Garrett's Games 535 - City of Spies and ESSEN Spiel Preview! - a podcast by Douglas Garrett
from 2016-10-03T00:21:22
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Shelley and I get a chance to discuss one of the newer titles from Stronghold Games that will be available in Germany in less than 2 weeks, then we tackle the Essen Spiel 2016 Preview on BGG and I go through the ones I must track down!
Review:
City of Spies by Gil d'Orey and Antonio Sousa Lara from Stronghold Games
The games discussed from the Preview:
Amigo/Small Card Games/2-Player Games (under E20)
- Bohnanza Das Duel
- Freaky
- Naova
- Schwupps
- X Nimmt!
- Capital Lux - drafting/own tableau or common…
- Clown Standoff - trick taking with some push your luck
- Zany Penguins - cute cards/interesting tactics & drafting
- Legendary Inventors
- Noxford
- Grand Bazaar (Small card game that takes up to 7 players!)
- Fruit Spy (cute artwork/rethemed Knizia)
- Tallinn plays quickly, expansions available (Blindes Huhn & Visby last year)
- What’s Up - cute card game/video
- Hanamikoji (2-player, gorgeous cards!)
- Jolly & Roger (2-player) - comment on blog that it’s been tested with couples a lot.
- Rival Kings (2-player)
- Agamemnon (2-player) Osprey Games
Interesting New/Newer Publishers
- Ave Roma
- Beer Empire (Boards&Dice) does this do for beer what Vinhos/Viticulture did for wine?
- Barcelona: The Rose of Fire - 19thC city building. Avoid unrest while gaining prestige (Devir)
- Capital - Granna, and the building/re-building of Warsaw
- Round House - Clans compete for prestige in rural China (EmperorS4)
- Plus Ultra: The Court of Emperor Charles V (Meridiano) Medium Weight drafting
- Sweet Nose - Candy Eating! (MO ZI Game)
- Da Yuhne: Der Grosse Kaiserkanal (Müller Mätzig Spiele Verlag)
Heavier Probably or MUST HAVES
- Lorenzo il Magnifico - Cranio/Designers of Grand Austria Hotel/Tzolkin
- Rhodes - new one from The Game Master
- Airlines - Golden Egg
- First Class: Unterwegs im Orient Express (HiG/Z) designer of Russian RR, Trambahn
- Ulm - R&R, Strong recommendation from Ted
- Luther: Das Spiel (need to read up on it and see how language dependent)
- Flamme Rouge - Cycling game from Lautapelit
- The Colonists (Mayfair/Lookout) - Possibly as big as Caverna...it will make its way over here…
- Oracle at Delphi - Stefan Feld
- Papa Paolo - Quined Games & pizza making
- Key to the City: London - Richard Breese
- North American Railways - Spielworxx is always putting out great stuff!
- Solarius Mission - Spielworxx & designed by the La Granja designers
- Colony
- Guilds of London
- Railroad Revolution - What’s Your Game’s 2016 entry
- Feast of Odin - another BIG game from Uwe, using the Tetris-style pieces
Stronghold Titles
- La Granja No Siesta
- Great Western Trail
- Terraforming Mars
- Sola Fide
Lighter Fare That Looks Interesting
- Kingdomino
- Cottage Garden (Uwe with tetris-esque pieces)
- Touria - The Brands & R&R Games
- Kanagawa - Card drafting and a game about painting.
- Dokmus - Area Control & 20-30 minutes (Lauta)
- Honshu - Trick Taking & map building! (Lauta)
- Slide Blast - Waterslide building/tile laying
- Sail Away (Mattel) Light resource collection with some ‘take that’ elements...Styx
- Chariot Race (Matt Leacock, interactive, but uses some of the Roll Through The Ages ideas)
- Coal Baron Card Game
- Die Baumeister des Colosseum - Klaus Jurgen Wrede
- Noch Mal! - Dice game from the Brands
- Mondrian The Dice Game
- Pandemic Iberia - LOVED getting this variant to the table
Odds & Ends/Expansions
- Order of the Guilded Compass - New remake of Alea iacta Est
- Knights/Chevaliers - Single-player and comic book form, intrigues
- Rome: Rise to Power - Revolt! Expansion
- Carcassonne Star Wars Expansion
- Russian Railroads: American Railroads
- Concordia Gallia/Corsica
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