SPIEL '19 Game Preview: Last Bastion, or All Along the Watchtower

SPIEL '19 Game Preview: Last Bastion, or All Along the Watchtower
Board Game: Ghost Stories
Board Game: Last Bastion
I have a few tasks still to do for SPIEL '19, so I must let this video overview of Antoine Bauza's Last Bastion — a new standalone game from Repos Production based on his Ghost Stories from 2008 — also be standalone.

Short take: Last Bastion presents the same challenge as Ghost Stories with a streamlined engine that had us playing without questions about the rules — only questions about whether we would survive.


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