Sunshine filters delicately through the dew. Edvard Grieg’s Morning Mood babbles softly forth from the nearby brook. Pastels abound. The air vibrates with the gentle buzzing of medieval Worker Beeples as they embark upon their quest to build the most pimped-out Bee Palace. Propolis, from Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, and Shawn Stankewich, with art from […]
As a fan, I’m starting to feel overwhelmed by the number of The Lord of the Rings games out there. Do you want a war game? There’s a Tolkien game for that! Living Card Game? Look no further than the Shire. There are trivia games, trick-taking games, deck building, strategy, battle, and more than one […]
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the author of the first published computer algorithm before computers existed; to put it succinctly, she was a computer science pioneer and visionary. Sadly, her ambitions were never fully realized during her own lifetime owing both to her gender and her untimely death. In the 200 or so intervening years, society […]
Crisis: 1914 is a game of international brinkmanship – if you back down too soon, you lose. If you back down too late you lose. But you have hawks and doves in your cabinet and in your government, and out of these conflicting views you must somehow formulate a coherent response to the crisis to win the day and prevent war.
There are 3 interrelated concepts at the heart of Crisis: 1914: Prestige, Tension, and Diplomatic Pressure (DP). Diplomatic Pressure (DP) is how you score Prestige. Tension is how you lose. Every card has a DP value. You apply DP by playing cards. The player with the most Diplomatic Pressure at the end of a turn earns Prestige points. There are other ways of scoring Prestige points too, but this is the most important one. Prestige is how you win. The player with the most Prestige at the end of the game is the winner.
We published an interview on the blog with the designer Maurice Suckling and you can read that at the following link: https://theplayersaid.com/2023/07/12/interview-with-maurice-suckling-designer-of-crisis-1914-from-worthington-publishing-currently-on-kickstarter/
Also, in a lead up to the game’s release, I worked with the Maurice to do the following Event Card Spoiler posts:
While this game is not necessarily a wargame, but more of a war themed Euro game with a bit of negotiation and tension as you build your tableau of cards, we had a great time with it and really feel that the game is a bit under the radar of folks and should be one of those games that is played at conventions as it seats up to 5 players and is really quite good.
-Grant
Wood is a common resource input in board games, whether it’s for building fences, buildings, or any of a number of wooden trinkets. There are even some games with wood-centric theming, like Woodcraft and Lignum, which delve into some detail about processing and manipulating wood to attain final products. These games typically treat wood as […]
First, there was a Point Salad. But after a Freak Accident, that salad became Point City. Tragically, a Frique Axident occurred while attempting to revert the aforementioned Freak Accident, and that City has become a Galaxy. Cue that last scene from Men in Black with Inception Music. Point Galaxy, from Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, and […]
In a world where Kickstarters routinely hit pledge levels at half a grand or more, it’s always nice to lay your hands on a game that runs in the opposite direction. To be fair, there is absolutely a place at my table for sprawling dungeon crawlers with loads of minis, massive amounts of character customization, […]
Waldland war eines meiner heiß erwarteten Brettspiele der SPIEL 25. Das 2-Personen-Spiel dieser Spielfamilie, Baumkronen, das bei KOSMOS erschienen war, gefällt mir gut und so war ich mit einer gewissen Erwartungshaltung unterwegs, als die große Brettspiel-Variante angekündigt wurde. Aber wie das nun mal so ist, wenn Erwartungshaltung auf Realität trifft: Das geht schonmal auseinander – und so […]
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