Carnuta Review – My new favourite tableau-builder

I picked Carnuta up on Friday evening. It's now Monday afternoon, and I've honestly lost count of how many plays I've racked up.

I picked Carnuta up on Friday evening. It's now Monday afternoon, and I've honestly lost count of how many plays I've racked up.

It's a game where you roll dice and use them to take actions in the French town of Troyes in the 1200s. Phwoar! If that doesn't get you hot under the collar, are you even human?!

"Unnecessary, slightly too sensual, but glorious all the same."

Roller Disco is a ladder-climbing shedding game with a strong sense of style, unlike pretty much every other game with similar DNA.

Railway Boom's hook, its something special, its little bit of ooh-la-la, is the bidding mechanism that underpins nearly everything that happens.

A new Stefan Feld game arriving is always exciting to me. You never quite know what you're going to get.

It's a familiar game, for sure, but I think it's more like a refinement than anything else. It's like making the most amazing sandwich, then someone saying, "You know what, let's see what happens when we add fewer flavours of crisps in this".

Skedaddling represents a passenger choosing to get off at an unplanned stop, impulsively. This is the true joy of riding a bus

Shuffle and Swing is a colourful dollop of jazz rondel fun which just about everyone will enjoy.

Everything about it feels refined, and by boiling it down with the new graphic design Chip Theory have extracted the essence of what makes a good skirmish game.