Category: Syndicated

Most impressive is an oldie I played for the 1st-16th time, 6 of them on one evening, and that is Battle Line. I eyed the GMT edition quite a bit, but the art felt a bit flat. And the original Schottentotten just looked too goofy. Then I found this nice medieaval retheme, and I really like the art, so I got that one. So far we only play the base game, as my wife doesn’t understand english, but we are havong a blast with it and it went to the top of our list immediately.

The next one was Triplock which I just received. Really nice solo memory game with puzzle szenarios that slowly get more complicated. Really cool idea for some quick solo where you play something really different from many other games. The game system really stands out for me from my collection.

due to the language problem – my wife diesn’t understand english – we never played with them. But let me tell you, the base game is just plain awesome. Very elegant and quite quick playing, but still lots of good decision points in the game. Really enjoy it without tactics, even though I wouldn’t mind playing with them with someone who understands english, but don’t really miss them.

yes, tech either gives you straight vp, icons for the three abstract tracks, icons for paying for other tech or little improvements to you actions. But they don’t introduce new actions or something in that run. Of course, the ones that improve your action count and the ones that allows mid-round card draw (draw and discard being much better most of the time than shuffle and draw) being the main things to go for. But what I meant was that they just do that: small improvements. Not introducing anythung over the top, no real comborific stuff, things people often associate with tech trees. Essentially it is a tech tree theme on a race to finush the game by playing era-end-cards in a way that leaves you with mire points than your opponent. Fun game, my wife and I played it over 150 times and still like to pull it out every now and then (still my wifes favorite game as it was the first one she really cracked).

yeah, it is tech-tree the game. One thing people thinking “tech tree” might miss, though: its tech is only providing symbols for vp and more tech. So the technology itself doesn’t actually do anything spectacular. If that is what you want, I probably would more go for Innivation, as every technology there provides unique abilities.

This. I keep a list of games I am WILLING to trade, but that doesn’t say I am running around, trying to find trades for them. I do understand when people get annoyed when the other side doesn’t answer trade requests, though, especially if you see them login regularly – that is just rude. But not doing active trades just means no trade showed up, was offered or found in a while. Additionally, I have some games up for trade where I say I only trade for stuff high up on my wish list. And I only trade within Germany, due to silly high postage outside in many countries.

Trade lists are chances for trades, not obligations for trades.

For me I think it would be Corleone: The Godfather – at least for stuff I brought to our game night. It just plays fantastic with all player counts and is really fun to play, the mechanics for me click just right and present a great mobster game. It might not be the Corleone game, but I don’t care about that anyway.

For my solo playing it probably is 7th Continent, because it is the closest to adventure games on the computer that I totally loved, just in board game form.

Yes, totally looking forward to 2+2 – WsdV is among my wife’s and my favorites, a really great game. And to be able to play that with one of our game groups will be lots of fun.

currently our go-to abstract for two is The Duke. The flipping pieces give it a nicw twist that undermines my chess-schooled brain quite a bit and gives my wife a solid chance to snag victory from me. I allready have Tak waiting, though, for some alternatives. Other than that: Battle Line and Red7 are more or less abstracts, too, and we enjoy them quite a bit. But it is hard to convince my wife to play abstracts, so I don’t own many of them.

God, Boardgame Brawl still to this day posts videos with out-of-focus components. He is doing it for years and still doesn’t get it right nor reshooting those parts. It’s not hard science, dude, learn your equipment!

SUaSD and NPI both have this stupid idea that pushing/throwing pieces around is funny. Nope, it isn’t, at keast not if you do it as often as you do. It irks me, when I see people clumsily or pretend-clumsily shove around pieces and break the setup. It doesn’t add to neither value nor tone of the review. But well, I can look over it if the review provides value, but it is probably why I relegate those two channels more to the boardgame-clowns faction than as valuable information sources. Fun to watch every now and then, especially about games I allready know about, but rarely a source when looking for information about a game, as that gets lost in the “funny”. Same as inside the box, great channel, just not great source of info about a game.

Man vs Meeples is mire the board game evening news to me than an actual review channel. Tidbits from the hobby, pointers for games I might want to go in on further, stuff like that. I like their super smooth production, really, the amateurish clobbered togetherness of some reviewers gets to me sometimes. I like that thwir thing is on the shorter side, too. As I said, the equivalent of the evening news. Especially when they have guests. I’ve never gone to a MvM vid when I wanted to know about a game specificially, but I have gone for more infos on a game after several MvM videos.

I really like it, but somehiw it never hits the table. It might be the fiddlyness – all that conversion stuff happenong – and the different decks to know, it just feels overly complicated for what it does. 51st State Master Set feels kinda the same (no wonder, same game system) with even more stuff added with the contact tokens. I really like the system, but most people I teach it to, I notice they just don’t “get it” – which ends with them not really enjiying it. Maybe this is one of thise games you really have to play repeatedly to really enjoy it. Will give one of them a new chance on our weekly game night nontheless, maybe it finally will click for others.