First Impressions: Baron Munchausen
I got a chance to play Baron Munchausen at GenCon and here are my initial thoughts.
Category: Game Impressions
First Impressions of games that I have played once or twice but haven't had enough time with to fully review.
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Belfort First Impressions
Belfort is a fun, fantasy-themed worker placement strategy game for 2 to 5 players.
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Kickstarter Preview: The ONE
Kickstarter Preview of The ONE, a dice-based party game with giant foam dice.
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Kickstarter Preview: "The Award Goes To"
The Award Goes To is a blind bidding game that lampoons Hollywood. Read my preview and check out the game's Kickstarter page.
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Ra by Rio Grande Games: First Impressions
Ra is a simple auction game with a complex set of scoring rules that is easy to learn and difficult to master.
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Pirate's Cove by Days of Wonder: First Impressions
Though I only got to play it once, Pirate's Cove is now near the top of my wish list. Test your strategy and luck in this pirate game.
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Castle Panic First Impressions
Castle Panic is a co-operative tower defense board game for 1 to 6 players. It's fun, fast-paced, exciting, and strategic.
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Lost Cities: First Impressions
Lost Cities is an easy-to-learn card game designed for only two players and was part of the Kosmos 2-Player Games series.
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Back to the Future - the Card Game: First Impressions
We only had the opportunity to play it once, but the consensus at the table was that it was a fun, creative game with plenty of personality.
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Mystery of the Abbey: First Impressions
Not only is the game easy to pick up, fun, and unique in many aspects, it encourages players to enjoy themselves and not be too serious.
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Game Day September 2010: Cleopatra
The next morning we kicked off a game of Cleopatra, a Days of Wonder game, after breakfast. Cleopatra is another resource management and building game, but varies quite a bit from Catan. In this game, each player is an architect in Ancient Egypt, trying to…
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Game Day September 2010: Catan Germany
It was getting pretty late when we finished A Touch of Evil and many folks either went home or went to bed. Three of us stayed around to start one final board game of the night, though: Catan Geographies: Germany. This game is very similar…
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Game Day September 2010: A Touch of Evil
A Touch of Evil is a huge game that would be difficult to sum up in just a paragraph or five. Instead of trying to describe it all myself, here is the game's description: "Tis’ the dawn of the 19th century; an age of science,…
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Game Day September 2010: King Me
I hadn't played King Me before, but ever since my girlfriend played it with the rest of that same group, she's been interested in getting me to try it. Everyone thought it would be a great game to try out for someone with a visual…
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Game Day September 2010: Overview
September 18 th, 2010. My girlfriend and I missed our opportunity to attend the annual Portland Pirate Festival ( ) and our group's bi-weekly movie night fell through, but the day wasn't a loss. Instead of movie night, some friends threw together an impromptu board…
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Cape Horn: First Impressions
Cape Horn is a sailing game based on a historical race that took place in the 1800s, in which clipper ships set out from New York to sail to San Francisco in the fastest time possible. One of the biggest…
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Neuland: First Impressions
Neuland is a Civilization-style board game from Z-Man Games, originally published in 2004. We picked up the game a couple of months ago and recently cracked it open for our first session. Despite experience a bit of burn-out from teh amount of time we spent on the game, we enjoyed our initial run.