Rallyman: GT

Rallyman is a bit of a mix between the simple Ave Caesar and the more thinky Thunder Alley. You have to be clever in how you play your dice, and approach the circuit and the other cars on the track but it’s also about taking chances at the right times. And when someone makes a schoolboy error by exiting a corner in the wrong space it can generate a great deal of (playful) ribbing and ridicule

The systems that are really fun and thematic in the original Rallyman/Dirt don't translate well at all to a head-to-head 'normal' race. The game creates too many weird/un-thematic situations because of it, and a lot of the fun/tactics of the push-your-luck from the time trial versions of the game is removed.

I am choosing this over Formula D for my go-to race car game. I have unlimited track variations, and each turn takes more thought into it's planning. TIP: Go to your local fabric store and purchase a couple yards of felt material to put on the table to keep the hex pieces from moving.

Engaging multiplayer game with plenty of tactical depth, but numerous rules quirks undermine its theme. While the implementation of gears and blocking doesn't make sense for a racing game, it results in a competitive movement puzzle that is both challenging and frustrating.

pure dice luck feast, there are much better racing games...

BGBliss février 2019

(EDIT: I have played a second game with two players, both of us controlling two cars, and it was much more fun! We played a trickier track and the other player loves driving games so the challenge and excitement was high).

There is a lot of surprising strategy in this game. What seems at first to be a few simple options become much more interesting when you better understand the tricks you can play with your dice. And when do you go all out? When do you try to roll that one last gear?

With multiple players this gets VERY tricky with the passing and the "going first" rules. So at first glance the "vanilla" solo game would seem to be sort of boring.

But the way of calculating your times is pretty darn nifty, and when you're trying to beat your last score you are forced out of your comfort zone. In the same way that playing with other players forces you to press your luck, so does the solo game.

'm recording my scores and exploring all 28 tracks in the base game and two of the expansions.

Game is played quite easily and goes quick. Planning, risk and reward.

Added 6 F1 cars in respective colours, sheets downloaded from BGG