…Time Control, but still a pretty bad game. Well, not a bad game, perhaps, but just not compatible with me. Prettiest game in 2004: Niagara, by far. The set-up of the board, the glimmering gems, just brilliant. Zoch has done neat stuff before (Villa Paletti, for example), but Niagara is the best. Exactly what I…
…elegant. Race for the Galaxy feels a bit luck-heavy (that’s just a feeling I get, caused by my lack of skill). Also, Race for the Galaxy is simply a pain to play with newbies, which is a big minus. I’ve rated it 10, but the rating has since come down a bit. At its best…
…Based on the Cerberus engine shared by DC Comics Deck-building Game, so more like Ascension than Dominion. What’s in the box? 200+ colourful cards, with stills from the Fellowship of the Ring movie. The game looks nice, but not stunning. No major complaints about the components. What do you do in the game? Play cards…
…succeeds the best, since — other than the mergers — everything else in that game is fairly straight-forward. The fourth approach is to keep the rules complexity “manageable” and to simply make the game “interesting” from the start, hoping that the new players will find the decisions compelling enough to come back for more. 1830…
…adults or groups of kids, Halli Galli should provide many good laughs and lots of entertainment. The only drawback is the same as with any speed game: some people are simply so much better in these games that the fun is diminished. However, Halli Galli isn’t hard, so the skill differences shouldn’t be that pronounced….
…the most shares in a company will be the director. The share auction continues at least until every player has chosen a share to sell. Once that happens, the auction will continue until somebody runs out of money. Then the companies get to build track. Each director chooses which connection the company wants to build…
…got corn in the early game and decided to try to score big by shipping it. That was a bad decision. I think the strategy forced me to make some suboptimal role decisions and the money simply didn’t flow my way. I did manage to get 35 shipping points and came second, but Ismo beat…
…gets the share and uses the money bid to draw some track on the map. More track means more dividends for the company. Individual company shares can be traded for grouping company shares, which gain value during the game and are very powerful in the end. The problem with this game was the sheer amount…
…take whopping few millimeters of vertical space. Rest of the game would probably fit an envelope. When I look at the box, I think of Space Marine, which has a similar box. Space Marine box contained about 550 miniatures (in 6 mm scale, though) and 10 cardboard buildings. Maul of America has, what, 20 plastic…
My son was born today, just seven minutes past midnight. He’s small, cute and seems to enjoy sleeping quite a lot. I don’t know what to say, it was simply an amazing experience seeing the birth and the first few moments, my son and his mother together. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen….