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Diplomacy is pretty much a hobby unto itself with some notable fans being JFK, Kissinger, and Walter Cronkite.
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T-Bone posted:Arkwright preorders are live, yo: http://www.capstone-games.com/?mc_cid=939f250e5b&mc_eid=dd6017636c Oh hey, can be picked up at GenCon...welp there's $65 gone. EDIT: Impermanent posted:Talk to me about this Arkwright. My top three games of the moment are Food Chain Magnate, Kanban, and Caylus. However, I found Madeira and Zhanguo to be absolute snore-fests. What is Arkwright like, and it is closer to the first three games than the second two? Way closer to the first three. Arkwright is super-strict, mean economy game. The best simile I could make is it's like Puerto Rico met a mean-economy game (read: 18XX genre, Food Chain Magnate) and meshed. The timing is really strict, the luck is very low, and the choices are brain-burning while being all too few to do. It's kind of impressive at how few actual turns to do things there are in this game. One of my favorite games. Trynant fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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All this talk of what is proper play etiquette regarding kingmaking, brinksmanship, spirit of play, etc. reminds me how Archipelago takes the arguments this thread is having and makes that the goal of the game. As in, part of playing Archipelago is figuring out how you view its semi-cooperative nature. Kingmaking is strangely implausible in that game because the biggest impact a losing party can make is to just force this competitive game to end in an "everyone loses" condition with the main risk being "does this cause a possible traitor to win?" While certainly not everyone's cup of tea, the game takes table politics and flips it on its head. The game is one pile of awkward racism away from being impeccably amazing. *Though strangely I find Archipelago's weakest mechanic being the tried-and-true worker-placement part of it. The actions you preform as result of placing Trynant fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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Mar 16, 2016 04:25
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Poopy Palpy posted:Scoville made me feel super dumb. I took one look at the crossbreeding matrix and knew I wouldn't be able to plan more than one turn ahead, and I ended up being so bad at reading it I couldn't predict what a single crossbreeding would give me. The scoville breeding is actually pretty simple. If you think of it as mixing paints instead of breeding peppers, the following rules all make sense: primary color + same primary color = 2X primary color primary color + different primary color = secondary color made by mixing secondary color + same secondary color = black secondary color + different secondary color = white white or black + other color = the other color white + black = phantoms anything other pair = brown Well, except for the white + black = phantoms. That should make a gray pepper, but I guess that's not cool enough for board gamers.
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Mar 16, 2016 05:33
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Apparently CMON has a bloodborne boardgame. I went from excited upon seeing the cover art, to worried when I heard it was CMON. But maybe it'll be good right?
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Mar 16, 2016 05:45
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It'll be the tits.
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Mar 16, 2016 05:58
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It's being designed by Eric Lang, and apparently won't have minis. I'm looking forward to other people trying it and reporting back.
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Mar 16, 2016 06:00
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Hey anyone try mixing original + expansion cards for Chaos in the Old World? I'm having trouble deciding what to use.
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Mar 16, 2016 06:02
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unpronounceable posted:It's being designed by Eric Lang, and apparently won't have minis. I'm looking forward to other people trying it and reporting back. Any additional details?
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Mar 16, 2016 06:08
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Bloodborne was good, a Bloodborne board game is not going to be good, at least not in the ways that Bloodborne was, lol.
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Mar 16, 2016 06:09
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They're making a Munchkin TCG 
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Mar 16, 2016 06:22
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Bottom Liner posted:They're making a Munchkin TCG I can't wait for Munchkin: The deck building game next
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Mar 16, 2016 06:28
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Bottom Liner posted:They're making a Munchkin TCG I did however find out that in 2013 there was a Pathfinder expansion for Munchkin which, well, lol
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Mar 16, 2016 06:31
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 "Organized Play" in a Munchkin product, riiiight
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Mar 16, 2016 06:32
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Anniversary posted:Any additional details? https://twitter.com/eric_lang Edit: quote:Bloodborne: risk management with a bit of groupthink, inventory management/upgrades and tactical play in an intense 30 minute card game.
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Mar 16, 2016 06:39
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https://twitter.com/eric_lang/status/709938605540528128
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Mar 16, 2016 06:41
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I unironically hope that one day I find my niche in life the way John Kovalic has, that dude is gonna be illustrating lovely games until the day he dies and never want for anything.
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Mar 16, 2016 06:43
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Kai Tave posted:I unironically hope that one day I find my niche in life the way John Kovalic has, that dude is gonna be illustrating lovely games until the day he dies and never want for anything. Between him and the Sentinels of the Multiverse guy, you're probably already a step ahead on the talent part.
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Mar 16, 2016 08:58
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Co-designed by none other than Kevin Wilson.  I skimmed through Lang's twitter and it's disappointing how strongly he turned to working with CMANO.
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Mar 16, 2016 09:12
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Only managed a half a game of 1824 yesterday. Shame, cause I think I would have won in the long-term...
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Mar 16, 2016 09:37
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The orb game that comes with Race for the Galaxy: Alien Artifacts is garbage, right? Should I even give it a try? I just got the expansion after playing it a lot vs the AI. And has anyone tried Xeno Invasion? I decided not to get it because it's supposed to be for more experienced players and I'm usually just dragging my normie friends into playing.
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Mar 16, 2016 10:57
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golden bubble posted:The scoville breeding is actually pretty simple. If you think of it as mixing paints instead of breeding peppers, the following rules all make sense: I don't understand mixing paints either, but at least the matrix in Fresco is smaller.
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Mar 16, 2016 13:18
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:The orb game that comes with Race for the Galaxy: Alien Artifacts is garbage, right? Should I even give it a try? I just got the expansion after playing it a lot vs the AI. It's not bad, but it increases the game length significantly because it can't be played simultaneously. Xeno is good. Like aa, you can play with the cards and not the new invasion scenario. Haven't played it too much yet though.
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Mar 16, 2016 13:25
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Mar 16, 2016 15:07
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COIN is much better than Chaos in the Old World.
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Mar 16, 2016 15:56
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The Gallerist is much better than Lords of Waterdeep.
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Mar 16, 2016 16:16
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Codenames is better than Cards Against Humanity. (Am I doing this right?)
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Mar 16, 2016 16:20
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Those two are actually comparable, you hosed up dog Planes are much better than cars.
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Mar 16, 2016 16:25
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T-Bone posted:Those two are actually comparable, you hosed up dog There's an argument for comparing COIN and CitOW too, from what I know about COIN.
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Mar 16, 2016 16:30
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Yeah they're both 4 player asymetrical non-traditional wargames with heavy political aspects
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Mar 16, 2016 16:32
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Some Numbers posted:There's an argument for comparing COIN and CitOW too, from what I know about COIN. You can play Chaos in 60-90 min and it's very much medium weight. The shortest COIN is like, what, Cuba Libre at 3 hours? And it's definitely a lot heavier than CitOW. COIN is better, but they're both good for what they are.
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Mar 16, 2016 16:34
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games with politics are bad though ugh
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Mar 16, 2016 16:34
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Banana Man posted:Hey anyone try mixing original + expansion cards for Chaos in the Old World? I'm having trouble deciding what to use. I didn't like expansion cards since they didn't feel like they worked well compared to originals. My last game used them as Slaanesh and i felt like they lacked focus or any way to meaningfully impact strategy as Slaanesh.
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Mar 16, 2016 16:38
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Some Numbers posted:There's an argument for comparing COIN and CitOW too, from what I know about COIN.
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Mar 16, 2016 16:39
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Went ahead and got the patchwork app for android in order to test the mechanics out before paying 30 bucks for a physical copy. This game is straight up crack y'all. Been getting demolished in online play so far but getting better. Thanks!
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Speaking of online games, has anyone found something that can compare to the old isotropic dominion server? I still miss it 
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As dumb as this is, I can't really fault SJ Games for doubling down on Munchkin. That poo poo sells. At least they're starting to structure things so that they can work on other poo poo more effectively too.
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Mar 16, 2016 16:54
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oxsnard posted:Speaking of online games, has anyone found something that can compare to the old isotropic dominion server? You can play Dominion.net against a computer. Not the same as people of course, but the interface is lickity split fast: http://dominion.technowall.net/
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What's the consensus on Ora et Labora? This isn't one that that was considered rushed and Not Very Good, was it?
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FulsomFrank posted:What's the consensus on Ora et Labora? This isn't one that that was considered rushed and Not Very Good, was it? Le Havre does 80% of what O&L does, but is much more interesting, cut-throat and ends in a decent amount of time. EDIT: Just as an anecdote, at my regular board gaming meetup I see tons of people still play Agricola, Le Havre being brought out now and again and still decent interest for Caverna, but I haven't seen O&L in months if not years.
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