Are these on your radar?

With each week, SPIEL23 is coming closer and we couldn’t be more excited! To share the excitement, let’s talk about some more relatively under the radar games that are coming! 🥳

🪖General Orders: World War II

I somehow fell in love with this game when I saw the first pictures. 🥰 It’s a tiny war game in a small box format that plays in 30 minutes. I love the look and abstract nature of it, and I really hope it holds up when we get to play it! 

Basically you do worker placement with your commanders to bring in new troops, move them into battles or bombard territories. There is dice involved but also a kind of deterministic nature to combat resolution. Card play will further spice things up!

🪓Celtae

The first thing you might notice is the Mico art - which might draw in or deter people. I skimmed through the rulebook, and I’m definitely intrigued now. Players play as Celtae tribes defending against the Romans. Each turn you do an action, by moving a token on a shared central rondel (did somebody say RONDEL? 😄) - basically to Farm, Recruit, Build or Battle. There is a lot going on here! I just hope playing with a shared rondel isn’t infuriating. 😅

⚡Gods of Rome

I am not sure about this game yet, but as we have enjoyed a bunch of area control games lately, it caught my attention. In this area-control game you choose 1 of 5 factions, each corresponding to a God, and fight for favor. The game flow seems simple, as each turn you pick 1 of 3 possible things to do, then play like this up until 3 checkpoints have been reached. There is also some card play and asymmetry due to the gods, so this game should have some tricks up its sleeve.

🗿Ancient Knowledge

This is one we actually played at UKGE already, and enjoyed very much! 😍 It’s a lighter-weight card tableau building game but with unique twists. Cards you play to your board will keep sliding to the left where they go into your Past pile. Your job is to remove knowledge tokens from them before that happens, as lost knowledge is minus points. There are many fun synergies and combos between cards you can build, but you have keep patching up your ever crumbling engine.