…A good example of a 45-minute light strategy euro. No complaints, except the slightly funky rule book. Not my cup of tea. Interesting game, nevertheless. The catch here is that the game is played in two rounds. It’s card-driven, and the cards are exchanged between the rounds. The map begins filled with hidden tiles, and…
…long, I think, and handling the tiles and cubes is in the long run rather annoying. Kind of makes me wish it was a computer game where it would be automated. That’s not a good sign, I think. For equality’s sake, Battle Line’s width annoys me — it takes such a huge amount of space….
…make the two-player game interesting. The whole affair is over pretty quickly. The setup takes some effort, as goods tokens must be placed on correct spaces, but it’s not Last Train to Wensleydale complicated or anything. A five-player game should be over in less than hour, setup included, and two-player game shouldn’t take more than…
…players with twelve cards played . The player with the most points win. So far so good! Card tricks Of course, it’s not that simple. The cards have more than points. There are four suits, three of which are practically identical. The cards build up on each other: each suit, for example, has a card…
…the Moor expansion. My son has still some problems managing the farm, and hasn’t really been near winning yet, but he likes the game nevertheless. He also competes against his own personal records (currently 29 with the expansion, and 25 without, I think). It has been very enjoyable for me to get back to this…
We had a small games meet today. I was joined by Inka (a new convert) and Erkka. As the main course, I decided we would play Die Neuen Entdecker. After all, I’ve had it for half a year now and I’ve only played it once before. It was about time I gave it a proper…
…omens of the coming destruction, which allow you to dump opposing pieces to the volcano. For some reason Mari, our hostess, drew most of the omens, and I hear that has happened before… Once the first part is over, the panic and terror begins. The volcano starts grumbling and spitting lava. Players draw lava tiles…
…do a mistake that grave, no way. Unfortunately, too, I wasn’t the one to benefit from the mistake. I thought that player would win the game, but turned out he wasn’t that good either. Probably newbie… He was eventually third. I had a nice little competition with the other guy. He got slightly better income,…