by mupdan
Our first Runewars game lasted almost 4 hours, but play time does get shorter with repeated plays. It's simple to play, but there's a lot of rulebook checking at first, as you'd expect with Fantasy Flight games. It's always been enjoyable, though, with everyone involved at all times, so there was never a feeling that it was too long. Just something you should be aware of before your first game. :)It's definitely faster paced than Mage Knight, but you can't really compare the two. Runewars definitely sounds closer to what you're looking for, though. Mage Knight doesn't really have any area control, it's more an adventure game across an explorable map, with very little player interaction. Runewars is very much more a conquest type game, where you try to control runes spread across the board.