Contact: Signals from Outer Space(Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag) Another Essen fair has come and gone, and to say this year it was different would be an understatement of some considerable magnitude. Let me just put this ahead of everything else, canceling the physical event in Essen, Germany was the only thing responsible to do. I generally have a … Read more
Rick Martin “Star Wars Armada Clone Wars” Table Top Game Review. Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games Designer: Michael Gernes and Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt Price $99.00 (Starter Sets) and $25 Fighter Booster Packs Passed Inspection: Perfectly captures the Star Wars feel, great looking miniatures and components, easy to learn, fast playing Failed Basic star fighter stands come apart … Read more
Among my boardgames friends there is a special subset with pretty specific interest and focus – HP Lovecraft prose and titles connected to this. Not surprisingly, we play with them a lot of Arkham Horror or Mansion of Madness. They also love Battlestar Galactica, so when I heard that there will be game combining its … Read more
Posted on Feb 19, 2022 in Boardgames, Front Page Features Ray Garbee By Ray Garbee Infernal Machine: Dawn of Submarine Warfare – P500 Campaign. Publisher: GMT Games. Designer: Ed Ostermeyer and Jeremy White. P500 Preorder Price $55.00 After playing Nicola Saggini and David Thompson’s solitaire game By Stealth and Sea (DVG, 2020), I started to … Read more
Join us as we review the 2021 Best Heavy Strategy / Euro nominees for Meeple Mountain’s 4th Annual Diamond Climber Board Game Awards. Heavy strategy/Euro games make you think. Each of these games do just that in their own way. Whether it’s a “point salad” game, area control, worker placement, deck building, or any number … Read more
This game is addictive – one you said A, you need to say B 🙂 I recently played initial, introductory scenario of Bayonets & Tomahawks – 1755 – and I immediately knew I needed more! This was a solo session, with my two sons (6 & 8 years old boys) playing as bots, choosing from … Read more
Join us as we review the 2021 Best Solo Game Nominees for Meeple Mountain’s 4th Annual Diamond Climber Board Game Awards. 2021 saw continued growth in the number of people interested in solo games, and luckily there were plenty of great solo titles out there for gamers to try. These aren’t multiplayer games that can … Read more
Elf Creek Games As if saving the people of Atlantis wasn’t tricky enough already! Your goal in Atlantis Rising is to cooperatively build a cosmic gate to help the Atlanteans escape. Build a cosmic gate, that sounds tricky, right? Well, it’s about to get much trickier. Atlantis Rising: Monstrositiesan expansion to the second edition of … Read more
Join us as we review the 2021 Best Artwork nominees for Meeple Mountain’s annual Diamond Climber Board Game Awards. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but whatever your preference, we’ve all had that experience of seeing a game’s art and knowing we just had to give it a play. The Diamond Climber … Read more
Rick Martin Fury of Dracula Board Game Review. Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games Designer: Stephen Hand, Kevin Wilson and Frank Brooks Price $199.00 Passed Inspection: tense game play, beautiful components, easy to learn and fast to play, Board Game Geek has a great solo play rule set Failed Basic large footprint, Fantasy Flight should have included … Read more