Gamer Gifts 2011: Quarriors

Have a board game geek in your life?  Wondering what kind of weird damn thing they want THIS time?

Hint, they want this:

Check out this very long, very thorough review from Undead Viking!

And if, by chance, they already have a copy of Quarriors clutched in their clammy paws, you can always buy them the expansion.

*cough*

Game:Eaten By Zombies

As most of you know, I love nerdy tabletop games.  I also love zombies.  A lot.

So, when I saw that Mayday Games had a Kickstarter project up for a swanky new zombie game, well, let’s just say I hadda get me some of that.  The project closed at nearly ten times the original goal of 5K, which is amazing.  Why?  Because, zombies.  That’s why.

My copy just arrived:

Looks like an ammo can. How awesome is that?

Stick, stick, zombie!

Awwww!

Here’s the game description from Mayday:

In the new game Eaten By Zombies! players strive to survive as the horde of the living dead make it their goal in Death to force you to join the crowd. You must work with or against the other survivors to be the last one standing. No not standing, cowering in the corner crying for their mommy.

In the spirit of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and “I Am Legend”, Eaten By Zombies takes you into a dark world of eventual death. Every turn you must venture out from your safehouse and scavenge for Swag. But not so fast, the Undead have other plans for your brains. Every day a Horde of fresh zombies will be waiting for you, and over time the threat gets greater. Now it’s time for your “Fight or Flight” instincts to help you to survive just one more day. Using the swag you’ve got on you (ie cards in you hand) you must survive any way you can.

If you can get away or kill the Horde, you may scavenge the remains of the desolate suburbs for any Swag the neighbors may have left behind. With the right stuff and a few good friends to out run, you may just make it through this alive… well, no probably not. But being the last one to die a slow, painful death means you can claim sole victory!

With a set of over thirty different cards to start with, no two games will ever be alike. This game is a combination of Card Drafting, Hand Management and Survival Horror with a few dirty tricks thrown in.

I dunno, if that doesn’t sound great to you, then all I can say is that we’re very different people.

One of whom is very, very wrong.

Back When Planking was Cool

You may have noticed that I’m a huge nerd.  If not, please let this serve as official notice:

I’ve already mentioned that I’m a fan of elaborate boardgames.  What I may not have said is that I also have a weakness for pirates.

I happen to be in the middle of reading Mike Kalmbach’s The Caldarian Conflict, which is chock-full of high-seas adventure, so my resistance is at an all-time low.  In a sinister conspiracy against my wallet, one of my friends managed to call me during my moment of weakness and mentioned that he heard about Merchants & Marauders and that it was REALLY GOOD.  And that we should play, RIGHT NOW.

So…I bought it.  Sue me, I’m weak.

It arrived today, so hopefully on Saturday my dining room table will look like this:

All I can promise is that my posts next week will contain the words “YARRR” and “BOOTY” as few times as I can manage.

/booty!