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Hive Carbon

Name: Hive Carbon
Brand: Gen42 Games
SKU: TCI21213
Price: 43.95 CAD
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Designer	John Yianni
Publisher	Gen42 Games
Players	2
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Expansion	Hive Carbon: The Pillbug Expansion
Additional Info	154597/hive-pocket http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1521414/hive-pocket/reviews

We are proud to announce this special edition Hive Carbon. This game is still the same as our award winning flagship Hive® game, but with a Carbon twist which is an alternative to the existing set of pieces for those who prefer a classic black and white colour scheme. Included with this edition will be the infamous mosquito piece an a very special ladybug piece.

Hive is an award winning board game with a difference. There is no board. The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board. As more and more pieces are added the game becomes a fight to see who can be the first to capture the opposing Queen Bee.

The soldier ants battle to keep control of the outside of the hive, whilst the Beetles climb up to dominate the top. Spiders moving into holding positions as the Grass Hoppers jump in for the kill. Keeping one eye on the hive and the other on your opponents reserves, the tension builds as one wrong move will see your Queen Bee quickly engulfed; .... game over!

Beautiful game...

It arrived in about a week, solid "checkers", perfect for outdoor play.

Very good

8\10

Brilliant Abstract

A quick playing chess-killer with beautiful components. Chess is great if you can dedicate your life to it, but with Hive you can enjoy a chess-like experience that is a lot more fun, and gives you time to learn and play your new euro games too!

Better than Chess!

I grew up playing Chess and have enjoyed it but was loosing my love for it.. so was I ever surprised when I found a game that was similar to chess but didn't use a board and could be played anywhere, even in the rain!! Like Chess, the game is easy to teach but difficult to master with each piece having it's own movement ability. Unlike chess there is no set board and the pieces move around (or on top) of each other until a queen bee piece is completely surrounded. The Carbon edition comes with expansions and I really love the professional Black and White look of this game. A great game for anyone that likes strategic no-luck games!!

Fabulous

Without question one of my favourite games ever - beautiful and satisfying components and a very fun strategy game that is (mostly) easy to travel with! Fair warning: My last trip on a plane resulted in the game being taken out of my bag and searched, something about the way it scans or something.

Kelp: fun but a bit lopsided

My partner and I have played this a couple times from both roles and while it’s fun, it definitely feels like the odds are stacked perhaps a little too heavily against the shark. Because of this, it can be tough to convince people to play as it sort of feels like you already know who is going to win by which character you get. That said, I will still continue to play it for the challenge of trying to win with the shark…it will likely just not feature very heavily in my two player game rotation.

Tous ceux avec qui j'ai joué l'ont adoré!

Pour moi j'ai acheté les boitiers rouge et violet afin de jouer avec plus de personnes et ensuite j'ai acheté le coffret Deluxe pour l'offrir en cadeau.

Great game!

A great shedding game where you play poker hands and power cards.

Nightfall Lite but Not Nightfall 2.0

If you liked Nightfall, but thought individual creature combat was too tedious? You'll probably like this.

If you liked Nightfall but thought the game was too slow to ramp up, or too long to finish/hand out all wounds, you'll like this.

If you thought Nightfall's "Private Archive" claims ended to overpower the game based on luck of the draw, you'll like Unchained's 3x3 market grid.
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As far as deck builders go, I like Unchained. It will take awhile to really know the card power combos. The symbols look overwhelming at first, but are kind of intuitive once you're used to how the cards work. Combat is total offense vs total defense and result is one fatigue (wound). So no MTG-ish "creature 1 attacks player B and creature 2 takes 3 wounds against player C." It does speed up and simplify the game a lot. The 3x3 card market is brilliant. You can get cards you want and/or clear out cards you don't want your opponents to get. Much more variety of cards to cycle through than 8+2 archives = 10 cards to choose from per game.

Solid 4/5 all around. I'd give 5/5 if there was a happy medium in combat between Nightfall and Unchained. Not as super simplified as Unchained, but not like Nightfall's individual cards combat. Maybe a power on some cards "stays in play after combat" so there's a larger chance of different strategies than "I punch you, you punch me, repeat"

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