Cats are evil. I know mine is. He pretends to be sleeping all the time, but I know that he’s plotting against me.
Thanks to Scott for his Small World review. I got this idea after my cat pawed his video whenever the race tiles came up.
Where to get Small World?
Pandemic is a cooperative game for 2 to 4 players designed by Matt Leacock.
In Pandemic, up to 4 players play cooperatively to find the cures for 4 diseases that are emerging throughout the whole world.
Games last from 30 to 60 minutes, maybe a little less if you find yourself facing a really infectious disease!
You start with a role, medic, dispatcher, operations expert, researcher or scientist, each role has a special ability to help you fight the diseases. In the course of the game, you’ll trade player cards with other players and discard player cards to fly to different cities, establish research stations and find cures for diseases. At the end of your turn you play infection cards and infect cities with more disease cubes.
You win when your team has found the 4 cures and lose if you don’t have enough cubes of a disease to put on the board, the eighth outbreak occurs (outbreaks occur when diseases would get more than 3 cubes in a city, instead you infect the neighboring cities) or if a player can’t draw a card from the player deck.
Good luck on saving the world, you’ll need it!
The Pandemic: On the Brink rulebook has been uploaded to BGG.
On the Brink is an expansion for Pandemic designed by Matt Leacock and Thomas Lehmann (of Race for the Galaxy fame). It brings several new roles one of them being the bio-terrorist (which seems to have similarities with Dracula from the Fury of Dracula as players have to guess his location) and a revised Operations Expert, the possibility to play with up to 5 players, a new disease and 3 different new challenges.
From the component side, the game comes with 12 pawns (which I guess half come to substitute the first edition ones), purple disease markers, new special event cards, virulent strain cards, blank card to design your own cards and Petri dishes with labels!
The expansion seems to complicate the game a lot (rules and play wise), I’m sure some people will miss the simplicity of the base game, but then again those weren’t the people this expansion was made for clearly.
On the Brink will be availably in June.
Where to get Pandemic: On the Brink?
Where to get Pandemic?
Small World is a game for 2 to 5 players based on its older brother Vinci, also designed by Philippe Keyaerts.
In Small World you’ll fight for control of a fantasy island that is just too small for everyone, but contrary to most civilization type games, you won’t lead your race to victory, various races will lead you to it.
Games usually last between 45 to 90 minutes and in that time players will cycle through 2 or 3 races.
You start with a race that has a special power attached to it (more on that later), enter the map through one of the border regions of the board, conquer some territories and at the end of the turn score 1 point for each territory. Eventually you’ll stretch out your race so much that you’ll have to put it into decline, you will still get points from the territories that race occupies but will have a chance to enter the board with a new race.
This ends up being one of the most important decisions in the game, knowing when to quit.
I must say that despite the sparse information available, I am really excited about Death Note Investigation Card Game, which despite the weird name isn’t a CCG. I fiddled with the idea of creating a Death Note game some months ago, but as I’ve never designed a game I quit the idea.
Death Note is a manga/anime about a genius student that finds a notebook of a Death God, the notebook allows anyone who writes a name there while visualizing the person to kill her. Soon a good deal of criminals start to die from heart attacks and the world’s greatest detective is contacted to stop these killings.
The tension of the story really seems like a perfect fit for a good game. My only gripe about the game is that it’s from 4 players to 8 players and as I play a good deal of 2 player games this one won’t see the table as often as I’d like.
This post may seem a bit silly, but I figure if people complain about board games that are defective, have missing pieces or simply because they don’t like them; then I should write about this little episode of mine.
On valentine’s day I gave my loveable geeky girlfriend a copy of Mayfair’s second edition of Tigris & Euphrates. We loved it the first time we played it in Lisbon’s board game meeting and I just knew I had to get it for her. I had read before on Board Game Geek that the first batch of these games were being sold without the extra 4 wooden cubes needed to play the expansion map on this new edition due to an error from Mayfair.
However that didn’t stop me the tiniest bit. I was going to get that game whatever it cost!
Unfortunately when my girlfriend opened up the game box the cubes were missing. Well… I knew they could be missing although I was hoping that particular copy wouldn’t have that problem as Mayfair stated new shipments of the game would come with those missing cubes.
Well, the game was from the first shipment it seems so I contacted Mayfair to get the 4 missing cubes. they promptly responded and assured me they would send the missing pieces.
Yesterday I got an envelope on the mail, and here were the 4 missing cubes!
“What’s so great about that?” you may ask. Maybe nothing. Perhaps I’m just easily impressed by these things. These guys sent an envelope from the U.S. all the way through the Atlantic Ocean to me here in tiny Portugal with 4 tiny wooden cubes in a plastic baggy.
That’s costumer service, I state a problem, the company promptly responds and without any bureaucracy I get my problem fixed. Other companies need to learn a lot from board game companies it seems.
Where to get Tigris & Euphrates?
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