We're Not Wizards - Tabletop Board Game Reviews

My writing is often scatter-brained without form or structure, a bundle of ideas stitched together, hopefully with a decipherable message. I hope they make sense and above all I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I do writing. While writing is something I enjoy, I have never placed a huge amount of importance on anything I put out there. If it resonates with your own thoughts then wonderful. If it confirms that you made the right decision on a game you now own then I have done my job. At the same time, sometimes I need to warn you of pitfalls and issues that I see in a game. Sometimes this is a personal preference and sometimes it is because something I've played has left me frustrated and annoyed due to some poor choices. Hamlet is one of these games. It seems to want to be different for the sake of being different and it seems to blindly want to stick to its choices regardless of what expectations might be.  The central premise of the game is the construction of a church in o

Do we talk enough about the board game catfish? The game that gives the impression of one type of game when it is clearly another? I'm pretty sure that we've all experienced that at some point, with one of the biggest famous offenders being Scythe, that promised mega mechanical combat, to instead deliver what was essential a medium weight Euro. Then we come to Excavation Earth, a game where the cover gives the impression of wild and exotic alien artefacts and the title is definitely saying that there is digging involved. Time to grab the electro-shovel..  Overview Excavation Earth is an economic market manipulation game where you are trying to gather artefacts that you will then sell at the highest price you can while trying to make sure you are effecting the profitability of your opponents. Mainplay Quite simply put, you travel to dig sites, collect old human artefacts, assign traders to sell these items and then sell the items when you are ready to willing alien buyers. Selli

After a while you get to recognise a Turczi, whether it's the aroma when you first unwrap the packaging, the subtle hint of sarcasm in the box, or the rulebook that usually has the exceptionally small font, or the fact that the game itself is trying to push the genre just that little bit further. Here's someone who isn't willing to accept what others have done and just do their version of it. There seems to be an obsession from the man to push the envelope and get you thinking at the same time. I'm guessing if you look in his cupboards, the peanut butter is never smooth. That he cooks his veggies for 4 minutes instead of five, and you'll never catch him dunking his biscuits in his tea. Vengeance Roll & Fight is a roll a write that just like Rome & Roll (still the most stupid name in history of naming games) requires the use of dry wipe boards and gaining resources in order to carry out your actions to score points. Vengeance is closer to a dungeon crawler th