Battlestations is one of my favorite games. It’s the title Jeff Siadek and Gorilla Games have become known for, currently ripping it up in a glorious second edition that makes the modest original release a distant memory. Dirtside is the long-teased standalone expansion that pushes the experience to the surface. Just like its predecessor, this…
Dark Souls: The Board Game is a noteworthy historical footnote. Some may jest for its failure to deliver its limitless heap of expansive content in a timely fashion. But of greater significance is that this game was one of the watershed moments in the fattening of crowdfunding miniatures heavy titles, particularly those based on established…
I was sitting in a bar enjoying drinks and food with some wonderful people, as you do. Then this guy walked by, and my brain knotted up trying to remember. It took a second, but his name appeared in my consciousness, delivered through chemical wizardry. I sat behind Dan in several high school classes. He…
Admittedly, that title would work much better if this was a scathing review, which it’s not. In fact, Resident Evil 3 improves in several ways upon Steamforged Games’ mediocre RE2 board game. It’s a very solid, if unspectacular, title that provides a surprisingly relaxed co-operative dungeon crawl experience punctuated by moments of breakout tension. This…
Gascony’s Legacy is all wrong. In the current climate these types of games come stuffed with minis. Not three or four, but a whole damn tray and even better if there’s a second underneath. Here there’s nary a mini in sight. To snub the prevailing ethos in such a manner is almost offensive. That sense…
Descent has been a constant in the hobby since 2005. Its lineage stretches back even farther, as it functionally carries the torch for 1989’s Heroquest. It’s a comfortable reassurance that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Not anymore. Some view Legends of the Dark as a harbinger of doom. This is…
A couple of years ago I was driving through Memphis and I had the radio cranked to a level of volume best described as distortion. I was listening to a classic rock station; timeless cuts like “Fortunate Son” and “Jessie’s Girl”. The car was bumping. Then something strange happened. “Seven Nation Army” by The White…
Sometimes I come across a game and I just want to shove it into a cannon and blast it into my body. Yeah, that’s somewhat disturbing, which precisely fits the scene as I’m riffing on Cryptic Explorers, a game that’s black, white, and terrifying. This is another one of those Kickstarter preview things. I don’t plan on…
Player Elimination 