Gaming and Winning
You probably played Monopoly (check out my top 5 pick on best monopoly editions) many times, without thinking too much into what you are actually doing, just trying to have fun. Perhaps you were more successful than others, perhaps less, or maybe you didn’t even care as long it was good time spent with friends. […]
Players: 1-5 Playing time: about two hours Ages: 14 and up Skill factor: complex Luck factor: minimum My score: 9.5/10 Buy scythe board game Welcome to Diesel-Punk 1920s Eastern Europe What is Scythe the board game (not the agricultural tool 🙂 )? Game is set in an alternate reality Eastern Europe, just after The Great […]
Aah, Monopoly. One of the oldest and most popular board games. It was first published in 1935 and after 84 years it’s still going strong. Although it involves a die and a very high luck factor, the true skills (read about luck and skill in board games here) lay in the money management and negotiation. […]
Today I’m doing a little follow up on two of my previous article, the one about Introduction to Carcassonne and the review on AsoBrain: Xplorers. First part of the article will be about Carcassonne with expansions, specifically first two expansions; and the second part will be about how the Carcassonne gameplay is executed online on […]
Introduction to AsoBrain.com About ten years ago I was playing Catan regularly online on AsoBrain. After that, some other things in life took over and I played less and less until I eventually forgot about it and stopped completely. It wasn’t until recently that I remembered about games on AsoBrain.com (although it took me a […]
Cities and Knights is an expansion for Settlers of Catan, released in 1998. It shifts the gameplay of Catan into a more of a city developing game with elements of fighting barbarians and a deeper element of interaction with other players. New game mechanics are introduced giving players more options when playing. Let’s see what […]
I. Introducing Seafarers Seafarers were released in 1997 and are the first official expansion for Settlers Of Catan. The expansion was originally designed together with the base game, but it was later decided to separate the two in order to keep the base game more accessible. Settlers of Catan: Seafarers expansion revolves around sea travel, […]
I am a very competitive person by nature. Whenever I get into a game, I strive to win. But how to win at Catan? There are many strategy guides online, but most of them are way too long and in-depth theoretical for a casual player to read. Ain’t nobody got time for that, right? 🙂 […]
I’ve always been fascinated by maps. As a kid, I would browse the world atlas just for fun, checking out the layouts of cities and the countryside and cursing the authors for not selecting more city maps or enlarge certain parts of the map that I was more interested in. With the arrival of high-speed […]
I have been browsing the internet in the last couple of days, trying to find a site where to play Settlers of Catan online for free. I was quite particular in my search. The following criteria was important: – It does not have to originally licensed. – Easy pick up and play. The site would […]