![]() ![]() ![]() Take the Patronage action and it’s something of a potpourri that either involves taking a free action seen elsewhere or snagging a valuable card if its requirements can be met.Improve Printing House (this is the fun gear part of the game you’ve likely heard about).Develop Specialties, which involves moving up tracks belonging to four icons.Take Inks to use on refinements for these orders.At the beginning of the game, the board will be set up with available cards that players can acquire. Gutenberg is a drafting-ish, auction-ish game in which players are attempting to gather the necessary equipment to fulfill various aspects of printing orders. My disappointment was at an all-time high and-after sending another sternly worded email to Tony-I begrudgingly sat down to try out this one- to four-player game that takes about 90 minutes to play. ![]() It’s called Gutenberg (one less “t” in there) and is about some much less famous guy who invented a printing press in the 15th century or something. “Why wasn’t I being given a game based on the life and career of beloved 80s actor Steve Guttenberg?” I angrily contacted our benevolent publisher about this oversight (there was even an HR meeting to address the tone with which my email was sent) and a few days later I was well on my way to reviewing a game that, presumably, would involve behind the scenes high jinks on the set of the Police Academy franchise.īut to my surprise, Katarzyna Cioch and Wojciech Wisniewski’s design has nothing to do with the actor at all. But-for some reason-the game Guttenberg wasn’t immediately sent to my desk after it arrived at BGQ headquarters. As Board Game Quest’s resident movie person, I’m always the first person handed cinematic tie-in games. ![]()
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