Legendary Encounters: Predator (Review)

After playing several games of Legendary Encounter: Alien I was very excited to get time to sit down with Predator.  The setup for Predator is a little more complicated since there’s really four different games in the box.  There are two games where you play through each of the two movies trying to achieve objectives from the plot.  In game one you have to find and eliminate the rebel camp, then set up a defensive position, and finally “Get to da Choppa”  Game two is the plot of the second movie.  The other two games put you in the same …

Long time no updates

So there has been a long lag between updates here at Gamemeisters.  It’s not that we aren’t doing anything; we are.  It’s just that we don’t have any news to post.  We’ve been playing games and there will be several review posted soon…

Steampunk Rally review

Steampunk Rally is a drafting/dice-rolling and placement/racing game from Roxley games.  The main idea of the game is that you are a turn of the century inventor building a contraption to race other inventors around the Swiss Alps (or on a track in Paris.)  You draft cards to get parts for your machine, dice to power your machine, or cogs to help repair your machine.  You roll dice to see what part of the contraption you can activate.  The contraptions moves along the track.  Finally you check to see how much damage you take. It sounds like a lot of …

The final GenCon shopping results

The exhibit hall at GenCon was a chaotic whirlwind of retail bliss.  We found several new and exciting board games.  The “scores” aka those games that sold out) that we managed to grab up are:  Halo Fleet Wars from Spartan Games, Star Trek 5 Year Mission from Mayfair, Legendary Encounters Predator from Upper Deck.  The one that got away was Mysterium. The final list here is: Halo Fleet Battles Star Trek 5 Year Mission Sheriff of Nottingham Super Dungeon Explore (1st edition and expansions) Munchkin Steampunk Mage Wars Dark Seas Nautilus Medieval Academy Dominion Adventures Takanoko (w/ expansion) 7 Wonders …

What is GenCon

GenCon is a convention in Indianapolis that calls itself “the best four days in gaming”.  The convention center and several of the downtown hotels host hundreds of thousands of people and thousands of events round the clock from Thursday morning to Sunday afternoon.  There are scheduled game sessions for an huge selection of games.  There are tournaments for card games (al la Magic the Gathering)  There are board game events and miniatures games.  An entirely different area is set aside for role play game sessions.  Many of these sessions are pay-to-play.  You purchase tickets for $2 per ticket (these are …

Getting ready for GenCon 2015

This summer we are headed out to Indianapolis for “the best four days in gaming”  In past years we have been there for the weekend.  There’s too much to see and do to fit into just two days.  For Gen Con 2015 we are going all four days.  It should be a wonderful experience and any new games will get posted here.

Libertalia – Review

Libertalia is a pirate game where you use crew members to acquire the most treasure over three weeks (rounds) of play.  Each player draws the same nine cards from their crew deck and selects one crewmember to play.  All the players display their card at once and then the following events take place: The cards are ordred by rank on the board The day effects take place in ascending rank order The dusk effects take place in descending rank order Treasure is taken by players in descending rank order Spanish Officer & Saber treasure effects may take place (if taken …

Machi Koro game

Machi Koro — review

Machi Koro is a card/dice game that sets you up as a mayor of a tiny vIllage. You have a wheat field and a bakery and the townsfolk want you to build four things: a train station, a shopping mall, a radio tower and a theme park. Your one wheat field and bakery aren’t big enough revenue generators to accomplish this so you spend your turns rolling a die (or dice) to see which buildings in your town activate and then you buy a new building. When you generate and/or save enough cash you can build the required building. First …

What is Gen Con?

I decided to start my Gen Con report articles with a “What is Gen Con” first. It is doubtful that one person knows all the conventions, meetings, get-togethers, or other social gatherings related to games, comics, and the like.  Such a person if they exist would doubtful spend all their time reading schedules and programs and calendars and have little time for anything else. Gen Con is a gaming convention in Indianapolis that is held each year in the later part of the summer. Tens of thousands of people go to the convention.  It’s huge.  There are scheduled events where people …