautiful solitaire card game. Shogun Solitaire from Worthington Publishing.

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The Players’ Aid @playersaidblog.bsky.social · Aug 17

Our unboxing video for Red Dust Rebellion from @gmtgames.bsky.social theplayersaid.com/2025/08/17/u...

Unboxing Video: Red Dust Rebellion from GMT Games

It is 2250 and the bicentennial celebrations of the first human colony on Mars are about to begin. 200 years of human achievement, but also 200 years of hardship. Mars is an unforgiving world, a ba…

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yesterday we went to a local game night and played 1775 Rebellion!!

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · Jul 26

We got some support from the Italian publishers for the event! All in the theme of the 4ed Blackout Gaming event! We are doing a tournament of Thunder Road Vendetta and sessions of Zombiecide undead or alive!!

Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · Jul 23

ho’s ready for 48h weekend of analog gaming???

Blackout Gaming or better
Fallout Gamings 4th edition is here!!

This year’s theme: Post-Apocalypse and the players can join 1 of 4 factions!

All in a beautiful remote house on a mountain!

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Niko Alokin @nikoalokin.bsky.social · Jul 17

Wtf?!? Melted them like butter… @deltaforcegame.bsky.social