I’ve played four new board games and I’m here to tell you about em!
I’ll be talking about them in the order we played them. I recommend them all, and we had about 3 people for all four.
Kanagawa is a more peaceful risk/reward game where you build your studio and paint a beautiful print depicting different scenery and seasons. Starting with the first player cards are flipped over to make columns equal to player number, some face up some face down. You may pass or take a column. The longer you wait the more cards you can get (max of 3), but the more you chance someone taking what you need. I really appreciated the set scoring system here as well, “Diplomas” can be scored but you only get one of each type so you’re weighing if its better to score now or try to beat your opponent by getting one more tree in before they do. The cards having studio/print sides also made it so you rarely feel stuck with a bad card. The art is great and the brush tokens very well made. The only word of caution I have is the game’s rule booklet explains the game’s flavor well but not the mechanics, it took a little to get what should be an easy game to teach.
You’re right, Flamecraft’s pic takes up a lot of space on this post. That’s bc it takes up a lot of table space! I ordered this game off kickstarter bc of the art and I’m entirely delighted there’s a game backing that cute art. In Flamecraft you each are tasked with enriching the town with dragons and enchantments, visiting various shops and collecting enchant ingredients and placing dragons or enchanting shops and “firing” all the dragons there (not laying off, just making em happy). Flamecraft has fantastic presentation with the cutest art I’ve seen in any game. It also has delightful flavor to its mechanics and those mechanics have meaty depth. Essentially you’re trying to find the right route to produce resources to score points, and endgame Flamecraft has a lot going on where that won’t be immediately clear. In a good way. And the clutter ushers the game to its conclusion so it never feels like you’re lagging. Also incredible use of puns and one of the dragons is named Potato. Its a fantastic time.
Parks is a game I had seen before but was unsure about. A bit skeptical. But honestly its presentation and vintage travel poster aesthetic mixed with its leisurely hike mechanic gave me warm memories of cabin nights and nature filled days. In Parks a row of chevron shaped tiles with various bonuses goes from left to right. If you played Onitama the rules are similar. You each have two hikers, and choose what forward tile to move to. Gain those resources: trees, mountains, water, wildlife tokens acting as “wilds” (which are all uniquely shaped). You spend these on visiting parks like buying golems in Century Golem Edition. There’s camping gear you can buy as well for smaller bonuses, a bonus card unique to each player a la Wingspan, and canteens with special mechanics that work when filled with water (token). The art is gorgeous and if I were going out camping or spending time in a cabin this would be on the list of things to bring. I’ve never had a game make me want to go out and see US National Parks.
Last of the night: Twilight Inscription. Baby Twilight Imperium. I feel they made a lot of good choices that keep the feel of Twilight Imperium while condensing it into a 60-120hr game. In this game you have boards you mark with a dry erase marker. Each player has four boards: Navigation, Expansion, Warfare, and Industry. A card is flipped over showing die faces. Players pick a board to operate on this round and gain those die faces. Navigation lets you travel and settle, Expansion lets you better use plants from Navigation, Warfare lets you amass armies to launch on your neighbors, and Industry lets you amass goods. All of these are connected in their output. I appreciated how War worked more like 7 Wonders. You build units marking dots and lines in a starfield inventory management style, and you need more pips marked on the grid than the neighbor that field points at. There’s rounds of voting where having more delegates gives you more sway, and sometimes keeping votes is more important that spending. My only wish is that Trade was more interactive, I really enjoyed the trade politics of Twilight Imperium and player interaction only happens with voting, warfare, and goal scoring. Points are gained thru excelling in the four boards and through four goal cards players play towards through the game. After four war phases the game ends and points are tallied. Bc this is an inscription style game turns are taken simultaneously so adding 8 players doesn’t really make the game go longer, there’s just more people thinking. This game felt great to play, thrilling to balance the different strategies, and had excellent die unlock progression systems I thought worked very well. If you like Twilight Imperium check it out!
Four games, five rounds played, all good stuff! Kanagawa and Parks were the lighter fare, Parks I would put up as a monopoly buster. Kanagawa feels good in the mix, something to puzzle your brain differently. Flamecraft is lighter to medium weight, I could see newer players having decision paralysis but I do feel its hard to make a wrong move, value is value. Twilight Inscription is still weighty, even a small version of Twilight Imperium will take 1-2hrs to play, but it gives bits of the feeling of the game without the shuffle of hosting a 4-12hr game. I would run this with people who played Terraforming Mars and had a good grasp on that. Its a step up from there, and the board system looks intimidating until you realize you’re punching in die faces. That’s all. Four new games four GOOD games!
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Torna anche per il mese d Novembre il Tg Table, il tg più amato dai meeple italiani.
Anche questa volta, con l'aiuto degli amici di Hirtemis, tentiamo l’arduo compito di segnalare i boardgame in uscita a Novembre, se già normalmente questo compito è improbo questa volta lo è ancora di più visto che il mese parte mercoledì con Lucca Comics & Games e molti giochi da tavolo potrebbero essere presentii sui tavoli degli editori nel Carducci e non in distribuzione effettiva.
Oggi vedremo per
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KeyForge - Venti di Scambio, Everdell - Newleaf, Everdell - Mistwood,
Timeline ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), Unlock! - Extraordinary Adventures, Unlock! Kids 2 - Storie dal Passato,
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05:32 @dvgames_official (Alibi, Decktective - Arrestate Sherlock Holmes!)
06:14 @ghenosgames7580 Moon River, Similo - Il Signore degli Anelli. Expeditions - Un sequel di Scythe, The Great Splitenos Games
07:53 @pendragongamestudio3192 Minatori Imperiali, The Things
08:40 @CranioCreations (Amygdala, Ark Nova - Mondi Sommersi, Delta, Fields of Arle - Big Box, Maple Valley, Sagrada - Gloria, Sagrada - Passione, Sagrada - Vita, Selfie Birds, Terra Mystica - L'Era delle Scoperte, troll&princess)
13:12 @msedizioni8527 (After Us, Root: Mazzo Esuli e Partigiani, Root: Kit del Vagabondo, Root: Kit delle Meraviglie, Root: Kit dei Combattenti - La Compagnia del Fiume, ROOT: Predoni e Cavalieri)
14:48 @studiosupernova9896 (Onitama, Non si può Dire più Niente - Indignazioni Perenni, NobiNobi - Thriller, NobiNobi - Horror, Biblioversum )
17:04 @LittleRocketGames ( Hidden Leaders - Forgotten Legends )
17:29 @GateOnGames (Alpaca)
18:07 @giochi_uniti (El Grande, Paleo - Un Nuovo Inizio, DestinyQuest - L'Occhio della Furia d'Inverno. Pathfinder - 2E - Presagi Perduti - Libro dei Morti, Pathfinder - 2E - Presagi Perduti - Gran Bazar, Pathfinder - 2E - Presagi Perduti - Ferro e Fuoco )
20:02 @LuckyDuckGamesEN Empire's End | Gioco da Tavolo
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21:42 @Giochix Discordia
22:12 @needgames8019 Electric Bastionland, Into the Odd, Flabbergasted! Una Commedia di Ruolo, Atlante Techno Fantasy, Blade Runner
24:04 Polemiche su Lucca!
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