A giant gelatinous alien is attacking our town! And I guess we have to defend it by collecting samples of the creature? 😊 Attack of the Jelly Monster is 3-5 player game where each of the players tries to collect as much jelly as he can by throwing dice. Main mechanics of the game are dice rolling and worker placement, but all of this is happening simultaneously with all players in real time!!! The game is played in four rounds. In each round all players simultaneously repeat rolling all of their (remaining) dice and then either placing or not placing a die to a district. When placing a die you may immediately resolve its effect (discarding any die in district to center or move a slider one space). After any one player places his last die he may flip the hourglass and/or lock a district. When the hourglass runs out the round ends and the scoring happens. Multiples of the same color on same district are ignored, then you compare dice totals for each district and playe...
Wasteland express delivery service comes in what you would call a big box, not a standard boardgame big box but almost twice as thick. When picking it up you can immediately notice it's weight and that there is not a lot of air in this box… so… let's open it up 😊 When you first open it you see rules, and underneath them is a fat stack of cardboard and a lot of plastic inserts, and since the box is really not oversized the inserts aren’t empty even at this point. Just seeing these inserts makes your inner OCD jump up in joy. Opening the cardboard stack you see 14 good quality punch out boards. As I said not all the inserts are empty inside one of them are two stacks of cards and one polybag of playing dice, inside another is a small bunch of plastic minnies. Cards when opened are a bit thin for my taste, I personally prefer MTG card thickness, and this is more on the lines of Legendary. The dice are beautifully carved and are a bit on the edgy side, but ...
Disclaimer: Since this game is on my wish-list for more than 2 years now, this review will be filled with my personal views, emotions and thoughts. Part one: the story Edge of Darkness is a new game from AEG that we "just recently"(a year ago) kickstarted. We first heard of it from a "sellsheet" on the end page of Mystic Vale rules and were instantly drawn. We loved Mystic Vale, and I personally adored the Card Crafting System as they call it or "Cardbuilder" mechanics as I call it. Combining this system into a more complex game and embedded in a theme that involves fight, count me in!!! So needless to mention when it came on kickstarter we were all in and already hyped for a fair amount of time. We decided to take the GUILDMASTER pledge that allows us to have all the stretch goals, but not to take any add-on's as we knew it would be a fairly big game and thought we will see the game first before we decide if we want expansions for it. ...
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