A quick guide to winning every board game, in 3 parts: playing the rules, playing the game, and playing the opponent.
(Note that we won
Space Ninja, review
Slightly obscure review today: Space Ninja from the English-language friendly Japanese company Group SNE.
The game is a worker placement, your workers are agents placed onto various planets in order to influence their individual politics. At scoring time, they earn you points based on who controls planets: player with most agents
Mystic Vale, short review
We got to play the upcoming Mystic Vale at Kingdom Con in San Diego. A cool
Kingdom Con Loot
No game purchases at Kingdom Con this year, but we did get a nice bag for carrying stuff, and these mini adventurers for Lords Of Waterdeep
Actually makes it feel like you hire guys instead of shuffling cubes around.
BuzzFeed-style board game meme list
Made a stack of buzzfeedy board game memes.
When you’re sneaking up on a science victory in 7 Wonders and no one noticed
When they
Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia review
We picked this guy up from our anniversary purchases. I’m quite fond of it.
Euphoria is a dice placement eurogame with a great theme and a bunch of interesting twists. You play a middle manager in a world crushing dystopian society and you’re just trying to get your job done. To do so you use your worker dice, and the larger the dice score, the better the dice works in some jobs, but if they get too smart
Game of Thrones, the Board Game, review
A classic, for good reason.
Bioshock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia review
Tomo picked this up on one of those online sales so I finally got to play what I passed on to get Evolution instead.
This is pretty much the quintessence of a Ameri-game. Miniatures for area control. Combat with custom dice. Completely theme based. Simple rules that involve a lot of weight up front. If you like
TI3
Managed to get my first win in a Twilight Imperium
Pax Porfiriana (solo) mini-review
This one took a while to hit table despite my best efforts since the rules are a bit long, so I finally did the optional solo variant by myself.
I realize this really is a very mini review even by my standards but I just want to say how fantastic the game really is.