Castles of Burgundy review
Fairly early in my obsession with this hobby, I was doing the common trawl of BoardGameGeek's Top 100 games. I'd open new tabs for each entry that interested me, and have a look at the general description and mechanisms involved. I never clicked on Castles of Burgundy. This was back in the day where I equated theme with fun, combat with satisfaction and dice with... well, I was pretty ambivalent about dice. But nevertheless, Ameritrash games were my jam. I'd read some testimonials about Castles of Burgundy on both BGG and Reddit, and couldn't really understand the appeal. I didn't care about castles (unless you were attacking or defending them) or Burgundy, and the general description of the game had me yawning. Over time, though, my interests began to change. I guess I can thank Agricola for showing me that Euros weren't all Carcassonne and Catan. Games like Great Western Trail, Archipelago and 51st State started to populate my shelf. And then finally, on