Reviewing fantasy adventure games

This is a summary of the board games that saw my most interest, play, hobby time and enjoyment in 2018. It is not necessarily a direct reflection of my all time favourite games, but shows where i have putting most…
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Descent 2nd edition is still good enough to fight its corner well against newcomers, and Fantasy Flight Games really should keep it going. A 3rd edition which has an even better app driving it as a co-op dungeon crawler would…
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Nemesis by Awaken Realms arrived and makes an attempt to hijack the top of the games list, just before the year end. If you ever wanted to experience Aliens in a board game setting, then this has to be the…
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When i received the original kickstarter release, initial impressions on the contents were that this is a top quality game. The models are reasonably good by plastic miniatures standards, although fairly soft on some thinner weapons, but the detail was…
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It has always been my intention to continue to collect this game, but with new dungeon crawlers appearing, it is seemingly impossible to have enough painting time. As my Descent models have to all be painted for continuity, it means my…
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The enemies in this game are a little different in that they are individually generated each time, by combining banners, stat cards and drawing abilities from a bag, it offers an unbelievable number of combinations, so you will never be quite…
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Sword & Sorcery is now a year old in my collection and after my initial run on painting the core set heroes, I have been slow to continue my progress, despite really liking this game. Going with one set of…
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One Friday evening in 1995, i stopped by my local Games Workshop on my way home from work with some time to kill, and there on the shelf was a large box called Warhammer Quest. I looked through the contents…
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Kingdom Death Monster 1.5 kickstarter arrived in October 2017, and our group began a campaign, parking Gloomhaven for a while. This game presents players with a nightmare world where you take your settlement survivors on a journey through many lantern…
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Thunderstone Quest is the latest 2018 edition of this great deckbuilding game by AEG, which was first released in 2009, was updated to an advance edition in 2012 and now called quest has arrived in 2018. The original Thunderstone begun with…
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