With Fort, there’s now an opportunity for those in the know to get a hold of this wonderful design once again, as well as a chance for newcomers to partake! Grant Rodiek’s original design is refreshed and reimagined, and with the help of Leder’s own Nick Brachmann the game now takes on the theme of kids competing to build the best fort in the neighborhood. This game, regrettably, was well out of my reach by the time I’d come across the name. I’ve not played SPQF myself, due mainly to the aforementioned difficulty in tracking down a title at anything close to a reasonable cost.

It was a game where players built empires by layering in cards near a small player board, attempting to out-build their opponents in some rather cute artwork and clever gameplay themed around creatures of the forest ala ancient Rome (hence the “F” in the abbreviation). But is it for you? That’s always the bigger question, isn’t it? Let’s have a look.įort is something of a second iteration of an older game called SPQF, a pun on the abbreviation SPQR (roughly meaning “the senate and the people of Rome”). You’d get Fort, and it’s this humble reviewer’s opinion that if you’re the type who hates waiting for games to go to reprint, you’ll want to consider getting on this preorder for sure.

Now reimagine it with a fresh theme and artwork and produced in Leder’s signature style of high quality components. Now make that game a reworking of a title that’s something of a cult classic in the hobby, beloved by many but nearly impossible to find a copy of. But what if we cut out the Kickstarter this time and saw them funding a game straight to retail themselves. From the continued content snatched up for the ever-popular woodland wargame, Root, to the buffed up designs of Vast’s new standalone game, The Mysterious Manner, Leder Games has set itself a reputation of publishing terrific titles with killer components. It might be a bit of an understatement to say that Leder Games has been on a roll lately.

Forts game review