Designer: Satochika Daimon (大門 聖史)
Artist: Cossack
Publisher: Grandoor Games
Players: 2
Ages: 14+
Times Played: 3
Strategist Strategy was not likely to be a game for me and a two-player only tactical skirmish game was unlikely to hit the table. But one of the things I realized at BGGCON this past year was that I didn’t pack enough two-player games for the occasional convention intermezzo. As I headed to Granite Game Summit recently, I made sure to bring this one along (and also Small Indigo Plant, though that one was so small I forgot I had brought it while I was there!)
Besides, there’s a chance it’s for me. Somewhere inside I have an attraction to such games. It’s the part of me that enjoyed Battlelore that one time and used to own Commands & Colors: Napoleonics. It’s the part of me that remembers that game of Combat Commander as the gaming highlight of the time I went to HeavyCon.
It also has programming. Shenanigans programming? Well, that was my interpretation of the rules. If I plan a card now, that isn’t going to execute for 4 turns…things will…change in the meantime. That will be funny, yes? I do have a penchant for programming games where things spin out of control.
So anyway, I gave it a shot.
Brandon Kempf – Surviving the Purge 18
Over the next few months, instead of going with my Three Games articles, I am going to take a look at my collection and try to discuss why certain titles survived the great purge of 2019. During this process I may take a look at some games that didn’t survive, but only as a measuring stick for what did survive. Since I am silly, like a lot of gamers, I use Ikea Kallax shelves to display the games that we own. This makes it pretty easy to break things down cube by cube, so that’s what we’re going to do, twenty-four cubes, plus a top shelf for games that don’t fit in the cubes, over the course of a few months. I hope you enjoy!
If you are a BoardGameGeek user, you can also follow along on the Geeklist I created.
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