Last night I got in a couple games:
Shadow of the Sun - A Small Box Games game set in the city of Hemloch where the days and nights are each years long. This game take place over the final 8 days of daylight, where different houses fight for influence over the 4 different districts in Hemloch. There are 4 different types of minions, with 10 copies of each in the deck, as well as 4 wild cards. Each day/round, players take turns using cards they've drawn to get influence markers in the different districts, as well as trying to usurp other players pieces (battle to swap pieces on a district), assassinate others' pieces and have large "struggles"/battle at the end of the day to add free influence to a district. Many different ways to use the cards in this game, as is typical in a John Clowdus game.
One of the guys in the group does game reviews and occasionally gets games sent to him for review. Level 99 Games sent him a copy of
Argent: The Consortium, so we played it last night. It's a pretty awesome game where you are at a magic school and trying to win votes of chancellors or whatever. It's a worker placement game in how you obtain various things you need, but it has different colored workers that have different abilities of their own. You start out with 2 workers of your color based on the character you choose, but then you draft 3 more at the beginning of the game in order to get to use the different abilities. There are spell cards you can gain with different levels of spells you can cast to help yourself or hurt others, there are supporter cards that have various people to give you aid with their special powers and there are vault cards that can be treasures or spells (one time or ongoing) that can help you/hurt others. For a worker placement game, it is very thematic and has several paths to victory.
