Back again for another game of Aeon’s End Legacy. Join me at the table as I talk on another nameless nemesis in this cooperative, legacy, deck-building game from Indie Board and Cards and have a beer. Will I continue my win streak or will the nemesis get the best of me.

Aeon’s End Legacy

Aeon’s End Legacy, like I said above, is a cooperative deck-building game. Unlike a lot of deck building games, you never actually shuffle your cards in this game, or if you do, it’s as a punishment. Instead as you play down cards and run out of cards to draw you just flip the discard pile and draw from the top. That’s the part of the game that I normally highlight.

But let’s talk about ways that we can win or lose the game. A good cooperative game tends to give you a lot of ways to win lose the game and a few ways to win the game. Aeon’s End actually gives you a few ways to win the game as well. You can lose if the nemesis takes down all the mages or if they take out the city of Gravehold that you’re defending. But as players, you win if you do enough damage to take out the nemesis or you last long enough, keeping yourself and Gravehold alive, so that the nemesis runs out of cards to draw and that are in play.

That is a good design for the game. It is already fairly challenging with the nemesis. Plus having the secondary victory condition of outlasting makes what they can do with the nemesis more interesting. There are some nemesis in the base game and other boxes that have infinite life. You can’t kill them, you can only outlast them.

The Beer

Last nights beer was Mange Cart from Golden Road out in Los Angeles, California. It is a very light beer with mango added to it to give it a nice summery flavor. It’s not one of my favorite beers but for a really hot day it’s very good. And yesterday was a hot one.

In Minnesota where you get temps that range from over 100 once or twice during the summer to -20 for a high maybe during the winter, you drink a variety of beers. Summer I range lighter with IPA, wheat beers, and more tart ales and sours. During the winter, well, I still drink IPA’s but stouts and porters show up more often.

What’s Coming Up

Next Wednesday more Aeon’s End Legacy. Will it be chapter 3 or 4, you’ll have to watch the game to find out.

Plus a new 3 Reasons Buy/Not Buy came out yesterday as I looked at Tainted Grail. And there will be one next week as well, game to be determined.

Nothing next Monday. But the following Monday I’ll plan on covering a topic, find one to have a conversation around. I am not sure what topic yet, so let me know if you have one you want covered.

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