Barbarossa: Kiev Market (2010)

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Category	Wargame
Mechanic	Dice Rolling Set Collection Simultaneous Action Selection
Description	Try to beat Gargamel and your opponents at this exciting card game by matching Smurf character cards to your Smurf playing boards. Adds new plant and animal trait cards, along with an expanded trait value list. It can be downloaded for free at www.zooloretto.com. Quirks. Then he draws back up to 6; if he used all his hand to make a word he draws 1 extra. The capture is mandatory if possible. The game can last varying numbers of turns, depending on the course of the war. There are several conditions, including the death of leaders and conquest of overwhelming numbers of provinces, that can end the game early.

Comments

Still trying to wrap my head around this monster.

S&T #110

Polus Doku and The Card Kartenspiel - Perilous (2002)

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Category	Children's Game
Mechanic	Dice Rolling Secret Unit Deployment Tile Placement
Description	Abstract strategy with a generic military theme tacked on. Living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering, when few who remain will battle to the last. Cards determine how tiles can be rotated. This is a very simple game that small children will be able to understand and enjoy. The challenging word game of four letter words! Play with letter tiles on a matrix of four intersecting words. After that, the ball must be moved the same total amount of spaces. Scopa. The value of trenches.

Comments

Used to have a set.

Have literally hundreds of cards in NM condition. Not really similar to streetsoccer, since your players can make a "wall", so that no opponent (or ball) can go through on that part of the field. I like to clean up the floor with the "magic" broom :)

CCG.

Found at Rossi's Popup Market. The idea is old as an old sock, but it doesn't interfere with the fun. I like to clean up the floor with the "magic" broom :)

Trip Crawl America White House (2004)

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Category	Children's Game Wargame
Mechanic	Auction/Bidding
Description	Roll and Move game around a colorful board. Players move around the city answering trivia questions about the city and receive the letters N.E.W Y.O.R.K by answering at least one question correctly. How he swings his sword is factored in the turn and the priority of thrusting before the cut or swings will dictates who will win. The board is a rondel of sorts, that is moved according to the die throw.

Comments

Direct from Mayfair Games - Feb 2010. And just to give the right flavour, I have a German copy.

Nice expansion to the starter game. The effect of the combat-movement system is that your army can be disordered whole sections at a time. And I must say that my one playing which ran 4+ hours just completely melted my brain. It does suffer a bit at the end of repetitive operating rounds, but this can easily be fixed. The game didn't require a lot of rules searches and subsequent arguments over wording as is required in most historical simulation games.

Rhitbie (2009)

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Category	Wargame Card Game Word
Mechanic	Area Movement Dice Rolling
Description	Included with Strategy & Tactics magazine #211. Axis & Allies Pacific 1940, designed and developed by Larry Harris, utilizes the updated rules established in A&A; Anniversary Edition. The same cards are used in three ways: to gain the control of a company on a certain harbour, to struggle for the status inside of a company, and finally as trade goods to collect to dispatch orders. 12-pages of rules, 1 map, (260) counters. China fields more forces than ever before, but will need help from their allies -- the United States and England -- to withstand the might of expansionist Imperial Japan.

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Need more Japanese tactical bombers Edit: which WotC has provided! AA50 will be sufficient, I think, considering how infrequently I play this series now, despite the same problem in it.

Rating based on solo play of Rossbach battle scenario and a F2F battle scenario as Leuthen.

Excellent production value, ghastly gameplay.

Hadronen: Cauldron

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Category	Abstract Strategy Negotiation Humor
Mechanic	Pattern Building Roll and Move Trading
Description	Tickityboo(tm) is a game similar to Stubborn(tm), but with hexagonal tiles, and more of them. The Greenpeace player tries to block the whaling vessels with her boats. Players take turns adding any color ingredient into the cauldron and as they do, potions will be completed. Every turn he can move two of them: Leaders move of two steps, Peones of one.

Comments

Yet another Blokus clone, this time with extremely weird pieces. It has more choices and is tough to figure out where to place the large variety of different shaped pieces.

It looks like Blokus, but it's not nearly as fun or interesting.

I remember a lot of laughs playing this game... Scoring is based on SPORS only. You're trying to create scoring opportunities while keeping the action away from your opponents potential scoring areas. That's what this one felt like. A decent abstract game. This meant you could somewhat control where they placed, but not entirely. Also, all your pieces were such dang odd shapes. Go ahead and include the Free Parking Jackpot non-rule that makes the game last even longer than it would have - the idiots who created (and I use that word loosely) this abortion of a game did. Put 'em together, and what you get is Hold'em-opoly. If that sounds like something you'd like, then have it a go. For me? Great idea, other than the part where that also tends to make the game longer.

This could be a good exercise for spatial ability, but it's not particularly fun to play. This game is similar but has its own enjoyable characteristics.

Sports Checkers (1983)

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Category
Mechanic	Hand Management Set Collection
Description	From Publishers Website: With up to 4 players per side, you will soon experience the highs and lows of being part of a military-style chain of command.

Comments

Ok game. Never mind.

Texas Wars Pig Game Energy (2006)

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Category	Card Game Children's Game Animals
Mechanic	Roll and Move Trading
Description	Energy as a concept is not easy; scientists believe that the amount of energy in the universe is constant, not used up, but converted from one form to another. Instead of properties, players collect "preserves" to save animals. The 3-minute timer is then started. In contrast, North Korea has become isolated, bankrupt and confrontational. If anyone else should top that player's number of used letters (must beat, not match), they may call "Tuffer" and start the 1-minute timer. CIA, FBI and INTERPOL are always on your traces.

Comments

G5020 (C) The scoring is inelegant but the alphabet spread over the dice is interesting. Intriguing but perhaps over-wrought self-balancing mechanism.

Cricket Race Murder Bell Game

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Category	Children's Game Sports Economic
Mechanic	Action Point Allowance System Dice Rolling Pattern Building
Description	This is a Expansion for Air War jet combat wargame published by Hobby Japan. Comes with a small Masonite cricket bat, table tennis balls, a rectangular plastic grid and a series of flat cardboard cricket balls, each sporting a particular outcome (3, 6, run out etc.). Goal is to make as much money as possible. Playing time is agreed upon. The second case (Death of a Train Spotter) has no speaking parts, and is therefore playable by any number of guests.

Comments

A generous donation by the Chilean publishers at ModCon 2010 in Modena, Italy.

Very fiddly. And now I have one! When you feel like you wish someone else would win so the game could be over, that's not a good thing.

Good memory game variant. Me too, man! I get old.

Malfpemi (1999)

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Category
Mechanic	Storytelling
Description	Keep your savings up and expenses down as you compete to be the first to yell, "I’m debt free!"

Comments

Unpunched.

S&T issue game. Often tense and good for a few playings each year.

Verified complete - not in the best shape, but good enough for me to complete a Vassal module. Works well to that end. An interesting enough game to play once or twice to illustrate the contents of the mag article, which as I understood it was JFD's general goal. Would make a decent computer game if cheap. Suits me just fine as a guy who has a hangup for sub games and who occassionally finds himself with a few hours to knock out a game on the spur of the moment.

Dungeons Moscow (2008)

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Category	Abstract Strategy Wargame Card Game
Mechanic	Role Playing
Description	The first of the COA games detailing the climactic moments of Napoleon's last 100 days as Emperor. Card game. The game is card driven. This will not endear it to many readers of this website, but it -is- a valid supplement to the game, and is entered here as a matter of fact (if not taste).

Comments

The one children game nominated 2010 with the most "game" to it. I'll probably try it with dice I already own, assuming I can get a hold of complete rules.

JAR2085 Seems too fast for me, plus too simple as well!

The rules are a revision of the award winning system developed by Marshal Enterprises and cover the full range of features that were characteristic of the Napoleonic battlefield.

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