Ceylon is a game about tea. This is shocking, I know. It is a game where two to four players spend about an hour building tea plantations, collecting tea, and fulfilling contracts. A game where players will spend the first five minutes creating the board upon which they will play.
Enchanting, picturesque, and calming: PARKS by Keymaster Games is a board game with a feel much like that of Tokaido but with a North American setting and artwork. The game at a glance: 1-5 Player Game 45min+ depending on number…
One of the advantages of being a wargamer (or any kind of gamer, really) today is the veritable smorgasbord of choices available to a player. It seems like, reading Wargames Illustrated, that a new rule set comes out every month.…
Journey across the sea of skies, traverse the light and dark, and make your fortune as best you are able. Solenia is a resource management game that takes place on a tidally locked planet, where one side is cast in…
During a frenzy of backing Kickstarters, I came across Era of Kingdoms (not just on Kickstarter now, see their website), a game that appealed to me initially based on aesthetics alone. It has a layout that reminded me of early…
Polyversal is a sci-fi mass combat game in the 6mm-15mm scale designed by Ken Whitehurst and published by Collins Epic Wargames . I’ve been playing 28mm wargames since I first picked up a box of Lord of the Rings miniatures…
On my way to watch a friend in the Kings of War tournament at Adepticon 2019, I couldn’t help but notice one of the most eye-catching display pieces at the convention. The board belonged to Shawn, a Chicagoan who is…
RWBY: Combat Ready is a cooperative tabletop game that combines elements of loose deckbuilding and combat. It is based off the RWBY franchise by Rooster Teeth (still running). Being a fan of RWBY the show, when I saw RWBY the…
It’s a sunny day in 1953. Five friends go out to the beach for a sunny Saturday picnic. Little do they know that TERROR lurks beneath the waves. A couple nearby swimmers cry out in panic and go under. The…
I was first introduced to Massive Darkness by CMON Games during the Overturn: Rising Sands Kickstarter debacle. Having finally been delivered a delayed alpha version of the rules prior to the end of the Kickstarter, backers noticed that the rules…