Reiner Knizia designs board games with the same frequency that most people play them; he’s almost certainly the most prolific creator of games ever. Often, he does this by riffing hard on previous hits to put out something new, but Iliad, based loosely on Homer’s Greek epic of the same name, is a completely fresh design for him, with no obvious thematic or mechanical links to his main body of work. He’s also responsible for some stone-cold classics, among the best board games ever designed, so: is his newest offering fit to join them, or is it as forgettable as the King of Troy?
