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Biathlon Blast: Rapid Review

Biathlon Blast: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Hand Builder, Race, Hand Management, Resource Management (Pulse) Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  2  - 6  Players Time to Play:  45  Minutes  Game Designer:   Lars Max Jensen, Carl Tenland Game Artist:   Damien Mammoliti, Alex Tantraz [OuKinoSama] Publisher : CarlMax Year Published:  2025 BGG Weight:  2.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: Sports are slowly becoming a more prominent theme in boardgames. Biathlon Blast uses an interesting winter sport that has contestants both skiing and rifle shooting in a race testing endurance and precision. In terms of the tabletop, this means that players are racing over the course of three laps while monitoring their pulse, timing the wind, planning the right movement and shooting at the target range. This is all with the goal to be the first player across the finish lin...

Dwar7s: The Lost Tribes - Review

Dwar7s: The Lost Tribes - Review Mechanics:  Assymetrical, Hand Builder, Cooperative, Action Points, Hand Management Player Age :  13+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:    45 - 60  Minutes  Game Artist & Designer:   Luís Brueh Year Published:  2022 Publisher: Vesuvius Media BGG Weight : 3.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introductions: Dwar7s: The Lost Tribe s is a unique expansion as it contains expansion material for all three released Dwar7s games. This comes in the form of three asymmetrical tribes. As I only have Dwar7s Winter , I will be focusing this review on the expansion for Dwar7s Winter . Tribes: There are three tribes that create asymmetrical characters for all released Draw7s games. In Dwar7s Winter, they add unique starting cards and legendary class characters that can be created by playing this card and spending two gold, swapping out any one generic cha...

Dwar7s Winter: Rapid Review

Dwar7s Winter: Rapid Review Mechanics:  Assymetrical, Hand Builder, Cooperative, Action Points, Hand Management Player Age :  12+  Player Count:  1 - 4  Players Time to Play:    30 - 45  Minutes  Game Artist & Designer:   Luís Brueh Year Published:  2018 Publisher:  Vesuvius Media BGG Weight : 2.64 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: Dwar7s Winter is a tower defence cooperative game that has players trying to survive the whole Winter, this will be 7 weeks (rounds). Players are doing this by hand building, following the other players shanties, and deploying/moving their dwarves into battle. Each week there are four phases; Enemy Invasion, Preparation, Actions and Resolution. The Enemy Invasion has the monsters moving and attacking, followed by spawning and revealing a new disaster. Note that there will always be monsters equal to the player count plus one). The Preperation has...