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Raiders of Scythia has a certian sort of tension that isn’t quite strategy, and certainly not pure chaos management. It feels more like managed chaos. You form a party of raider, weighing the brute force needed to topple settlements against difficulty of feeding and protecting your crew. Expansion is aggressively rewarded here, while being reckless … Read more
Scoring for Santa Maria can be tough to wrap your head around. There are three years, there are various resources, there’s shipping routes and religious appointments and happiness tokens. When you draw last blue die, the board freezes and you add it all up. A lot of people have a gut feeling about who won … Read more
Your ship’s built, your crew’s engaged, provisions are loaded in the hold, now do you go raid? Will it pay off in points for you to mount up? That’s where Raiders of the North Sea create a slight tension as you weigh near term treasure versus building toward longer game. Do you bump your Valkyrie … Read more
In Marco Polo II, Round Six is the last round and it is more about counting than strategy. You’ve been shuffling your trader around the Silk Road for five rounds now building up trading posts, stockpiling goods, juggling dice pools. And finally you get to the end… but then the board falls silent. There’s nothing … Read more
In Coimbra, most games do not end with huge sweeping plays. In fact, they ends in small margins; the kind where a single coin or a single guard token makes all the difference between first and second place. After several hours of coordinating three separate action tracks, it’s easy to forget such small numbers. So … Read more
And then, click, the last action card is played. And it’s over. At that point, the game changes into something else. The tile laying strategy come to an end. The busy resource management stop. You’re faced with a board littered with achievements, strewn across table. There are tokens and half-finished tracks. They appear less like … Read more
The final minutes of a Hadara game often feel like your economy collapsing. Three eras of colonizing, statue-carving, and increasing influence have come down to this: who has the most points? Calculating it out is complicated, so doing it in your head usually result in a mistake. Gold sets, silver medals, and color bonuses all … Read more
