#animeeple

[tabletopbellhop]

Piri Piri Summoners now open for late pledges.

This is the game with the awesome hand carved wooden animeeples.

[mousertwo]

Hoy continuamos con un reto lindo de meeples #7days7meeples serán 7 días de Meeples que más me gustan y este es el día 3. Esta vez llego con Hornet, juego del 2010 editado por @zmangames_ y que trae estos animeeples de abejorros, que cumplen la función de recolección de polen y debe obtener la mejor miel en los campos de juego. Un juego que en casa genera mucha competencia ya que los turnos son apretados y de proyección en el juego, en si es un juego de control de áreas con tableros modulares y formas de buscar los puntos diversas gracias a su tablero de selección de acciones por ronda. El he ho de que no te ha idioma en el juego, hace que sea un juego fácil de jugar pero muy duro de ganar. El reto fue creado por @solozentriker y me nominó @alice. Y voy a invitar a Rodrigo de @jugandoderojo y a Karka de @wepagames a participar del reto. #juegosdemesa #juegosdetablero #juegosdecartas #colocaciondelosetas #jugoneslatinos #embajadoradevir #vivejugando #deviramericas #deviriberia #juegosdevir #retosdejuegosdemesa #boardgamenamechallenge #meeples #animeeples #boardgamecollection #boardgameaddict #jugandoenpareja #boardgamephotography #jeudeplateau #mediosludicosperu #jugandoenraths #partygamesdevir #gameplay #juegosmolones #juegosentreamigos (en Rath's Edge) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSQt7dAsGdq/?utm_medium=tumblr

[heavydice]

Back to the New York Zoo, second play unlocked much more strategy to this relaxing yet engaging game. @uwerosenberg @capstone_games #animeeples #newyorkzoo #uwerosenberg #capstonegames #boardgames https://www.instagram.com/p/CHpn7GphXrq/?igshid=13y5j7rk7z2iz

[tedpavlic]

The custom ant and crab animeeples have arrived from @shapeways! Carcassonne just got that much more fun.

[smounsey84]

First try at Keyper. #boardgames #tabletopgames #games #eurogames #richardbreese #keyper #resourcemanagementgames #keyples #animeeples #workerplacementgames #tilelayinggames

[chgreenblatt]

Meeple is such a weird word, innit? I didn't even know hat was a term until the trogdor kickstarter.

It is a weird word, but I’ve come to love it. There are animeeples, there’s MeepleCon (which turned into Dice Tower West), and it’s become a defacto game icon. Supposedly it started with the game Carcassonne.

[boardsontables]

#BoardgameTokenTuesday A weekly series where I feature a game piece from my board game collection Squirrel Animeeple from Everdell by @starlinggames Do you have a token to share? Feel free to join use #BoardgameTokenTuesday and tag me so I can share it on my stories. (at Wonder Lake, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaAW2w4LnIt/?utm_medium=tumblr

[geekandsundry]

http://geekandsundry.com/three-blinged-out-boardgames-that-take-deluxe-to-the-next-level/

There’s a whole world out there for upgrading board game pieces. Maybe you get the animeeples for Agricola or the D&D guys to replace the colored cubes in Lords of Waterdeep. And publishers have taken notice that there’s a market for Edit Edit date and timegames with upgraded pieces. Here...

[gmacch]

First play of Fields of Arle, Uwe Rosenberg's big box two player game. Love the wide open sandbox play. Still not enough turns to do everything. #boardgames #gamenight #eurogame #uwerosenberg #fieldsofarle #workerplacement #sheeples #animeeples #sheep #cow #horses #farming #peat #moor #zman (at Las Vegas, Nevada)

[thelonelymeeple]

A Feast For Odin - The 4th Best Game of 2016

Every day for the next 10 days I'll be writing up a short review of my top games of 2016. Today we tackle my number 5 game of the year.

A Feast For Odin

Uwe Rosenberg is one of the most iconic game designers in the hobby. With games like Caverna, Patchwork, and Agricola under his belt; Rosenberg has pushed boundaries and created mechanisms. A Feast For Odin feels like something of a combination of his past games, and it is beautiful.

A Feast For Odin is the type of epic worker placement game that Rosenberg has become known for, and works very similarly to his other games; you go and gather resources, build things, feed your people, etc. Instead of the wooden resource tokens and animeeples we've grown accustomed to in Rosenberg's games, all of the resources and animals are represented by tiles of various sizes that are used to cover spaces on different grids on player boards. You'll want to position these tiles to cover negative point spaces, increase your income, and generate resources. Throughout the game you can also construct buildings and discover new lands that will grant further opportunities to gain item, income, and points; but also has the potential for you to lose points in the end game. You'll gain these tiles by going to one of the 60+ action spaces; where you'll try to build, trade, sail, and raid you way to victory. 

The components are very solid. There are few wooden tokens and pieces in the game, but the ones there are on par with those found in Rosenberg's other games. The tiles are good quality, and the star of the show is the included game trays, which hold the plethora of tiles found in the game, and help keep set up and tear down quick. It can't be said that Feast For Odin is dripping with theme, but the actions and tile art give off a good viking flavor. 

If you've played and of Rosenberg's past worker placement games, you'll pick this game up quickly, but this is by no means an Agricola variant. The tile laying in this game give it an added layer that makes it shine above Agricola, Caverna, or any of his past games. 

[tabletopbellhop]

New Unboxing:

Endangered New Species from Grand Gamers Guild

This big box expansion contains six new scenarios for Endangered the cooperative conservation based board game.

These feature seven new species and a bunch of new Animeeple!

[mousertwo]

Hoy continuamos con un reto lindo de meeples #7days7meeples serán 7 días de Meeples que más me gustan y este es el día 2. Esta vez llego con Luxor, juego de @deviramericas y que trae estos animeeples de exploradores en la ciudad de Luxor para ser exactos en una de estas misteriosas pirámides, los cuales deben correr a lo largo de su laberinto recogiendo tesoros y artefactos para ganar; un juego muy familiar que sale a mesa con mucha facilidad. El reto fue creado por @solozentriker y me nominó @aliceplaysboardgames Y voy a invitar a Rodrigo de @jugandoderojo y a Karka de @wepagames a participar del reto. #juegosdemesa #juegosdetablero #juegosdecartas #colocaciondelosetas #jugoneslatinos #embajadoradevir #vivejugando #deviramericas #deviriberia #juegosdevir #retosdejuegosdemesa #boardgamenamechallenge #meeples #animeeples #boardgamecollection #boardgameaddict #jugandoenpareja #boardgamephotography #jeudeplateau #mediosludicosperu #jugandoenraths #partygamesdevir #gameplay #juegosmolones #juegosentreamigos (en Rath's Edge) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSBZa9XrPb1/?utm_medium=tumblr

[heavydice]

New York Zoo is a pleasant little experience, mixing tile placement and managing a collection of cute little animal meeples. Uwe Has done it again! #uwerosenberg #newyorkzoo #boardgames #boardgames #tileplacement #animeeples https://www.instagram.com/p/CHCz4g4Bnum/?igshid=17irfkh72cxqr

[tabletopontap]

May 2018 Game & Beer Pairing

This probably won’t come as a big surprise to anyone who read my last blog post, but this month’s spotlight goes to... <drum roll, please> Meeple Circus!  I can’t give this game enough praise.  I’m not even a dexterity games fan normally!  I feel clumsy, uncoordinated, and ill-suited to win a game that requires hand-eye coordination.  However, the gameplay here is compelling.  It’s just so much fun trying to balance your meeples with animal meeples (animeeples?) and other random shaped objects, like balls and balance beams.  

As for the beer pairing, Hi-Wire Brewing located in Asheville, NC have several appropriately themed offerings.  Death Defying Spring Ale is currently in season and its balancing act is perfect for this theme.  For more information on their beers, go to their website: https://hiwirebrewing.com/seasonals/. The artwork for their labels is excellent. I look forward to touring this brewery in person sometime soon.  

Another pick is Chocolate Sombrero from Clown Shoes.  As a Massachusetts beer company, they’re a little harder to find down here in the south, but good local brewpubs have some Clown Shoes offerings available.  Check out their fun label below.  Head over to Beer Advocate for topline stats and reviews on this beer. 

That’s a wrap for this week.  Happy boardgaming and cheers, everyone!

[hexdicefire]

Review of the day | Agricola Family Edition | Mayfair Games

Here we are again with a new review for our followers. Today we chose Agricola Family Edition (for 1-4 players) the recent remix of the basic Agricola from Uwe Rosenberg made to help younger gamers and families to approach to the world of boardgaming. This edition, produced by Mayfair Games - which is a leader company in the euro-themed boardgaming universe - is rich in materials and has a really cheap price. Let’s take a look at the box and its components first and then we’ll proceed to the gameplay!

What’s in the box?

Inside a relatively small box with a bucolic illustration which fits the theme perfectly, there’s a huge quantity of wooden tokens, veggiemeeples & animeeples, tiles and a solid puzzled board. Along wih these pieces, you’ll find a full colour rulebook with many helpful examples and some plastic bag to store everything. The overall quality is great: solid pieces and cardboard, funny and comic-like illustrations and practical design. It’s clearly not a work done with hurry and this pleased me, especially regarding the game mechanics.

The Game

Many of you already know Agricola. It is probably one of the most important and famous boardgame in the euro genre. The goal of the game is to build the perfect farm by managing animals and agriculture, never forgetting to feed your farmers from the oldest to the younger ones. In this version, the goal is identical but some changes have been made to make the game shorter and easier to play. Agricola Family Edition uses a board that changes configuration, based on the number of players. The board holds the resources available each turn, the actions and a turn tracker which has two functions: it shows the unlocked actions turn-by-turn and incates the harvest phase. Each player starts the game with two farmers (two actions, one with each farmer) and a house tile with two wooden rooms, used to hold the farmers. Each game turn, players select their favourite actions on the board with their farmers, going clockwise around the table until all the farmers have been used. Once a player occupies an action space with his farmer, that action can’t be used anymore until the next game turn. There are many actions and strategies, but the most useful are: collecting resources (wood, reed, bricks, grain,food); collecting animals (sheeps, pigs, cattle); building fenced pastures to hold the animals; sowing and planting in the fields; building rooms and making love; upgrade their fireplace and/or their working places. These elements allow the player to litterally ‘live’ inside a farm and take part in its evolution, but living a farmer’s life it’s not that easy. The other players/farmers will compete with you and the main rule of the game is ‘be first and take the best, be second and you’ll better take a rest’. Being first, early-bird, is really important cause you’ll have the first choice on the actions spaces and the resources. Being last means not winning at all.  Sometimes during the game there are also some Harvest phases. These are good moments of the game, cause you’ll see the grain grow and the animals make babies (one for each couple). But these are also bad moments cause you’ll have to feed your farmers family with food. When a player can’t feed one or more of his farmers, he becomes poor and must take a -3 VP counter as penalty for each farmers he didn’t feed.  This means that each move is strategical and if you forget to grant yourself a sure a amount of food you’ll probably lose the game.  The game ends after 14 turns and players count their VPs total. VPs are gained from animals, harvested grain, brick rooms, members of the farmer’s family, buildings built, number of tiles in your farm. The higher total wins the game!

What I think of the game

Agricola Family Edition is really worth its price: the components are great, the gameplay is adquate for the public it aims to and it’s also a good choice for those who love Agricola but don’t have the time to play it. This version has also a good solitaire mode, useful to learn the game mechanics while reading the rulebook or to challenge yourself in your free time. This medium-entry game game can be the first tiket to ‘ride’ in the boardgaming universe. If you have kids, don’t forget to choose this one as gift for your child; if you have an open-minded family, try to introduce them to the boardgaming hobby with Agricola Family Edition. Also, if you’re a couple, this is a perfect two-players game which takes only 45 minutes of your time and gives you the right amount of fun and thinking! Thanks for following this review and my blog and thanks to Mayfair Games for the review copy. Don’t forget to visit their site! There’s a huge amount of boardgames you might like. 

[omnigeekreviews]

A Feast For Odin - The 4th Best Game of 2016

Every day for the next 10 days I'll be writing up a short review of my top games of 2016. Today we tackle my number 5 game of the year.

A Feast For Odin

Uwe Rosenberg is one of the most iconic game designers in the hobby. With games like Caverna, Patchwork, and Agricola under his belt; Rosenberg has pushed boundaries and created mechanisms. A Feast For Odin feels like something of a combination of his past games, and it is beautiful.

A Feast For Odin is the type of epic worker placement game that Rosenberg has become known for, and works very similarly to his other games; you go and gather resources, build things, feed your people, etc. Instead of the wooden resource tokens and animeeples we've grown accustomed to in Rosenberg's games, all of the resources and animals are represented by tiles of various sizes that are used to cover spaces on different grids on player boards. You'll want to position these tiles to cover negative point spaces, increase your income, and generate resources. Throughout the game you can also construct buildings and discover new lands that will grant further opportunities to gain item, income, and points; but also has the potential for you to lose points in the end game. You'll gain these tiles by going to one of the 60+ action spaces; where you'll try to build, trade, sail, and raid you way to victory. 

The components are very solid. There are few wooden tokens and pieces in the game, but the ones there are on par with those found in Rosenberg's other games. The tiles are good quality, and the star of the show is the included game trays, which hold the plethora of tiles found in the game, and help keep set up and tear down quick. It can't be said that Feast For Odin is dripping with theme, but the actions and tile art give off a good viking flavor. 

If you've played and of Rosenberg's past worker placement games, you'll pick this game up quickly, but this is by no means an Agricola variant. The tile laying in this game give it an added layer that makes it shine above Agricola, Caverna, or any of his past games.