How's your ability in magic? Can you conjure up the greatest magical creatures known to wizard-dom? If you can, then you might just have what it takes to impress the Magic Jury and become the next Arc
How's your ability in magic? Can you conjure up the greatest magical creatures known to wizard-dom? If you can, then you might just have what it takes to impress the Magic Jury and become the next Arcanimus. At least, that's what you'll hopefully be doing in Alakazoo, a new board game that's up on Kickstarter now.
From the campaign:
The campaign's by far and away over its funding goal (granted, their goal was selling about 1 game, so there's that) with 9 days left to go.
It's the crime of the century. Dr. Moriarty has been working at it and now his plans are being put into motion. However, as always, there's Sherlock Holmes right on his trail. It's the final 12 hours,
It's the crime of the century. Dr. Moriarty has been working at it and now his plans are being put into motion. However, as always, there's Sherlock Holmes right on his trail. It's the final 12 hours, and in the end, either the crime will be committed or thwarted. Who will win? That's what you're going to find out in Clash of Minds: Holmes vs. Moriarty, a new card game that's up on Kickstarter now.
From the campaign:
The campaign's around 2/3 of the way to its goal with 22 days left to go.
A grand magic tournament is being held. Wizards and Witches from all over are looking to compete. The top prize will go to the magic-user that summons the greatest creature to their side. That's where
A grand magic tournament is being held. Wizards and Witches from all over are looking to compete. The top prize will go to the magic-user that summons the greatest creature to their side. That's where you find yourself in Alakazoo, a new board game that's up on Kickstarter now.
About the game:
Alakazoo is a family board game for 2-4 players based mostly on Set Collection and Pattern Building with additional Card Drafting and Dice Rolling mechanics. To prove their skills in the magic domain players will summon Fantastic Creatures trying to beat their opponents. Are you powerful enough to impress the Magic Jury and reach for the title of Arcanimus?
Meet the Magic In Alakazoo, you take the role of the young adept of the art of summoning, competing in a magic tournament. Roll the Spell dice to activate runes on your Portal, collect the Spell cards or use your Castle Keeper’s powers. All these actions will help you summon all parts of your Fantastic creature and score the magic points, not only during, but also when tournament ends. Collect the most points and receive title of Arcanimus! However, this is not an easy task. The dark power locked within portals is awaiting your mistakes to grant you dark crystals. So be careful and planyour every move, because once you gather 3 dark crystals, you will have to rest before your next summoning.
Key Mechanics • Set collection • Pattern Building • Card Drafting • Dice Rolling
The Kickstarter is over its funding goal, but there's only 6 days left to get in on the action if you want.
Hey kids. It's Saturday! If you're like me, you're at the LGS, hanging out and talking/playing games. I hope you're doing that, anyway. I mean, it's what Saturday's for!It's also for reviews. So let's
Hey kids. It's Saturday! If you're like me, you're at the LGS, hanging out and talking/playing games. I hope you're doing that, anyway. I mean, it's what Saturday's for! It's also for reviews. So let's get to it.
This week we have: Heldentaufe, Monster Trap, Galaxy of Train: New Order, Lords of Hellas, Bestiary 6, New York Slice, Orphan Black, Sailing Towards Osiris, Perdition's Mouth: Abyssal Rift, Moons, Adrenaline, and Terraforming Mars.
theMCGuiRE review takes a look at Lords of Hellas a brand new game from Awaken Realms. This is a prototype version of the game but very special in many ways! Custom painted resin miniatures and a super limited special made box (watch the video for what "special" magic this box does).
The Kickstarter is coming to us end of May/early June and will feature new game play additions, extra miniatures, solo game play rules and much more. This is your chance to get your hands on the game super early before it comes out! So subscribe and have a chance to win my copy of the prototype version with special resin miniatures and epic custom box!
The quality on this one is off the charts and I cant wait to see what all they do with this game in the upcoming Kickstarter.
It’s not clear who the players’ roles are in New York Slice, but what is clear is that players will be dividing up and selecting slices of pizza from a random pie. Majority scoring occurs for the number of slices each player has acquired, with the number of points matching the number of slices available in the game. Chalkboard tiles grant special abilities for an additional variety of scoring opportunities.
In Orphan Black, players are assigned a faction and three specific clone targets. They play influence cards to try to move clones to their faction without tipping off everyone to their loyalties. After all 9 clones have been resolved, players score bonus points for their targets and any correct accusations they made. The player with the most points wins.
Sailing Towards Osiris is a game that simulates the building of monuments and tributes to win an election… sort of like in the United States, except in Egypt.
The Pharaoh has died and he has no heirs. Governors (the players) have four rounds to build the greatest tribute to Osiris in honor of the recently deceased Pharaoh, with the wining governor becoming the Pharaoh’s successor.
In Perdition’s Mouth, player’s are delving into the depths of a cultist stronghold to embark on a series of missions. The game can be played as one-off sessions, or as a linked campaign.
During the game, each player choose a unique hero to command and must work together if they hope to make it out of the rift alive. The gameplay embraces the eurogamer style of play, eschewing dice rolling and hacking-and-slashing for a more unique rondel based action system. Players definitely need to employ solid teamwork and tactics if they hope to survive.
As a trick-taking card game Moons orbits the genre fairly closely, but also adds some twists to rocket up the fun. It is a plain trick-taking game with no trumps. That is, instead of capturing cards worth points, winning a trick allows you to take a moon token that is worth a point at the end of the game – more if part of a set.
Adrenaline is an action game all about blasting your friends into tiny bits with the biggest, coolest guns.
On your turn, you can move, shoot, or pick up items (guns or ammo). After 2 actions you can reload your guns, then score any kills you made during your turn before play passes onward to the next player!
The weapons are where the heart of this game dwells. Each weapon (in addition to having a cool name and FPS-style design) has an effect that typically deals out damage based on your target’s proximity. Most guns have multiple possible effects, and some allow you to spend ammunition when you put the gun into play to increase its effectiveness. For example, one gun lets you choose to deal a lot of damage to one player, or spread out the damage to multiple players in the same space. There are guns that shoot through walls, guns that suck your target towards you, guns that let you run up, smash someone for damage, and then run away.
You’ll need ammo to power your guns, so you’ll pick up tiles that let you collect ammo cubes and someimtes item cards that grant additional powered abilities.
Terraforming Mars is a resource-management engine-building game for one to five players. Players represent corporations who are working to make Mars inhabitable. The game ends when the three global parameter minimums–oxygen, temperature, and oceans–have been met. The player who contributes the most to the terraforming effort is the winner.
Creativemaker launched a Kickstarter campaign for Galaxy of Trian, their new tile-based, sci-fi board game. They're already pretty close to their funding goal with still 28 days to go.SourceFrom the c
Creativemaker launched a Kickstarter campaign for Galaxy of Trian, their new tile-based, sci-fi board game. They're already pretty close to their funding goal with still 28 days to go.
Galaxy of Trian is a dynamic tile-based sci-fi board game.
During the game, you take command of one alien faction, fighting over the territory and technology left by the powerful Trian race. Players have at their disposal a few kinds of basic units and spaceships, which allow for the exploration and control of the galaxy. Further ships will be released in future expansions.
The game is played in turns, in a clockwise manner. Starting with the first player, in each of their turns, players draw a tile from the stack and place it on the table. The tiles can be placed with either side face up, and must make a legal connection to those already placed on the table.
Tiles are two-sided and stacked in two piles, which gives more tactical possibilities and, at the same time, limits randomness. Special tiles, like teleports, exmitters or trade stations increase the level of interaction and give the players an even greater variety of choices.
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