https://www.booyakajuice.com/collections/all.atom booyakajuice 2024-03-22T04:21:09-04:00 booyakajuice https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/7095589929011 2024-03-22T04:21:09-04:00 2024-03-22T04:21:09-04:00 Count of the Nine Estates Board Games Button Shy

Vendor: Button Shy
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer Scott Allen Czysz
Publisher Button Shy
Players 1
Playtime 30 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up

As the Count of the small territory of the Nine Estates, you must build up the county into a powerful economic and cultural center. However, limited nearby resources force you to make difficult decisions. Can you earn the favor of the King?

Count of the Nine Estates is an 18-card reimplementation of Count of Nine.

Search your land for resources to build basic structures that will provide more resources. Use these structures and resources to build up your estates into a powerful economic force.

—description from the publisher


For Count of the Nine Estates, I did want to focus more on the experience. Looking back on Count of Nine, it seemed the player experience was a bit "on rails": once you pick a major structure to build, you are going to find the stuff you need to build that major structure. For Count of the Nine Estates, the player will have more freedom, and will have to make a couple strategic decisions during a match. So, I guess the "experience" I was going for CotNE is: a more strategic and "free" feeling compact, solo euro game.

—description from the designer


Count of the Nine Estates is a solo city building game played with 18 cards. Nine Estate cards are your targets to build: City Walls, a Cathedral, a Castle, and more. The other 9 cards make up the Structures deck which contains resources plus structures to be built. Play through the Structures deck in multiple rounds to build the structures needed that will enable you to build one or more of the Estates. The goal is to score the most victory points in the game, which is made up of 2 separate eras.

Victory points are awarded several ways:

Victory points marked on the Estate cards and some of the structure cards

+ 1 victory point for each structure built

+1 victory point for each duplicate structure built
-2 victory points for each round played

]]> 1-Player-Only Age_12+ Arrival-Mar 29 2024 Arrival-May 25 2024 Arrival-New-Mar-25-31-2024 Arrival_Jul 12 2024 Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set INV-0-L INV-C Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20240331 Restock-20240602 Restock-20240721 https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/7095589929011 Default Title 15.95 41851574779955 866 https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/6863732211763 2022-11-11T00:12:03-05:00 2022-11-11T00:12:03-05:00 Forest Sky (No Clam Shell Packaging) Board Games Button Shy

Vendor: Button Shy
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer Scott Allen Czysz
Publisher Button Shy
Players 2-4
Playtime 15 mins
Suggested Age 8 and up

Crows, hawks, eagles and owls wheel and whirl above the forest. The constant motion highlights the shifting balance of power that determines who really rules these skies.

Forest Sky is an 18-card hand management game where 2-4 players compete for the best 6-card scoring combination. Each card features a unique scoring rule, with players using both the 3 cards in their hand (“the sky”) and one of the shared card pools in play (“the “forest”) for final scoring. As players draw cards, they’ll fill the forests and shape the skies in their favor to win the game.

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Vendor: Word Forge Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer Scott Allen Czysz
Publisher Word Forge Games
Players 1-2
Playing Time 15-45 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up

Pocket Landship is based on the print and play Board Game Geek Award nominated (2017) soloplay card wargame. In this version we see a steampunk theme and expanded gameplay with additional enemy and friendly options. as well as multiplayer options.

Command a Landship (the original British term for tanks) to clear a sector of enemy infantry, artillery, and enemy walkers, landships and alike.

The player chooses a Landship to control with weapons or support units to create either a single high powered Landship or a more disparate defending force, including potentially smaller Landships or squads of shock troops.

The enemy appears as waves of enemy landships, walkers, artillery, infantry, and mine fields arranged in 2 rows of 3 cards.

Each turn, the player will roll 3 6-sided dice and assign each die to each of their cards to attack the enemies. Then, for the enemy turn, roll the 3 dice and assign them low to high left to right across the front enemy line, then take the assigned actions.

Each card has its own damage track. When a card is destroyed, it is removed from the game. Win by destroying all 6 enemy cards. Lose if the enemy destroys your landship.

-description from publisher

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