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In 1995, Klaus Toiber introduced Settlers of Catan to the world. It won the Spiel des Jahres that year and, without any hyperbole, changed board games forever. Four years later, Toiber launched his space game with The Starfarers of Catan. This version included a much larger board with planetary systems, new resources to collect, and one large rocket per player. Unfortunately, the production aspects let the game down. The rocket and the parts attached to it often break during repeated actions. As a result, Starfarers disappeared from the shelves, leaving behind a mixed legacy. Settlers of Catan has since been renamed Catan with many expansions. People like me who have long heard that Starfarers is better than standard Catan have been patiently waiting for a Starfarers re-release. In 2019, this reissue finally hit stores. It came with improved plastic parts and a modular field. But is Catan: Starfarers really any good? And can it be better than Catan? Let's bring the game to the table to see for ourselves, shall we? PREPARATION FOR THE GAME You will start by creating a playing field. It consists of six 11" x 11" puzzle pieces that, when assembled, will have several empty spaces that you will fill in with matching dolly pieces. The game's almanac suggests the setup for the first game, including which planetary systems (the pieces corresponding to the empty spaces) go where, as well as the positions of each player's starting pieces at the base of the field. We stuck with this and found it resulted in a well-balanced first game, but then changed the setup for subsequent games. The planets in each planetary system have their own symbol. Find the matching disks and place them symbol-side up on each planet. Set all other discs aside. Place all the resource cards in the tray provided, making sure the item cards go into the slot marked 2:1. Each of the other cards are slotted 3:1, meaning they can be exchanged for other cards throughout the game at this exchange rate. Take eight cards from each resource, shuffle them together and place them in the open hole in the tray. Deal three cards from this deck to each player. Another tray is added for various upgraded missiles (Booster, Freight and Cannon) and broken pieces of glory. Shuffle the deck of Encounter cards and place them in the large hole at the end of the tray. Sort the Friendship cards into four separate decks and place them on the side of the board. Place the corresponding standing tokens next to each deck. Then each player chooses a color and takes all pieces of that color. These include colonies (large hex pieces), trading stations (smaller hex pieces), shipyards (hex rings that fit around the colony pieces), and transport ships (tiny missile ships). Place the round score markers on the number 4 on the board. The first player to score 15 points wins. And there is Rocket. Let's face it: As far as gaming components go, these rockets are pretty cool. If you are playing for the first time, carefully unscrew the top of the rocket and drop 2 yellow, 1 blue, 1 red and 1 black small plastic balls into it. Then replace the top of the rocket. Now shake her. (You know what you want!) Take one of the orange boosters from the rocket upgrade tray and add it to the bottom of one of the three rocket fins. Then everyone gets half a fame token. (Two tokens = 1 point) Choose the first player and start the game. GAME PROCESS If you know how to play Catan, you will be familiar with most of how to play Starfarers. During your turn, you roll two dice, take the total, and match that number to the numbers on the planets. Players who have a trading station, colony, or spaceport next to a number collect a resource that matches the color of the planet. The active player can then trade resources with other players and/or trade resources to upgrade their rocket or build spaceports, colonies or ships. If you roll a seven in Starfarers, anyone with more than seven resource cards in their hand must discard half of their cards, rounded down. An extra action in Starfarers also involves shaking your rocket. In the movement phase, you count the number of displayed balls. This number indicates how many hex corners on the board you can move each of your ships in space. However, if one of these balls is black, no movement occurs. Instead, the player to your left draws the top encounter card from the deck and reads the top part aloud. Many encounter cards contain scenarios (“You meet a merchant…” or “You meet a space pirate…”) that require you to make a choice. If, for example, you choose to fight a space pirate, you and the other player will shake your rockets and compare the total number of small plastic balls that appear in the base (red = 3; yellow = 2; blue = 1). ; black = 0). The Encounter card explains the results and consequences. INTELLIGENCE As you move into space, you can choose to contact those planetary systems I mentioned earlier. Landing on an intersection that is adjacent to one will turn all three discs face up. Some of these will be numbers, indicating that they will generate resources if a trading station, colony, or spaceport is located on a nearby intersection. Some discs may have either the Ice Planet or the Pirate Base. In this case, planetary intersections with these markers are prohibited until they are resolved. In the case of an ice planet, one of your ships must be adjacent to it, and your rocket must be equipped with cargo containers equal to or greater than the number on the disc. At the pirate base, your missile must have a number of cannons equal to or greater than the specified number. When terraforming an ice planet or defeating a pirate base, you first collect a token on the planet and get one point. You then replace it with a disc with the same symbol, placing it face up so that the number is visible. WE ARE LOOKING FOR FRIENDS The board is also populated by four outposts. Each Outpost has a central docking point and places where trading stations can be placed. As a goodwill gesture, when you do, you'll get to choose one of that alien race's bonus cards. All these cards give you a special power for the rest of the game. The first player to reach an outpost will also receive a friend token for that race worth one point. This friend token remains yours unless another player places more trading stations on the outpost than you. If so, the other player claims a Friend. You lose a point and they get one. CONCLUSIONS Catan: Starfarers has a lot to recommend it. Let's start by studying the game. As far as I've seen, the player hints in Starfarers are almost perfect. Even if you're new to the Catan system, the cards are easy to read. They explain player moves and show the resources needed to upgrade your rocket and build a trading station, colony or spaceport. Like Catan, Starfarers comes with a Rulebook and an Almanac. The rulebook covers the basic rules and details the possibilities of a particular move. The Almanac is an alphabetical listing of all game items with details on each part of the game. If you have a question, it will be answered in one (if not both) of these guides. Despite the number of planets in different planetary systems, the chance to get resources is much greater in Starfarers. More resources mean more trading opportunities. Also, the standard trade in the game is 3:1 (as opposed to Katana's 4:1). We were still short on certain resources, but there were more chances to build a spaceship or power up our rockets throughout the game. I'm sure some people may disagree with this, but I welcomed the lack of development cards from Catan in Starfarers. Development cards in Catan are a hidden element of the game that can be obtained as you get closer to victory. I've never been a big fan of these cards, and not having them is a big plus for me. This keeps Starfarers as an open-ended game, which is my favorite style of play. Starfarers, on the other hand, takes significantly longer to play than standard Catan. Our last game of Catan for three players took about an hour, a game of Starfarers with the same number of players took about 2.5 hours. (Our first four-player game, played by people familiar with Catan, took 3.5 hours.) Despite the increased access to resources, it will not be enough to stay only on the initial resources. Therefore, you will need to build spaceships and move them to other planets. Although both games take place within a limited field, the field of Starfarers is many times larger than the field of Catan. Clash cards often pause the game (again, they are drawn when a black orb appears at the base of your rocket), interrupting the flow of the game. Also, many Encounter cards are duplicates. With the attention to detail the team put into the rest of the game, repeating these frequently drawn cards just doesn't make sense. It became something of a running joke every time an Encounter card was drawn, with people around the table saying “You encounter a trader…” before the card was even read. If there were a greater variety of Encounters, they would be approached with some degree of caution. As it was, even the worst results were only mildly annoying and hardly worth the effort. Going back to the questions I posed at the beginning of this review, "Is Catan: Starfarers really good?" So. With Starfarers, Toiber took the concepts of its predecessor and turned it into a great adventure game. This leaves me wondering, "Can it be better than Catan?" For me, Starfarers is better than Catan. On my first playthrough, I realized that I had more fun with Starfarers than I had with Catan in a long time. This wasn't just because of a fancy rocket or new components, it was because the openness of the board demanded exploration, and with it, new things to discover. Another thing I realized during a recent game of standard Catan was that in Starfarers I could actively..

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PIES GAME REVIEW I love old pictures and illustrations of fruits like those found in botany textbooks from the late 1800s. The attention to detail is impressive, the gradation of shades and shapes, flaws. Cards for Pies captivated me, lovingly executed work in an identical style. I found myself getting stuck on the cards while going through them. These cards create a world with a distinctly pastoral feel, the spine of the book covered in dust. Then I got to the tokens with the pie cut out on them, and I started to worry. They did not feel aesthetic. I caught myself thinking about the old writer's maxim: "Don't put a hat on top of a hat."  Pies is supposed to be an empowerment game and is being marketed as such, but that's flat out wrong. There are no suits, no pressure to follow, no trumps. The game exhibits none of the defining characteristics of the genre. This is an auction game about collecting fruits and recipes to turn them into pies.  Each player places one card from his hand in the middle of the table. Then, from the highest card to the lowest, everyone can choose any of the cards played to add to their table. Some cards have recipes that require fruit combinations, while others give you an immediate bonus. Bonuses can be three Pi tokens that can change the value of the card you play, the ability to steal a card from another player, or the aforementioned dog that protects your painting from being stolen. If you have successfully collected the required fruit combinations, you can turn over the recipe card and discard the corresponding fruit. This flipped card is now locked, a safe source of late game points.  Pies are boring from start to finish. There are very few solutions. Playing cards is rarely fun. The quality of solutions is somewhere between limited and non-existent. The only enjoyment to be found is when you play a Pi token that changes the value of your card by 3.14 so that your card is exactly 0.14 higher than the other player's card. A dog card comes out of nowhere. Pi tokens seem like a gratuitous joke. Their combined aesthetic departure from the game's world, suggesting a creation that doesn't know what it is, is perfectly aligned with the game's inability to choose a meaningful line...

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 Project GIPF is a series of eight abstract strategy games designed by Chris Burm. Each game has a hexagonal playing area and involves reducing the number of pieces or mechanics of the playing area. The way they approach these elements is not only unique, but also combines what I think are the best qualities in most theses: simple rules that reveal a complex game. If you've never heard of Project GIPF, GIPF , TAMSK , ZÈRTZ , DVONN , YINSH , PÜNCT , TZAAR , and LYNGK , I encourage you to look them up in cardboard form or digitally online. They are worth your time. Today's game: TAMSK  Before I begin, I know some supporters may object to including TAMSK here. This is because in 2007, when Broome introduced TZAAR , he stated that it would replace TAMSK in the GIPF project. fine. When you write a review about a GIPF project, feel free not to mention it. Having played TAMSK, I know it deserves a mention every time a GIPF project comes up. That's because TAMSK , a game about balancing the falling sands of time against a rapidly shrinking board, is a great game. Great game. GAME PROCESS The game takes place on the hexagonal black field located between them. Each player has three hourglass timers; one takes the black timers and the other takes the red timers. You will also have 32 white rings.  At the start of each turn, you'll take one of your three hourglasses, flip it over and place it in any available pipe next to where it started. You will then place one of your rings on top of the hourglass where it will fall around the tube that holds the hourglass. As soon as one player places the hourglass in the tube, the next player can move. They don't have to wait for the ring to sweep through the hourglass just played. When a tube has rings equal to its height, that tube is out of play. This means that the outermost trumpets can only be played once, the second "ring" of hexes can be played twice, and so on. For an hourglass timer to remain in play, it must always have sand from the top half to the bottom. If the hourglass runs out of sand at the top, it freezes on the board. The pipe he is standing in is blocked until the end of the game. The game continues until neither player can make any additional moves because their timers have run out of sand or they have no valid moves. Again, the winner is the one with the fewest rings at the end of the game. CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE GAME When the taller pipes are toward the center of the board, the gameplay will naturally move toward the center. However, the outer edges can be good places to quickly drop rings in an attempt to block your opponent's hourglass. (Remember that a frozen hourglass cannot move and therefore will not help you get rid of the rings.) By introducing real-time as a game mechanic, players are forced to quickly assess their hourglass, their position on the board, the position of their opponent's hourglass, the areas where their hourglass can be trapped, and how you can catch one of your opponents. sand clock. All in a fraction of a second. With varying degrees of 3-minute hourglass, there is no time for analysis paralysis in TAMSK.  TAMSK is the only game I play standing up. Too much is happening too fast for me to sit and feel like I can take it all in. It's also the only abstract strategy game that gives me an adrenaline rush. True, this type of game is not for everyone. I once played TAMSK with a friend who, at the end of the game we were playing, said, “I play games to relax and take my time between turns. I never want to play that again." Personally, I will play it when I can. It's a fast-paced game similar to Speed Chess, except you don't hit the timer after making a move—the timers are your playing pieces, and you have to manage them both in time and place. TAMSK was removed as an official game in Project GIPF mainly due to production costs. As a result, it has been out of print for years and is hard to find. However, if an exciting abstract strategy game sounds intriguing, then this Pluto from the GIPF project is worth your time...

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 In this review, I want to talk about an unusual board game. It is unusual for two (even three) reasons: firstly, it is based on a popular computer game (no, no, this is not Civilization), and secondly, this game is an action game. A real action game in a desktop version! And thirdly, the game was successful, which, as you understand, does not always happen in games (or movies) based on well-known franchises. So, meet: Gears of War, or "Six of War"! The board game Gears of War is based on the computer game of the same name, released on PC and consoles in three parts, which has gained considerable popularity. To be honest, I haven't played the original, so I don't even know who the Locasts are and why they fight the humans. Then, you ask, how did I buy it if I'm not a fan of this game on PC? For several reasons: FFG, Corey Konicka, and fancy Artificial Intelligence (AI). The game promised a never-before-seen opponent AI (yes, this is a cooperative game in which one to four people face off against a cardboard dummy), and looking ahead, I will say that the developer managed to fully realize the illusion that you are playing with a fairly intelligent opponent. And all it took was a deck of cards! A very unusual game genre. Although there were games with a similar content before that (Doom, Space Hulk), it was quite a long time ago and each of them had a villain player. So, this is a real tactical shooter! I wonder how Konichka managed to adequately transfer the infernal shooter from the computer to the table and also turn it into a multiplayer? Miracles, and sometimes...  Perhaps, I will tell you about the composition of the box. Since Gears of War was released by FFG, the quality of miniatures and maps should not be mentioned separately - and so it is clear that it is excellent. Although, I will stop a little bit on minky - I have not seen such high-quality ones anywhere on the tables (or so I think). The detailing is excellent, you can see every little thing, and they did not skimp on the size. The artist who painted the miniatures for me noted that it was both easy and difficult to paint them at the same time - precisely because of the excellent detailing, where every jamb was immediately visible. In the tabletop Gears of War, 4 heroes are available, each with their own card, which indicates their starting ammunition (it is slightly different for each fighter) and some unique special ability (more details below). There are a lot of cards in the game - as I already said, the II engine consists entirely of them; also, all orders to fighters are given using maps, all weapons, mission conditions and information about locast monsters are displayed on the maps. Ammunition and grenades are made using tokens, very convenient. The terrain tiles are great, the cardboard is very thick and dense. Some expressed complaints, they say that the small ones are too small, the monsters pile up on them, it's inconvenient, but I didn't notice this during the game - everything is perfectly contained and practical. The tiles are divided into zones, along which the fighters and Locasts walk, very conveniently, there are practically no questions about the range of movement and line of sight (unlike the unforgettable Descent, where the tiles are divided into cells and disputes of this kind arise at every step).  Let's move smoothly to the gameplay. All the missions in "Gears" are varied, it may seem to some that 7 missions are too few for the game, but it is not so. Not only are they all different and use different monsters, but each time the tiles of the terrain will be laid out in a different order, and because of this, the optimal order of passage (if there is one at all) will be different. Each type of monster has its own card, where all the information about them is displayed - how much protection it has, whether it can be cut down by a lancer (ooooo, rifles with chainsaws are not only a feature of "Warhammer"!), how many life points it has, how powerfully it attacks. Some have ranged weapons, some only attack in an area with a fighter. Well, each type of monster has its own special feature, which is activated only if a special sign, popularly known as a "skull", or, using the game's terminology, an "omen", falls on one of the attack cubes. By the way, each weapon in the game not only has 2 alternative modes of fire, but also has its own features that are activated by the "omen". Each fire mode shows how many dice the fighter will roll in an attack, attacking with or without spending an ammo token. The "trick" is that with the consumption of cartridges, the attack is much stronger, but replenishing stores can become a real problem. And if you take into account that with the lack of cartridges, even the "gentle" mode of shooting stops working, you will involuntarily start saving ammunition and sawing more often (especially since some order cards hint).  Now about the Locust AI. Like I said, it's just a deck of two types of cards: 1) monster-specific order cards, and 2) general orders. Due to the fact that the orders are formulated very competently, one gets the impression of an "intelligent" opponent. For example, the order on the Locust map indicates that if the drones (men with rifles) are no more than two zones away from the nearest fighter in line of sight, then they move to him one zone and attack. Otherwise (that is, they are two zones away) - they move two zones to the nearest fighter. In this spirit, almost all the orders are kept, it is very difficult to interpret them. If none of the conditions are met - draw the next card of the order, and so on until the order does not work. The difficulty of the missions varies due to which orders are mixed into the II deck. Monsters appear on the map also in an original way - the tiles are marked with "holes", from which they climb out thanks to the general order cards, and the number and type of Locusts that appear depends on how much a person resists them (the game has excellent scalability , although, of course, the most complete Gears of War opens on the 4th). These holes, by the way, can be sealed with grenades (the goal of the first mission is to seal such a hole), and this is one of the tactics of the game.  And the last type of reaction is "defense". Let's say the preemptive strike didn't work, Cole also missed, and Boomer is already preparing to attack with four cubes. You can discard a card with a "defense" reaction before attacking, and then 2 more is added to your defense dice, which is quite a lot and can save your ass from getting hurt. When wounded, let me remind you, you discard cards from your hand, and if you have nothing left in your hands - you are wounded, and all your actions are limited to crawling one zone in a move; you can be picked up by a friend who is in the same zone as you and spends a card from your hand. Then you go up with zero cards in hand, and take two at the start of your turn. Thanks to all of the above, all this fun with tactics arises. As a rule, there are no less than three reprehensible options for a move, what can we say about unreprehensible ones. By ill-judged, I mean moves that completely ignore the Locust's counter move, or ignore a possible harsh response in the hopes of something. But maybe it doesn't flow here; I witnessed the cruel end of the party move to the 6th - II is sometimes inhumanly insightful and accurate. However, even taking into account "good" moves, you can have unpleasant surprises from a seemingly stupid "cardboard". But it depends to a greater extent on the dice and to a much lesser extent on the issued order cards. You can shamefully miss the Thing with 4 cubes (in the last game I personally saw 5 (!) misses on 5 attack cubes at once), but you can throw away 5 "shields" on 3 defense cubes.  Ah yes, I didn't talk about the combat system. Everything is very simple (it is similar to the game Descent) - there are attack cubes with successful and unsuccessful hits, and there are defense cubes with "shields" and without. Moreover, the defense modifier can change depending on whether a fighter or a Locust is in the shelter or not. Those hits that were not absorbed by the shields are applied. Also, depending on the mission, the tactics of passage also change. Rush to the treasured door to the second level on all pairs, or carefully clean everything and everything, covering each other? By the way, at first, when completely clearing the area and wiping out opponents, be careful. It may seem that it becomes boring to play, because the fighters advance without losses, Locasts are cut out in packs, there is a sea of cartridges ... Suddenly, everything can change, and after a pitiful couple of activations, a couple of fighters will already be crawling under your feet with sobs "don't leave me!" or "run, I'll catch them!" depending on the seriousness of the moment. I note that in a game of 4, getting a couple of fighters to their feet and fighting off the Locusts at the same time is like a feat. Although the situations are different, in one game a soldier blew himself up with a grenade, killing four Locasts (and even managed to stay on his feet, although he was all wounded). Although I talked about the fact that it is most fun to play with four, it is quite a raking composition for three, and for two, and even for one! True, many order cards then stop working, because they are designed for at least two, but I assure you that the game does not lose its charm and fun at all! And yes, an add-on was released for Gears of War, which is a set of maps (more), where there are 2 new missions, new types of monsters and new types of weapons. The new Locasts use base miniatures, replacing their stats. Also, I know that fans make up their fighters, creating their own characteristics.  Summing up, I can't help but note some of the game's shortcomings. Some missions are very long,..