…top of each other and against the wall. The first one to reach the top wins! What’s in the box? The box is used as a base for the board, which is an A-shaped wall. Central divider splits the board in four sections, two on each side. Each player gets one wall section. There are…
Got Elasund and Farlander from Tactic. Both are interesting games in their own way. Elasund is, of course, the latest game in the Catan franchise. The Catan basics are there (die roll for resource production, building to ten victory points), but outside that it’s something fairly new compared to other Catan games. There’s one aspect…
…Me, I’m not an outdoors kind of guy, unlike my father or my grandparents. Despite that I found Lost Valley quite an enjoyable ride. Avoiding comparison to Goldland is probably an impossible task here. The games have a lot in common: players carry around useful items, restricted by limited space. Items are used to solve…
…almost paper thin when compared to the heavy, mounted boards of German games and the tokens were really flimsy. The game was ok. Of course, it was a luck-filled dice race, but for children’s game (and for a game of it’s age), it’s still fairly good. I’m happy the board has gone unchanged in the…
…your permits are more valuable than those of the other players and you pay some compensation gold to those players whose permits you use. There’s also limited space, particularly on the better areas (the rows that match the most common die rolls six and eight). Fortunately you can build over smaller buildings, and if you…
I haven’t been terribly busy blogging here anyway, but I think I’ll warn you now: next year is likely to be the quietest so far for Gameblog. The first half or so, anyway, since our second child is due early January. In less than a month, that is! That, of course, is totally cool and…
…as well. Wabash Cannonball — Game of the year, sorts of. This was a major hit in Spring when I got my copy. Our group had the most vocal fans of the game, it’s interesting to see how the game will be received now the Chicago Express edition is coming and more people will be…
I also keep the statistics for our board game club. I think it’s interesting to know what games are played (and by whom, but that is of minor interest). Of course, you can keep track of the stats in real time at the web site, but here’s a review of the last year’s numbers. Number…
…and you can play with open hands and guide the newbies. Johanna got the hang of it pretty quickly and in the end was starting to really figure it all out. Of course she won, too, which is never a bad thing when learning a new game (and I swear I didn’t lose on purpose!)….