Videos from Spielwarenmesse 2015 VI: Broom Service, Stichling, Tausch Rausch & Drachenhort

Videos from Spielwarenmesse 2015 VI: Broom Service, Stichling, Tausch Rausch & Drachenhort
Board Game: Broom Service
• Game publishing is a funny business. Andreas Pelikan's Witch's Brew is in high demand for a reprint and sells regularly for $60-80 on the BGG marketplace, yet German-language copies are priced in the €20-25 range and I recall seeing them on clearance for (I think) €10 at Spiel several years ago. I imagine that dichotomy in the marketplace makes it tough for publisher alea to think about reprinting the game since one market appears to be saturated while another is dry.

Perhaps that's what has led alea to decide to publish Broom Service in 2015. This game, from Pelikan and Alexander Pfister, takes the card-based role-selection core of Witch's Brew and plants it inside another game, a game still bearing a witchy theme but one in which you're trying to deliver potions across the land by outguessing and outplanning what others will do.





Board Game: Tausch Rausch
• When I mentioned Rüdiger Dorn on BGG News in January 2015, I noted that he "is not normally associated with cute family games", after which someone reminded me of his authorship of the great dice game Las Vegas from alea, and now here I am with a video of his card game Tausch Rausch from Ravensburger, which reminded me of an earlier excellent Ravensburger release of his: Jetzt schlägt's 13, a light card game that few people seem to enjoy as much as I do. All I'm saying is that I need to recall in the future that Dorn hits homers to both sides of the playing field.





Board Game: Monster Trick
• Most of Ralf zur Linde's published games have been co-designs, such as Finca, Milestones and the SdJ-nominated Eselsbrücke, but he designs games on his own, too, with the latest such publication being the trick-taking card game Stichling from Ravensburger.





Board Game: Drachenhort
• Ravensburger has two titles due out in 2015 from designer Reiner Knizia, and I neglected to record a video about one of them — Captain Black — as it's a King Arthur-style board game with electronics that speak to you only in German and it's unlikely to ever be released in the U.S. due to previous sales efforts of such titles in that country, but then I forgot to take pictures of it as well to at least represent it in some manner. Sigh...

I did, though, record a video of Drachenhort, which is reminiscent of Heimlich & Co. in how the figures on the game board are linked to players, but no one knows who is linked to whom — until you start taking actions in the game, of course, perhaps revealing who you want to succeed.

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