Board game reviews and previews
Board game reviews and previews
Long games
All too often I've seen the hype for new games fade quicker than a cheap sparkler, but here we are, a year later, and people are still talking about Ark Nova. Mathias Wigge might not be a name you knew a year ago, so should you know it now?
Today I'm upping the ante with my recent dive into wargaming. Putting on my big boy trousers and stepping up to 'hex and counter' games. My first foray proper into this world is with Salerno '43, a game from GMT Games and designer Mark Simonitch.
For such a simple action set to choose from, and with only three roles available in the entire game, Oath has no right to tickle your brain in the way it does.
Poleis is a war game, but not one with a ton of cardboard chits, or worrying about attack and defence values. In fact, it looks and feels more like a Euro game
Dice as workers, a historical theme with an unusual name beginning with the letter T, and tons of depth - it's all in there. Let's take a look at Tabannusi.
A post-apocalyptic, pretzels & Pabst, petrol-powered, powder keg of a game
Wargames tend to do asymmetry best. Crescent Moon is the new kid on the block, moving the strategy to a non-specific Caliphate, somewhere out in the desert.
With its roots firmly in the MOBA and Tower Defence genres of video games, Cloudspire aims to replicate the feel of a game like League of Legends, but in a tabletop form
BCE 44 builds on the infamous events of the eponymous year when Julius Caesar was assassinated on the floor of the Senate, by a group of senators who worried that he had too much power over the empire
Every so often a game comes along, and I think "That sounds like the name of a Black Metal concept album", and this is one of them. Book of Skulls - Slayers of Eragoth wasn't named this way accidentally, either.