It looks nice, I'll give 'em that. And it's over pretty quickly. But it's kind of like driving from Barstow to Needles - no matter how fast you do it, there's not much to see along on the way.

I could go on about this game. The worst thing about it is that it isn't the worst thing to play. It's the logical conclusion in the evolution of Eurogaming. Throw a bunch of worn to the nub mechanics together in an organized, processional fashion. Make sure nothing's broken, and voila - game. Just because it's not all bad, folks might think it's fun.

Devoid of inspiration and ultimately a total snoozer.

Quick rules: 1) Move one space. 2) Fight zombie by flipping coin. If heads, you die and start over at #1. If tails, you live. Go to #1.

Not particularly impressed after playing a single hand. Rummy is Rummy, and all the weird kinks this game puts into it doesn't really make it better after all the unintuitive complexity it adds on. A particular disappointment for me was the complete detachment of theme and mechanisms. The game tries really hard to be themed, but fails at it because the gameplay is completely abstract. It's like watching a whore going over the top with a schoolgirl outfit for Halloween.

I do like the idea of 2 mini-games within the game though, and balancing which objective to go for. Seems to me that in more traditional forms of Rummy, one person is lucky and the other person isn't. At least the unlucky person has something else to aim for besides minimizing point losses in hand.

You haven't played Dancing Eggs correctly until you've seen two grown women wrestling over a rubber egg on your living room floor.

Newbie to the game, bought the Valley Games reprint.

This is a great game - lots of difficult choices to make. The learning curve for the rules isn't too bad if you're used to wargame-type rules layouts, and I suspect it's shorter than the learning curve for strategy.Although it's styled as being a wargame, at its heart, this is really an area-control game, pre-empting by some years the popularity of that game mechanic in eurogames. Yes, there are wargame elements that you don't typically see in a euro, but these are simplified relative to the norm for wargames. The dropping of a few elements here and there, and this wouldn't look too different from some of the more advanced euro-fare out there.The renewed availability of this game, and the wider forum offered by BGG compared to what was available when the game was first published, should produce some interesting cross-polination with other euro mechanics and I look forward to seeing HRVC feeding the development of some more sophisticated and engaging euros in years to come.

Simple, fast, brutal. Loved it.

Its a cheap game from Tanga. Its not a bad for what it is--a cheap game from Tanga.

The best version of them all!

Note: This rating assumes play involves dropping acid and jiggling the box cover in front of your face.

This isn't a game. I've never seen it, nor do I believe it exists. It's actually a huge prank, who's sole purpose is to expose just how pathetic some of the people on this site are. The hissy-fit/Nerd Rage that has come from this game is staggering in it's intensity and hilarious is it's complete irrelevance. I never knew how many fat middle aged losers who got pantsed in gym class this site had.

Well played gentleman, I didn't think my opinion of this community could get any lower.

Well worth the $8. A great idea--cheap, simple quick playing wargame with 4 pages of rules, counters, and a page-sized mapboard. The rules are pretty familiar if you've played a tactical level wargame before; I don't play wargames very much, but I recognized a lot of the ideas from the ones I have played. The scenarios take about an hour-including the normal line of sight discussions/arguments. As an additional bonus, the publisher has additional scenarios and maps for free on their website.

I really like BattleLore even if it has a higher luck factor than I can usually tolerate. I love the theme and I love the lighthearted feel of the artwork.

The tiered rules and scenarios make this game easy to introduce to new players. The game system is obviously designed with expandability in mind and is easily adaptable to your thematic tastes and desired complexity level.

However, sometimes the resolution of a game comes down to a single dice throw without a realistic backdrop. You just try to kill a straggling unit to win even if it would create a situation where you would be destroyed if the game would continue. This really makes me miss having alternate objectives or campaign gameplay.

It's time BattleLore got the expansion to bring it to the next level! Maybe the upcoming Heroes expansion will be the one?

Interesting idea for a space trading game which suffers from horrible downtime issues endemic to the game system. The progression of products tries a little too hard to be funny at the cost of reducing how intuitive the production graph is. Looks like it was put together from clip art. I'd rather remove my own nipples with an industrial sander than play again.

Boy, does this game suck.

The flow of play is irritating and most of the time is spent arguing which phase of the turn it is. There are plenty of cards that contradict each other with no way of knowing which rule is to be applied. A lot of cards pass the bomb to another player, which can lead to the bomb being in the other half of the table for several turns. The scoring seems off; ideally you want to collect mechanisms (for gold) and yet die in the explosion (to get 4 cards instead of 1).
And finally, it is much too long - after an hour, one player had 5 gold of the needed 10 to finish the game.

May 2009: I was eyeing this one for one year and a half, but it was always delayed... I had totally forgotten about it until I was looking for a short 2p game. I bought it right then after reading its only review, looks like a game I'd appreciate.

June 2009: This one is a winner, both my gf and I LOVE this game. After 6 plays, we are still discovering and trying very hard to see how to play, as it is very counterintuitive. The game is very short, 15 min top), the cards are beautiful.
The only problem is that there is a lot of counting (perhaps even more than in Lost Cities as at each turn, you must count, how much all your nobles are worth, how much your opponent's nobles are worth + the total value of the alliance you want to defeat + the value of your conspiracy + 2 or 3 times these latter so you find where exactly you want to play... Well most of the time you do it by feel but I think with some players they'll be counting and calculating a LOT), but that doesn't bother me and nor does it bother my gf. Moreover, she is usually very prone to AP and I was afraid here she would spend her time calculating but as a matter of fact, the game goes quickly and without any downtime.

Anyway, a real gem, not easy to master and very beautiful to look at.

Hitting tanks is easy, but penetrating armor seems to take the longest time

A game about working hard to put food on your family. Very enjoyable, and incidentally quite complicated.

On my first solo play the Russian advance wasn't halted by Manstein but by my 3 month old son who managed to roll across the board. Several units managed to flee but many were crushed by the baby's chubbiness.

Apparently, I'm a horrible liar.

Catan - with less flexibility, no expandability and plastic tokens. To get the most out of this edition, glue the dice together as well.

What's more fun than throwing your opponents pieces into a volcano?

A great family game. Play time fits the game. A decent amount of interaction and conversation between players. The last turn of the game can be a bit harsh until you've played the game a few times. Scales well from 2 to 5.

My favorite part is when no one wants the animals in my barn, and I get to talk about making panda slippers and flamingo hot dogs, while loading my virtual shotgun (Chck Chck!)