Tabletop Strategist

Splendor is a easy to learn game that teaches players a lot about strategy which can be applied in multiple games.  That strategy is Opportunity Cost.  In the Business World, the Opportunity Cost of an Action or Item is the time/skill/cash lost by making a decision.  For example, you're at a Seminar and there are two classes you would like to see. Unfortunately these classes are at the same time and you can only be in one place.  The class you decide to see comes with the Opportunity Cost of not seeing the other class.  Hope that helps clarify rather than muddle for you. In Splendor, you can take a limited amount of actions, each of which comes with an Opportunity Cost. Those actions are: Pick up a set of three different tokens Pick up two of the same token Pick a wild token and reserve a card Purchase a card with tokens Just looking at the options may not show the best route to take, nor will it be obvious without a time frame to spread those optio...

Charging into the fray the barbarian took three hasty strikes from the startled Goblins before leveling them with his battle axe.  Looking forward he saw a far nastier threat.  From within he felt his heart take courage and his health bolstered he charged forward again renewed by a spell cast by the wizard behind him. That's the idea behind a Meat Shield.  Someone who can take the hits for your more vulnerable team members.  In something like DnD you've got characters that act much like tanks, charging into the fray and taking the attention of the enemy off the rest of the crew.  Left alone such a reckless soul wouldn't last too long.  However, thanks to magical spells or other effects, the other players can keep the tank running while others take long shots with ranged weapons to assist in dealing damage. In Gloomhaven, a Scoundrel can be a particularly good character as a Meat Shield, not because of a high health level, but because most of their car...

The KILL BOX Strategy - Gloomhaven The Kill Box Strategy has its use in all types of simulated combat.  Hell, it has been used by generals for ages.  I decided to use this particular scenario from Gloomhaven as it shows the dangers that can come from using it in your tabletop strategy and how to avoid them. Screenshot from online.flippingbook.com My own team used the shack on the bottom right as our Kill Box in this scenario and we came close to losing because of it.  We play with a Tinkerer who can set a proximity mine, this is really nice for the scenarios where the enemy is in hot pursuit.  True we had some bad luck but the Guards kept drawing cards with no movement so they took forever to reach us and we had to burn through our cards without them giving us an advantage. Where we ended up after all was said and done. As you can see here, the Cragheart and the Scoundrel rushed out to finish off the remaining enemies with our last two cards. ...