Next week, at the Essen Spiel ’12, Lords of Middle-earth will finally be in your hands, after one year in the making. So it’s finally time to complete this long series, which kept us busy in the wait, and provided you with some insight about what happened during the design, development, and testing (often intertwined!) of this expansion. Even with such a long series, it proved …
Roberto Di Meglio, director of production of Ares Games, speaks about Aztlán, the new game by Leo Colovini that will be released at the Essen “Spiel 2012”. This fourth and last article is about the 2-players variant, Aztec Gods. As the full Aztlán rules are already available, I will skip talking about game strategies, as you can already read our tips in the rulebook. As a …
Roberto Di Meglio, director of production of Ares Games, speaks about Aztlán, the new game by Leo Colovini that will be released at the Essen “Spiel 2012”. This third article is focused on the gameplay. As befits a Colovini’s game, the rules of Aztlán are deceptively simple. The rulebook is 12 pages long, but that includes the cover, the explanation of components, a page of strategy …
Strider is definitely one of the most important characters in War of the Ring. In the Fellowship, he opens the way to one of the “extreme” strategies that the Free Peoples player may use, the “Strider Sprint”, which uses his power as a Guide (hiding the Fellowship with any die) to get the Ringbearer to move towards Mordor using almost all the Action Dice available. At …
Roberto Di Meglio, director of production of Ares Games, speaks about Aztlán, the new game by Leo Colovini that will be released at the Essen “Spiel 2012”. This second article is focused on how the game works. Aztlán may be considered a very peculiar “hybrid” between a wargame and an Euro game. It shares the design philosophy of the previous games by Leo Colovini: simple mechanics, …
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