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LongDarkNight posted:Do we have a thread for Armada? I played it once but would like to get a better overall idea of how it plays. We share the "Fantasy Flight and Star Wars" thread with the Imperial Assault and Star Wars Destiny guys. You'll find your Armada discussion there.
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Stan Taylor posted:This is a dumb question, but I recently saw a Kickstarter or something for a fold up table with a felt top and some other features being sold as a gaming table and I was awfully intrigued. The collapsible card table I have is a bit on the small side for certain games, and we don't have enough room in the apartment to have a big honking game table taking up a bunch of space. Just get a used pool table on Craigslist list. People give them away for free, and they are perfect gaming tables. Already covered in felt, and recessed, with pockets that easily become drink holders (keep the beers away from the board!).
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Stan Taylor posted:This is a dumb question, but I recently saw a Kickstarter or something for a fold up table with a felt top and some other features being sold as a gaming table and I was awfully intrigued. The collapsible card table I have is a bit on the small side for certain games, and we don't have enough room in the apartment to have a big honking game table taking up a bunch of space. What are your budget limits, required dimensions, and required features? Sounds like you need a table of substantial size (define this) that is in some way collapsible? How much storage do you have for a collapsible table? Your cheapest option is to upholster your card table with felt by (probably) removing the leg apparatus, covering the top with felt and stapling it into the bottom, then reattaching the legs. Boom, felt card table. But if you want something more significant, that's something that should take some thought.
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Rutibex posted:Just get a used pool table on Craigslist list. People give them away for free, and they are perfect gaming tables. Already covered in felt, and recessed, with pockets that easily become drink holders (keep the beers away from the board!). whitetrash.txt
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Bottom Liner posted:whitetrash.txt I'm sorry, I'll bring some wine coolers for you.
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My family loves Empire Builder, what 18xx should I get them?
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Loel posted:My family loves Empire Builder, what 18xx should I get them? Probably none of them. They're 4+ hour heavy games with a lot of arithmetic, probably longer with newbies . Maybe Railways of the World or something? I'm not up on my lighter train games.
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Loel posted:My family loves Empire Builder, what 18xx should I get them? cenotaph is probably right, but in case you still want to get one, 1846 just re-released by GMT is a solid one for people coming from a game without stock shenanigans. More of a focus on building a good company instead of manipulating the hell out of stock prices and depleting companies of their resources before getting rid of them to hapless investors.
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hey, it could be meth:  
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T-Bone posted:hey, it could be meth: 
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For those interested in Lord of the Rings and/or hidden movement games like Letters from Whitechapel, Ares games just put the first preview for The Hunt for the Ring on their website! I didn't realize it was being co-designed by the designer of Letters from Whitechapel (Gabriele Mari), too, so that's pretty awesome.
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Broken Loose posted:There was an Indie Boards & Cards KS version of Coup that had different artwork for each of the different Dukes, Captains, Assassins, etc. It absolutely hurts the game and wasn't intended by the original designer. If you're making your own copy of Coup, it's highly recommended that all copies of each character be completely identical. poo poo, is that the so-called Brazilian art version? Cause I bought that at Essen this year 
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This reminds me, I really need to get Ponzi Scheme before supplies dry up completely. Also, how many games are this/how close are you to 200?
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theroachman posted:poo poo, is that the so-called Brazilian art version? Cause I bought that at Essen this year No, you got the best version. The version I'm talking about looks just like the US generic cyberpunk version, since that's the one published by Indie Boards & Cards.
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wait gently caress no i mean you got the lovely version send it to me tia
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wait what the gently caress ib&g kickstarted a version of that one too? what loving scummy slimeballs if you got the ib&g one with the unique character art, you should also have enough cards for a full set without unique art in the box
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Uh the best art is the Polish edition
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Agreed, holy poo poo that's great.
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Taran_Wanderer posted:For those interested in Lord of the Rings and/or hidden movement games like Letters from Whitechapel, Ares games just put the first preview for The Hunt for the Ring on their website! I didn't realize it was being co-designed by the designer of Letters from Whitechapel (Gabriele Mari), too, so that's pretty awesome. Ares were also behind The Last Friday, as I recall. Different designer, though.
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StashAugustine posted:Uh the best art is the Polish edition That's cool as poo poo
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StashAugustine posted:Uh the best art is the Polish edition Best art, but worst iconography.
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Wife's turn at game night, so I took the kid home, put him to bed, gonna play a solo game of fea...oh right I told her to bring it to game night so she could play it. Oh well.
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Wizard Styles posted:This reminds me, I really need to get Ponzi Scheme before supplies dry up completely. Not sure, BGG has all my expansions listed (a lot of those games have expansions in the main box) but there are also quite a few small box games in the top left shelf. I also have some stuff that didn't make the cut that I'll be selling and some old Hasbro stuff in the basement, and a few games I've been waiting on delivery for since like last year (Great Zimbabwe/Gloomhaven).
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Gutter Owl posted:Best art, but worst iconography. I get what they're going for, but holy crap are those icons hard to parse. Contessa is barely descriptive, counter-actions aren't clear at all, and the whole heirarchy thing speaks to a very weird way of teaching the game.
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It's a very contemporary theming. It makes sense the way BGG explains it, but it's not nearly as obvious as regular coup. I like the original titles better.quote:You can appeal to the US and Obama for aid. They don't provide much, but they will support any faction that claims to be friendly and you don't need to commit yourself to anything. (Income)
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No, no, I mean the heirarchy icons at the bottoms of the cards. If the icons were > arrows instead of ► arrows, it wouldn't be so confusing. Right now it looks like a weird resolution order instead of a simple system of what beats what. Also, the icon for "Cancel the effect of" looks really close to "Lose 1 Influence" in a logical sense. I actually adore the theme. edit: I'm willing to admit that it probably reads a lot better in its native language, as if the syntax of the sentences those actions describe reads closer than the English versions, I'd think it better.
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Did another solo AffO game and got 116. It's kind of annoying because it's borderline good score but not quite great. Luckily I feel I know where I made most of my mistakes. I emigrated three times, did some whaling and some plundering, but mostly just filling out exploration boards. I took Iceland, Bear Island, and another one that I don't remember the name of. I am pretty sure that if I had better optimized my last two turns I could have had a really nice score. The balancing act at the end of the game is really fun and challenging. You have to guess what size pieces you'll need, and how many green pieces you can get away with having. This is the second game now where I considered taking Newfoundland on the second to last turn, and ended up just barely not doing it, then realizing if I had it would have netted me a much higher score. I ended up with one big fat green cloak I couldn't fit anywhere on a board, and I had some negative spaces on two of my islands that I couldn't cover. With some better optimization, I think just grabbing Newfoundland and throwing some green poo poo onto the negatives would have pushed me into 120-130 range. I also had a pretty big food surplus, and I ended up not taking any houses simply because they eat up a lot of vikings and resources, and it feels like doing them late game is inefficient due to the way bonuses work on them. Probably I should have squeezes a house in early if I wanted to do that. I pretty much have ended up having leftover food at the end of most games though, so that's something I can work on in future plays. Tomorrow a bunch of family is coming over and I'm going to try to get people to play Codenames. I've never played it myself but think it could go over well. If it totally bombs I wouldn't really care since it's family, but I also don't want to "force it" if no one seems like they actually want to play anything.
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Codenames always goes over well. It's a great game.
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i'm going to try and get my family to play Mysterium, Sushi Go! and Codenames tomorrow
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I have a copy of Codenames all done up in wrapping paper and ready to go. Should be good!
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bowmore posted:i'm going to try and get my family to play Mysterium, Sushi Go! and Codenames tomorrow Mysterium is good
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Texibus posted:Mysterium is good if they are skeptical I will show them this post
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Also, I taught a bunch of 50 year old who only play monopoly and euchre pretty easily just this past evening and after some mumbling they all had a great time.
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I am expecting quite a bit of mumbling
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bowmore posted:i'm going to try and get my family to play Mysterium, Sushi Go! and Codenames tomorrow Are you me? I've also packed, somewhat optimistically, Captain Sonar.
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Fat Samurai posted:Are you me? I've also packed, somewhat optimistically, Captain Sonar. captain sonar won't work because we only have like 4 family members remember
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bowmore posted:yes, hello second account If I can schizophrenicly be two people so can they 
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Fat Samurai posted:If I can schizophrenicly be two people so can they 
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I'm going to stop by the FLGS today to pick up Settlers of Catan and maybe Ticket To Ride to play with family. Any other recommendations? They rarely play anything more complex than Farkle or CaH and I want to ease them into easier stuff. I may be getting Machi Koro as a gift as well.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I'm going to stop by the FLGS today to pick up Settlers of Catan and maybe Ticket To Ride to play with family. Any other recommendations? They rarely play anything more complex than Farkle or CaH and I want to ease them into easier stuff. I may be getting Machi Koro as a gift as well. Carcasonne. I wouldn't bother with Catan as it's far too easy to get hosed by bad rolls, especially if you've no experience with the game and put your starting settlements in bad placed..
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