Tag: Board Games

New Red November Board Game Coming from Fantasy Flight

So Red November is this fun little cooperative board game. You and the other players are the crew onboard a gnomish submarine that is floundering and you need to race around to the various compartments putting out fires and performing repairs until help arrives.

Apparently the game was popular enough that Fantasy Flight is coming out with a full-sized version of the game including a much larger board, cards to replace some of the small tokens, and revised and clarified rules. Can’t wait.

 

Shootin’ Ladders: Frag Fest

Shootin’ Ladders: Frag Fest is Smirk and Dagger Games’ take on Chutes and Ladders.

Yep. Form teams and try your hand at Candyman Flag Capture or play a round of Head Hunter where the goal is to take all the other team’s heads before they can nab yours. There is a sniper scenario where it is a whole squad against one cookie, last man standing scenarios and a scenario called Trophy Room where the cookie who collects the most body parts wins. Some scenarios have respawns – but all have body parts flying like never before as you roll as many as 12 dice of damage on opponents with a Gatling Gumdrop or Bigg Redd.

There’s a nice, generally positive review of the game over at BoardGameGeek. The only drawback is the $35-$40 this costs.

Strat-O-Matic Baseball’s 50th Anniversary

As a kid, I was never much of a fan of organized sports. I was, however, a huge fan of sports simulation board games, and the granddaddy of all sports simulation games — Strat-O-Matic Baseball — turns 50 this year.

Maybe I was a weird kid, but the statistics driven gameplay of Strat-O-Matic and its various imitators were always far more captivating to me than the real thing. Even today, you couldn’t pay me to watch an entire Major League Baseball game, but I’ll gladly play baseball sims like Out of the Park for hours.

 

Arkham Horror Toolkit for iPhone/iPod Touch

Fantasy Flight Games has released Arkham Horror Toolkit — an iOS app for Arkham Horror designed to take care of some of the overhead with playing that game,

The app has gotten fairly good reviews, but one of the issues to be cognizant of is that buying the $2.99 app give you the toolkit for managing investigators, locations, etc. for the main game but not for the various expansions.

To enable the expansions in the app, the user has to enable each of the expansions with an in-app purchase. Full blown expansions, such Dunwich Horror, are $1.99, while smaller expansions, such as The King in Yellow, are $.99. Still, if you want to enable all of the expansions, you’re looking at a total cost of $12.92.

Seems kind of steep, but on the other hand I know if they had an Android version of this I’d pay that in a heartbeat.