…a bit faster, perhaps. El Razul figure windmill tile gives you two of any fruit and lets you move the El Razul. The guy makes the area he’s in a wild area, which makes it easier to collect tiles on that area, also making the game fast. Drought tiles are free to take, score 2…
…are action cards. Some are in building deck, some are in the aristocrat deck and the rest are in the upgrade deck. You draw them and play on a later round. They’re free to play and don’t cost points in the end, but they do take one slot in hand. The cards have interesting effects…
…part for me, making my task much easier. Suggest, especially now with my son. I installed Disqus comments on the blog, mostly for work reasons – I wanted to try them somewhere, and this blog seemed suitable. Migrating all 1300 comments to Disqus worked well, we’ll see how future comments work. Feel free to comment….
…gender of the offspring. Each turn players get one free child in their dynasty. If most of the action cards the player played last turn were blue, it’s a boy. In case of tie or more pink cards, it’s a girl. Boys are a bit more useful, as you get a new baron piece. Girls…
I thought I’d entertain you with some statistics. This has nothing to do with games, but my blog, so feel free to skip this one. Anyway, I took everything I had written to Gameblog and wrote a program to count it. According to my counts, I’ve written about 135 000 words before this entry. That’s…
…up the leader next turn and then someone else might get the promotion. What else… Combat is simple and luck-free. It’s a simple comparison of token amount plus bonuses from cards. There’s a bluffing element and an incentive to attack: a losing attacker loses just one token, while losing defender loses everything. Sounds interesting and…
…want more. Of course, there’s always time and place for easier, more relaxed games, but mental challenge is what makes the games interesting to me. I go through two recent examples, Princes of Florence and Puerto Rico and point out the tough decisions in them. Princes of Florence has plenty of them, and most arise…
The Russian game company RightGames sent review copies to just about everybody, it seems. I got a set, and I’ve now played half of the games. So far I’m somewhat impressed. Potion-making: Practice is a fun game, where cards are both alchemiy ingredients and formulas that combine two or more ingredients into a potion. Cards…
…screen sure helped, on a smaller screen the scrolling would probably be very annoying. And the game, then. I had no clue how to play before the first game and I must say I’m not much wiser now. Players compete in placing building tiles on a slowly expanding hex board. The board features resources, which…