Mage Wars isn’t a new game but Arcane Wonders is consistently making great releases for the system. Here is the Product Description for Mage Wars .
Mage Wars Academy pits you against your opponent in a Mage’s duel, using a unique Spellbook mechanic that provides you access to all you strategies rather than relying on the luck of the draw. Train in your school, craft your spellbook, and test your skills at the Academy!
In City of Gears players are competing to see who will control the CITY OF GEARS!
Each turn, you will roll a number of Production Dice. Then, you will move your Workers and perform a variety of actions (such as drawing and placing Gears to reactivate areas of the city, Sabotaging opponents, and activating unique Steam powers), as determined by the Production Dice results. Finally, you will check to see if you’ve triggered the endgame. If not, play passes to the next player.
Once the entire city has been connected by any player, or the Gears are all drawn, the game ends and Victory Points are calculated based on tile ownership and other factors. The player with the highest VP wins!
Why am I looking forward to this game? In 2012 Chris Leder won the Steampunk game design challenge. Besides the fact that it’s a winner, it features a lot of great game mechanics like exploration, area control, worker placement, and strategy. Did I mention that you use tile placement to design the board? Beyond that that I really don’t know that much about the game, but it’s clearly enough to intrigue me.
Swing by Arcane Wonders Booth (741) and take a look at the game.
In this interview Scott and I get to talk about Mage Wars Domination (battlegrounds), City of Gears and Onitara – this game looks great.
As usual I’m super excited about The Mage Wars line up
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Mage Wars Arena Play mats provide players a new look, new feel, and more portability!
These new soft, neoprene play mats are the perfect accessory for any Mage Wars Player to add to their collection!
In this no quite a play through and not quite a review Matt talks about the best part of Sheriff of Nottingham (lying, bribing, and stretching the truth) while having some fun. Sheriff of Nottingham is a bluffing game for the whole family.
I look forward to posting a family play through in he future. Sherrriff of Nottingham is one of the few games where you can let your personality shine.
Scott Shares a quick Demo of Sheriff of Nottingham before sharing with us release details in the fourth quarter. That includes talking abiut the Paladin and Siren coming out next year.
It is always good to see my friends from Arcane Wonders.
Warning the exhibit hall is quite loud. Bryan Pope , producer and creator of the smash hit Mage Wars, from Arcane Wonders shows his support to Through Gamer Goggles by signing Copies of Forged in Fire. These copies are available as a pledge on Through Gamer Goggles Kickstarter you can find it here. I have to put a special thanks out to Arcane Wonders for making this happen – especially Bryan Pope.
In this Box Breaking Matt takes a good look at the newest expansion for Mage Wars; Druid vs Necromancer. He spends some time examining the new spells as well as the art. He even gives a pretty in depth overview of the new mage abilities. As usual this expansion looks to be a promising addition to the Mage Wars Universe.
Mage Wars is produced by Arcane Wonders.
Watch as Matt walks you through the Contents of the newest Mage Wars expansion; Conquest of Kumanjaro. This expansion features an alternate Beastmaster and an alternate Priest (Priestess).
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If you would like to learn more about Mage Wars Arcane Wonders has a wonderful community of gamers. You can also learn more about them over at Board Game Geek.
At Origins 2013 we sat down and chatted with Patrick Connor from Arcane Wonders about Mage Wars. Patrick brings us up to date Mage Wars by sharing information about the Conquest of Kumanjaro. We even geat a greater treat when he spills information on the Druid and Necromancer coming up in the next expansion. He also discusses the Ambassador Program.
You can learn more about Mage Wars at Magewars.com and follow them on facebook.
