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Ninja: Legend of the Scorpion Clan

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Feb 152012

By Mark Rivera from Boardgames in Blighty

Review – Ninja: Legend of the Scorpion Clan from AEG

Designer – Frederic Moyersoen

Art – Conceptopolis, Llyn Hunter, Yutthapong Kaewsuk, MuYoung Kim, Jorge Mutar, Florian Stitz

AEG provided a review copy of this game

At last year’s UK Expo, i was introduced to AEG’s War of Honor, which was my first experience in the world of L5R or Legend of the 5 Rings, which has a huge fan base who play the collectible card game. Ninja: Legend of the Scorpion Clan, is set in the L5Runiverse and focuses on the Scorpion Clan’s Ninja’s. I was really interested when I first heard about the game and finally got me a copy of this game for 2-4 players, age 12+.

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Legend of Drizzt review

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Feb 012012

Drizztybox[1] By Peter Ruth II

Best Of Both Worlds? For Shizzle, My Drizzle.

I’m convinced that there is some secret order of fantasy writers, perhaps a guild, that endeavors to come up with the most absurd character names imaginable. Maybe it’s a bet, akin to Trading Places, or something. I mean, even the true classic fantasy and sci-fi novels have truly bizarre names like Bilbo Baggins, Tom Bombadil, Aes Sedai and other memorable monikers. Tom Bombadil sounds like an Indian bloke you’d be connected to after calling your credit card company or something, for example. I mean, if Jim-Bob Crank carved the balls off of Sauron with nothing more than a butter knife, would he be any less heroic because he’s not named Lionheart Steadfast or some such nonsense?

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Eminent Domain – A strategy Deck-building Game

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Jan 312012

By Dale Medhurst

By Seth Jaffee and Tasty Minstrel Games

First there was Dominion, and it was good….if a little dry.

Then, the pretenders attempted to take the deck-building crown from Dominion. Some came close and others evolved, such as the splendid Seven Wonders and this latest spin on the deck-builder, Eminent Domain.

Eminent Domain uses cards but has lots of tokens. Tokens for resources, tokens for fleets of invading ships and tokens for victory, sorry, influence points.

The aim of the game is to finish with the most influence, thus, the biggest galactic empire.

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Singapore

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Jan 192012

singaporecover[1] By Mark Rivera from Boardgames in Blighty

Designer – Peer Sylvester

Art – Alexandre Roche

Many thanks to White Goblin Games for providing a review copy of this game

Guest Reviewer – Alan Hatcher

Singapore is a strategy game for 3 to 4 players, ages 12 and up.

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Caveman

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Jan 172012

Caveman Box Art[1] By Peter Ruth II

Caveman – Prehistoric Swingers Engaging In Risky Behavior

Sorry for the delay, Circus goers, in getting reviews out. I haven’t played many games in the last month due to my normal group not being able to meet for a variety of reasons, the least of which is my dear friend’s poor, but improving, health. So, forgive the lags in between reviews for a while as it’s getting hard to get people together. I’ll try to get more out in the near future. I had planned a “Holiday Buyers Guide” and have the template made, but I missed the timeline pretty heavily and so I’ve cancelled it. Finally, I’ll have a 2011 recap done this week. Onto the fun!

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Dragon’s Gold

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Jan 132012

dgoldcover1[1] By Mark Rivera from Boardgames in Blighty

Dragon’s Gold by Bruno Faidutti from White Goblin Games

Designer – Bruno Faidutti

Art – German Nobile and Emmanuel Roudier

This is a family game for 3 to 6 players, ages 8 and up.

From the publisher- In Dragon’s Gold is each player controls a team of dragon hunters (two knights, a thief, and a wizard). Like all dragon slayers, they only have one goal: Cool magic items and lots of treasure! Actually killing a dragon? It’s a piece of cake. The most difficult part comes after the smoke clears and the dragon is dead: Agreeing how to divide the loot!

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