Review #43

Catan Family Edition By Klaus Teuber – Art By Oliver Freudenreich – Published By Mayfair Games
The Island of Catan lies before your intrepid explorers. Your journey to settle Catan begins with 2 small buildings and ends when you become the most prolific master of Catan. Guide your brave settlers to victory by using clever trading and shrewd development. Use resources—grain, wool, ore, lumber, and brick—to build roads, settlements, cities and key cultural milestones. Trade, Build, Settle – But beware the robber! 
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Catan Family Edition, …

“Topics Are Lame!”

 
Welcome back for our sixth episode of Wooden Cubes & Iron Soldiers!
In this episode we forgo a main topic and talk a bit more in depth about a few games, including 1989: Dawn of Freedom, Wings of War, Vinhos, Power Grid: First Sparks, Lords of Waterdeep, Titans of Industry, Tammany Hall, Ogre, and finally Car Wars!
As before here is the list of games we cover:
1989: Dawn of Freedom, Twilight Struggle, Labyrinth: The War on Terror, Free At Last, Wings of War, Wings of Glory, Star Wars: X-Wing, Carnevale, Warhammer, War Machine, Vinhos, …

Welcome back for our fifth episode of Wooden Cubes & Iron Soldiers!

In this episode we discuss a ton of games, specifically those that we dislike. We decided to break it into three sub-categories:

Games we hate, but are pretty sure everyone does too.

Games we used to love, but now hate.

Games we hate that everyone else seems to like.

In this month’s giveaway, one hundred and twenty-three folks entered to win a copy of Settlers of Catan. Be sure to keep an eye out for future giveaways, as well as upcoming board game reviews and tutorials.

Sadly, there can only be one!

On behalf of 2D6.org and Myriad Games, congratulations to this month’s winner and a big thanks to those of you that participated in this month’s giveaway.

Each month, Myriad Games and 2D6.org team up to give away great games.

For this month’s giveaway, we’ve decided go with a classic game that tends to entice both veterans and new gamers alike. The game that I’m referring to is of course, Settlers of Catan!

Whether you’re ambition is to add a classic game to your swelling collection, or to give your winnings to a friend, we encourage you to enter to win this month’s giveaway.