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Mar 31, 2022·Review·08:14·1·Watch on YouTube

After playing it a few times, has it been worth it?

GMS Magazine - Role Playing Games

GMS Magazine - Role Playing Games

Watch “After playing it a few times, has it been worth it?,” a board game review for Maeshowe: an Orkney Saga on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by GMS Magazine - Role Playing Games on YouTube:

Board Game review: Maeshowe: An Orkney Saga I have interviewed the designer, the publisher, played it, tried it and liked it. A lot. Maeshowe: an Orkney Saga is a language-independent solo and two-player co-op game. In this gritty game you take on the role of two vikings, trying to survive. This is my review of Maeshowe and I *really* hope you’ll have a look and give this game a go. Is it worth the amount of money you have to pay to get your hands on it? Let me show you! Get it from the publisher’s website: https://www.ddpgames.com/Maeshowe Check out the BoardgameGeek site: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/322560/maeshowe-orkney-saga This is what they say: According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Earl Rognvald Kali Kolsson broke into the chambered tomb of Maeshowe, on Orkney, in AD 1150. In AD 1153, Earl Harald Maddadson and a group of his men sheltered there during a snowstorm. The sagas tell us that Rognvald found treasure there and that two of Harald’s men went mad. Alone or with a friend, players will on their turn need to play one card to the row and discard one. Managing their hand of five cards players need to make tough calls on what to play while carefully managing their resources of health, food and cards left in their draw deck. The players will free themselves from the Tomb of Maeshowe once they've removed enough rubble blocking their escape. By playing a set of four "Excavation" cards to the row, the players are able to remove rubble. The timing of when to start a set of "Excavation" cards will be critical since a row of less than four will result in those cards being lost decreasing player chance for survival. If the player ever find themselves having zero health or having run out of cards in their draw deck, they have lost and their dead bodies will be found in the Tomb of Maeshowe by archeologists hundreds of years later. Other threats presented by their draw deck includes such things as the passage collapsing and running out of food while some well-needed sleep or Odin himself sending a Raven to watch over you can provide you with some much-needed relief. This updated version of Lee Broderick's Print and Play game Maeshowe offers a streamlined version of the core gameplay while adding a series of mini-expansions and alternate set-ups for more variety, challenge, and replay-ability.Hope you’ll enjoy it! This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting, or buy us a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/gmsmagazine Join us in our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fHaKNPe Visit other #GMSMagazine productions: For our main channel: http://bit.ly/GMSmagazine For our #podcast: https://goo.gl/M54zau Follow us on #Twitter: https://goo.gl/moZgvK Our #Facebook page: https://goo.gl/YkbQIj maeshowe, orkney,board game,board,game,dice,card game,cards,catan,monopoly,tower,dice tower,vasel,review,tom vasel,vassel,settlers,gaming,board game review,boardgame,uno,ticket to ride,apples to apples,educational games,educational,top 10,board game review, boardgame review, boardgame unboxing, boardgame unboxing

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Maeshowe: an Orkney Saga

Maeshowe: an Orkney Saga

2021·Lee G. Broderick

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Mainly reviews. Maeshowe: an Orkney Saga is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 3 reviews and 2 unboxings.

1 - 2 players
15 - 30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

About Maeshowe: an Orkney Saga, from BoardGameGeek:

According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Earl Rognvald Kali Kolsson broke into the chambered tomb of Maeshowe, on Orkney, in AD 1150. In AD 1153, Earl Harald Maddadson and a group of his men sheltered there during a snowstorm. The sagas tell us that Rognvald found treasure there and that two of Harald's men went mad. Alone or with a friend, players will on their turn need to play one card to the row and discard one. Managing their hand of five cards players need to make tough calls on what to play while carefully managing their resources of health, food and cards left in their draw deck. The players will free themselves from the Tomb of Maeshowe once they've removed enough rubble blocking their escape. By playing a set of four "Excavation" cards to the row, the players are able to remove rubble. The timing of when to start a set of "Excavation" cards will be critical since a row of less than four will result in those cards being lost decreasing player chance for survival. If the player ever find themselves having zero health or having run out of cards in their draw deck, they have lost and their dead bodies will be found in the Tomb of Maeshowe by archeologists hundreds of years later. Other threats presented by their draw deck includes such things as the passage collapsing and running out of food while some well-needed sleep or Odin himself sending a Raven to watch over you can provide you with some much-needed relief. This updated version of Lee Broderick's Print and Play game Maeshowe offers a streamlined version of the core gameplay while adding a series of mini-expansions and alternate set-ups for more variety, challenge, and replay-ability.

Designer

Lee G. Broderick

Artists

Matthias Catrein, Lars Munck

Publisher

Dragon Dawn Productions

Categories

Card GameMedieval

Mechanics

Cooperative GameHand Management
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