Rio Grande Games, who have been seen here
before, and a nice little game with a 30-40 minute play-time, so easy by the
standards of a lot of games which can take that long to organise and get
started!
It's mostly punched card, or it is once
you've punched it - the norm these days is to charge the customer extra for a
larger box, then have them do half the work they used to paying the
manufacturer to do - That's 39 years of small-'c' conservative,
Thatcherite-Reganomic, 'free-market' theory in action and a global trade war
won't stop domestic greed, nor is it any use shooting the messenger, the
message stays the same!
And - once you've punched all the die-cut
sheets, you end up with a box that has a centimetre gap at the top so
everything flies around!
But all that doesn't matter as you've added
two figures to the stash! They are actually pre-coloured PU resin and quite
brittle - in the wrong hands they won't last long. The game is one of those
lay-as-you-go random path mechanisms (match edges like-for-like) with smaller,
added companion and challenge cards liberally spread about.
And there's a volcano, rings, into,
throwing, for the use of.
You may remember Graham Apperley donated a
set of Hobbits to the Blog just over a year ago, and they match well with the
two Rio Grande ones so it seems I'm fated to slowly build The Shire as a set of
questing, ring-bearing, stroppets - Gollum doesn't
stand a chance!
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