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2022
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Orcs are ravaging the lands and threatening your caves and families! Can you defeat the ravaging orcs and bring back peace and prosperity to your people?
In Caverna: Frantic Fiends, the second large expansion for Uwe Rosenberg's Caverna: The Cave Farmers, you have to face these hostile plunderers. Luckily, you can either use your proven axes to teach them a lesson or build traps to keep them away from the cave entrances altogether. You can even push them into these traps with stone or bribe them with wood to weaken their strength. Defeating orcs will bring precious rewards, but if you fail to drive them off, all your plans might be in jeopardy.
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Pros
- Offered enough of a gameplay difference from base game of Caverna
- Plays off of the wonderful structure of Agricola and Caverna
- Farming and tile building/laying
- New tiles available
- Mechanisms of fighting off hordes offered an interesting new puzzle
- Made the game feel even more unique compared to Agricola
- Enjoyed the variability caused in setup randomness for tiles and buildings
- Can lay traps
- Get an interesting expansion
- Feels like a completely separate game based off of base Caverna
- Made for a really fun solo experience
- Really enjoyed this expansion
- Hoped to play it more
Cons
- Not a standalone expansion
- Not compatible with the first expansion Forgotten Folk
Thematic elements
- Farming
Comparison games
- Agricola
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Horde defense — fighting off or joining with or hordes that are traveling on your farm board and you're trying to prevent them from entering your cave
- tile laying — tile building tile laying as well
- traps — things that you can lay like traps and such that you can lay down on your farm
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- Woodcraft was the latest Game of sui before evacuation came out and this game you know feels it's it it hits pretty right you know for the weight that I enjoy about 3.75 and the mechanisms in this game that I really enjoyed was the puzzles of the puzzle of figuring out your dice whittling them down no pun intended into you know smaller dice with smaller Pips and and using that to um you know increase your engine or spend resources on Etc lots of good Euro goodness in this game some of it felt a little overwhelming but I really enjoyed the dice play as well as how actions were determined on this Central action selection mechanism in kind of a Rondell system that sui is known for I think this game yeah it it hit a lot of the right spots for me and it would be a game that I really look forward to diving a little bit deeper into um and it holds a high place in my heart among sui games like underwater cities and missina 1347 are some of my favorites and so I think this has a chance of being up there for me as well
- Number two might be a surprise to you if you know the podcast and it's Adwa this was the U Rosenberg game released last year there were a lot of not I mean criticisms I guess about how Samy this game might feel and I think I I beg to differ a little bit I do agree that the game play itself may feel like you are doing the same things at the same times um if you do play a lot of Rosenberg games there is that theme and I go into this in my latest podcast as well um where I blog about Rosenberg games where there are certain arcs that are established in pretty much all of his games they're it's pretty easy to understand what the early game looks like the mid game and the late game and that is no different in this there are slight variabilities to make this game feel different such as the order of these uh action cards or worker placement spots that shift per round as well as in the order in which these terrain cards come out but those small variances make this game feel a little bit different every time and it helps you and I think there is plenty to explore in this game where you focus on different things maybe you know the overall goal is to follow the breeding strategies listed underneath these um worker placement tiles however I think there is wiggle room to to explore other avenues to see how well um those strategies pan out I've played this solo I've played this multiplayer everyone that I've played it with really enjoyed it um it's it's still you know easy enough to to teach in one night and play in one night like a weekday night um it's heavy enough that it offers uh a lot of good decisions to play uh the solo campaigns or the solo scenarios are I think where this game shines I still feel that is true although I really enjoyed playing the multiplayer and I think that really shot this game up for me and so it is definitely a game that I think is underrated a lot of people didn't um consider this game very highly last year and I think I mean if you were an Rosenberg fan then I think you already know but if you're not uh this is a great mediumweight game to introduce a lot of Euro style Concepts and mechanisms while still adhering to the theme of of you know promoting uh bats and and you know renaturing Etc uh and so I I really enjoyed that integration as well but this was a this is a great game this is a great game and I really enjoyed edwa
- And that is Mosaic a story of Civilization by Glenn drover so this game was kickstarted two years ago officially released last year and this game is civilization simulation with a central board in about two hours I have played this game with five people I believe I don't think I got to six quite yeah I haven't gotten to six but um it did play in a a weekday night as well and just really you know this reminds me of Age of Empires you know playing that computer game back in the day um it's something that I always looked forward to and I was hoping to find in a game a board game nowadays when I don't have access to you know computer games like that or have the time to do so um lots of monuments here um but yeah so so the civilization game has a lot of the civilization tropes that you're hoping for there's area majority not a lot of direct combat but you're more it's more of like a cold war Style just uh trying to get more military units into these different regions of the map it's primarily a card based card-based Tableau building icon collection game very similar to terraforming Mars Ark NOA Etc and uh and so and this game plays really quick the turns are really Snappy you spend re gather resources or spend them to draw cards from these different piles and there are a lot of different avenues that you can go down you can you know f focus on Military and building your presence on this board you can collect icons and get you know science or economy scoring types of of benefits build one building wonders claiming achievements you name it um I feel like at a five or six player game a lot of those strategies are utilized a lot of Technology cards come out which can steer your strategy in a certain direction which made this game feel uh deep and feel intense and feel variable uh all the times that I've played it and yet it still accomplishes all of that within a reasonable amount of time for how big a box and how much of a rules explanation this offers there are a few uh criticisms or setbacks that I do have about this game including uh you know the setup of these tiles on the main board as well as the lack of a solo mode in the retail version however um I still think about this game I love pulling this out I want to play this more and I want to play the expansion as well see how that uh integrates and yeah this is just an amazing civilization themed game that is probably my favorite go-to game on top of others that I enjoy like Through the Ages um age of civilization as well there are some great Civilization games out there that I have played but I think this one kind of checks off all the boxes for me and so yeah if you haven't had a chance to play this game I highly encourage you to do so
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