actually the saga expansions build a campaign and the boons and banes are character development in the widest sense. And you can rebuild your deck – within limits – in the saga expansion campaign, to get more development of your party. So it definitely…

**Waggle Dance** – received, played, loved, is one of the favorites of our weekly game group. **Assault on Doomrock** – received, played, still like the idea, but the implementation itself is just something that drives me up the wall. Not the games fault, it’s just not the game for me. **Lord of the Ice Garden** – received, only one solo play so far, but liked what I seen and will get it out for some brainy solo play again. Might even hit the table multiplayer, allthough it probably will be a monster to teach. **One Zero One** – neat little filler with a fresh theme and some fun twists. Doesn’t hit the table often, because it needs the right opponent to enjoy the “8 bit basic computer” feel. **Pocket Imperium** – felt meh with 2, might be better at 3+, but haven’t played it since that 2-player game. **Oddball Aeronauts** – received it, but somehow they forgot to send a game and only sent cards 😉 (to me it’s a quite elaborate rock-paper-scissors with admittedly cute graphics, but well, not really a a game). **Athlas: Duel of Divinity** – why the heck did I even back it? I don’t think I will ever be able to get it to the table. Cool minis, really interesting game with deck/army building and a good deal of miniature game in it, but with the theme and the fact it is only 2 player, it was a rather dumb move to back it. It’s probably the same reason why I bought The Duke – I love games I classify as “configureable chess”. The ones I look forward to the most currently are **Apocrypha** and **Scythe**. Some other stuff in the pipeline to be delivered this year, but those two are the big ones I really look forward. For quite a few games I just didn’t back, waiting for either the german Spieleschmiede Project (some of the above – like Lord of the Ice Garden – were Spieleschmiede Projects) or actually waiting for retail (allthough I feel dumb that I got The Gallerist at retail price instead of the much cheaper Spieleschmiede price … oh well, live and learn).

Not really important to me, because many of them are thematic games in the Fantasy or SciFi or Horror genre and that just doesn’t appeal at all to my wife, who is my prime gaming partner. I do care about top “euro realistic theme” games, but even then only so far as to read up on them to see if they would work for us (or if they have a cool solo variant so that they could work for me). But I am quite selective about what goes into my collection.

by TheGargoyle
Probably The Lord of the Ice Garden is the most euro’ish game that I really like to play solo. The solo rules make sense and due to the asymmetric winning goals of the different factions, each combination plays differently.

by TheGargoyle
A thematic reason for number 9: you did the main work, but often loose ends have to be tied up and stuff has to be finished, so you leave your assistant to that. The kickout action then is just that someone else does a deal or some bu…

Well, I would say that Robinson Crusoe is much closer Dead of Winter (minus the traitor) than it is close to Pandemic. Dead of Winter has you scavenging locations, Robinson Crusoe has you exploring locations and going there collecting (or trying to col…

no idea, I just missed the last print run of Navajo Wars myself, thats all 😉

look out for **Comancheria**, another P500 for a new game that uses the Navajo Wars engine and will go to print early 2016 it seems. Navajo Wars just had its 2nd printing sell out, so I doubt it will go up to 500 that soon.

Dice games. I roll Will Wheaton results most of the time.

Not a racing game, but has dice you roll and then assign as workers: **Waggle Dance**. You manage a bee hive and the dice are your worker bees. Lots of fun with that game, turns are quick and its easy to teach. Not as much interaction ïn it as in a racing game, of course.

by TheGargoyle
Well, the german version is available at Spieleschmiede 🙂 (hoping for my package to arrive before the weekend). Since the game is language neutral, you can buy any language version and just download the rules in your favorite languag…

That is what you need the telescope for – preventing to run into monsters. Or the Raven from the character extension.