Watch “Aspens and Majestic Marvels Mini Expansion Review,” a board game review for Aspens from How Lou Sees It on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by How Lou Sees It on YouTube:
One of my favorite new-to-me 2 player games I have enjoyed this year. Fantastic production with amazing quality components and art. Easy to play. Lots of strategy mixed with some luck. Love this one and that is How Lou Sees It!
Publisher’s Website:
https://www.ludivore.com
Some Written Thoughts:
+ Wonderful Production; beautiful wooden trees and dice, the puzzle piece boards are super nice, good bags for all the trees, amazing box cover (and inside cover). Majestic Marvels has amazingly beautiful cards.
+ Simple to Learn and Play; while there is a lot of strategy to be had, the game is very easy to learn and teach (well done rulebook).
+ Fun and Strategic Gameplay (with a dash of luck); the goal of the game is to control as much area of the board as you can, while the placement is restricted to adjacent pieces of your own the game still gives the classic game of “Go” feel. The Wind die will dictate in what direction you can play which is both a fun element but can be a frustrating element too (luck).
+ Variability; the game has some different initial setups but no change other than that (this being said, the game doesn’t need more than that as the players change their strategies to adapt to the other player and roll of the dice).
+ This Majestic Marvels expansion offers beautiful cards that randomize certain areas and players score points for getting the majority in certain areas. Instead of the entire board, there are multiple connected smaller area battles. I love what this small change can do for the game.
*Promotional copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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Mostly reviews and unboxings. Aspens is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 7 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, and 4 unboxings.
2 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Aspens, from BoardGameGeek:
Aspens is a quick-playing strategy board game for two players, where you harness the wind and sun and carefully balance growth with expansion to outgrow and outwit your loved ones.
In Aspens, players compete to grow the largest forest on a shared board - having to balance how much they invest in building their "engine" to increase the odds of generating trees on future turns, with the pressure of needing to expand to claim territory and ultimately be crowned the winner.
Players start by seeding and growing a forest space adjacent to each water tile. This is where players determine their initial strategy and appetite for risk. Then play begins.
On your turn, you roll the sun die, and BOTH players generate trees for spaces they have grown tall enough to capture the sun. Then you roll the wind die, determining which directions you can grow outward in. The active player then plants their trees, balancing between growing existing spaces UP with more trees, or expanding OUTWARD from their forests, following the wind. This is the core crux of tough decision making and strategy comes in - balancing future investment with rapid expansion.
Play continues until all spaces are claimed, and the player with the most spaces is crowned the winner!
-description from the publisher
