Battle Cattle Third Edition, with cover art by the same Colin Adams you see rockin’ it up in the corner every day here in the Cave, is now shipping to your game store, and orderable directly from Wingnut if you accidentally blew up your game store. Now that I’ve played
Category: Board Games
Rio Grande Games Expands Puerto Rico Free of Charge
Rio Grande Games has just released a new expansion for Puerto Rico, their board game of construction in the New World. The expansion, which adds a number of new buildings to the game, can be downloaded for free from Rio Grande’s website.
Cookie Fu attacks dice game market
Dice games can either be great fun (like Diceland) or uninspired. Or worse yet, collapse under their own weight, like the collectible dice games Dragon Dice and Dice Master. Entering this treacherous arena is new company Blue Kabuto with Cookie Fu!, “the collectible dice game of Kung Fu combat.” Here’s
Fantasy Flight narrowly avoids fixing Vortex
Although the Vortex product page says September, the rants page says next week or so. That’s when you might see Vortex: Maelstrom, a complete set of all the starter and common flats from collectible tile game Vortex, which, when we reviewed it way back when, we said we would have
Monstrous freebies at Firefly Games
While we wait for Escape from Monster Island to come forth and crush us, Firefly Games continues cranking out support for the original Monster Island. The Official Errata File is up and running, to keep those rules questions from turning into brawls. Also available for download is Monster Island’s first
Wingnut forums launched
Wingnut Games has launched new forums to discuss their games, see previews of upcoming products, and generally run amuck. Get over there and start harassing Aldo. He likes it.
Reasons to Learn Italian Revisited
I just received a copy of Roberto Convenevole and Francesco Bottone’s La Storia di Risiko, a recently-published Italian book detailing the history of Risk. Sadly, the majority of the book is in Italian, a language that I cannot read, but the book does include English rules for a new variant
Battle Cattle goodies available soon
Wingnut Games has informed us that Battle Cattle: Third Edition is at the printers and will arrive in retail stores everywhere in time for Christmas. OgreCave’s own Colin Adams did the cover art, so buy it many, many times. The game of cattle combat simply wouldn’t be complete without cow
Gnome Tribes Playtest Report
So a few weeks ago these two games from Tilsit show up at the store. Most of the Tilsit games I’ve seen are longish strategy games, up to 5 hours in average play time, and many of them hue pretty closely to the conquest mold: you have a big map
RollerCoaster Tycoon Board Game Playtest Report
It was like seeing God in the Toys R Us. I was just there to kill some time looking at Legos, and really, honestly did not expect to be looking in the games aisle. And there it was. The video game that devoured so very many neurons during the late
Jeseret Marches to the Beat of Multiple Drummers
Just who is Jeseret Games? Well, it’s a british company that was in the back right corner of the GenCon exhibit hall showing off Magical Arena. The game pits CCG players against wargamers in both skirmish miniatures and card game formats, simultaneously. Of course, the cards and minis can play
Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation Playtest Report
I got to play this two-player Knizia game (not to be confused with the Sauron expansion to the multiplayer LOTR game) once right after Origins, before it really hit stores, and then extensively last week. It is, right now, my favorite two-player strategy board game. It’s like Stratego for smart
New Releases Slowly Lurching Forth at Pagan
I gave Pagan Publishing a hard time about the continually-upcoming The Hills Rise Wild supplement, The Reanimated. According to Pagan, the set is ready, entirely done, but stock market changes have… delayed funding. The current estimate is to release the set by Christmas, unless someone with cash to spare wants
Steve Jackson Announces November Releases
Steve Jackson Games has announced a whole new slew of releases for November. Included in this schedule: Chez Greek: a fraternity / sorority version of the popular Chez Geek card game, this will be packed with activities such as parties and panty raids. GURPS Assassins: Now this is more my
That’s What I’m Talking About
Phil mailed to let me know that he’s done more than name-check Epic Duels. Hot damn!