Unboxed: blood bowl

You find yourself in a room. It is a bedroom, in fact, in Cheshire in the year 1966. Sitting in front of you are two teenaged boys. It is the year of England’s World Cup victory, and the two friends a

After introducing you to the different factions and the background of Konflikt ’47 in our previous issue, it’s time to find out more about the development of this new edition. As a quick reminder, Kon

There were demos aplenty! Star Wars: Battle of Hoth was always popular, recent Kickstarter Even Deeper Regrets hooked in players and expanded worker placement game Oranges and Lemons (see page 46) bro

Born in 1959 in south-west France, Serge Charles Jean Laget was one of the first French board game designers to make a real impact on the modern hobby. His 1984 bluffing and negotiation game Le Gang d

You’ll have heard people say, “Never judge a book by its cover.” Well, a similar sentiment – if you’ll bear with this tenuous link for a moment – could be applied to tabletop games: “Never judge a gam

THE FIRST TOTAL WAR GAME WAS THE BREAKOUT HIT THAT CREATIVE ASSEMBLY NEEDED TO FREE ITSELF FROM ITS WORK-FOR-HIRE SITUATIONSHIP WITH ELECTRONIC ARTS. SINCE THEN THE SERIES HAS GONE FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH, COVERING EVERYTHING FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE NAPOLEONIC WARS TO SKAVEN AND UNDEAD LORDS