Asmodee News, Reviews, Videos, Opinions – Big Boss Battle (B3) Gaming News, Reviews & Opinions Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:34:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://s3-b3bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/29090054/cropped-B3-Fav-32x32.jpg Asmodee News, Reviews, Videos, Opinions – Big Boss Battle (B3) 32 32 Arkham Horror The Card Game Chapter Two Core Set Review – A Perfect Starting Point? https://bigbossbattle.com/arkham-horror-card-game-chapter-two-core-set-review/ https://bigbossbattle.com/arkham-horror-card-game-chapter-two-core-set-review/#respond Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:00:08 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=90904 There are games that invite you to sit around a comfy table with friends and enjoy a pleasant evening full of laughs and light-hearted competition. Then there is Arkham Horror: The Card Game. This one hands you a flickering lantern, leans in just a little too close, whispers something deeply unsettling about things man was not […]

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]]> https://bigbossbattle.com/arkham-horror-card-game-chapter-two-core-set-review/feed/ 0 If you like accessible strategy games then this is Dewan you want! https://bigbossbattle.com/dewan-review/ https://bigbossbattle.com/dewan-review/#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:00:09 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=90630 Dewan, from designers Johannes Goupy and Yoann Levet and published by Space Cowboys, is an attractive, thematic strategy game that blends straightforward yet crunchy mechanics with a gentle post-apocalyptic story.  It’s clean, elegant, and intuitively understandable, yet the decisions it presents are consistently interesting. What elevates Dewan beyond a typical spatial puzzle is the way […]

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]]> https://bigbossbattle.com/dewan-review/feed/ 0 Star Wars Unlimited – A Lawless Time Preview https://bigbossbattle.com/star-wars-unlimited-a-lawless-time-preview/ https://bigbossbattle.com/star-wars-unlimited-a-lawless-time-preview/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:42:09 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=90621 Disney’s relatively new Star Wars: Unlimited TCG may have flown under the radar for some, as It certainly had for me, but I was delighted to have a chance to learn and play with the new A Lawless Time cards and build a deck to play against some of the scenes more veteran players at […]

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]]> https://bigbossbattle.com/star-wars-unlimited-a-lawless-time-preview/feed/ 0 Company of Heroes: 2nd Edition is a near-perfect rendition of the video game https://bigbossbattle.com/company-of-heroes-2nd-edition-review/ https://bigbossbattle.com/company-of-heroes-2nd-edition-review/#respond Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:25:21 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=90232 Company of Heroes: 2nd Edition is one of the most ambitious real‑time‑strategy‑to‑tabletop adaptations that I’ve ever come across, and the latest (second) edition shows just how far Bad Crow Games has gone to refine, rebalance, and expand the original design. It’s a dense, highly tactical World War II wargame that mirrors the structure, pacing, and […]

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]]> https://bigbossbattle.com/company-of-heroes-2nd-edition-review/feed/ 0 The B3 Guide to Painting Miniatures – for Complete Novices https://bigbossbattle.com/guide-painting-miniatures-novices/ https://bigbossbattle.com/guide-painting-miniatures-novices/#comments Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:00:29 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=84816 Today, we’re going to write about something a little bit different to usual. We cover a lot of miniature board games here, but you may have noticed that it’s been a long time since any of those games had painted models. Well, that’s hopefully going to change — because I’ve started painting and I’d like […]

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]]> https://bigbossbattle.com/guide-painting-miniatures-novices/feed/ 2 Marvel United – Your ever-expanding guide to the multiverse of CMON’s cooperative battler https://bigbossbattle.com/marvel-united-review/ https://bigbossbattle.com/marvel-united-review/#comments Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:00:59 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=84738 Despite three seasons of gigantic Kickstarters, Marvel United might be one of the best games that you’ve probably never heard of. Originally designed by Eric M. Lang and Andrea Chiarvesio and published by CMON, this solo, cooperative or competitive battler offers simple rules, fantastic, highly stylised miniatures, and varied, challenging gameplay.  In this piece, we’re […]

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]]> https://bigbossbattle.com/marvel-united-review/feed/ 2 Your Complete Guide to Zombicide: White Death https://bigbossbattle.com/your-complete-guide-to-zombicide-white-death/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:00:01 +0000 https://bigbossbattle.com/?p=84684 Anyone who has read my reviews of Zombicide: Second Edition or my recent 14 Best Dungeon Crawlers article will already know that I am a big fan of the Zombicide system. Zombicide is a series of cooperative, zombie-bashing miniatures games that brings simple rules, fast-pacing and occasionally, a challenging difficulty level to your tabletop. Zombicide: […]

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]]> 7 Wonders Duel – Pantheon and Agora Expansion Reviews https://bigbossbattle.com/7-wonders-duel-pantheon-and-agora-expansion-review/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 14:00:11 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=78683 I’ve already sung the praises of 7 Wonders Second Edition over in our separate review, and I am certainly guilty of considering it to be among the “very best” games that you could have in your collection. But, if 7 Wonders Second Edition has a downside, it’s that it is played with a minimum of three […]

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]]> 7 Wonders Edifice Expansion – also featuring Cities, Armada and Leaders https://bigbossbattle.com/7-wonders-edifice-expansion-review/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:00:14 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=78648 7 Wonders Second Edition is one of the most iconic and well-loved board games of the modern era, currently occupying a space well inside the BoardGameGeek Top 100 games of all time list – and just outside the Top 10 of specific, family-weight games. It is little surprise then that 7 Wonders Second Edition already features […]

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]]> February is 7 Wonders Month – Find out what makes this such a classic series! https://bigbossbattle.com/7-wonders-month-february-asmodee/ https://bigbossbattle.com/7-wonders-month-february-asmodee/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2023 11:07:40 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=78560 With the excitement of Christmas long behind us and the chilly darkness of Winter still in full swing, February can feel something of a dower month at times. That said, as we look for the positives — like the fact that spring is just around the corner — there’s still plenty of long, dark nights […]

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]]> https://bigbossbattle.com/7-wonders-month-february-asmodee/feed/ 27 7 Wonders Architects: Easily one of the top seven gateway games https://bigbossbattle.com/7-wonders-architects-easily-one-of-the-top-seven-gateway-games/ https://bigbossbattle.com/7-wonders-architects-easily-one-of-the-top-seven-gateway-games/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:00:22 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=74804 Board games are so vast, so luscious and so packed with interlocking mechanisms these days that I’m beginning to wonder whether making a game that is both simple and brilliant might not be the true sign of a masterful designer. Up step Antoine Bauza; already the designer of many great games, with 7 Wonders: Architects, […]

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]]> https://bigbossbattle.com/7-wonders-architects-easily-one-of-the-top-seven-gateway-games/feed/ 16 7 Wonders Duel is the essential two player hobby game https://bigbossbattle.com/7-wonders-duel-is-the-essential-two-player-hobby-game/ https://bigbossbattle.com/7-wonders-duel-is-the-essential-two-player-hobby-game/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2020 14:00:07 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=71606 Whilst I admit that I’ve been something of an evangelist towards two-player board games recently, I couldn’t help but feel disappointed that the new 7 Wonders: Second Edition strips out all two-player variants entirely. That is only because, since the release of the original 7 Wonders, a dedicated two-player variant called 7 Wonders Duel has […]

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]]> https://bigbossbattle.com/7-wonders-duel-is-the-essential-two-player-hobby-game/feed/ 12 Alubari: A Nice Cup of Tea is far more intense than it sounds https://bigbossbattle.com/alubari-a-nice-cup-of-tea-is-far-more-intense-than-it-sounds/ Fri, 12 Jun 2020 13:00:26 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=68379 If you’re familiar with a popular worked placement game called Snowdonia, then it would probably suffice to say that the subject of today’s review, Alubari: a Nice Cup of Tea, is more or less the same game but set in India. Sadly though, whilst I’ve read that elsewhere, I haven’t actually played Snowdonia and so […]

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]]> Mage Knight Ultimate Edition review — Reach for the skyrim https://bigbossbattle.com/mage-knight-ultimate-edition-review-reach-for-the-skyrim/ https://bigbossbattle.com/mage-knight-ultimate-edition-review-reach-for-the-skyrim/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:00:58 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=57737 A sprawling tabletop RPG, Mage Knight is a deep and enjoyable experience.

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]]> https://bigbossbattle.com/mage-knight-ultimate-edition-review-reach-for-the-skyrim/feed/ 3 Takenoko — Build bamboo and eat it up https://bigbossbattle.com/takenoko-build-bamboo-and-eat-it-up/ https://bigbossbattle.com/takenoko-build-bamboo-and-eat-it-up/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2018 11:00:30 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=57260 Takenoko is a surefire family favorite, a game that many, many people have heard of and played previously.

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]]> https://bigbossbattle.com/takenoko-build-bamboo-and-eat-it-up/feed/ 1 The River review — Without a paddle? https://bigbossbattle.com/the-river-review-without-a-paddle/ Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:00:09 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=54991 Become a mayor and build the best riverside town you can.

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]]> B3’s Festival of Tabletop gaming — Win a copy of Sailing Towards Osiris https://bigbossbattle.com/b3s-festival-of-tabletop-gaming-win-a-copy-of-sailing-towards-osiris/ Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:00:37 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=54795 A celebration of tabletop, and the details on our competition, within.

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]]> Ice Cool review — F-F-F-Flick up a penguin! https://bigbossbattle.com/ice-cool-review/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:00:32 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=45793 Play it cool in this simple but fun game from Brain Games, winner of the Essen games festival's Children's Game of the Year award

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]]> Coaster Park review https://bigbossbattle.com/review-coaster-park/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:00:31 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=44702 It's cardboard coaster time for us in Coaster Park, but can this game's marble-rolling fun cut through all its excess baggage?

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]]> Review | Shipwrights of the North Sea https://bigbossbattle.com/shipwrights-of-the-north-sea-review/ Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:00:58 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=44122 Build yourself some ships worthy of the great seas in resource-management card game Shipwrights of the North Sea, but beware the sabotage of your fellow vikings.

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]]> Review | Cry Havoc https://bigbossbattle.com/review-cry-havoc/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:00:08 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=43682 A well-rounded board game with a scoring system that rewards constant aggression and tactical thinking.

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]]> Review | Majesty: For the Realm https://bigbossbattle.com/review-majesty-for-the-realm/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:00:09 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=42083 We sit down with the highly accessible card game Majesty: For the Realm, which features some interesting (and potentially frustrating) combat rules.

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]]> Review | Azul https://bigbossbattle.com/azul-review/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:00:22 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=38930 Colour the board with mosaic tiles in Azul, an easy-to-learn board game inspired by Moorish azulejos mosaics.

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]]> Review | Ticket to Ride: France and the Old West Expansion https://bigbossbattle.com/ticket-ride-france-old-west-expansion/ https://bigbossbattle.com/ticket-ride-france-old-west-expansion/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2017 15:00:34 +0000 http://18.134.249.59/?p=37955 There's some bluffing involved as we encounter new rules in Ticket to Ride's massive expansion boards, France and the Old West.

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]]> https://bigbossbattle.com/ticket-ride-france-old-west-expansion/feed/ 2 Review | Dobble Beach https://bigbossbattle.com/review-dobble-beach/ Mon, 29 May 2017 11:30:20 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=32460 Time to get wet! It's Dobble Beach time!

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]]> Review | Timeline: British History https://bigbossbattle.com/tabletop-review-timeline-british-history/ Fri, 26 May 2017 06:59:29 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=32393 It's a history lesson, but more fun

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