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2021 Calvin Daniels Recommend There are a growing number of excellent abstract strategy games with free rulesets
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Primal: The
Awakening
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18 which are playable on existing game equipment (a Go baord as an example), or by
2021 printing a board again available online.
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Mars: Ares… These games don't get the same hype as a commercially released game (like the Gipf series), but they
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can be great games worth exploring in more detail.
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Tainted Grail:
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 1. Board Game: Oust [Average Rating:6.36 Unranked]
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Calvin Daniels this is a great game with a pile of depth to it.
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Arnak
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Darwin's 
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2017 2. Board Game: Ecalper [Average Rating:7.48 Unranked]
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Mars I love the mechanic of replacing an opponent's just laid piece, then
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3. Board Game: Volo [Average Rating:7.44 Overall Rank:7267]

Calvin Daniels there is a very natural feel to the game that is based on flocking
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birds.

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4. Board Game: Army Ants [Average Rating:6.44 Overall Rank:12351]

Calvin Daniels just amazing use of a card deck, although custom printed ones are
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5. Board Game: Catchup [Average Rating:7.70 Overall Rank:5633]

Calvin Daniels designer Nick Bentley picks it as his personal best, that says a lot
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about this one.

Posted Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:23 am

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6. Board Game: Slither [Average Rating:8.05 Overall Rank:6295]

Calvin Daniels very solid connection game on a Go board
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Posted Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:22 am

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Nick Bentley My favorite game of all time, in any genre.

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7. Board Game: Redstone [Average Rating:5.17 Unranked]

Calvin Daniels may be hard to improve on Go, but this game while similar offers
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something fresh too.

Posted Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:24 am

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8. Board Game: Monkey Queen [Average Rating:6.56 Unranked]

Calvin Daniels the idea of capture and seeding pieces on a large playing field
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really makes this one shine.

Posted Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:25 am

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9. Board Game: Murus Gallicus [Average Rating:7.72 Overall Rank:7651]

 Calvin Daniels easy on a checkerboard and a great game in its own right
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Posted Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:34 am

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10. Board Game: Splut! [Average Rating:6.71 Overall Rank:9765]

Calvin Daniels way too much fun not to make

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11. Board Game: Micropul [Average Rating:6.76 Overall Rank:2879]

Calvin Daniels a must PnP AS game

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Posted Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:36 am

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12. Board Game: Croda [Average Rating:6.76 Unranked]

uses a checkerboard and improves on it.

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Posted Sun Sep 23, 2012 11:27 am

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13. Board Game: Dameo [Average Rating:7.71 Overall Rank:8729]

Calvin Daniels as with croda above uses a checkerboard and improves on game
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of checkers

Posted Sun Sep 23, 2012 11:28 am

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14. Board Game: Amazons [Average Rating:7.16 Overall Rank:4118]

(D Beau) Sort of the Super Saiyan version of Hey, That's My Fish!. With every
play, I better appreciate the brilliant simplicity of its design.
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Pablo Schulman Funny you say that's the super sayan version of HtMF. For me, that would be the opposite. But that's
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one of the cases were the original is better than the latter.

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15. Board Game: TOPOLO [Average Rating:9.00 Unranked]

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16. Board Game: Sapos [Average Rating:7.00 Unranked]

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17. Board Game: Quentin [Average Rating:8.58 Unranked]

Luis Bolaños Mures One of my best games.
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18. Board Game: Flipside [Average Rating:8.00 Unranked]

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2 player area enclosure game played on the spaces of an 8x8
board.

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19. Thread: [ Now Available ] ROKUMON

Charles Ward
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A short abstract strategy game for 1 or 2 players, designed in
Japan by Charles Ward from EX1ST GAMES, with artwork by
Andres Agostini.

STORY
During the Sengoku period (1467 -1615) many Japanese clans
controlled territories by military force, alliances and treachery.
Smaller clans became absorbed by larger ones, until eventually
Japan was unified, and governed by a new Shogun.

One of these small clans was the Sanada Clan, whose leaders
proved to be great warriors and strategists. The most famous and
fierce of which was Sanada Yukimura (1567-1615). See cover image.

This game outlines the history of the Sanada Clan in 5 acts. Each
act offers a simple variant on the 2 Player Game and the Solitaire
Game is explained in the Epilogue. Please enjoy this carefully
crafted and historically accurate rule book.

GAMEPLAY
It reminds me of tic-tac-toe in its simplicity, but aslo Tak because
you can cover and move pieces, and Shogi in that you can play
pieces after they have been defeated. It's simple, but not easy. You
 actions are Place, Move, Fight, Surprise. The last one has you
reconfigure the board to try to get a win. You win by getting 3 in a
Row, 3 in a Stack, or by Submission .

CARDS:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ld_6MNM5Guyy2n1ldvurbMuJjxw...
RULES:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X87AFPc7r120n0O95O9z7svfh1Q...

It is published as a Forever Free Print and Play Game for the

2020 - 9 Card Game Print and Play Design Contest.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT !!

Rokumon - Nothing to do with Pokemon

Posted Tue Mar 31, 2020 2:37 pm

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Charles Ward ROKUMON is now online!

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TABLETOPIA: https://tabletopia.com/playground/rokumon-vud737/play-now
TABLETOP SIMULATOR: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=20814...
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Calvin Daniels Probably true

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but many have easily accessible commercial sets too

 these are more obviously PnP

While Ordo is not on list as example.

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