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On the Radar: Essen 2014
Spiel in Essen is now less than 3 months away so the information about (and the buzz around) games being released there has begun. It’s always an exciting time of year as lots of new games get...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Nations: The Dice Game
The full game of Nations is an excellent civilsation game which uses euro-style game mechanics and focuses more on building civilisations and indirect interaction plus has no landscape board. It’s an...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Takamatsu
Takamatsu is a new game by Martin Schlegel – the designer of Aqua Romana (an SdJ nominee released by Queen in 2005 – the first Spiel I attended). I really like Aqua Romana (even though I think one of...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Samurai Spirit
I’m always interested in the games that Funforge create as their production quality is superb and I’ve liked a lot of what they’ve published, such as Quantum, Pony Express and Tokaido. This year it’s...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Black Fleet
Fresh from their SdJ nomination with Splendor, Space Cowboys are releasing the very fun-looking, pirate game of Black Fleet. The board shows a sea full of Caribbean islands and ports. Players each...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Madame Ching
Madame Ching looks like a really interesting eurogame. Players send their boats on expeditions across the sea by playing cards (each showing a number, a colour and a symbol) - so far that sounds very...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Abyss
Bruno Cathala has a been a busy guy this year as Abyss is yet another game co-designed by him – this time with Charles Chevallier. The goal of the game is to be crowned King of Abyss by having the most...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Hyperborea
Hyperborea sounds like it should be an excellent eurogame Civilisation game (and is co-designed by Andrea Chiarvesio who co-designed Kingsburg). Players explore and control a landscape made of large...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Aquasphere
Those of you that have read my blog for a while will know I’m always interested in Stefan Feld’s games as I like how he uses interesting game mechanics. One of his releases this year is Aquasphere...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Colt Express
Colt Express is a visually impressive looking game but the gameplay also sounds like a lot of fun. The players are all outlaws looting a train and the player with the most loot at the end of 5 rounds...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Lords of Xidit
Lords of Xidit is an interesting-looking, medium-weight eurogame. Players move their character around the land from city to city, recruiting units and defeating threats. At the start of each round,...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Neptun
Dirk Henn was probably the first designer that I followed as Alhambra was one of the first euro board games I played and then I found I really liked his next games, such as Eketorp, Colonia, Shogun and...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Mogul
(Note: I assume this is for release at Spiel as it’s listed as a 2014 game on Michael Schacht’s web site.) Mogul is a game by Michael Schacht (Zooloretto) which was released in 2002 but has had some...
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Preview: Orléans
Orléans is a new game from dlp games who released the highly-entertaining game Citrus last year. Orléans combines multiple game mechanics such as bag-building, meeple movement, and worker placement....
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Spiel 2014 Preview: El Gaucho
El Gaucho is a eurogame of cattle ranching. From reading the rules, it sound like a fresh mix of game mechanics is a light, fast game which appeals to me. On the board is a pen for rolling dice, rows...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Deus
Deus is a game by Sébastien Dujardin (co-designer of Troyes and Tournay). It’s a game of ancient civilisation building, whilst trying to appease the gods, and contains some interesting sounding game...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Royals
Royals is a new eurogame by the designer of last year’s Triassic Terror and the excellent Francis Drake too. The board shows 4 European countries and each has various titled positions (Baron, King,...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Theseus: Bots
Theseus is a really interesting, tactical game – you can read my review here. Bots is an expansion that adds a new faction to pick from. Apart from that, I haven’t seen any other details about it at...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Attack on Monster
Attack on Monster is a game of of knowing when to fight, knowing when to run, and knowing when to tell your friends you’ll stay with them to the bitter end and then immediately deserting them so they...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Office 21
Office 21 is a quick, card game where players are trying to have their ‘office’ of workers generate exactly $21 million profit, i.e. their values add up to 21. Players take turns adding one worker...
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