Sheriff of Nottingham is a game where players take the role of merchants for the city of Nottingham. One player per turn will take the role of the very corrupt sheriff, who’s primary responsibility is to get gold in bribes from the “honest” merchants. The merchants know this and must try to trick the sheriff into letting them take in illegal goods into the city.
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Livestock Uprising Review
Rick takes a look at Dog Might Games awesome farmyard warfare game. Take command of the might armies of the chickens, cows, goats, or cows and rid the land of your enemies.
Pack o Game Kickstarter Preview
Chris Handy of Perplext brings us a very unique look at the Micro Game. Pack o Game goal offers an insane amount of different mechanics and games all within the packaging of a standard pack of gum. What he has done is truly remarkable and makes for Pack o Game to be a Kickstarter project we feel is worth looking into. Kickstarter launches on August 4th.
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Warring Kingdom by Harry Gao (Kickstarter Preview)
Our Thoughts
Warring Kingdom is a deck builder that brings something fresh to the genre – player interaction. Now it is my opinion that deck building games can, not always but certainly can, just seem to be a multiplayer game of solitaire. What I mean by that is I am playing a game with other people but only interacting with myself and a central supply. Warring Kingdom turns that very notion on it’s head making the win condition not deal in victory points but in that fact you win if you can destroy another players Castle – the very heart of their kingdom.
Warring Kingdom skillfully balances kingdom management using the cards. Higher more advanced cards require an upkeep cost to maintain, if you do not have the economy (coin bought from the supply combined with advanced civilians like Farmers and Money Lenders), you will not be able to maintain your armies for very long. Combat is handled very interestingly. A player can only have deployed two rows of five units – potentially. Once you have at least one solider you can declare to attack on your attack phase – you roll six d6 and depending on on the results that is who attacks. For example if I roll 1,1,1,2,5,5 the unit I had in position 1 would attack three times (if present), the unit I had in position 2 would attack once, and finally the unit I had in position 5 would attack twice. The defender will also roll 6 dice to determine which of his defenders will deal damage in the defense.
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Quick Facts
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2013
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# of Players |
2 − 4
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Playing Time |
45 minutes
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Deck Around (Indie GoGo Spotlight)
Hey Gang,
Wanted to showcase a future channel review that we having coming up. This game is Deck Around and it is developed by Chris Lesinski. I have had the chance to talk to Chris about this game while getting things ready for our official review and I have to say that I really like the concept. Essentially Deck Around is a party game where you mash up Balderdash with Urban Dictionary.
My worry with this game and more about this in our official review is that there is always a shelf life with these kind of party games, where you just know the content to well for it to be a challenge anymore. At the same time I don’t ever think party games are about winning or losing, it is about cutting back with friends and family and having a great time. Deck Around seems like a great way to kick back and have a blast.
From the campaign:
How to Play
Watch the video above to find out how to play. Here’s a quick description for if you can’t hear or something:
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You’ll get a deck full of slang terms — words like twerking or Dutch oven — but more obscure. You pick a random one and everyone writes a made up but convincing definition for the word and anonymously hands it in.
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One person reads all the definitions aloud, including the actual definition of the word, which is randomly mixed in.
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Everyone guesses which definition is the real one. They usually fall for someone else’s bullshit definition.
Want more information – Check out the campaign!
LLU Preview – Stack and Attack by Egra Games
Stack and AttackQuick Notes: Designer: Jeremy Burnham Year: 2013 Players: 2-4 Ages: 8+ |
In Stack and Attack you play a neanderthal in an age where technology doesn’t quite exist. Down on your luck you decide to look to the heavens and build a monument that the Gods can not ignore. You head to the quarry and grab stones of all shapes and sizes and being to stack them on top on another. After a bit of work you realize your neighbors all had the same idea, and the Gods will only show favor onto one. It is time to stack faster and if needed throw stones at their towers to buy you some more time.
Stack and Attack plays 2-4 players, but is probably best with 3. It is a great casual game that at it’s core is a deck building game within a race. There are two different types of stones flat and round. Within those there is three different sizes small, medium, and big. Each rock has a different cost to play/buy, an attack rating and a defense rating. On your turn you have 4 action points you can use to buy additional stones, stack stones, or throw a stone at your enemies tower. If successful the entire tower can potentially come down, if they defend you have just given them another stone to use for their tower.
Stack and Attack’s kickstarter is live now and has a pretty modest goal of $6,000. These are essentially printing costs to cover the first true run of the game.
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