An important but often overlooked part of miniature wargaming is the terrain. If you spend countless hours painting and perfecting your models, why not spend at least a fraction of that time on the board on which you will be playing? Well, cost would be a big reason. If you are a Warhammer or Warhammer 40K player, …
Sometimes, 3 can be a crowd. Others call it an odd number. But, it can be the perfect number to play a number of different board games: Glory to Rome (2005) If you haven’t played this classic, you are missing out on a game that works really well for 3, 4 or 5 players, and …
Cage Match has changed, big time, yo. As discussed in a recent post, Cage Match was a complex game that I felt needed an EZ Mode, so I went ahead and developed an EZ Mode of the game that I liked pretty well. Many, many elements of the game were removed, including all fighting positions besides the …
To remind you, last year was all about Adrenaline, Evolution and Viral and there were several great games this year, too, though I’m not sure if there are any I liked quite as much as the above. I also found our group weirdly ill-prepared for some of the group sizes we had, lacking Glory to Rome …
One sentence review: Prelude gets the game going faster and results in a shorter game. Does this sound good? If so, get Prelude. If you think the game is perfect at its current length, then don’t bother with it. Personally, I like it a lot, and would prefer to play all future games with Prelude. …
The 1670 crew had another great GenCon in 2018, with 7 of us winning tournaments, running tournaments, demoing games, meeting some of the best known game designers, and generally having a ton of fun in the best 4 days of gaming. If you consider yourself a serious gamer and haven’t been to GenCon, let me …
I’ve been working on Cage Match (new site!) for nearly a year now, and the game is great, but one piece of feedback I’ve gotten is that there’s a lot going on. More than one person suggested that it would be nice if there was an easy or quick mode to the game. The thing is, …
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As I mentioned in a recent blog, though we still love and create for Star Wars Epic Duels, Geektopia is evolving into a creator of original games. I’ve shared my process for making epic decks, now I’m going to share my process for making epic games. Unlike my decks for Star Wars Epic Duels, I …
So at this point, you should have a path to victory and a bread-and-butter offense card, plus any additional offense needed to finish off an opponent. Therefore, you’ve probably got 7-9 cards of your deck already filled out. Now it’s just about supporting those cards. 5. Support cards: What a deck needs now is support …