My Vampire Maker Mikko - Part 4 (Vampire Series)

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In May, whites need to control all five to win, otherwise the reds will win. Thus, the reds need to perform better than they did in actual history in order to win the game. The game is a card-driven war game, which means that both sides have a deck of cards used to control the action. Each card can be used as an action or as points.

Points are used to activate troops: They can move freely as far as their movement points allow, and then may fight. Cards used for points are discarded. Each month is a hand of eight cards except January, which is only three cards , all of which are played. After the month is done, supply is checked, players get reinforcements and the cards from the next month and the discarded cards are shuffled into the deck, so new historical events are introduced as the game goes on.

Some events are scripted: Each player totals the combat values of all units involved, attacker may combine units from multiple cities to attack at once.

Both roll one six-sided die and check the combat results table to see how many hits are inflicted. Defender takes hits first. Units are first flipped to half strength, then removed.

All in all the game is fairly straightforward to play, but offers many interesting possibilities. There are also fortifications, but those have a really minor role. The biggest factor is geography and the transportation: The better general will win most of the time, no doubt about that, but the battles are fought using a single d6 roll. That means there are huge differences in the outcome, depending on whether you roll 1 or 6.

The cards are full of historical flavour and individual commanders. The game guides you to follow historical structures, but allows you freedom to fight the war the way you want to. This is a war game where all gains are taken from your opponent. This is a pure two-player game; playing this solo requires some selective amnesia, but is not impossible. This game has fairly straightforward rules.

The replay value is the biggest question here.

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The map is small and quite strongly limited by the railroad networks. Will it start to feel repetitive after a while? The centennary of the Finnish Civil War produced a bunch of games about the war.

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This is a great example, a good entry-level war game about an interesting conflict. Brother Against Brother a keeper for me? Would I recommend it to others?

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On the scale of Enthusiastic , Suggest , Indifferent or Avoid , The situation in March. The reds have fortified the Tampere area with armored trains, blocking the white army advances. My copy is on loan from the Finnish publisher Lautapelit. The tiles are yellow, as fits the African savannah theme. The tiles are slightly busy with animal icons and other detail, so the meeples are slightly smaller than usual.

Paths and bushes replace the roads and cities of standard Carcassonne. There are no farmers, and the cloisters are replaced by baobab trees. So far everything is as expected. The scoring is different, though. First animal scores 1 point, the second 2 points and so on, so you get the standard 1, 3, 6, 10, 15 scoring scheme.

Bushes also have birds, which always count as one extra point each, making the bushes more valuable than the paths. Baobab trees do not score any points. Instead when you place a meeple to rest under a tree, you get two animal tiles. Then when the tree is surrounded by tiles, the meeple returns and you get two animal tiles more.

Animal tiles can be used to boost the scoring. There are also park rangers, two car meeples, which are placed somewhere on the perimeter of the tiles. If you place a tile on the ranger, you score three points and get to place the car somewhere else.

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The first is to move one of the cars. The second is to start or extend a watering hole. Remember how I said the animal tiles are circle quadrants? A watering hole is formed of four animal tiles placed in corners of four tiles, so that a full circle is formed. The player who starts it, owns the watering hole, but everybody can add to it, no matter where it is, and each new animal scores more points. The fourth animal completes the watering hole and the owner gets the meeple back with some bonus points.

In the end of the game, unfinished paths and bushes score one point per animal, no matter which animal it is, and each animal tile is worth one point. As usual with Carcassonne , the game may seem lucky, with the random draws of tiles and all, but a skilled player will win most of the games.

You can rely on luck, or you can know the tile distribution by heart or from the reference sheet and know your chances.

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This is no simulation, but at least the savannah theme looks nice and makes some sense — after all, if you go on a safari, you do want to see as many different animals as possible. Once you get the hang of how the meeples are placed and scored, the rest is easy. Trying to keep a good inventory of animal tiles and balancing building watering holes and boosting scorings is an interesting challenge.

The twists in the scoring are interesting and the game looks nice. The game is currently in Kickstarter and will be published by Snowdale Design in I got a preview copy on loan from Sami for a moment. I have backed the game with my own money. The game was published by Blue Orange in My copy is a review copy from the Finnish publisher Lautapelit. A combination of memory and reaction speed, Who Did It? The game was published by Lookout in Petersburg would lose in the Western Conference final after a point regular season. Thus far in the NHL however, Koskinen appears to play deep in his net.

A goalie has to be athletic to make saves. Then there is the puck-handling aspect. In the KHL there is no trapezoid, and far less forechecking. Bigger ice means more time to corral a shoot-in, so KHL goalies have more time, whereas here you have to be able to skate to get behind the net fast enough to cut off a shoot-in.

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