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<\/a><\/p>\nJe travaille en ce moment avec mon ami Eric lang sur quelques petits jeux de cartes, mais son truc, ce sont plut\u00f4t les grosses boites, les grosses m\u00e9caniques \u00e0 l\u2019am\u00e9ricaine. Et son chef d\u2019\u0153uvre, c\u2019est son jeu de vikings, Blood Rage<\/strong><\/a>. Blood Rage un jeu de baston plein de sang et de fureur, mais ce n\u2019est absolument pas un jeu de guerre classique. Le but y est en effet autant est autant la gloire, que l\u2019on peut obtenir dans de belles d\u00e9faites, que la conqu\u00eate de territoires. Le c\u0153ur du jeu est un syst\u00e8me de draft combinant tous les \u00e9l\u00e9ments du jeu, par lequel les joueurs se construisent une main de h\u00e9ros, d\u2019actions et d\u2019objectifs secrets, ce qui donne \u00e0 ce jeu complexe une forte coh\u00e9rence.<\/p>\n Du jeu de r\u00f4le au jeu video, Sandy Petersen a touch\u00e9 \u00e0 tout, avec une certaine pr\u00e9f\u00e9rence pour les grosses machines. Cthulhu Wars<\/strong><\/a> est un bon vieux jeu \u00e0 l\u2019ancienne, bas\u00e9 sur une formule \u00e9prouv\u00e9e, le m\u00e9lange du Risk et de Cosmic Encounter. Les dieux de la mythologie lovecraftienne, maintenant qu\u2019ils sont pass\u00e9s dans le domaine public, partent \u00e0 la conqu\u00eate du monde – mais chacun pour soi. Chaque joueur est donc un Dieu au nom impronon\u00e7able, avec ses cr\u00e9atures aux pouvoirs inqui\u00e9tants, ses sortil\u00e8ges, ses objectifs interm\u00e9diaires, et cherche, un vieux classique du jeu de soci\u00e9t\u00e9, \u00e0 \u00e9liminer ses adversaires.<\/p>\n Dogs of War<\/a><\/strong>, de Paolo Mori, l\u2019auteur de l\u2019excellent Libertalia, est peut-\u00eatre un peu plus l\u00e9ger qu\u2019il en a l\u2019air. La boite est aussi grosses que celle de Blood rage, les figurines \u00e9galement, mais c\u2019est au fond un jeu de cartes assez subtil, dans lequel les joueurs sont des mercenaires qui, tout \u00e0 la fois, parient sur la victoire de certaines familles et louent leurs services au combat. Quelque part entre le jeu de cartes, le jeu de guerre, le jeu de placement d\u2019ouvrier, Dogs of War est \u00e9tonnamment fluide et est sans doute le plus \u00ab\u00a0l\u00e9ger\u00a0\u00bb des cinq monstres pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s ici – mais \u00e7a prend quand m\u00eame deux heures.<\/p>\n Empires: Age of Discovery<\/strong><\/a> n\u2019est pas vraiment une nouveaut\u00e9, puisqu\u2019on le connaissait d\u00e9j\u00e0 sous le nom de Age of Empires, mais il vient de b\u00e9n\u00e9ficier d\u2019une tr\u00e8s belle nouvelle \u00e9dition. Glenn Dover a construit son jeu sur une m\u00e9canique tr\u00e8s \u00ab\u00a0allemande\u00a0\u00bb de placement d\u2019ouvriers – ou plut\u00f4t d\u2019explorateurs – mais y a ajout\u00e9 d\u00e9veloppement, exploration et d\u00e9couverte, et bien s\u00fbr un peu de baston aux fronti\u00e8res des empires coloniaux. Tr\u00e8s th\u00e9matique, un peu baroque et remarquablement \u00e9quilibr\u00e9, Age of Discovery est mon jeu de placement d\u2019ouvriers pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9.<\/p>\n Comme Empires: Age of Discovery, Argent – the Consortium<\/strong><\/a>, de Trey Chambers, est un jeu de placement d\u2019ouvriers – ou cette fois de mages – dans lequel les figurines ont pouvoirs particuliers selon les emplacements qu\u2019elles occupent. Le doyen de l\u2019universit\u00e9 de magie, impliqu\u00e9 dans une affaire de m\u0153urs, vient de d\u00e9missionner, et votre but est donc d\u2019\u00eatre \u00e9lu \u00e0 la t\u00eate de l\u2019\u00e9cole. La t\u00e2che est rendue assez complexe par le secret qui entoure la composition du conseil d\u2019universit\u00e9 charg\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9lire le nouveau doyen. Il vous faut donc enqu\u00eater pour d\u00e9couvrir qui sont les votants et comment les influencer. Nous sommes dans une \u00e9cole de magie, et tout cela va se faire \u00e0 grands coups de sortil\u00e8ges, d\u2019objets magiques et d\u2019intrigues secr\u00e8tes dans des lieux enchant\u00e9s. J\u2019ai un peu h\u00e9sit\u00e9 \u00e0 mettre Argent: the Consortium dans cette liste, car je pense que le jeu aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 bien meilleur s\u2019il avait \u00e9t\u00e9 un peu simplifi\u00e9. Tel qu\u2019il est, il se passe trop de choses, on a trop de choix, et j\u2019ai le sentiment qu\u2019il y avait la mati\u00e8re \u00e0 faire trois ou quatre excellents jeux. Il n\u2019emp\u00eache que c\u2019est un jeu auquel je ne cesse de penser depuis mon unique partie, signe qu\u2019il y a quand m\u00eame quelque chose.<\/p>\n Et maintenant, on va retourner \u00e0 du plus l\u00e9ger\u2026.<\/p>\n I had largely stopped playing heavier games, lasting two hours or more, with lots of text in the rules, on the board, on the cards and even sometimes on the tokens. I had, and stil have, lots of good reasons – lack of time, laziness, weariness but also a kind of perverted curiosity which made me want to discover as many new games as possible during the rare game nights which were not devoted mostly to playing prototypes.<\/em> Here are five really heavy games, heavy in time, rules and weight, which I\u2019ve played recently and which I think I can recommend. <\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019m now working with my friend Eric Lang on two very light card games, but his specialty is more big american boardgames with lots of chrome and miniatures. Everybody seems to agree that his masterwork is his Viking game, Blood Rage<\/strong><\/a>. Blood Rage is a game of war, full of blood and fury, but it\u2019s not your classical risk-like war on a map. The goal is as much glory, which can be achieved through gorgeous sacrificial defeats, than territorial control. The core of the game is a draft system which brings together all the main elements of the game – armies, heroes, actions and objectives – and makes this complex game highly consistent.<\/em><\/p>\n Sandy Petersen has designed almost everything, from role playing games to video games, always with a strong preference for heavier and thematic stuff. Cthulhu Wars<\/strong><\/a> is an old-style war on map game, kind of a mix between Risk and Cosmic Encounter. Now that the Lovecraftian gods are in the public domain, they have decided to finally take over the world – but it\u2019s every god for himself. Each player is a God with his own minions, spells, curses and objectives, the ultimate goal being to crush opponents and conquer the world, something relatively classic in this kind of games. <\/em><\/p>\n Dogs of War<\/strong><\/a>, by Libertalia\u2019s designer Paolo Mori, is not as heavy a game as it seems. The box and the miniatures are as big as Blood Rage\u2019s ones, but at its heart Dogs of War is a subtle card game in which players, as condottiere, both bid on the success of warring families and sell them armies. Somewhere between card game, war game and worker-placement game, Dogs of War is very fluid and is probably the lightest of the five games presented here – though it\u2019s still two hours long.<\/em><\/p>\n Empires – Age of Discovery<\/strong><\/a> is not really new, since it was published about ten years ago as Age of Empire, but there\u2019s a new edition with largely better components (and a much better box). Glenn Drover\u2019s design is based on a very classical German style \u00ab\u00a0worker placement\u00a0\u00bb – or rather explorer placement – system, but with lots of thematic stuff added – development, exploration, discoveries, and even some border wars between colonial empires. Highly thematic, a bit baroque and cleverly balanced, Age of Discovery is my favorite worker placement game.<\/em><\/p>\n Like Empires: Age of Discovery, Trey Chambers\u2019 Argent – The Consortium<\/strong><\/a> is a worker placement – or rather this time mage placement – with different kinds of mages having different abilities depending on where one plays them. The deacon of the magical university has resigned after being involved in some sex scandal, and the players are trying to be elected as the new head of the school. The exact composition of the council which will elect the new deacon is secret, so one must at the same time find out who the voters are and manage to get their votes. Since we are in the magical university, this is dealt with spells, curses, magical artifacts and secret intrigues in enchanted rooms. I hesitated a bit over adding Argent – The Consortium too this list because I think the game could have been better if simplified a bit. As it is, it feels like there is enough stuff in it for three or four really strong games. On the other hand, I regularly think of it since my one and only game of Argent, so there is something there.<\/em><\/p>\n Now, let\u2019s go back to lighter stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" J\u2019avais un peu d\u00e9laiss\u00e9 les gros jeux de deux heures ou plus, avec plein de texte dans les r\u00e8gles, sur les cartes, sur le plateau et m\u00eame parfois sur les pions. Il y a plein de raisons \u00e0 cela, le … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nThese last months, I\u2019ve tried to hold more modest game nights, with only four or five players and not a dozen or more, so that I can try to bring on the table some recent monsters – my only references in really heavy stuff were ten or twenty years old – and see what they are worth. As a general rule, they seem to be better than the old stuff from the eighties or nineties.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n