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What Are 18Xx Games? Players Will Start the Game with a Certain Amount of Cash and Can Invest in One Or More Companies of Their Choosing Please note that we are fully Hyperlink-enabled, so there’s lots of things to click on throughout! Click on any item on this page (and many others) to go directly to those features / websites, and just click on the ‘Tabletop SPIRIT #13’ footer at the bottom of most pages to return back here! #13 An Introduction to 18xx Games! UKGE Sneak Peek Simon Weinberg combines a whistle- TheUK Games Expo makes stop tour with a great introduction to a welcome return this year, 618xxthe 18xx universe, bringing us all up and Guy Allen got an early to speed on these oft-misrepresented behemoths look at some of the gaming of gaming goodness. Grab your ticket here, but delights heading our way! 57 Ticket to Ride this ain’t! An Interview with Splotter Spellen Splotter is a Dutch publisher renowned for several complex strategic games, and Simon 14 Neale was fortunate enough to have a chat 20 with two of their lead designers... The Designers: Reiner Knizia Knizia is surely near the very top of the list when it comes to prolific boardgame designers, and Martin Griffiths has played a lot of Knizia games over the years... GAMES REVIEWED IN THIS ISSUE 11 — An Introduction to the IGA: REGULARS International Gamers Awards Canvas 67 For two decades, the Awards have been 3 — Across the Board Crypt of Chaos 70 won by some cracking games. Alan How is 28 — Tabletop Love Letter the new IGA President, and tells us why we Howard Bishop finds the letters of a Harry Potter: Death Eaters should all sit up and take notice of why they Thousand Year Old Vampire – what could Rising 73 remain a prestigious commendation. possibly go wrong? La Granja 76 38 — Simon + The Mechanics 24 — It’s All in The Teach! Simon Weinberg kicks off a new series Marvel Villainous 80 A poorly taught first play can all but ruin looking at the development and history of Nanty Narking 84 a game forever for some players, which is some of our beloved game mechanics. In something Jim Marshall and the rest of us this issue: The Action Selection Mechanic Oath: Chronicles of Empire would really like to help prevent... 42 — Still Board? and Exile 88 We’re really excited to introduce this NEW On the Origin of Species 92 30 — So You Wanna Be A... Game and hopefully regular puzzle section, to keep ye olde brain clicking y’understand? Parks 95 Artist? Our cracking series covering jobs and roles 52 — RPGs Pax Pamir 98 within the industry continues, and this time Alex Bardy explores some of the readily Red Rising 102 Guy Allen talks to Sabrina Miramon, the available resources GMs and players can illustrator behind some of our fave games... obtain with minimal financial outlay... Winter Kingdom 106 110 — Spirited Snapshots Sample36 — ROOT - The ‘Ultimate’ Game? Simonfile Neale takes a look at Beyond the 46 — Three Semi-Abstracts Sun, Dragonwood, Solar Storm, CuBirds, FREE Giveaways and On The Underground. Abstract games can be a bit hit or miss for every month many boardgame fans, and here Mitchell 113 — Second Thoughts Thomashow lets you know how he got Guy Allen rounds up some thoughts and in 2021! on with Oganika, Otto Game Over, and opinions from our regular contributors on Mandala Stones... the games we covered last issue. Tabletop SPIRIT #13 — Summer 2021 — 2 — Editor & Layout: Alex Bardy Features Editor: Guy Allen Marketing/PR: Simon Neale With huge thanks to our additional contributors for their ongoing help and support: Ben Bateson, Howard Bishop, Caroline Black, Robin Bott, Michael Clark, Jamie Hargreaves, Martin Griffiths, Alan How, John Humphries, Jim Marshall, Ocean Melchezedek, Mike Nudd, Stephen Owen, Mitchell Thomashow, Simon Weinberg, and Paul Willcox. www.tabletopspirit.com Submissions Guidelines [email protected] We always welcome reader submissions, but please download our guidelines here for more information and advice about submitting material for the magazine. Let the Summer Games Begin! © 2021 Tabletop SPIRIT and Alex Bardy All rights reserved. Products, logos and titles appearing Welcome to yet another bumper-sized, packed, FREE in this publication are copyrighted or trademarked by their respective owners. No part of this magazine may issue of Tabletop SPIRIT! We honestly didn’t intend be used or reproduced in whole or part without the to put together another HUGE magazine so soon after written permission of the editor. All contributions remain the property of the the last one —that was our Christmas issue, btw (#11)— respective creators. Opinions expressed in this but as the UK Lockdown finally eases, we’re as keen as Tabletop SPIRIT is a FREE quarterly publication, and everybody else to get out there and enjoy the things doesmagazine NOT carrymay not any reflect sponsored those content. of the editor. we love: playing boardgames across a real table with Disclaimer: Although Tabletop SPIRIT magazine does other boardgamers, so we wanted to spoil you! accept review copies of games (without prejudice), we are an independent magazine, so any subsequent review will be purely the opinion of the individual reviewer. In truth, I’ve been feeling very fortunate to have grabbed any social time for boardgaming these last few months, with all manner of things making it difficult to do so. However, I have managed quite a lot of playtesting for other people, and enjoyed every precious moment of those sessions - there is something hugely rewarding about being a part of someone else’s creation, moreso if I can contribute something that is potentially valuable to the designer(s). That said, I know there are a LOT of boardgamers out there (incl. many of our own team of volunteer writers) that have been hitting the tables hard, and I take my hat off to each and every one of them for doing so. Keep that flag flying, folks! As I write, we are just over 6-7 weeks away from this year’s UK Games Expo and I’m very excited to see how things go — Cover by Sabrina Miramon, clearly it could be scaled down a bit in terms of attendance Photosynthesis (2017). figures and exhibitors this year, but that might not be such a bad thing given the thronging masses of previous Expo Photos on pg 21-22 c/o Henk Rolleman events! Images on pgs 30-35 c/o Sabrina Miramon Guy Allen and I will be there, and what’s more, we’re putting All images of Mandala Stones (pgs 47, 50-51) together a UKGE Boardgame Preview of our own which will c/o Wouter Debisschop, Tabletopping be available for FREE download around the middle of next With thanks to Gabriel Torrent, Caroline Black, month (July 2021) - a few weeks before the event itself, and Daniel Frank, and Dorthe Bøttger for additional early enough to get you salivating at some of the delights on images and permissions. offer at the show! We’ve given you a sneak peek of that on page 57Sample of this issue, ‘cos we’re just good like that! Many of the gamefile and box cover images are courtesy of the publishers and www. And finally, you liked the crossword so much last issue, we boardgamegeek.com have gone ahead and included an extended set of puzzle Other images/logos designed and provided by pages for you this time round, and invite you to print them off Alex Bardy or the individual contributors, unless to enjoy at your leisure. A good word, that... ENJOY! otherwise stated. Alex Bardy, Editor — 3 — Tabletop SPIRIT #13 — Summer 2021 Tabletop FREE Giveaways every month!* Exclusively for our subscribers! Since December 2020, we’ve been giving away games to registered subscribers EVERY MONTH, and will continue doing so throughout 2021 in our FREE GIVEAWAY DRAWS! Subscribing to Tabletop SPIRIT is FREE, too, just click here >> June 2021 We have got together with the marvellous Avallone brothers for a fantastic giveaway prize from the PLAAY and PLAAY NOW games collection, EXCLUSIVELY for our US subscribers! TWO lucky winners will get the opportunity to choose ANY GAME from either company and have it shipped directly to their home... Sample file * Geographic restrictions may apply to some draws. These draws will take place on the 22nd of every month, and winners will be contacted by email in the first instance. Tabletop SPIRIT #13 — Summer 2021 — 4 — July 2021 TUNGARU sets players as early Polynesians in this dice placement and resource conversion, medium- weight euro game. Players will jump from island to island in an effort to recruit Nomads as new tribe members, colonise land, spread their culture and exchange goods. August 2021 Let the show begin! You have only one goal in MEEPLE CIRCUS... Entertain the audience! Once the circus music starts, all eyes will be upon you! In short, MEEPLE CIRCUS is a dexterity game in which you do what all gamers do when setting up a Samplegame: Pile up your meeples! file — 5 — Tabletop SPIRIT #13 — Summer 2021 An Introduction to 18xx games! 18xxSimon Weinberg What are 18xx games? Players will start the game with a certain amount of cash and can invest in one or more companies of their choosing. It is usually of interest to own a 18xx is the generic name for train games company you are investing in and so players will which were inspired by the original game of often bid for different companies, each of which has 1829, see below. In 18xx games, players must its own characteristics which may be linked to its build track on a map consisting of hexagons real history (or not!). Once a company has enough representing flat land, mountains, rivers and cash in its coffers, it is allowed to float on the stock so on.
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