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Lord Frisk posted:Fair enough. I know gently caress all about warhammer outside of shoulder pads and skulls. Still plenty of shoulder pads and skulls in WFB, just not scifi ones. I really must play CItOW some time, I understand it's supposed ot be really good.
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Mega64 posted:Next up I busted up a three-player game of Quantum with a different player. I was impressed by how well-designed everything looked. I really liked how the values of the ship were important in a way that you don't want just low or high-valued ships, and that changing them was a big part of the game. I was also impressed by how useful both sets of cards were, as they changed the direction of the game at one point, where the other player and I used the cards that removed upgrades on the third player, who had four cubes out and was one Dominance away from winning with her fifth, letting the second player beat her up in combat and knock her Dominance down. It actually got turned around a bit and I managed to catch up by claiming a planet and then grabbing the card to move a cube away so I could be set to take it again, but the third player managed to win again with Dominance. The second player was so impressed with the game, she later got another group to give it a try. I really like how quick and elegant it is, and look forward to playing it more. Rules Answer: Yes. The main thing to keep in mind is that cards happen at the end of your turn so you cannot, for example, place a cube for an Expansion card and use that ship in your third action. Looks like you didn't make that mistake, but I've had it come up before. Bonus rules violation: You cannot use Relocate to move your own cubes, specifically to avoid those situations where you can place another next turn without moving any ships. It's a rather useful card to stymie opponents, but you need to do things like moving one of their cubes onto a planet they put a lot of effort into surrounding. Rule of thumb: Something I've kept in mind while learning the game: if a white card specifies something you thought always happened, check the rulebook. For example, I only learned that the attacker is not destroyed if they lose combat when I found a race ability that destroys the attacker when they lose combat.
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Lorini posted:Where do you live dude, we gotta meet up sometime Wrong coast  Alex WS posted:
There's also these. I've used them for a few games (Rosenberg, Splotter Spellen, etc) that have a tremendous amount of different pieces AND the box space for a connected "tube" of these dishes. I think I bought that pack I linked, or a very close equivalent, and found it good enough for 1-2 games. Which makes it a tad pricey to invest in for all games I'd find suitable, and at that it comes with a bunch of super-small size, inch diameter or so, that I find basically unusable. But my copies of Antiquity and Ora & Labora have used these since day 1 and I'm not inclined to switch them out.
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I have been playing Takenoko on BGA and been getting owned by people who have played a lot. The strategy seems to get ~6 objectives played and then hoard panda cards and food until the last turn.
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Some Numbers posted:That sounds like a really really watered down version of Battlestar Galactica. It does, but as someone who likes BSG I'd say that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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played more dominion as it is now all I want to do, one game tried to go BM/Council Room but then got cruelly pipped out at the end by my friend's giant clusterfuck of crap resulting in him hoovering up 10 gardens in two turns while I just failed to draw the coins to buy Provinces and end the game before he could pull it off. This game has really captured the hearts of me and a couple of friends, it's small playercount working to its advantage with regards to getting games going. Anyway, this is the part where I ask what expansions come recommended for Dominion because drat there's a lot of them and they all look pretty cool. Paging Broken Loose to the thread. We've been playing exclusively with the base set up to this point.
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Buying in release order works fine (Alchemy is skippable but it's worth proxying Apprentice if you do, on occasion), but for my money if you want to skip straight to an expansion that has a lot of interesting cards and really adds a lot of interesting ways to play, Hinterlands is probably the best, or Prosperity.
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:played more dominion as it is now all I want to do, one game tried to go BM/Council Room but then got cruelly pipped out at the end by my friend's giant clusterfuck of crap resulting in him hoovering up 10 gardens in two turns while I just failed to draw the coins to buy Provinces and end the game before he could pull it off. This game has really captured the hearts of me and a couple of friends, it's small playercount working to its advantage with regards to getting games going. Go in release order, but skip Alchemy. So that's Intrigue -> Seaside -> Prosperity. I don't know what came after Prosperity, because I was (and still am) burned out on Dominion.
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:Anyway, this is the part where I ask what expansions come recommended for Dominion because drat there's a lot of them and they all look pretty cool. Paging Broken Loose to the thread. We've been playing exclusively with the base set up to this point. I believe the standard advice is to buy expansions in publication order, skipping Alchemy. I would add that if you read about the expansions and any of them has a mechanical theme that appeals to you, go ahead and grab it (Seaside has more funky action combos, Prosperity has interesting treasure stuff and cards with 9+ cost, etc.). Dark Ages is complicated and should be saved for later (and I understand Guilds may be the same?). Dominion: Intrigue is the only stand-alone expansion, so I suggest skipping it if you think you can goad a friend into buying it later, then you don't have to.
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Work through the expansions in release order except Alchemy, save that for last. If there's a specific theme or playstyle you like then possibly reprioritise, e.g. Intrigue has more player interaction, Seaside has more long-term planning, Prosperity is about big money, Cornucopia is about having a variety of cards, etc.
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Some Numbers posted:Go in release order, but skip Alchemy. Before DA and Guilds I often heard "go in release order, but skip Seaside until the end and skip Alchemy altogether". Seaside's duration cards add a complication to the game mechanics that not everyone likes, and it's also the least thematically solid set.
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Cool, thanks guys. I'll probably spring for Intrigue and Prosperity (bish bosh loadsa dosh is pleasing to me) to play about with next time and go from there. It's a shame Alchemy isn't favourably received, I was looking forward to making endless potion seller jokes.
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Some Numbers posted:That sounds like a really really watered down version of Battlestar Galactica. Sounds more like a slightly more complicated reskin of Pandemic, to me. With a security guy that kills all the diseas...I mean, aliens, and lots of trading cards around. But hard to say without playing it.
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Some Numbers posted:I'm rather skeptical of a fully cooperative version of BSG with a ton of the rules removed. malkav11 posted:Sounds more like a slightly more complicated reskin of Pandemic, to me. With a security guy that kills all the diseas...I mean, aliens, and lots of trading cards around. But hard to say without playing it. I have yet to play either one of those games, so I can't comment on the similarities/discrepancies unfortunately. I can say though that this was my first time I've played a truly cooperative game (I played Betrayal at House on the Hill, but that didn't play like this one did) and I really enjoyed it. As much as I enjoy competitive games, I had a lot more fun playing this, and am looking forward to the next game night to play it again. It was really easy to pick up, maybe 10-15 minutes' worth of explanation, and each character card has a turn info cheat sheet on the back, so it wasn't unnecessarily difficult to keep track of gameplay either. If I get a chance to play BSG or Pandemic, I will definitely come back and do a quick comparison, but otherwise this is my only experience with this genre of boardgame.
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I played my first round of Stone Age the other night. It has a nice WP-light feel, a nice change-up from the crunchy WP games like Caverna/Belfort/Dungeon Petz that we usually play. I get the general flow of the game, though I'm not sure I have a good sense of strategy and was wondering if anybody had any tips? I had a close game with my friend (his first time playing too), he beat me out by about 10 points right at the end because he'd gotten all 8 of the technology symbols, while I'd concentrated more on huts, and cards which scored off of population or farming track. We were playing with the usual WP philosophy that recruiting more peeps is higher priority than everything else, so on alternate turns whichever of us was starting player visited the SEX HUT, while the other player went to the fields (+ farming track) or got a tool. Tools look super useful once you accumulate a few, but I'm not quite sure when/how to best prioritize them.
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More people is *not* the most important thing, early; generally you either go heavy tools (making every die count more) or heavy farms (and then recruit more people once you basically never have to send people to feed). In terms of points, you usually want a primary focus (tools, people, farms, huts) to go for the multipliers, and a secondary one, and try to get as many of the tech cards as you can, while you're at it. You can do heavy people and starve which is pretty hilarious as a strategy, but not for beginners.
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So maybe a bit off topic, but is there a way on BGG to combine the game collections of a few people into a master list? I'd like to have a list of games owned by my gaming group. Maybe be able to swap people in and out occasionally depending on who can show up? Mainly so if someone wants to play a certain game, they can look on the list and know who to ask to bring it.
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Skutter posted:I have yet to play either one of those games, so I can't comment on the similarities/discrepancies unfortunately. I can say though that this was my first time I've played a truly cooperative game (I played Betrayal at House on the Hill, but that didn't play like this one did) and I really enjoyed it. As much as I enjoy competitive games, I had a lot more fun playing this, and am looking forward to the next game night to play it again. It was really easy to pick up, maybe 10-15 minutes' worth of explanation, and each character card has a turn info cheat sheet on the back, so it wasn't unnecessarily difficult to keep track of gameplay either. If I get a chance to play BSG or Pandemic, I will definitely come back and do a quick comparison, but otherwise this is my only experience with this genre of boardgame. No offense but if you haven't played Space Alert your opinion on a 'co-operatively save a space ship from various dangers' board game is meaningless to me. This game does look more like Pandemic with more stuff in it though. The downtime must be pretty bad with 5+ players.
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Bubble-T posted:This game does look more like Pandemic with more stuff in it though. The downtime must be pretty bad with 5+ players. There was no point during the game where anyone was getting bored, checking the time, wondering when their turn was going to come. Play is pretty quick, turns are fast, and because everyone is participating pretty much every turn no matter who is going, it doesn't feel like there is any downtime. I've been meaning to play Space Alert, but so far I haven't been able to find anyone playing it during game night. v  vE: To explain myself a little better, a turn goes like this: -Decide on an action (Ex: Fix a broken system / Heal self / Research / Fix jump core / Collect skill point cards) -Move to location to perform that action (Ex: Go to Engineering to fix transporter, head to Medical Bay to heal self, go to the Armory to kill aliens/ships) -Spend skill points/free actions to complete action -Draw Alert Card and follow what it says (Ex: Add more aliens to the ship, break a ship system, add damage to the shields) -End turn It can get a little more complex than that depending on what Alert Card effects are in play, if you want to trade cards, if you want to stop the Alert Card from taking effect, but I felt it was simple enough to be easy to pick up and play, but not boring or dumb. If this game sounds like BSG, Pandemic and Space Alert, I'm definitely going to enjoy those because I really enjoyed this one. Skutter fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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QnoisX posted:So maybe a bit off topic, but is there a way on BGG to combine the game collections of a few people into a master list? I'd like to have a list of games owned by my gaming group. Maybe be able to swap people in and out occasionally depending on who can show up? Mainly so if someone wants to play a certain game, they can look on the list and know who to ask to bring it. Make a guild. There's programs that'll grab the data and let you sort via various filters and criteria.
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Gonna link the Hobby Lobby dominion box again because it really is the best solution by far for storage. [quote] Nevvy Z posted:Sure. It's not an ideal system right now because my sleeves are lovely and even 11 cards slide right out if I'm not careful, but you can organize it however you want within the box. My solution does lead to things bouncing around a bit and if it wears any cards noticeably I might have to do something about it, even if its just sticking a thing of foam down either side to make it flush. This is everything but alchemy because gently caress potions and gently caress alchemy. I managed to even fit 7 wonders into it with the rest of the stuff. In total it has 7W, Love Letter, Agricola ACG&S, Race for the Galaxy + AA, full Dominion except Alchemy because i really hate alchemy.  gently caress Hobby lobby but this thing rules, just screw out the part that goes in the top to make everything fit. http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/wooden-artist-case-125005/ Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:played more dominion as it is now all I want to do, one game tried to go BM/Council Room but then got cruelly pipped out at the end by my friend's giant clusterfuck of crap resulting in him hoovering up 10 gardens in two turns while I just failed to draw the coins to buy Provinces and end the game before he could pull it off. This game has really captured the hearts of me and a couple of friends, it's small playercount working to its advantage with regards to getting games going. Intrigue Seaside Prosperity Cornucopia Hinterlands Dark Ages Guilds Alchemy upcoming 2015 expansion basic synopses of each expansion (there's a Broken Loose post for that*): Broken Loose posted:In release order they are (and feature) Intrigue (cards with choices), Seaside (sustained actions), Alchemy (totally broken actions that require a unique resource), Prosperity (lots of money), Cornucopia (a wide variety of cards), Hinterlands (cards that act immediately upon gaining them), Dark Ages (manipulating the trash), and the final expansion Guilds (saved money and optional add-on purchases). PS: I see you people snickering about Chapel in the background, don't spoil that poo poo for them *TABLPFT
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Broken Loose posted:PS: I see you people snickering about Chapel in the background, don't spoil that poo poo for them i don't think chapel is a card we've even drawn yet when randomizing the board.
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i think my biggest regret of New Board Game Thread is the lack of a growing mass of aggregated space alert quotes in the op. edit: Aston posted:In summary, trying to train the battlebots in IT whilst they're revolting against you doesn't work. Spiggy posted:Sure- we may have died pretty horribly the next three games in a row, but it was probably one of the best experiences I've had in gaming in a long time. The highlight of the session was coordinating everyone to stare out the window during the final phase to celebrate our victory, only to discover that we didn't kill that destroyer which crashed into and destroyed the ship in that same round. Broken Loose posted:The Sitting Duck has: kaptainkaffeine posted:I wanna love space alert but when people lose horribly the first time they get all discouraged and don't want to hear "ok, the tutorial went ok, let's try the first mission" Putenbrust posted:Now the blue zone had four damage markers. And lucky me! The octopus (two life points left) did exactly two damage... jayquirk posted:Psssst... you don't need clones. That's for those other explorers. You can do it, you're good enough. You'll get your levels waaay faster. Don't you want to get levels? Fuligin posted:I thought space alert was just a goon meme until I finally got to play it with friends Casnorf posted:I got Space Alert the other week and even with all the general good feelings and hype surrounding it, I feel like it actually exceeded expectations. I absolutely cannot wait to play again. Sloober posted:It's all fun and games until your captain has a massive brain fart and accomplishes exactly zero of what he thought he was putting cards down for. (It's me, i'm the bad captain and instead of activating the crewbots and sealing the fissure in the hull I road the center lift up and down several times and looked out the window a couple times) homullus posted:Beat the two tutorial missions, then on the first simulation mission, communications officer (and the rest of us) learned that he should read the threat cards before firing the rockets twice on the major and minor asteroids converging on the ship. As chaotic as the "live" phase is, people were surprised at how tense the resolution phase felt. KiloVictorDongs posted:Got my friends together to play my first couple of rounds of space alert yesterday. Deceptive Thinker posted:Space Alert - just...wow gotta add all the new ones that have happened since, too Broken Loose fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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"Then our captain spent the entire first Advanced Sim going up and down the elevator and firing empty lasers at no targets" should just be printed on every single Space Alert box. On another note, I've played a bit more Dungeon Lords and even though I knew it was going to be good I am shocked at how accessible it is. My regular group is me, my wife, a friend and his fiance and as soon as I opened the box the girls were going from component to component gawking at how cute everything was and how good the art was. Every time someone got a new trap or looked at a combat card they had a chuckle to themself at a joke they knew nobody else could see yet. The little story explanations for every space in the rulebook make explaining things fantastically easy. Despite being a heavier, meaner game I actually think it was easier to teach and more inviting than Castles of Burgundy. It's also plays much faster than you'd expect looking at it. I should have bought Dungeon Petz a long time ago and now I can't find it anywhere. If they do an Anniversary edition of that one I'm buying it immediately.
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Broken Loose posted:i think my biggest regret of New Board Game Thread is the lack of a growing mass of aggregated space alert quotes in the op. This convinced me to buy the game. My bank account hates you.
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Nevvy Z posted:Gonna link the Hobby Lobby dominion box again because it really is the best solution by far for storage. After stuffing all those cards into a wooden box, can you even lift that thing without breaking your back ? Bubble-T posted:... Hoping for one this year, been out of print for so long.
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I've played Space Alert a few times with another goon, and had a good time. Thinking about picking it up finally. Should I get the expansion at the same time as well? Does it add a lot, or is it just upping the difficulty?
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echoMateria posted:After stuffing all those cards into a wooden box, can you even lift that thing without breaking your back ? 20.8 lbs.
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Is there any difference between Dungeon Lords retail and the anniversary edition from the KS?
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Ravendas posted:I've played Space Alert a few times with another goon, and had a good time. Thinking about picking it up finally. The expansion is godlike. It adds new white and yellow threats, RED-level threats, and then the other poo poo, which is mainly divided into 2 categories. (1) Campaign mode. You get a character sheet and make a persistent dude that levels up and stuff. The things you gain in this mode are all unauthorized equipment and modifications to the ship, so you can do things like open up wall panels to cross-wire the pulse cannon with any laser cannon on the ship, repair battlebots on the fly, give people stim injections that make them do heroic actions, concentrate really hard, do actual repairs with real tools instead of the automatic repair buttons, and so on. It's so perfect that I feel the base game is incomplete without it. (2) Double Actions missions. You know that bit I wrote about safety railings? Double Actions missions let you not use safety railings, and they have their own deck of Double Actions cards. These missions have their own audio tracks that up the number of encountered threats to balance out the extra actions the crew gets. Also there's other stuff! Badges for your crew members! A new way to fly interceptors! New tokens for when the A button breaks! Achievements! Ion Cannons*! Threats that summon other threats! A new set of Internal Threat number indicators! Stuff! *You don't get Ion Cannons. Enemies get Ion Cannons. Ion Cannons instantly knock out any crew member in a zone they hit if said zone is unshielded at the time.
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I have Dominion and 7 Wonders questions Dominion first; should I be using cheapy thin sleeves and attempting to keep everything fitting into the AMAZING box insert? Or should I shell out for nice sleeves that don't feel like paper and instead invest in some other manner of dominion-carrying device? Related to/part of this question is; when building my set of 10 Kingdom cards (and this is for after I start investing in expansions), am I going to be getting 1 or 2 cards from each of 6 different expansions? Or should I say "Okay, this game is base game + Dark Ages only" and make a set of 10 out of that? If its the latter, I would really like to keep things in their original boxes, but if I'm literally just going to be mashing up all 200 different types of Kingdom Cards every time I randomize...I think a single box with some manner of divider or tab system would be best. Also, how worth it is tracking down the promo cards? I like more actions/more choices, but are these going to set me back a mint, or are they fairly easy to come by? 7 Wonders: With Babel, are the little bag-shaped tokens for "Hey I participated in the Great Project" little cardboard chits or wooden meeple things? I've seen what looks like pictures of both online, and I'm not sure if I'm just seeing playtest/prototype vs final production versions or what. Also, does anyone have any suggestions for money token replacements? My gaming group has a habit of slinging cash around the table a bit too wildly, and I'd be easier to handle if I had solid plastic or possibly metal coins that will make more of a noise than cardboard when they fall off the table.
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Jan 12, 2015 06:51
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jivjov posted:I have Dominion and 7 Wonders questions Get good sleeves and a gigantic box in which to hold everything. You're gonna want to hold it all in one box instead of 10 anyway later on. There are many ways to generate Kingdoms. You can use the built-in blue-backed randomizer cards, or you can exist in the 21st loving century and use an online randomizer. Online randomizers get better as you get more expansions, and the good ones (like I linked) also allow for other consistency options like forcing +1 Buy and +2 Actions. The promos are all right. Black Market is awful. Stash, Envoy, and Walled Village are good cards all around. Governor and Prince are super powerful. Dominion sets come with blank cards that you can use to make your own versions of the promos if you like. You can also buy them on the BGG store and in other places for like $5 a pop.
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Jan 12, 2015 06:59
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Broken Loose posted:Get good sleeves and a gigantic box in which to hold everything. You're gonna want to hold it all in one box instead of 10 anyway later on. Thanks for all the info! But in particular, for the bolded point, my specific question is; is the intent to be "themeing" my games by only including in the randomizing process cards from a couple expansions, or should I be including every single Kingdom card I possess into each trip through the randomizer?
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Jan 12, 2015 07:04
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