Legends of Nerdvana - Boardgame Review

Expand your lands by filling in little boxes in Imperial Settlers Roll & Write. Imperial Settlers is among Randrac's Top 10 games--does the Roll & Write version live up to the original? Join Randrac and Dragonmother and find out! 0:00 Introduction 0:44 Quality of Components 2:33 Theme 3:32 Rulebook 5:10 Gameplay

Asgard is at war (and really, when is it not?) in Thunder & Lightning, a 2 player card game in the vein of Stratego. Join Dragonmother and Randrac as they see if it Ragna-rocks. 0:00 Introduction 0:32 Quality of Components 1:54 Theme 3:09 Rulebook 4:42 Gameplay

Westward ho! Join the Gold Rush and head to Californ-i-a with the Nerdvana crew as they explore this deck builder with a unique action track mechanic. 0:00 Introduction 1:12 Quality of Components 3:44 Theme 7:44 Rulebook 10:41 Gameplay

Explore Jupiter's moon, Europa, burrowing below the icy tundra to discover life below in The Artemis Project, a dice placement game with high player interaction. 0:00 Introduction 1:40 Quality of Components 7:14 Theme 9:37 Rulebook 11:18 Gameplay

Recruit a motley crew to steal a valuable artifact from an evil tyrant's ship and escape with your life in Clank! In! Space! a deck-building adventure game. 0:00 Introduction 1:28 Quality of Components 3:32 Theme 5:40 Rulebook 7:35 Gameplay

Combine Mah-Jongg with Azul and you have Dragon Castle, a light puzzle game of tile selection and placement. 0:00 Introduction 1:01 Quality of Components 2:24 Theme 4:50 Rulebook 6:06 Gameplay

Compete with your rivals to build a better bar in The Taverns of Tiefenthal, a deck building, dice drafting and placement game for 2-4 players that is light and easy to teach. 0:00 Introduction 1:10 Quality of Components 3:10 Theme 5:10 Rulebook 6:43 Gameplay

Travel across Asia with your legless camels in The Voyages of Marco Polo. Join Birdman, Randrac, and special guest Melissa as they discuss this dice placement, contract fulfillment game. 0:00 Introduction 1:22 Quality of Components 4:49 Theme 8:01 Rulebook 9:38 Gameplay

Ever want to work in a car assembly plant on your day off? Now you can! In Kanban, players assign workers to various roles of a manufacturing plant in an effort to prove their efficiency and please the moody HR Director. 0:00 Introduction 1:44 Quality of Components 3:18 Theme 5:39 Rulebook 9:02 Gameplay

Journey through time and betray your friends for personal gain in Innovation, a vicious card game of take that with a bit of engine building added to the mix. 0:00 Introduction 2:03 Quality of Components 3:28 Theme 4:49 Rulebook 5:50 Gameplay

Play Mancala in the Old West in A Fistful of Meeples, a simple action selection game from Final Frontier Games 0:00 Introduction 0:54 Quality of Components 1:45 Theme 2:17 Rulebook 3:48 Gameplay

Create a galactic museum of curios from the once great civilization known as Earth in Excavation Earth, a recently released pick up and deliver hand management and set collection game from the designer of Anachrony. 0:00 Introduction 1:12 Quality of Components 4:20 Theme 6:20 Rulebook 8:29 Gameplay

Join rival bike gangs and hold turf wars in Sons of Anarchy: Men of Mayhem. Oddly enough, this is not the only game in our collection that uses drink coasters as components, though it is the only one that treats them as action spaces. 0:00 Introduction 1:17 Quality of Components 3:49 Theme 6:11 Rulebook 7:15 Gameplay

Roll your way into architecting in Skyline, a light little dice chucking game of city construction that plays out in 15 minutes or less. 0:00 Introduction 1:31 Quality of Components 2:55 Theme 4:20 Rulebook 6:56 Gameplay

Join Randrac and Birdman as they journey across Europe in style aboard the Orient Express in this entry-level card drafting and tableau management game. All aboard! 0:00 Introduction 1:15 Quality of Components 2:15 Theme 5:08 Rulebook 9:21 Gameplay

First-time designer Tushar Kumar brings us this player vs. player card-based strategy game with a combat system built on rock/scissors/paper. Join Birdman and Randrac as they review this game that brings back fond memories of childhood bullying in high school. 0:00 Introduction 1:56 Quality of Components 5:29 Theme 7:49 Rulebook 11:13 Gameplay

It's Western Wednesday again y'all! Join the Nerdvana crew as we build a western town and get visited by outlaws in Saloon Tycoon. 0:00 Introduction 1:20 Quality of Components 3:23 Theme 8:17 Rulebook 10:32 Gameplay

We just could not wait to get this to the table! It is just too beautiful. Here is our review of this cutthroat worker placement game. 0:00 Introduction 2:20 Quality of Components 8:30 Theme 10:47 Rulebook 16:42 Gameplay

Build beautiful panoramas to please the gods of the pagoda in Four Gardens! Join Birdman and Randrac as they travel to the Far East in this entry-level tableau building, resource management game.

We just received our Kickstarter of Yedo Deluxe and could not wait to get it open! They did not even wait for Randrac, they were that excited. Join Birdman and Dragonmother as they unbox Randrac's copy of Yedo Deluxe. Without him.

Ever wanted to fight off an invading horde of monsters while playing Yahtzee? Well wait no longer! Join Dragonmother and Birdman with special guests Melissa and Meghan as they discuss this dice chucking, dragon slaying game. 0:00 Introduction 1:58 Quality of Components 5:42 Theme 7:23 Rulebook 10:52 Gameplay

Channel the forces of nature to cast magical spells and conjure powerful amulets in Seasons, a card drafting, die rolling game! Join Randrac and Dragonmother as they discuss this game that has spent far too long on the shelf. 0:00 Introduction 1:16 Quality of Components 3:25 Theme 5:23 Rulebook 7:16 Gameplay

Howdy folks! It's Western Wednesday! We kick off this hootenanny with Carson City: Big Box, a role selection worker placement game of town building. Yee-haw! 0:00 Introduction 1:31 Quality of Components 3:24 Theme 6:56 Rulebook 8:44 Gameplay

We finally got everything assembled and the stores were open for business! Join Randrac, Dragonmother, and Birdman as they discuss the pros and cons of this newly released, highly anticipated Kickstarter game. 0:00 Introduction 1:26 Quality of Components 6:51 Theme 8:56 Rulebook 13:52 Gameplay

Join Birdman and Dragonmother as they discuss their favorites from the Tiny Epic series in this wrap up to Birdman's Epic Saga! Stay with us as we now begin Western Wednesdays and we might just have another saga or two in the works!