While I, myself, am a teetotaler, I can certainly appreciate the craftsmanship and care that goes into a product such as beer. And I can see why people really love to talk about the intricacies of it,
While I, myself, am a teetotaler, I can certainly appreciate the craftsmanship and care that goes into a product such as beer. And I can see why people really love to talk about the intricacies of it, the differences between different brews, and the debates about proper methods of creation. If you're one of those people, you should check out Homebrewers, a new beer-brewing board game that's up on Kickstarter now.
From the campaign:
Welcome to the hobby of homebrewing!
You’re a new homebrewer, looking to make all sorts of new and interesting beers in the comfort of your own home, and you’ve just joined a local homebrew club. Now it's time to have a friendly competition with your fellow homebrewers and see who can become the club's best brewer!
Homebrewers is a competitive game for two to five players designed by Ben Rosset (Brew Crafters,Brew Crafters Travel Card Game, Between Two Cities) & Matthew O'Malley (Diner, Between Two Cities, The Princess Bride: A Battle of Wits) and illustrated by Adam Rebottaro, artist of the award-winning game Sentinels of the Multiverse, and SaRae Henderson.
The campaign's about 2/3 of the way to their goal with still 15 days left to go.
The game's tied. Your team is up at bat. All eyes are watching you from the stands.Here's the wind-up.And the pitch!Bottom of the 9th does away with the "boring" part of a game of baseball and immedia
The game's tied. Your team is up at bat. All eyes are watching you from the stands. Here's the wind-up. And the pitch! Bottom of the 9th does away with the "boring" part of a game of baseball and immediately takes you to the 9th inning. In the Clubhouse Expansion, your options for your team greatly expand, giving you more players, more equipment, more staff, and tourney rules.
There's a lot of individual parts in a baseball game, especially when you bring gear into the mix. There's baseballs, bats, pine tar, and even such things as new jerseys, rally caps, and more. You can even upgrade your clubhouse which will benefit all the players on your roster.
The campaign is closing in on 2x funded with still 25 days to go.
Happy Halloween, everyone!Whether you're going out to a party or staying in, celebrate the holiday with some spooky-themed gaming. At least, that'd be my suggestion.But how do you know what will and w
Happy Halloween, everyone! Whether you're going out to a party or staying in, celebrate the holiday with some spooky-themed gaming. At least, that'd be my suggestion.
But how do you know what will and won't be a good game? You read a review, of course! And we've got a whole new batch for you here today.
They include: Blood Rage, The King is Dead, D&D Miniatures White Dracolich Miniature,Battle Foam P.A.C.K 432 Molle Army Bag, Apocalypse Chaos, Conflict of Heroes – Awakening the Bear Second Edition, Brother Vinni Minis, The Grizzled, Pandemic Legacy, Bright Future, Nautilus Industry, Warband Board Game, Stealing Mona Lisa, The Batman Miniatures Game, Isle of Trains, and Sneaky Cards.
When a game promises “politics and power struggles in the dark Arthurian Britain” and only eight actions per player, per game, the money flies out of my wallet. The promise of simple game mechanics that belie a deeper, strategic experience are nearly always a major draw for me. The King is Dead delivers on these counts... Follow the link to read the full review of this offering from Osprey Publishing!
There are few things more terrifying than an undead dragon, and this is exactly what the most recent Dungeons and Dragons miniatures set brings us in the Rage of Demons Premium Figure – a gargantuan White Dracolich. We’ve already reviewed what you can expect to find in the rest of the Rage of Demons set, and it’s topped off by this impressive monster which is available separately to the standard boosters for around £33 (or $30-$40). Join us as we unbox this pre-painted beast from WizKids and take a closer look…
Welcome to our review of the P.A.C.K 432 Molle Army Bag, our second review of the cases available from Battle Foam designed for safely storing and transporting wargaming miniatures. We’ve previously reviewed the P.A.C.K 720 and Battle Foam have kindly sent us its smaller brother the P.A.C.K 432 to test out. The bag itself is priced at £60 (or $77.99), and we have filled it with a set of foam trays specifically cut to fit Warhammer 40k Space Marine miniatures. This foam Space Marine Kit for the P.A.C.K. 432 is priced at £45.60 (or $56.99).
When it comes to original board games on the market today, you’d be hard pressed to find an experience more unique than a Legacy game. Published in 2011, Risk: Legacy turned tabletop gaming on its head by bringing a game to the market that players physically altered over time. Players wrote on, ripped up, and otherwise defaced their game during play, and they loved it. Who would have thought!
Since then, gamers have been chomping at the bit for the next legacy game to tickle our imaginations. Well fret no more because Risk: Legacy designer Rob Daviau has teamed up with Matt Leacock, the designer of the perennial best seller Pandemic (review here). What these two industry veterans have brought us is Pandemic: Legacy. A game played over twelve months where players must fight off the infections plaguing humanity. Can you save a world that will literally never be the same. Lets find out!
Pandemic: Legacy is a cooperative, campaign style game for 2-4 players that takes about 45-60 minutes to play. Pandemic: Legacy plays well with any number of players.
Bright Future is a card driven lite-RPG adventure. It is situated in an intriguing and immersive world where our civilization was destroyed after an all-out nuclear war. During the past decades the few remaining survivors are living a harsh life underground.
Nemo is gone, but his machines have opened a whole new world to us! The floors of Neptune’s seas lay open to us, ready to surrender their bounties. Equip and upgrade your mining machines, then guide them to the rich mineral seams beneath the ocean.Nautilus industries Control the supply of resources to bend the market to your will. Become the master of Nautilus Industries!
As a player in Warband: Against the Darkness, you control the warband armies of one of the great fantasy races of the Five Realms. Although the great races are currently working together in mutual defense, old habits and rivalries are hard to break and this isn’t in any way a co-operative game. It’s important that your kind emerges victorious from the war with more battle prestige and honor than your temporary and untrustworthy comrades. The player who collects the most Victory Points of one-upmanship for their race by the conclusion of the final battle against the Darkness – gained by advancing your soldiers in the warband, earning gold for your army captains, reconnoitering the combat fronts with your scouts, and defeating enemies on the battlefields – has achieved the greatest leadership glory and is declared the winner.
Warband: Against the Darkness is perfectly balanced in the design space between Euro and Ameri-style gameplay, combining strategic depth with an evocative fantasy theme and tense player conflict.
Stealing Mona Lisa is a casual “card drafting” card game that is for ages 5 and older, for 3 to 7 (yes 7!) players, that plays in about half an hour. Our many play testers have found it to be easy to learn and lots of fun!
The Batman Miniatures Game by Knight Models (the only site it has is an official forum, astonishingly) is a small skirmish game which seeks to lovingly translate the universe of street level DC comics heroes and villains to the tabletop. You will form a gang of 4-10 miniatures and fight to both take out enemy models and score objectives. And you get to do this with Batman, the Joker, and dozens of other iconic characters.
OH MY GOODNESS! Pandemic Legacy is upon us, daring men and women the world over to command the Centre for Disease Control for one grisly year. What components lie in wait in the box's secret compartments? What will your story be?
Of course we had to provide you with the earliest possible review. You won't find a more heartfelt, spoiler-free analysis anywhere.
Isle of trains, published by Dice Hate Me games, is number 5 in their Rabbit card game line. At its heart, it’s a game of resource collection and hand management for 2-4 players. Each player is a train operator, collecting freight, building train sections, and loading cargo in order to complete delivery contracts. It’s about the size of a deck of playing cards (50 cards, 6 contract cards) and takes around 15 minutes to play once you’ve gotten the rules down for a 2 player game.
If you’ve seen the movie “Pay It Forward,” you already have a pretty good idea of what Sneaky Cards is all about. The tagline for this game is “Play It Forward” and it’s similar in concept to the movie. The cards direct you to do nice things for others, engage with strangers, surprise people, and try things that you wouldn’t ordinarily try. After you complete your mission, you hope that others will continue your work by “Playing It Forward” and continuing the game. You are along for the ride in this interactive scavenger hunt that has you spreading joy, fun, and silliness throughout the world. If you’ve ever wanted to be a sneaky ninja of joy (kind of like Santa Claus, but without the reindeer), Sneaky Cards may be the game for you.
Welcome once again to another TGN Saturday Edition where we round up all the reviews we've found over the week and put them into our Review Roundup (and around and around... and it comes out here).Thi
Welcome once again to another TGN Saturday Edition where we round up all the reviews we've found over the week and put them into our Review Roundup (and around and around... and it comes out here).
This week we've got reviews of: Builders of Blankenburg, Robotech RPG Tactics, Brew Crafters, Diner, Kahuna, Lanterns, and 7 Wonders: Babel.
Robotech RPG Tactics is a miniatures skirmish game that may be played in a variety of ways. There are a plethora of different scenarios and special rules you can use or you can play in campaign mode.
Brew Crafters: The Travel Card Game, is a game for 2-4 players that involves becoming a brewery owner and trying to gain the most reputation in the wide world of beer brewing. If you enjoy card games and beer, then this is one you need to take a look at!
Everybody has their favorite hole-in-the wall diner that’s always bustling. Plates are clanging, the waitstaff is rushing around, the same characters always sit at the counter, and the greasy guy in the kitchen is yelling, “Order up!” and pounding the little bell on the counter. Diner is a fast-playing, simultaneous action card game that attempts to replicate the frenzied feeling of a busy diner with you in the role of harried waitstaff. Does it succeed or leave you hungry for something better? Read on.
Originally published in 1997 as Arabana-Ikibiti by the designer’s own publisher Bambus Spieleverlag, then reprinted by Funagain in the U.S., Kosmos’ Kahuna – part of its Kosmos two-player series – is the best known implementation of this design.
It’s a two-player game, played on a board depicting twelve islands. Players use cards to place bridges between these islands or remove opponent’s bridges. If you get the majority of bridges around an island, you place one of your marker stones on it and also remove any of your opponent’s bridges to that island – which might cause them to lose a bridge majority on an adjacent island and lose a marker stone there.
The harvest is in, and the artisans are hard at work preparing for the upcoming festival. Decorate the palace lake with floating lanterns and compete to become the most honored artisan when the festival begins.
In Lanterns: The Harvest Festival, players have a hand of tiles depicting various color arrangements of floating lanterns, as well as an inventory of individual lantern cards of specific colors. When you place a tile, all players (you and your opponents) receive a lantern card corresponding to the colour on the side of the tile facing them. Place carefully to earn cards and other bonuses for yourself, while also looking to deny your opponents. Players gain honour by dedicating sets of lantern cards — three pairs, for example, or all seven colours — and the player with the most honour at the end of the game wins.
If you are reading this website then chances are you’ve heard of a little game called 7 Wonders. Designed by Antoine Bauza and published by Asmodee Games, this card game has won more awards than I can count.
Since 7 Wonders rocketed onto the scene in 2010, there have been 4 expansions for the game to date. Cities, Leaders, the Wonder Pack, and now Babel. Today, we are going to be looking at Babel, the newest expansion to this great game and also the one that changes up the gameplay the most. So let’s climb the tower of Babel and see what the view looks like from the top.
Dice Hate Me Games is running a Kickstarter campaign in order to fund Brew Crafters, a board game all about making beer. They're already over their funding goal, so it's stretch goals for the next 25
Dice Hate Me Games is running a Kickstarter campaign in order to fund Brew Crafters, a board game all about making beer. They're already over their funding goal, so it's stretch goals for the next 25 days.
In Brew Crafters, players assume management of a local craft brewery, working hard to manage resources, use their workers wisely, and develop their brewing line to create the best local brews. Players can perform research into different beer styles, brewing recipes such as Smoked Porter, Pumpkin Ale, and Coffee Stout, crafting their own unique brewing strategy along the way.
Brew Crafters honors the tradition of classic Euro-style board games, but at its heart beats a unique brewery processing system that must be constantly improved, monitored, and manned in order to keep the beloved beverages rolling off the line. Each brewery has access to a variety of equipment upgrades, farms, markets, and a plethora of specialty workers, ensuring a high level of replayability and strategic avenues. In addition, each player is studiously working to be first to develop several rotating gold-label specialty recipes that will earn them a better reputation at the end of year three when the best local brewer will be honored.
Play Unplugged had a chat with Dice Hate Me Games while at the Origins Game Fair. See what was talked about.From the interview:The dice may hate them, but gamers love them. Matt Snodgrass chats with f
Play Unplugged had a chat with Dice Hate Me Games while at the Origins Game Fair. See what was talked about.
From the interview:
The dice may hate them, but gamers love them. Matt Snodgrass chats with four of the folks from Dice Hate Me Games. First up is company founder Chris Kirkman, followed by Compounded creator Darrell Louder. Then we are joined by T.C. Petty III, the mind behind Dice Hat Me Games latest Kickstarter project VivaJava. Our last interview in the series is with Jason Kotarski, designer of The Great Heartland Hauling Company. It’s a quartet of fun!
Dice Hate Me Games launched their Kickstarter project in order to fund VivaJava" The Coffee Game: The Dice Game.From the campaign:VivaJava: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game – or, more simply, VivaJava D
Dice Hate Me Games launched their Kickstarter project in order to fund VivaJava" The Coffee Game: The Dice Game.
From the campaign:
VivaJava: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game – or, more simply, VivaJava Dice – is the successor to the well-received 2012 release (and Kickstarter veteran) VivaJava: The Coffee Game. As in its predecessor, players of VivaJava Dice take on the roles of employees at the VivaJava CoffeeCo., scouring the globe for the best beans to keep the company on top while keeping themselves one step ahead of the rest of the executives.
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