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Spiel 2014 Preview: Night of the Grand Octopus
Night of the Grand Octopus is a game of second-guessing and double-think your opponents, with Cthulhoid overtones, as you try to be the cult that summons the great tentacled one. The first player to...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Imperial Settlers
Imperial Settlers is a new game from Portal Publishing by Ignacy Trzewiczek. Apparently it re-implements State 51; however, I read the rules to Imperial Settlers and have played State 51 once some...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Admiral’s Order – All Hands
They’re at it again. Yes, the brilliantly (mentally) enourmous scope of Admiral’s Order is back again but this year it has a slightly smaller version of the game. Last year, I posted about Admiral’s...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: ZhanGuo
Notice the cards tucked under each player’s boards and each shows a potential bonus ability ZhanGuo is a game published by What’s Your Game who have released some great games in the past including...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Grog Island
Grog Island is a bidding game but with a healthy amount of different elements riding on the bids so it sounds interesting. Each round 5 coloured dice are rolled and players take turns using these...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Throne of the World
Throne of the World is a simple card game by the designer of Attack on Monster. Each turn you have a few options between h0w many cards you draw and how many you play; for example, you can draw 2...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Versailles
Versailles is a game by designer Andrei Novac who I first remember when he designed the interesting territorial game of Warriors and Traders a few years ago. Versailles is a eurogame of building the...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Murano
Murano is a game by Markus and Inka Brand, designers of the excellent Village. Players are competing to be the best businessman on the glass-blowing island and have the most victory points (VPs) when...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Desperados of Dice Town
The original Dice Town is a great little dice-rolling game of second-guessing your opponents. Desperados of Dice Town is set in the same setting but is a completely different game. Players each have...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: La Isla
In addition to Aquasphere, Stefan Feld is releasing La Isla which looks to be a light eurogame with an interesting card game mechanic. Players get 3 cards each round, and they secretly allocate one...
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Spiel 2014 Preview: Further Games of Interest
It’s now just one day to Spiel in Essen and time has run out to write more previews of the games that have caught my interest. In addition to those I have previewed, I have over 50 other games on my...
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Review: Lords of Xidit
Lords of Xidit is a medium-weight eurogame whose core mechanic is about programming your moves and actions which results in a mix of short-term decision-making with some longer-term strategies. This...
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Review: Orléans
The main board with the different character tracks on the left, the roads/rivers/cities where players move and build trading posts on the right, and development track across the bottom. Orléans is from...
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