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terebikun posted:I wonder if dumb Midwestern house rules are why I didn't really like playing Euchre as taught to me by my Midwestern girlfriend. Actually, has anyone played the game Grit? I played a bunch of it while traveling years ago, all you need is a normal deck of cards, most of which you don't use. I remember liking it a lot, even if it's a little annoying to set up. Yeah, probably. Call no house rules except "screw the dealer" (dealer must call trump if no one else does) and you've got a decent game.
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Lord Frisk posted:Yeah, probably. Call no house rules except "screw the dealer" (dealer must call trump if no one else does) and you've got a decent game. This is how I've always played. We'd play during our lunch hour when I worked at a Cummins facility. One guy told us he used a variant where you can call "low is high" so if you're stuck with a bad hand of low mixed suits, you make that call and 9/10 of any suit are trump. My foreman said, "Sounds like a game for little bitches."
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Gloomhaven First Scenario report: We had a lot of fun, and it's a wonderful combat system!
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Skypie posted:My foreman said, "Sounds like a game for little bitches." Euchre is a pretty dumbed-down (or, if you like it, distilled) trick-taking game to begin with.
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OgreNoah posted:Gloomhaven First Scenario report: We had a lot of fun, and it's a wonderful combat system! This is why I so annoyed when SU&SD said the main attraction is the content. Nonono, maybe that's why you pick up the box but the reason why it is a great game is the combat system
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homullus posted:Euchre is a pretty dumbed-down (or, if you like it, distilled) trick-taking game to begin with. It trades bids for called suit. I like called suits. It's still a half game due to half deck.
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So Rahdo has a playthrough of Magic Maze, the new real-time cooperative game. More importantly, I think this is the first video to show Rahdo's mythical wife.
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homullus posted:Euchre is a pretty dumbed-down (or, if you like it, distilled) trick-taking game to begin with. I like Euchre and yeah basically this. No reason to add house rules to make it even easier
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golden bubble posted:So Rahdo has a playthrough of Magic Maze, the new real-time cooperative game. More importantly, I think this is the first video to show Rahdo's mythical wife. She was in the Galaxy Trucker video I think.
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She's been in several but it's a lot funnier to imagine that she's a phantom so I do that anyway.
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She's got a top 10 list of her own somewhere too.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:This is why I so annoyed when SU&SD said the main attraction is the content. Nonono, maybe that's why you pick up the box but the reason why it is a great game is the combat system I mean, I love SUSD and find them super-entertaining, but... recognition of awesome mechanics isn't their strong suit.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Nonono, maybe that's why you pick up the box I pick up the box as a feat of strongman strength.
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I'm having a good time with Soviet Dawn. Made it to a "marginal defeat" (21 cards left) my first play so I'm thinking it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a winning strategy, though consistently winning might be tricky. Compared to Israeli Independence this game has more dynamic stuff happening -- fronts will activate and deactivate during the game, and can even be removed sometimes. And some of the events have complex effects that could have been printed on the card, but instead you have to look up the effects in the rules. There's also the 0-10 political track, where getting to 10 wins you the game. I made it to 8, so at least I was doing well internally when Kolchak marched into Moscow. 
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terebikun posted:I wonder if dumb Midwestern house rules are why I didn't really like playing Euchre as taught to me by my Midwestern girlfriend. Actually, has anyone played the game Grit? I played a bunch of it while traveling years ago, all you need is a normal deck of cards, most of which you don't use. I remember liking it a lot, even if it's a little annoying to set up. My Onslaught Two arrives today, giving me everything except the alternate 6-8 player maps. I should do a photo of everything, just to make people either explode with jealousy, say "WTF???", or both.
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Araki posted:She was in the Galaxy Trucker video I think. She's in basically every video about real-time games, for practical reasons.
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Memnaelar posted:I mean, I love SUSD and find them super-entertaining, but... recognition of awesome mechanics isn't their strong suit. Agree, they overvalue games as an exerience generator or "games that tell a story" over solid, interesting mechanics, even worse is when they fall for the "it's fun to have some beers and play it with friends"-fallacy (aka the Munchkin-fallacy) when it comes to games like Cosmic Encounter.
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Jedit posted:My Onslaught Two arrives today, giving me everything except the alternate 6-8 player maps. I should do a photo of everything, just to make people either explode with jealousy, say "WTF???", or both. I love Cthulu Wars if only because it's a game that wouldn't exist without Kickstarter - no publisher would have done a $200 MSRP boardgame. On the flipside, I really wish they'd make a cheaper, smaller version - I'd like to have it but the buy-in and storage footprint make me gag every time I think about picking it up.
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Jedit posted:My Onslaught Two arrives today, giving me everything except the alternate 6-8 player maps. I should do a photo of everything, just to make people either explode with jealousy, say "WTF???", or both. Mine arrived this morning. Won't be able to get it home til Monday, but I'm looking forward to cracking it open 
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Crackbone posted:I love Cthulu Wars if only because it's a game that wouldn't exist without Kickstarter - no publisher would have done a $200 MSRP boardgame. On the flipside, I really wish they'd make a cheaper, smaller version - I'd like to have it but the buy-in and storage footprint make me gag every time I think about picking it up. Ridiculous overproduction is the whole point of Cthulhu Wars. There's enough info out there to make a PnP copy with standees if you want, I guess.
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Jedit posted:Ridiculous overproduction is the whole point of Cthulhu Wars. There's enough info out there to make a PnP copy with standees if you want, I guess. I admit to having being tempted at times to make a cut down 'travel Cthulhu Wars' set using 10mm figures and a shrunk down map, maybe magnetized power and doom tracks etc. It's a bit of a pain to get it to the club to play on a regular basis otherwise.
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Jedit posted:Ridiculous overproduction is the whole point of Cthulhu Wars. There's enough info out there to make a PnP copy with standees if you want, I guess. So you're saying it's not a good game, the overproduction is the only good thing?
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I really want to give Cthulhu Wars a try. Jedit, weren't you going to a PbP at one point?
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Codenames Duet is being released at GenCon which I'm guessing means it will be sold out in 10 minutes.
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Rad Valtar posted:Codenames Duet is being released at GenCon which I'm guessing means it will be sold out in 10 minutes.
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Some Numbers posted:I really want to give Cthulhu Wars a try. I was, yes. I think I still have the assets they use on BGG, if not I'll ask for them. They may already have the Tcho-Tchos, the PBF games there were used as external playtesting. And no, the overproduction isn't the sole substance of Cthulhu Wars. There's a game behind it, and a very good one. But it was meant to be Sandy Petersen's last hurrah, a collector's item and the centrepiece of the tentacle fan's gaming collection. He doesn't want to reduce that to "just a game".
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Rad Valtar posted:Codenames Duet is being released at GenCon which I'm guessing means it will be sold out in 10 minutes. Not if they handle it like last year where they have their own room and utilize a pre-order system to guarantee they bring enough.
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djfooboo posted:Not if they handle it like last year where they have their own room and utilize a pre-order system to guarantee they bring enough. Yeah the preorder system for last year was wonderful!
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Wooooo a friend got me a copy of Lisboa from Origins!!! Can't wait, hopefully I'll have it by next weekend.
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Lorini posted:Wooooo a friend got me a copy of Lisboa from Origins!!! Can't wait, hopefully I'll have it by next weekend. How did you get yours so early when I don't expect to see anything until August
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FulsomFrank posted:How did you get yours so early when I don't expect to see anything until August They delayed the order fulfillment but still brought a limited supply to origins.
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Papes posted:They delayed the order fulfillment but still brought a limited supply to origins. Yup! A friend got me a copy. It's probably going to end up costing north of $150 after all is said and done, but I'm looking forward to it
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:This is why I so annoyed when SU&SD said the main attraction is the content. Nonono, maybe that's why you pick up the box but the reason why it is a great game is the combat system Given their experiences with Scythe and KD:M, it's not too hard to see how they'd look at Gloomhaven and think "it's another kickstarter that people backed because "loads of stuff" that probably isn't really that mechanically strong. I won't lie, I picked it up without being aware of the rules because I saw a picture of how many sealed character boxes there are and thought "I must have it". It just happens that in this case they're horribly wrong and Gloomhaven absolutely dumpsters everything else in the genre mechanically, and has an absurdly large amount of content that's pretty uniformly fantastic.
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Tekopo posted:Well, some people haven't tried it and there might be a 'eeeh, if I already have two codenames, why do I need a third?' so maybe it will take half an hour instead. But really, those people are idiots: you might as well throw the other two codenames in the fire after you get duet (make sure you keep the extra words/pictures though!) Why do I need a second copy of codenames? Tell me why it's better
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Quoting myselfTekopo posted:K11, Artipia Games for Kitchen Rush (iirc, check the UKGE exhibitor listing).
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Tekopo posted:Well, some people haven't tried it and there might be a 'eeeh, if I already have two codenames, why do I need a third?' so maybe it will take half an hour instead. But really, those people are idiots: you might as well throw the other two codenames in the fire after you get duet (make sure you keep the extra words/pictures though!) Is this second codenames the adult one? I heard Vlaada didn't work on that one at all and it was trash. Is this third one by Vlaada?
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Chill la Chill posted:Is this second codenames the adult one? I heard Vlaada didn't work on that one at all and it was trash. Is this third one by Vlaada? The second is Codenames: Pictures.
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Chill la Chill posted:Is this second codenames the adult one? I heard Vlaada didn't work on that one at all and it was trash. Is this third one by Vlaada? He means original and Pictures, both by Vlaada. Duet is also by Vlaada. (There's also an upcoming Marvel Comics Codenames is not by Vlaada, and which will probably be garbage. But I can't begrudge CGE their right to print money.)
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Gutter Owl posted:He means original and Pictures, both by Vlaada. Duet is also by Vlaada. Playing Marvel Comics Codenames as a guy who's read 3 comic books in his life and only has exposure to the characters through film sounds like a nightmare scenario playing with someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of characters and storylines. Gun to my head I probably couldn't name you more than 10 or 15 Marvel characters. Codenames Pictures I find is not nearly as fun with grown-ups, but is a better experience if you're with drunk adults or with younger kids (or both at the same time)
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