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Guild Academies of Valeria: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Engine Builder, Action Drafting,  Tile Placement, Dice Worker Placement, Dice Drafting Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  1 - 4 Players Time to Play:  90 - 120  Minutes  Game Designer:  Stan Kordonskiy Game Artist:  Mihajlo Dimitrievski Publisher : Daily Magic Games Year Published:  2023 BGG Weight:  3.00 Rundown: Once again we enter the whimsical world of Valeria but this time there's no monsters to focus on. Instead players are passing down the information they have learned to the next generation. Players will be drafting students (represented by dice), professors, and classrooms in order to educate the next generation of valerian residents. This is done until the students graduate (by gaining knowledge after value six) and go on quests of their own. The game is broken up into four rounds and each round will contain four phases; recruitment, education, questing and res...

Castellans: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Engine Builder, Dice Drafting, Area Control Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  1 - 5 Players Time to Play:  60 - 120  Minutes  Game Designer:  Isaias Vallejo Game Artist:  Mihajlo Dimitrievski Publisher : Daily Magic Games Year Published:  2024 BGG Weight:  3.00 Rundown: Valeria games are mastering the mechanism of dice drafting on a larger scale. Castellans of Valeria is a new twist on this dice drafting system that heavily focuses on controlling areas and scoring big by having the majority in the districts, the wharf and influence over the guilds.  Each round, three of the districts will score 6, 4 and 2 points for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, respectively. The scoring districts will change throughout the rounds, culminating in all of the districts being scored for the last round.  As a general rule, each token of your colour in a district will give you one point towards controlli...

Siege of Valeria: SOLO Review Information: Mechanics:  Engine Builder, Dice Rolling, Hand Management  Player Age:  8+ Player Count:  1 Player Time to Play:  30 - 45  Minutes  Game Designer:  Glenn Flaherty Game Artist:  Mihajlo Dimitrievski Publisher : Daily Magic Games Year Published:  2022 BGG Weight:  1.88 Spiel: Siege of Valeria is a strictly solo tower defence game where the goal is to destroy 13 siege engines before either one of the turrets is destroyed, the enemy deck runs out, or a siege engine passes through your defence. To do this players will use the abilities of their fallen enemies, as well as the strength and magic from their dice to defeat the opposition, particularly the sieges. Other Elements: Champions: Each siege will attack numerous times before they reach your vanguard (front row of the enemies). This creates challenges that also brings a very large benefit, whenever a siege is defeated they will allow you to ...