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Battle Ravens!

I’m a sucker for “Dark Ages” history. The Roman evacuation of Britain, the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings, the Norman invasion – the people, the stories, and the myths of this period are more fascinating than anything Hollywood came dream up.

And so when Battle Ravens hit Kickstarter, it didn’t take much convincing for me to back the project. I received the game a couple of weeks ago and was able to get in a couple of games with my daughter recently. The game is advertised as ages 14+, though my daughter (Soon to be twelve.) had no issues picking up the rules and was soon developing her own strategy.

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I Summon Forth Zemilio! (Also Known as a Review of Rune)

I have a few Kickstarter backed games sitting around that I haven’t gotten around to playing yet, so the other night I opened up a card game that I had just received called Rune by Zemilio Entertainment. With an 11-year old daughter, I try to look for games that I think she’d enjoy playing that do not take an entire evening to finish. Rune seemed to be what I was looking for.

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