Cave Troll

Dressing up a simple game with awesome bits is a practice that I’m beginning to warm up to.  If you read my review of Big City, you’ll see a good simple game that’s gussied up with amusing pieces can be a lot of fun.

Such is the case with Cave Troll, a game that boils down to an easy to learn area control affair.  The first edition of the game came with cards, a board, and cardboard chits representing a player’s monsters and heroes.  I remember playing this version awhile The new edition comes with plastic figures instead of chits, which goes a long way in making the game more viscerally pleasing.  here’s just something awesome about moving your orc into a room and promptly beheading one of your opponents dudes, but it’s made even more cathartic when you can handle the actual figures and make things dead.

Cave Troll is straight-forward, relatively short, and a lot of fun.  Also, it can be found fairly cheaply, so there’s there lots of incentives to pick up this little gem.  Did I mention that your orc can kill opponent’s figures?  Because that’s pretty cool.