Great Western Trail is one of my top 5 games, after Scythe and Terraforming Mars, before Powergrid and Arkham Horror the Card Game. I can’t really put my finger on why I love it so much except that it’s the perfect combination of simple mechanisms stuck together to provide a suitably crunchy game. Aside from …
First things first, this was not my idea, and I first heard about the concept from Paul Grogan of Gaming Rules! However, that being said, I wanted to write about this fantastic idea and the fun we had with it. This is something I would highly recommend – although probably only if you are really …
Why I want to burn that damn Clocktower down.
I first played Dune Imperium a couple of years ago in a 3 player game. I loved it. I have always loved Dune as a franchise (my dad read all the books, but I never got far in as I hated Paul Atreides in Dune Messiah). I would have bought the game following that play …
This post was inspired by the Board Game Geek podcast episode starring Paul Grogan which discussed games which use dice in clever ways. For the most part I don’t mind dice in boardgames, with a few exceptions. I like games with some randomness, although generally I prefer the randomness of drawing cards than rolling dice. …
Atiwa is one of the newest Uwe Rosenberg games and definitely the newest in my collection. I picked a copy up at the bring and buy at UK Games Expo, having previously watched a play through and deciding it was a must have for my collection. My version of the game is in German, but …
I won Nimalia in a raffle at UK Games Expo and when I picked it up I can’t say I was enthused by it. However, when I got home I watched a few reviews and read the rules and I decided it looked pretty good. It’s a card drafting and laying game where each card …
I’ve owned Agricola for a long while, but got the Farmers of the Moor expansion relatively recently. However, as the expansion was for the revised version of the game but I had the original I never properly played it. I recently bought the revised edition of Agricola as I found it available dirt cheap. And …
A crunchy Euro which is more mechanical than theme, takes up the whole table, but looks very pretty.