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Continuing with my series of reviews on Catan: Traders and Barbarians, we’ve finally arrived at the red-headed step child of the bunch…...

You are the owner of a small zoo, so small in fact that you have but three enclosures and a rather large barn. Throughout the game you...

In Assault on Ulthuan the forces of the Dark Elves and High Elves finally become playable factions with their own capital boards and 40...

Yes, this really is a review of what is, in effect, a starting tile, however the River and the River II, when combined do something...

Stone Age was my first worker placement game, it’s produced by Hans Im Glück/Rio Grande Games and it is possibly the most beautiful game...

Rivers of Catan is another of the “reprints” included in the Traders and Barbarians box, although as I understand it the scenario has...

This week we’re talking about Fantasy Flight’s Silver Line games and that brings me to this week’s review Red November. I first read...

What is it? Traders and Builders in an expansion for the core game, but it is one that you will always play with once you introduce it...

In this review I will be talking about the Seafarers core concepts and how they change Settlers of Catan, as well as giving an overview...

With this game the designers wanted to take a grand concept, a campaign set in a fantasy world, and boil it down to a set of cards and...

I always assumed that Space Crusade was the same game as Heroquest, but set in space, I was wrong! I also assumed it was to Space Hulk,...

In Citadels you play a Lord in charge of a city. You can influence various high powered characters to help you out, such as the assassin...

Welcome to the first of the Traders and Barbarians: Scenarios. Working logically through the book we’ll start with the first scenario...

It is said that 70% of the profits made by SJG come from the sales of Munchkin related products and of all the games I’ve review thus far...

Fantasy Adventure So I bought Runebound because I love fantasy, in particular D&D, but most of the fantasy boardgames we own are from my...

In my opinion Traders and Barbarians is one of the best expansions for Settlers of Catan because the box offers a massive selection of...

Okay, so I really hoped that I’d be talking to you this week about Warhammer: Invasion, however it looks like I’ll have to save that for...

Ok, so for the second Unboxed review I thought I’d go a bit old school. This is Games Workshop’s Dungeonquest, I don’t have the Swedish...

Every review I’ve read of Carcassonne begins with the author excusing it as an exercise for their own peace of mind. Because Carcassonne...

In Pandemic you are a member of the CDC sent out to battle disease wherever it may lie. What are those diseases called you ask? Why… Red,...