On the 1st of November I went to BRICK, a large Lego show at the NEC in Birmingham. Among the hundreds of models shown, both by professional builders and fans, I spotted only two boardgame models, by coincidence both related to ancient Rome.

The first was a simple 8x8 board ...

What this mug says is actually sometimes true ...

Yesterday I had to miss the games club night due to work-related travel to Lancaster. It was nice to see familiar names on the way there, like Stockport, Manchester, Wigan, Bolton, and Preston, and remembering laying tracks ...

Who knows? But thanks to a group of Welsh shepherds and their trained dogs we finally know what electric sheep dream of...

See for yourself what goes on in the Hall of the Mountain King: