Space Cadets is a belter of a concept. Who doesn’t want to zoom round the galaxy in a spaceship with your friends, tractor beaming space crystals and firing torpedos at all and sundry?
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Friday Tea Break: Games Workshop history time, big screen Settlers and a Heroclix primer
Happy Friday everyone! What a mix of treats for you this afternoon as you sup your cuppa and munch on a Hobnob biscuit. While you’re there, I’d just like to say thank you so much for visiting – The Boarding Kennel got its most visitors ever this week, and every day saw more users than the last. Which is a lovely thing. I’ve got loads of things planned for the site, including some most likely hideously amateurish video of me and my friends playing some of our favourite games. Continue reading
Game News: Tesla vs. Edison: War of Currents
Too many colons in that headline, you’re right, but it’s probably fitting given that Thomas Edison was completely full of shit. After hiring Tesla to fix efficiency problems with his direct current electricity generators in the late 1880s – and offering him $50,000 to boot – Edison famously ducked out of the deal when Tesla cracked it several months later, telling him he obviously didn’t understand American humour.
Kickstarter: Fujian Trader
We’ve all been there. One minute you’re idly glancing over a 17th Century map of East Asia in Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, the next you’ve spotted some faint lines which mark it out as the oldest Chinese maritime merchant map still in existence. Hurrah! But what to do with such a find to capture the attention of people around the world? Step forward discoverer Robert Bachelor, a British History professor, who knew exactly what – he’s only turned it into an effing board game.
Kickstarter: Hitman Holiday
Hello! And welcome to the new dawn of The Boarding Kennel, which after several months of hibernation has uncurled its hairy little body, wiped the sleepy-dust from its eyes and begun taking some tentative steps out of the burrow in the hunt for sustenance. Board games! It eats board games. It’s an expensive and complicated diet, but not nearly as complicated as this analogy is becoming.
Kickstarter: The Resistance – Hostile Intent & Hidden Agenda
Summer is the WORST weather for spies thanks to all that dark-coloured clothing, although they do get to skulk in cooling shadows and hang out on one-man submersibles I guess so perhaps I’ve overstated the issue. Future spies definitely have a bad time of it though, with global warming having gone crackers and the authoritarian world government inevitably pushing their hours up at the same time as cutting holidays and taking away the free teabags.
Review: Pandemic
“CAN YOU SAVE HUMANITY?” demands the front cover of Zman Games’ hugely popular Pandemic, which casts you and your friends as scientists, disease experts and various other clever bods teaming up to stop a string of deadly viruses melting the world’s population into grisly pools of gloop. The gentle way the eerie, translucent disease cubes start to spread across the board might initially lead you to think you’ll nail this medical emergency lark at the first attempt. You would be wrong.
Gaming update: Transamerica, Citadels, Discworld: Ankh Morpork and more
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana as they say, and just like that it’s been four weeks since my last full review. Have I been neglecting games, I hear you cry? Not a bit of it my friends, for my recent gaming has been a rich and filling platter, a veritable Smorgasbord of things lapped up and tasted, rolled around the mouth and washed down with fine wines (cheap beers). Continue reading
Review: The Resistance
Five people eye each other suspiciously around a table. Three are underground resistance fighters plotting to bring down a corrupt government. Two are spies, known to each other through a secret code passed between them at the start of the meeting. The regime must be brought to its knees, but how can the freedom fighters prevent a spy sabotaging their missions? This is the mind-melting crux of The Resistance, and it has taught my group of friends one valuable truth – I am comfortably the worst spy in the entire world.
Review: A Game of Thrones – The Board Game
Night night my little princeling, don’t let the snarks and grumpkins bite. What? Well it’s a little late for a story lad, but if it’ll help you settle I suppose a few minutes can’t hurt. Pull your covers tight and let me tell you a tale of treachery and deceit, of friendships crushed and a rulebook so long and complicated it rivals the histories of the great houses themselves…