Fjords. It cropped up in discussion while I was looking at 2-player area control games. It sounded interesting, but I have a feeling that my partner would hate it. It’s a game where you spend the first half laying tiles to build a shared landscape, and strategically placing your 4 houses, and the second half placing as many meeples as possible. Your points all come from that second half, but my impression is that almost the entire game is in the first half, such that anyone who plans their early moves the best with the end-game in mind is liable to crush a less-attentive player. Nothwithstanding my A.P. I think I might enjoy it, but I’m guessing it would go down like a ton of bricks if I tried to introduce it at home…
I didn’t put in an order for Tidal Blades 2 the nicely presented coop dungeon crawl that’s nicely presented. I think I now have no coop dungeon crawls. I like them. This seems approachable but I’ve just made so much space it would seem a shame to fill it.
However I’m wobbling. Maybe we’ll end up in the inverse thread soon
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I didn’t buy Crokinole, and this turns out to have been a mistake, because the only high-quality boards in the UK (for less than stupid money) have changed!
Masters of games .com import Woodestic .com boards, like the one Quinns had in the SUSD Crokinole review. However, the version Quinns has is no longer made!
They’ve changed the outside ring and ditch from wood (Cherry, Beech, etc) to something covered by leatherette in different colours to previously. I don’t like it as much, but that’s all there is now.
(Serves me right for looking at it on my wishlist for 5 years without buying it).
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Just saying, can’t comment on quality though
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I have a guy if you’re interested. 2 actually
My wife got me a custom board made from a guy in Texas and she’s still friends with him.
Alternatively, the people that play locally say the best boards in Europe are made in Hungary.
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Woodestic are Hungarian, are they not?
While the leatherette ditch isn’t as nice as the type with the differently stained wood, it’s remarkable that Masters of Games are able to supply them at a cost of £249. That’s barely above what they cost 5 years ago, and we’ve had about 25% inflation on non-Crokinole items in that time.
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I did not know that. I assumed it was a different company
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Fairly sure the wooden ditch was up at £310-350 a few years back, so it’s possible the new leatherette version drops the price a lot.
But yes, at that price and a tournament quality board, it’s suddenly an awesome deal (even if I don’t like the leatherette as much).
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I was looking through tabletop magazine and there was this advert
I felt like just from looking at the pictures I learnt, played and got everything I wanted out of the game. .
I bet most of us here could work out most of the rules of this game just from these two images.
If you want to check if you’re right here are the actual German rules of the game
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No particular game, but this week I went to TWO actual game shops, and didn’t buy anything at either.
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