Game Info
Year
2012
Players
2-6
Age
12+
Playtime
90 min
Collection
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Description
A game of diplomacy and conquest in post-Napoleonic Europe of 1815 in which the great powers vie for territory through alliances and military campaigns
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Board to Death TV - Board Game Reviews Analysis at 3:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Strategic depth without dice luck
- Emphasis on diplomacy and alliances
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- European conquest
- European continent
Comparison games
- Risk
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Alliance building — it's very strategic and a lot of it is how you build up the alliances around the table.
- Area Control — you have an army and you're trying to take over as much as the continent as possible.
- rock paper scissors — rather than use dice to conquer, it uses more of a a rock paper scissors mechanic.
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- Hi, I'm Jason Hardy. I'm the Shadow Run line developer with Catalyst Game Labs.
- We have this set up like a nightclub in the Shadow Run world, and people get to go in, have their adventure, and try to survive a hit squad that's about to come in and make life difficult for them.
- It's a cooperative deck building game where you take the role of a different Shadowrunner.
- your character will get stronger as you go along. You'll be able to add stickers that give different abilities to your character to be able to face more difficult challenges as you keep playing the game.
- This game is set in an alternate history setting where the big warships of the turn of the century have been given the ability to levitate or fly.
- This is in some ways a chesslike game in that it's a two-player game and you have pieces that are moving around a grid, but where chess is a very strategic game, this is a little more tactical.
- Each side of the piece has a move diagram telling you what that piece can do when it's flipped up that way.
- the way we refer to it sometimes is risk without the luck.
- So your job is to maneuver the pieces in the right way that you're able to take over when you can and you're not losing things to your opponents.
- it's very strategic and a lot of it is how you build up the alliances around the table.
- We're very excited about the products.
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Board to Death TV - Board Game Reviews Review at 0:09 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- good concept
- Risk without the dice
- production quality is nice
- get lots of pieces
Cons
- missed that element of luck
- some player turns can be long
- players with analysis paralysis
- doesn't have any innovative mechanics
- low replay value
- it just wasn't for us or our group of reviewers
Thematic elements
- vying for dominance
- Europe in 1815
Comparison games
- Risk
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — gateway game into area control
- rock paper scissors — It's a rock, paper, scissor Risk with low replay value.
- Set Collection — For each capital you control with a king, general, and banker, you will get three points in addition to the one point you get for controlling it.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I am Felicia Night, not Felicia Day.
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Watch It Played Travelogue at 13:08 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
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none
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Quotes (from this video)
- Multiverse this was a very popular Booth I would have liked to have gotten a demo in but man they were busy all the time
- Superheroes and cards and it's a Well reviewed game so I'm glad to see them having a lot of success there.
- had a chance to learn flasho Fire Rescue from David one of our viewers and his friend those two guys were so much fun to play with we were the loudest ones in the library we just barely eak out a win
- I wanted to pick up my own copy of flasho fire rescue had the designer sign it and it's certainly a game I would consider featuring on our Channel
- I also want to give a real shout out to the other board game media creators that I had a chance to meet I really respect and admire your work Larry and Tim Lance Joel Cody and John Ryan metler tox the D6 generation and the Big Daddy himself Tom vassel
- if you get a chance to come out to Gen Con I would highly recommend it it truly is the best four days in gaming
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