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Worker Placement

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Review – Ragusa

April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Adam 0 Comments 1-5 Players, Braincrack Games, Fabio Lopiano, Solo, Worker Placement

Ragusa is a meaty Euro game from Braincrack Games and designer Fabio Lopiano. Players are developing the titular city, generating the precious commodities of the day, trading, importing and developing the city walls.

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Review – Venice

March 31, 2021April 1, 2021 Adam 0 Comments 1-5 Players, Andrei Novac, Braincrack Games, David Turczi, Pick up & deliver, Solo, Worker Placement

I’m of a particular generation that can’t see a gondola without singing “Just one Cornetto….” in my head, thanks to TV advertising in the 80s. Fortunately, thanks to the Venice board game, I now picture little cubes instead. It’s a start.

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Review – Hallertau

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 Adam 0 Comments 1-4 Players, Solo, Uwe Rosenberg, Worker Placement

Buckle up folks, we’re going hop-growing in Bavaria! Hallertau is the longest continuous hop-producing region in the world, and in this medium-heavy game from Uwe Rosenberg, we’re going back to 1850 to develop our Bavarian villages and try to be the biggest and best.

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Review – Tawantinsuyu

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 Adam 0 Comments 1-4 Players, Board&Dice, David Turczi, Rondel, Solo, Worker Placement

If you’re reading the name of the game over and over, and trying to figure out how to say it, you’re not alone. Tawantinsuyu is the latest in a series of games from Board and Dice with fun-to-say names that begin with the letter T. Let’s see what this heavyweight Euro game has in store for us.

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Blog – The Pace Of Progress

February 25, 2021March 1, 2021 Adam 0 Comments blog, Worker Placement

A week or so ago I wrote a blog piece about hype, looking at why games are forgotten so quickly in this hobby. One major reason is that aforementioned hype, and getting swept along on the wave of The Cult of the New. The other though, in my opinion, is the crazy rate of progress and evolution in board games.

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Review – Euphoria + Expansion

January 30, 2021February 26, 2021 Adam 2 Comments 1-6 Players, Dice, Solo, Stonemaier Games, Worker Placement

Way back in 2013, Stonemaier Games published a worker placement game called Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia. Fast-forward six years and they released an expansion called Ignorance is Bliss. Here’s what happens when you put them together.

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First Impressions – PingYao

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 Adam 0 Comments 1-4 Players, Dice, Kickstarter, Preview, Solo, Worker Placement

Pingyao: The First Chinese Banks is getting a release in English through Kickstarter in January, and I joined the publisher for an online playthrough. Here’s how it went.

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Review – Everdell

August 24, 2020 Adam 2 Comments 1-4 Players, James A Wilson, Solo, Worker Placement

If two of your favourite things are worker placement games, and anthropomorphised woodland creatures, then you’re in for a treat

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Review – Teotihuacan: City of gods

August 7, 2020August 11, 2020 Adam 0 Comments 1-4 Players, Daniele Tascini, David Turczi, Resource Management, Rondel, Solo, Worker Placement

What’s special about Teotihuacan? Lots of Eurogames give you the feeling of building something. but how many let you physically build something magnificent, right there on the board?

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Review – Paladins of the West Kingdom

August 2, 2020August 11, 2020 Adam 0 Comments 1-4 Players, Shem Phillips, Solo, Worker Placement

Shem Phillips has been churning out good games for years. As well as his trilogy of North Sea games, he’s been working away at the West Kingdom series. 2018’s Architects of the West Kingdom has be followed by Paladins, a slightly heavier worker placement Euro.

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