Taking inspiration from the illustrious @Kolbex and his Skies Above the Reich AARs a couple of years ago, I just recently bought the new Storm Above the Reich and have finished 2 missions so far.
I wrote them up on my blog, so I’m not going to start a new thread here like he did.
You can find the AAR here.
Let me know what you think!
Nice! I (perversely) kind of wish I had Storm because my grandfather flew a B-24 in the war, but I can’t really justify it to myself because: a.) it’s pretty close to Skies, and b.) I don’t play enough Skies as it is. I have thus far successfully stopped myself from ordering Skies Above Britain, too. Maybe someday when I have that gaming room and I don’t have to move a hundred pounds of board games around the country every couple of years…
I’m glad you approve! 
I haven’t looked at Skies Above Britain yet, but since it will be a very long time before it is even ready to ship, I have time to look at it later (and see if I get tired of Storm).
Edit: Ummm…I spoke too soon. I already ordered it. LOL (As well as Skies)
Roll Player Adventures is bigger than Gloomhaven at least in box size. Got that in the mail today, just in time for some holiday from work.
My review of Shards of Infinity: Into the Horizon is up. Man, I wish Temple Gates would get the expansions onto the app.
I do find the regular retiring of workers frustrating, as you may not ever establish a full-blown engine, and for best results you need to use the workers provided by the other players, and you need to feed workers at the end of each season, but you don’t feed retired workers…and at the end I feel like nailing cards to the board in order to have some semblance of solidity in the opportunities the game offers? This transient quality is however completely intentional, and perhaps I just need to get used to it. A popular worker can literally be retired the same round you hire them, which is disconcertingly quick and can also be really expensive to replace, depending entirely upon the card market. You will always benefit, but it’s slightly disconcerting to pay out 7 mon from your stash of 8, hire a worker, and have them provide you with several bonuses as other players use them, then retire to your player board for end game VP and end of round bonuses, leaving that stall on the market you just filled in order to get area VP, empty. The thing you hired that worker for, isn’t what any other players are interested in. And so everyone has a fascinating game of looking at other players, trying to work out what they want long term, in order to hire workers they want to use, and maybe leave the workers you want to use in the market for them to hire. Everyone is interdependent. Again, this is completely intentional. But then, some of those bonuses are really good (I got 10 VP from one worker, when the winning score was 87) so maybe hire that worker yourself, and just use it as much as you can, so your opponent doesn’t get the bonuses.
The game is different at 2P, uses the reverse side of the board with fewer features and spaces. It’s a 4P game all the way. The layout of the board is distinctive, if a little counter-intuitive, and the essence of the game’s Japaneseity remains untouched by the reskin. I’m annoyed and interested by the game in equal measure, when most euros never manage to annoy or interest me at all.
Went in for all three on this KS, but I’m a huge fan of quick to setup, high replay solo games like this.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gabebarrett/a-table-less-dungeon-crawler-and-other-solo-games
Funded in like 2.5 hours.
That looks really cool … I’m going to hold off for a little bit, but it’s going to be hard not to back this one.
They have said everything from the kickstarter campaign will be available to buy from their store after the fact. I’m mostly going for it now in the kickstarter because it’ll be cheaper for me and them shippingwise to bulk freight it to the UK or europe and distribute from there. Most US published games that don’t have a EU or UK distributor lined up take ages to arrive here / are stupid expensive to get shipped after all this brexit bollocks kicked off.
I reviewed a 2-player deck-building game called Crave. Some similarities to Star Realms but it adds some interesting stuff too.
What game is that?
Unmatched
Follow up question: who is that?
Fucking Medusa mate.
Interesting, because I obviously own her and yet I never see her….
I know who I’m playing next.
This just reminded me that Unmatched is supposed to be coming to mobile “this year” from Acram, which translates to “soon.” They did just release Concordia and I haven’t heard a peep about Unmatched so it is likely to be delayed.
