Pacific Fishy (1984)

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Category	Card Game
Mechanic	Card Drafting Dice Rolling
Description	Small paperback book serving as an introduction to miniatures wargaming and also containing rules for use from the ancient period up to the American Civil War (1 rule set for the whole lot !) It makes use of a simple and uncomplicated game system to do so. Components.

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[SimplyFun 'Somethin' Fishy' 2004 edition] {Animal, kid; luck-pressing; optimal 4-6p} It's a cute and fun little game. Good as a filler game, not so tactical.

First, understand that I am not a fan of party games in general.

First, understand that I am not a fan of party games in general. 1) you should have someone in place there to control the quality.

Mission Zwerfspel

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Category	Educational
Mechanic	Stock Holding
Description	This self-correcting game reinforces spelling skills from primary to intermediate grades. Is the first game of the Canadian-owned company Eagle Games Ltd. The first issue contained all you need to play and the other ones additional decks of question cards, together with a magazine and a collection of videotapes with Sherlock Holmes TV short movies. Players take turns drawing cards until a mission card is played. The game is played in 2 phases; initially you move round the outer track on die rolls, collecting Personnel cards, buying Equipment cards and drawing Exploration Club cards (which may gain or cost you cash to the Prize Fund).

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Fun game for the general audience, a la Careers, Monopoly, etc., but with more meat due to all the cards and outside/inside board. I mean really crap.

Spiring Enterprises version. Interesting memory and bluffing mechanics, coupled with fast paced gameplay make this a great game to get.

Spiring Enterprises version.

Puanz (1977)

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Category	Wargame World War II Expansion for Base-game
Mechanic	Roll and Move Simulation Variable Phase Order
Description	From the One Page Wars game series. Players are divided into teams of two. Rules are easy to understand, but the game portrays an intense situation full of excitement for both players.

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No box.

Gresapojken. My wife doesn't like it though as she's a 'purist'.

Board game guru.

Played with the 1965 rules which are probably very much like the 1961 rules (any clarifications on this?).

Persona Me (1994)

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Category	Card Game Party Game
Mechanic	Co-operative Play Pick-up and Deliver
Description	The grandfather clock in the Pimpola Manor has stopped. Heartbeat is a game for girls where you get to date boys. The game is much like Hot Potato; a song and artist appears on the screen of the handheld device. Players tip the Waiter 25¢ (chips) for each item correctly delivered. FrF9 - The Abbeville Bridgehead. FrF10 - Assault on Wielki Dzial. The dots on the interaction cards indicate the number of portrait cards to be played. The team not holding the device at that time scores a point. - 4 pirate character counters.

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With the right crowd, much preferred to standard Catch Phrase. I know far fewer songs than I thought I would.

Monopoly: Elvis (2010)

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Category	Party Game Action / Dexterity Science Fiction Children's Game
Mechanic	Line Drawing Roll and Move
Description	When speaking of ‘The battle of Alamein’ it is generally assumed that one is referring to the battle which finally saw Britain’s Eighth Army defeat Rommel’s much vaunted Panzerarmee Afrika in October/November 1942. The Game of Ground Fighting in Gundam. SHIT: If he rolls over the target number, all points the over the target number count as negative and are subtracted from his score, which can become negative. The set contains 12 Star Performer cards and 11 cards each in the Creative Cat, Data Head, and Word Worm categories.

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The similarity to Cranium is unmistakeable, but I like this game because of the manual dexterity games, which I think that any game played while drinking should include.

They’ve somehow packed all the fun in this game into those pigs, but for the life of us, we couldn’t work out how to suck it out.

A lot of hate for this game swirls around, but it can be made much better if you remove a few "Straight Up" and "Bouncers" coasters from the bunch, plus require only ONE correct answer for 'Clay Smoothie". I like the old board waay better than the new one though. Wonderful. Oh, roll again. No strategy or thought. He likes fast crazy games - but he's hyper. Whatever.

Ardec (1997)

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Category	Wargame Science Fiction Miniatures
Mechanic	Hex-and-Counter Paper-and-Pencil
Description	A simple roll-and-move racing game, where the players use the cards in their hands, or cards stolen from their opponents, to avoid snakes, sharks, volcanoes and crocodiles on their race to the finish. Rocketmen: Axis of Evil is a fast and furious game of spaceship combat between two or more players, who battle for the resources of an asteroid belt and ultimately for the fate of the entire solar system. The game is playable in 1 to 2 hours maximum. The first player to capture his or her opponent's home base, or to destroy all of the ships in his or her opponent's active fleet, wins.

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Eh.

Lots of games but not enough description for the rules of each. Opened and a few punched. Biggest problem is that it can take a while to set up the game if you didn't pre-punch and assemble your ships ahead of time. The complexity of the Spaceship models makes this impractical.

Jim Dunnigan design.

2: Very basic wargame for introducing people to the concepts of the hobby.

Palen (1985)

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Category	Wargame
Mechanic	Dice Rolling Stock Holding
Description	A promo card for the game. It contains no army lists or specific unit descriptions but it does contain the following: Kids and adults alike will love popping the poppers to race to spell words from the 100 colorfully illustrated picture cards. Environmental Protection Agency. Weapons range from pikes, muskets and artillery to bows and lances. Hit the Beach mission. Each round takes up to 60 seconds – perfect for young attention spans – so your kids will love to play again and again." Ages 4 and up.

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Rumours swirl around this latest train offering from Martin Wallace.

Rating for NE US map.

BAD! Hard to find the stragic point.

Got a second play of this on the England map. But that might just be me.

Cobra Mediterraneum Aug. #2: 14 and Nashville Witch (1983)

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Category	Wargame Card Game Fantasy
Mechanic	Hand Management
Description	How many people fit into a phone booth? Novel or unusual features include non-rectangular cards(!), comparatively small decks, and combat resolution by special twelve-sided "tactics" and "combat" dice. Each game-turn is equivalent to three days of real time, and each hex represents a distance (across) of 3.2 kilometers. A Trollhalla review. A blank disc can be used as any letter. The goal is to get rid of all one's sponge men first. - The War of Annihilation, and. Mats are included for tracking your company worth, technology, turns and private companies.

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This is an interesting situation.

I really WANTED to love this game.

Icrar (2004)

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Category	Card Game Wargame Fantasy
Mechanic	Dice Rolling Hex-and-Counter
Description	From the publisher's website : Similar to their Micro Napoleonic and Micro Ancients games. Hot on the trail of Gollum, the heroes venture down the banks of the Anduin, only to hear whispers of a new threat looming.

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I was disappointed in this. Quick, silly fun.

Solid game. Lots of luck, but we really liked it.

Muito levado na sorte. Add to that the potential for Union amphibious moves to outflank the Rebs. I'm eager to try Forged in Fire out again.

Cable Cartland: Mundo Edition Boardgame (2010)

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Category	Card Game Travel Memory
Mechanic	Auction/Bidding
Description	From the publisher: There are 5 sheets with one track on each side. "Whether she is a rich American heiress or a poor peasant girl, you'll recognize her to be a true Barbara Cartland heroine: soft, gentle, innocent, and pure, but also intelligent, charming, and resourceful." Players start with a number of cars ringing the board.

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This is one of those games which is fun to play, but it really could have been much better, game-wise and production-wise. Player interaction is high. Game play goes smoothly. There's potential in here, but it needs some rules update (or variants) to come through.

Real good card game. I've only played it with two players which doesn't seem to be the best format for this variant. I had the pleasure to be taught this game by my very good friend Michel, so I avoided the slightly obtuse rules book, and within 2.5 hours of us sitting down to play, I had won the tournament scenario (as the USSR, with some help from my gracious opponent.) Game sure looks nice, lots of chrome, and moves at a nice clip. What a tense, exciting, and fun series - with Midway now on the store shelves, I'm very much looking forward to what comes nex