Matthew Smail

1 week ago | nerdly.co.uk | Matthew Smail

‘The Adventures of Conan + Expansions’ Board Game Review by Matthew Smail With some games, you know just what to expect as soon as you look at the cover art. The Adventures of Conan, designed by Jack Reda and published by Gale Force Nine, is one such game. It doesn’t try to be a sprawling sandbox or a deeply strategic Euro, nor does it focus on fighting like other games wearing the Conan moniker.

2 weeks ago | bigbossbattle.com | Matthew Smail

Share Here at BigBossBattle, we’re big fans of Zombicide: 2nd Edition. We raved about it in our review, we ranked it highly in our list of the 15 Best Dungeon Crawlers and we even enjoyed the stupid digital spin-off. Heck, we love CMON’s zombie blaster so much that we even painted our entire collection of miniatures.

2 weeks ago | bigbossbattle.com | Matthew Smail

Share As far as remakes and remasters go, we’re now firmly into the realms of remasters of re-releases of remakes that often came out ten or more years ago. This concept is strange to me, since whilst I often feel like I’m still a spritely teenager, I often go on to realise that I am playing a game that I first experienced more than twenty years ago.

2 weeks ago | bigbossbattle.com | Matthew Smail

Share War has never been a particularly lightweight topic, but it remains an important one. Human beings are fascinated by conflict and as a result, the global wars of the 20th Century remain some of the most popular themes for both board and video games in equal measure.

2 weeks ago | bigbossbattle.com | Matthew Smail

Share As reliable as your favourite mug, Days of Wonder followed on from the successes of Ticket to Ride, Five Tribes, Smallworld and Memoir ‘44 when it released HEAT back in 2023.