It didn’t take long, mainly because of Marvel Champions, but there was also a few other things that I grabbed. Now, before you go thinking I just buy board games and never play them, they day that I picked up one of them I played it as well. I’ll tell you which one that was coming up here shortly.

Adventure Land

This is one that has been on my radar for a long time. Tom Vasel of the Dice Tower is a fan of this game, but it’s gone under the radar otherwise. The concept of Adventure Land is just intriguing to me because it sounds simple, but the decisions seem meaningful. On your turn you move one of your adventurers down and to the right, to the right, or down, and you are picking up treasure. But the trick is you can never move one back up or to the left. So how do you balance out the movement of a number of adventurers to maximize your points? I think it’ll be a fun game, and I really do think there is a lot of interesting space to strategy in the game.

Marvel Champions – Quicksilver

The latest release in the Marvel Champions line, and of course I was going to run out and pick it up right away. I’m more waiting for the Scarlet Witch to come out which was supposed to be this month but looks like it’ll be in March now. Still, I’m going to be curious to see how they mimic super speed for Quicksilver. They’ve done a good job of surprising me and making other powers work really well. I’m hoping that he’ll be fun to play as well.

Space Base

Space Base has been on my radar for a while. It’s been described as kind of a Machi Koro killer for a lot of gamers. From what I know about it, the game is more complex, though not by a ton than Machi Koro which was really very introductory. I actually got rid of Machi Koro over a year ago, because for an engine building game, it was going to be the first one I pulled off the shelf. To teach engine building I’d use Splendor or Century Golem Edition. If Space Base does have more going on in it, then I’m hoping it’ll be a nice game that feels similar to Machi Koro but that I can pull out after I’ve taught engine building. I’m not sure which theme is more attractive to players, though, building a town or building a space base.

Deadly Doodles 2

Technically this is an expansion. You need the base game to play it. And I got the base game not too long ago, in fact I believe that was when I picked up The Wasp at my FLGS that I grabbed Deadly Doodles as well. So apparently I grab roll and writes when I get Marvel Champions content as well. This is the one that I sat down and played the day that I got it. This expansion just adds more to the game. So in the base game you are just going in, grabbing treasures and weapons and fighting monsters. It’s very simple, the expansion adds in 6 new map boards. The first map doesn’t really add much to what’s going on, but the other maps add more and more to the game so what was a very simple flip and write (or draw and draw as they called it), not becomes more of a complex game. I like how you can tailor the level of the game to the players of the game just with that. I’ve barely started on the content, but I can see there’ll be a lot more, now the only question is do I fit everything in one box, I’m thinking the answer to that will be yes.

Which of these games seem the most interesting to you? I have you played any of them before?

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