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Samueljhague (1250 KP) rated The Castles of Burgundy in Tabletop Games

Mar 23, 2022  
The Castles of Burgundy
The Castles of Burgundy
2011 | Dice Game, Medieval, Territory Building
9
8.0 (11 Ratings)
Tabletop Game Rating
Puzzle of a game Building area Multi-player Solitaire Dice maipulation Iconography makes sense (0 more)
Components are decent, not compelling Higher learning curve. (0 more)
Building a better board game.
The Castles of Burgundy looks like a typical Euro- board game from the early 2000's it looks boring. It also looks more complicated than it ends up being. The amount of brain power use in this game has a good balance between cerebral and mindless. At the end of the game you have something in front of you that you have built and it feels good in that respect even if you haven't won the game. It can be played casually, and with your full attention. My wife and I enjoy playing this as two players. We have played this many times more as a two player game than any other game in our collection. This game gets top marks, and is as close to a perfect game as I have experienced.
  
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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) rated Nations in Tabletop Games

Mar 8, 2018  
Nations
Nations
2013 | Card Game, Civilization, Economic
8
7.5 (4 Ratings)
Tabletop Game Rating
As you can see from my reviews, the older I get, the more I appreciate quick, loud, light games. Nations isn’t any of those – this is a tried-and-true brain-burner on the longish side of things. I’ve tried many of those games and hated them (Agricola, Village, Trajan, ….) The difference here, as well as in hits like Eclipse and Castles of Burgundy, is that the rules are so simple and streamlined that you feel like you are not doing homework. In those other games, wrapping my head around playing the game was too much of a struggle to feel like it was enjoyable. Here, the game really just comes down to buying a bunch of cards from a row and then placing guys on them. The iconography and gameplay is so intuitive (and fitting with the theme) that I could easily begin to think about how to outmaneuver my opponents, even in the first game. Several days after my last play, I’m still eagerly thinking about the game, and that’s high praise.

Orignal Rating: 4/5
Reviewer: Derek Thompson
Read the Full review here: http://meepletown.com/2014/02/review-nations/