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Tapestry is a two-hour game for 1-5 players designed by Jamey Stegmaier.

Create the civilization with the most storied history, starting at the beginning of humankind and reaching into the future. The paths you choose will vary greatly from real-world events or people — your civilization is unique!

In Tapestry, you start from nothing and advance on any of the four advancement tracks (science, technology, exploration, and military) to earn progressively better benefits. You can focus on a specific track or take a more balanced approach. You will also improve your income, build your capital city, leverage your asymmetric abilities, earn victory points, and gain tapestry cards that will tell the story of your civilization.

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Dice Throne Adventures: Honest & Precise Review. This is why some competitive shouldn’t go coop

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In Pendulum, each player is a powerful, unique noble vying to succeed the Timeless King as the true ruler of Dünya. Players command their workers, execute stratagems, and expand the provinces in their domain in real time to gain resources and move up the four victory tracks: power, prestige, popularity, and legendary achievement.

Players must use actual time as a resource in managing their strategy to best their opponents, using time on different action types and balancing it with time spent planning and analyzing. The winner will be the player who manages and invests their time most effectively and who builds the best engine, not the player who acts the quickest.

Pendulum is the highest-rated protoype in the history of the Stonemaier Games Design Day.

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Pendulum: Honest & Precise Review

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The epic Egyptian game Kemet is reborn with a new revised edition!

With Kemet: Blood and Sand, immerse yourself in a more realistic Ancient Egypt. Here, Gods are powerful, masters of both the desert and the Nile delta. They challenge each other in violent battles and show no mercy. Get ready to become an Egyptian God, open the gates of your city, and let your troops sing the song of war to please you and claim your dominance as master of Ancient Egypt.

Kemet: Blood and Sand features new art and upgraded gameplay with new approachable rules that go beyond the 1.5 version of Kemet developed with the help of the BGG community. Free from the constraints of existing components, designers Jacques Bariot and Guillaume Montiage go even further in fine-tuning the Kemet experience.

The game also features a redesigned map with a twist, bigger and more detailed figurines, and other surprises.

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Kemet: Blood and Sand: Preview of classic game upgraded to modern times

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In the fantasy card-drafting game Enchanters, you create an artifact and upgrade it each turn. Every card you take retains some of its power. As you grow stronger, you can take on more powerful monsters and, if you plan well, even defeat a dragon.

To set up the game, each player takes five crystals, then you shuffle together as many kingdom decks as the number of players, then lay out six cards (either items of enchantments) on the journey track. In the game, players take turns to embark on quests, collecting cards from the journey track by paying with crystals. Acquired cards are placed into adjacent stacks, with something like "Long Sword" going into the item stack and cards like "of Fire" going into the enchantment stack; combined, these cards create the "Long Sword of Fire", and cards grant both temporary bonuses (upper icons and skills) and permanent ones (bottom icons).

Players may attack approaching monsters and defeat them in a simple combat encounter to score points. In combat, you compare your defense against the monster's strength to determine whether you receive damage. Then, you need to accumulate as much attack as the monster's health to defeat it. You keep defeated cards as trophies.

From time to time, you rest in the village to gain crystals or heal wounds. If you do, discard the first card from the journey track. At the end of each turn, replenish the journey track to six cards.

The game ends when the last card is taken or discarded.

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Warhammer Quest is a co-operative game that sees you and your friends take to the streets of the Cursed City of Ulfenkarn to fight the hordes of the undead. If you’ve played a Warhammer Quest game before, you’ll recognise the rules, but the mechanics have been updated to be more immersive and deadly.

Some time ago, Radukar the Wolf saved Ulfenkarn in its darkest hour, but his benevolence didn’t last. Claiming the Ebon Citadel, he surrounded himself with fiends, lackeys, and fellow creatures of the dark, forming his Thirsting Court. For a time peace reigned. Then came the Shyish Necroquake, and the Wolf found himself infused with dark power.

Sallying forth from his castle, Radukar and his court embarked on a murderous rampage. Some were deemed worthy of the Blood Kiss and were turned into vampires themselves – countless others were left as corpses strewn across the streets. The city now stands on the precipice of total doom. Are there any that would risk their lives and their very souls to save it?

In Warhammer Quest: Cursed City, you and your friends take on the role of a group of adventurers trying to lift the curse that has befallen the city of Ulfenkarn. Undead creatures stalk the streets.

Each player chooses one of eight heroes to play. The heroes come with their own, distinctly sculpted miniatures and background story.

Warhammer Quest: Cursed City is a campaign game in which the players must overcome a series of missions. With each mission, you will learn more about the curse and your nemesis.

Players roll dice at the beginning of their turn that they can turn into specific actions of the hero that they're playing. Only by working together and balancing their strengths and skills can the heroes hope to survive.

The game comes with 60 new miniatures, rulebooks, cards, tokens and more.

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Warhammer Quest Cursed City: Honest & Precise Review. A big miss with this one.

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Tanks on our table? That is quite unexpected!! Ou

Tanks on our table? That is quite unexpected!!
Our first game of #worldoftanks by @galeforcenineofficial is behind us. We are really surprised how smoothly this game works. And if you're a fan of tanks...? I think we have perfect title for you!

Have you seen our latest video about Quests & Cann

Have you seen our latest video about Quests & Cannons from @shorthopgames on our YT channel? Greg made there and overview of the game, so here let’s focus on the review aspect.
😍 With so many things to do, Q&A definitely stays a gateway type of game at the same time, with its easy rules and no time set-up.
😍 Modular board with a strong exploration aspect for the first half of the game is something we found extra engaging.
😍 Variable players’ powers with a plenty of ways to win the game is always a good match.
😍 All modes you can think of for this type of game, competitive, coop, team play, and probably more on the way!
😍 Art and theme is a strong point here as well, everything is very vibrant, fantasy approach and characters design are very eye-catching.
😍/😢 First few turns, before players meet on the sea, are less engaging, and most of the players are doing very similar stuff.

So, how do you want to win? Through fulfilling quests or relaying on your ship’s cannons?

We have entered into the last days of Space Kraken

We have entered into the last days of Space Kraken’s KS campaign. No miniatures, no fancy gadgets, yet it still raised over 100K$ so far.

What do you think about dungeon crawler fit into an interactive book, where only pencil and two dices are required to play it?

After eons we’ve finally had a chance to play Tw

After eons we’ve finally had a chance to play Twilight Imperium, thanks to both @laseroxinserts for insanely useful insert and @boardelv for the awesome company.

Our table is barely enough for TI so Laserox ultimate solution was a lifesaver. It’s not only fitting all of the components from the core game and the last expansion into one box (!) but ready to play players’ trays are perfect to keep order during the play. Suddenly our table became adequate to host 5P session with place for drinks and snacks as well;-)

A bit sleepy already (we have 11 PM here now, you

A bit sleepy already (we have 11 PM here now, you can see this in Greg’s eyes 😂) but after first scenario of Chronicles of Drunagor from @wearecreativegames we can’t resist playing another one. Nothing to tell about the story so far but characters’ development is designed awesomely and 3D board works perfectly in favor of the immersion.

Time to send our team of Vampire, Druid, Mage and Assassin for the next adventure. Video review should be ready around the end of the next week.

Have you played it already? How do you find it?

Blood of the Northmen from Czacha Games turned out

Blood of the Northmen from Czacha Games turned out to be a totally different game we had expected it to be. We’re just after the first session and it’s too early to judge it properly but it’s definitely something fresh in our home. Looks like the game is designed with more players at the table in mind (we’ve played in duo) and unorthodoxy approach to the rules makes learning the game a bit more challenging. However level of interaction between players accompanied with the smart tile placement, and even smarter combining all game’s elements is something we have enjoyed a lot. More thoughts soon 😉

We’re crazy about the previous version of Maximu

We’re crazy about the previous version of Maximum Apocalypse from @rockmanorgames (review is on our YouTube) and now we’re wondering if we can resist the newest standalone campaign, which KS ends in a few days.

What are your thoughts here, are you going to back it?

Sea Legends from @guildhallstudios just came to ou

Sea Legends from @guildhallstudios just came to our door and those minis are OUTSTANDING. Both design and quality is on the very nice level, and can’t wait to check out if game would be as good as minis. Review soon 😉.

What’s your favorite game with the pirates’ theme?

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