Strategy games
Today I'm upping the ante with my recent dive into wargaming. Putting on my big boy trousers and stepping up to 'hex and counter' games. My first foray proper into this world is with Salerno '43, a game from GMT Games and designer Mark Simonitch.
For such a simple action set to choose from, and with only three roles available in the entire game, Oath has no right to tickle your brain in the way it does.
Agriculture and board games make good bedfellows. There's something very satisfying about taking a patch of land and watching your little business or farm grow.
Poleis is a war game, but not one with a ton of cardboard chits, or worrying about attack and defence values. In fact, it looks and feels more like a Euro game
Cubitos is a racing game from John D. Clair (Dead Reckoning, Mystic Vale, Space Base) and Alderac, which mixes frenetic jockeying for position with bag-building.
Designer extraordinaire - Reiner Knizia - created this deck-building game of exploration and adventure. Does it scratch that mosquito bite yearning for jungle escapades?
Dice as workers, a historical theme with an unusual name beginning with the letter T, and tons of depth - it's all in there. Let's take a look at Tabannusi.
Guns or Treasure is a quick card game which pitches rival players as pirates, aiming to take the most treasure, and with it, infamy!
In Isle of Trains: All Aboard, you won't be building tracks or buying and selling shares like in my other favourite choo-choo games. This is about the trains!
Wargames tend to do asymmetry best. Crescent Moon is the new kid on the block, moving the strategy to a non-specific Caliphate, somewhere out in the desert.