Brian Yu is 33 years of age living in Los Angeles, California. He has been at Mattel for 9 years and has been enjoying his dream job that is designing board games for Mattel.

Yu and his brother, Dale have been playing games since childhood. Dale would encourage Yu on Saturday mornings to play Axis & Allies or Conquest of the Empire on the dining room table. He recalls enjoying a good amount of the Game Master Series games, the requisite games of Monopoly and other mass market games with him. He also has fond memories of an old TSR tank battle game called Sirocco.

With the arrival of home video games, Yu moved away from board games. He played plenty starting with the NES and continuing to the 360 and PS3.

In 1995, Yu got to know about The Settlers of Catan through a friend. He felt it was a revelation, but couldn’t make a connection. It was most likely an irregularity and he was happy to play it, but never thought to seek for more games like it. Later, Dale got Christmas Linie 1 and Fossil board games which Yu began playing. He was hooked, but still not a full nerd yet. Yu never got his own games but used to wait for Dale to return from college with new games and they would play during holidays.

Yu met a friend, Dan Sanfilippo who was an industrial designer and he had an internship with Hasbro. He offered him a job there. Yu went and applied for an internship for the next quarter, but was turned away since he wasn’t an Industrial Design major. Luckily, Yu got a job at Mattel and everything worked itself out in the end.

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What can be more interesting than a strategy based board game with miners, spy, captain Marshals, and foot soldiers to play with! In this game you have to safeguard you flag from them (the enemies) by surrounding it with bombs. The strategy is to block the enemy from entering and capturing the flag, and if there are more bombs without any miners; it becomes impossible from them to make an entry. Thus you chance of winning the game are doubled.

The simplest way to plant bombs while you make a progress forward towards the enemy line is using spies. Spies are the ones used to plant bombs. The identity of the spy should be maintained till it is possible.  If the spy is identified by the opponent they become aware of the location of the bomb, and also if the spy is a casualty of the ongoing war, the Marshal of the opposing team gains more power.

The most basic thing to do is to keep a keen eye on the placement of opponent’s pieces. A quick look and you will have a fair amount of idea as to what the strategy could be. If some of the pieces on his side aren’t moved for a very long time guess can be made as for the location of the planted bomb. Use this same trick cunningly and move your own pieces so as not to hint the same at the opponent. Marshals and Generals are the soul of the colonies and preserving them is a priority. Don’t let them venture into any territory without some support.

Scouts are the last of the pieces that remain and become increasingly powerful as the game nears an end. At the start of the game, these scouts; few of them should be placed in the rear ranks. This will help when the need arises.

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