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With veteran Alhambra players, an air of silence around table means that there’s some serious number crunching going on. Players is keeping track of which colors have majority. They are pretending to be interested in stock market. Everyone is just waiting until that last scorecard is laid down. Maybe you’ve got two purple towers and … Read more
You may have heard about Trans-Siberian Railway: the epic journey through endless distance and imperial hubris. Actualy, its construction was a hard slog of politics, resources, and logistics. Board games like Russian Railroads does a great job representing the struggle between pushing rails outwards and upgrading engine responsible for pulling them along. You can easily … Read more
The meat of the game is how you juggle building your own industry while at the same time trying to rush ahead of your competitors to get most VP points first. Do you enrich some uranium this turn? Or plutonium? When do you take a risk and build more valuable test device? Or play it … Read more
Scoring and Mechanics This is about military power. Religious Influence and Scoring The combination makes Troyes a fun game where you try not to screw up in the end game as points is scored. And it all comes down to each player’s final score in the last round. As each character card are turned over, … Read more
Usually, by the time we get to the end of Caylus it doesn’t feel like a victory lap. After three hours arguing about stone cubes, hoarding resources, and putting down workers, it feels more like an audit. The game is done. It is time to see if any of that work turned into point. Enter … Read more
At some point Keythedral goes from the art of creation to the mathematics of it all. Before this shift, you’ve spent time moving your workers around, bidding for who goes next, building fences, and more. Your cathedral might appear wonderful, a sure win. Looks can be deceiving. In this game, many folks think they has … Read more
It’s not enough to guess strategicaly at what needs doing in the final few minutes of a Snowdonia session; those last few minutes deserve careful record-keeping. You’ve set up your surveyor, cleared out the route, picked up some contract cards you think will score well. Add them all together and you realise that you don’t … Read more
