Who is Knizia?
Reiner Knizia released more then 20 games in 2023 not including expansions! He is one of the most famous board game designers releasing over 700 games published, according to the Knizia websites. If you don’t know his name you might recognize some of his games such as; Lost Cities, Quest for El Dorado, L.L.A.M.A., Zoo Vadis and my favorites My City and My Island. His games could be the only games on the shelf and it would still be a great board game selection with awesome variety of light to heavy games.
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Reiner Knizia 2024 Releases
Reiner Knizia already has some great things coming our way in 2024! With 3 games already listed on BGG he’s made a jump start on my game collection. It’s time to make some room on the shelf for these great games coming next year.
MLEM: Space Agency
Weight:1.70 (light)
Players: 2-5
Time: 30-60 Min
Description: A family board game where you play as cats exploring the cosmos. However, cats behind the wheel of a spacecraft might not go as smoothly as hoped.
Gameplay: From the looks of it this game is a race to the finish line, using dice to navigate through space with some mitigation. It’s definitely on the lighter family board game side. But it has cats so we are excited!
Cascadero
Players: 2-4
Time: 45-60 Min
Theme: The kingdom is shattered, its towns are divided, and its people are distrusting. The newly crowned ruler, El Cascadero, seeks to reunite the land, but he can’t do it alone. Thus, he appoints four ministers to visit the people and restore civil harmony. While the ministers are obligated to bring prosperity to the entire land, each of them also has one dedicated responsibility: Farming, Crafting, Mining, and Markets. El Cascadero also records in his book the successes of his ministers…
Gameplay: Players must decide between two competing strategies: build long chains of their envoys to achieve synergies and objectives, or establish smaller, separate groups of envoys to trigger timely town scoring. Both will award victory points, yet your victory points will mean nothing if you don’t also reach the end of your appointed success column.
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Cascadito
Players: 1-4
Time: 30-45 Min
Theme: The kingdom is reuniting, but the work of El Cascadero and his ministers has only begun. Many challenges and opportunities await the kingdom. Bandits threaten to overwhelm the towns, rivers present new modes of travel, trade continues to grow, and the borders must be defended.
Gameplay: Cascadito is the smaller spiritual sibling to Reiner Knizia’s big box tile placement strategy game, Cascadero. Each player receives their own sheet and a pencil. 6 dice are rolled, and players take turns drafting a die used to fill in a space on their map. The dice display 5 colors, representing the 5 town types on the map. When a colored die is chosen, the player fills in a space adjacent to a matching colored town.
By reaching towns with groups of filled in spaces, players will trigger town scoring in the book of successes on their sheet. If players plan their routes wisely, these escalating successes can trigger a cascade of combos to give them a competitive edge in earning the public achievements and private bonuses.
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