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Don’t play with investment bank. It keeps the game from going into deflationary spirals but the problem hen becomes that of pacing and wrestling with this other mechanic that doesn’t add much else. Extra 15 does matter for 5P since the extra 3 containers might mean the diff between the game ending one or two cycles earlier. Individual bagging was because of the paint used. If you didn’t have any of your 15 clumped together, count yourself lucky. Jordan7hm posted:Winsome Games is everything bad about the hobby in one neat little package. It's like the other side of the CMON coin.
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Jordan7hm posted:Winsome Games is everything bad about the hobby in one neat little package. It's like the other side of the CMON coin. Please elaborate I like drama
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Jul 21, 2018 19:31
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Bottom Liner posted:the 18xx and winsome games I believe? I can't think of an 18xx that doesn't have a rulebook available aside from the 1825 series that Tresham assembles in his kitchen.
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Jul 21, 2018 19:34
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Bodanarko posted:Tangentially related to this video topic, what steps/process does everyone use when scoping out and determining whether or not to buy a game? I usually start by running it through bgg geekbuddy analyze and then read some critical takes on the game. Over the years I have added various people who have thoughtful takes on games. They are often people who have different tastes than me but are still able to sufficiently explain why they did or did not like something. Or sometimes they are just funny like the frequent clearclaw ownage of some fun-haver game. Then I will ask people I play with if they already own it or have played it.
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smdh if clearclaw isn't on your geekbuddies list.
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Jul 21, 2018 20:32
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cenotaph posted:I can't think of an 18xx that doesn't have a rulebook available aside from the 1825 series that Tresham assembles in his kitchen. When Mayfair games shut down, they took down their website that was hosting rules for their 18xx games. Some of them have been tricky to find again.
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Jul 21, 2018 20:42
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Orvin posted:When Mayfair games shut down I'm curious who will be handling their games at Gencon now. They always had a huge booth with a ton of games available including some hard to find stuff. Hopefully Asmodee pawns off their stuff somewhere.
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Jul 21, 2018 20:51
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Orvin posted:When Mayfair games shut down, they took down their website that was hosting rules for their 18xx games. Some of them have been tricky to find again. I had no idea.
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Jul 21, 2018 20:52
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Yeah it's very annoying. A few kind fans digitize theirs but it's not perfect.
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Jul 21, 2018 21:01
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OmegaGoo posted:2) Should I bother with the Investment Bank? I know it's there to alleviate the Death SpiralTM of the original version, but I figure if you point that out while teaching, it shouldn't be too much of an issue, and I absolutely loved the time I played the original version. Sometimes you tell a player not to spend all their cash on upgrades early and not to take out loans until near the end, but they still end up with two loans in the middle of the game. OmegaGoo posted:3) I got the 15 extra containers. Is the shorter game significantly different in any way other than "shorter"? No. Some people think that a warehouse heavy strategy doesn't work in a shorter game, but I'm not good enough to know for myself. OmegaGoo posted:4) Why are all of the containers individually bagged?! Because the paint can't take the heat. The 15 extra containers are not individually bagged, and so have paint chipping. But the individually bagged containers do not have paint chipping
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Jul 21, 2018 21:05
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cenotaph posted:smdh if clearclaw isn't on your geekbuddies list. Clearclaw, Shampoo4you, Cole Wehrle, rarevos, and SWxNW are top tier geek buddies Rarevos is interesting since he doesn’t rate games but he writes paragraphs of reviews. You are forced to read them, line by line, to see if he likes something.
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Jul 21, 2018 21:11
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Just played a solo learning game of Low Lands, I feel like I have a bead on the game and its iconography, but I can't figure out what the big "+2 Laborer" tokens are for. As far as I could tell there was no way to gain additional laborers beyond your starting two, let alone +2 more.
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Jul 21, 2018 21:17
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Countblanc posted:Just played a solo learning game of Low Lands, I feel like I have a bead on the game and its iconography, but I can't figure out what the big "+2 Laborer" tokens are for. As far as I could tell there was no way to gain additional laborers beyond your starting two, let alone +2 more. Those are +2 Farmer tokens, and are weirdly only referenced in the appendix. You can get one as one of the dyke progress token rewards, and can discard the +2 farmer token to increase the value of one action by two for that action (i.e. for only one farmer placement, it does not persist).
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Oh ok cool, thank you.
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Jul 21, 2018 21:54
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Been working on a dedicated gaming table this weekend and it’s turned out pretty great for what was just scrap wood and dirty cheap materials. Measures 62x34 inches. Might put a neoprene mat in but it’s pretty nice as is.    
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Jul 21, 2018 23:05
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I have the opportunity to get Gloom of Killforth from the developers' latest Kickstarter and have seen very mixed opinions from people online. Anyone have it that can share their impressions? Also your table looks nice and I'm jealous.
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Jul 21, 2018 23:21
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Save me, thread. A bunch of people showed up to a game night and people don't wanna split into smaller groups so they're trying to play some knock-off version of CAH for parents And I'm not a parent
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Jul 21, 2018 23:23
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Skypie posted:Save me, thread. A bunch of people showed up to a game night and people don't wanna split into smaller groups so they're trying to play some knock-off version of CAH for parents Get mega civilization so next time you can play with up to 18 people. If it’s more than 18, then you’re SOL.
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Jul 21, 2018 23:26
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Chill la Chill posted:Get mega civilization so next time you can play with up to 18 people. If it’s more than 18, then you’re SOL. It's about 10 people I think. I just don't really like CAH or its knockoffs and there's one dude who takes it super personally if his answer doesn't get picked Like last time CAH got pulled out was a year ago probably and he wanted to make a "vote of no confidence" rule if the judge didn't pick the "right" answer. (I've been pushing for less fuckin people anyway because it takes FOREVER to get anything done when there's 10 people and they all have toddlers to watch at the same time)
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Jul 21, 2018 23:29
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Camel Up plus Super Cup is 10 players. So are all the One Night games and Dead Last.
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Jul 21, 2018 23:32
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Off the top of my head A Fake Artist Goes to New York would be an easy safe game for ten people Very chill I would probably second Camel Up as well
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Jul 21, 2018 23:43
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Baller Ina posted:Off the top of my head A Fake Artist Goes to New York would be an easy safe game for ten people The other non-parent wanted to play Fake Artist Goes to New York but got voted down by the kid-havers
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Jul 21, 2018 23:51
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When you sire a fleshling you are legally not allowed to have fun until they're old enough to keep to themselves for a few hours without sticking metal in the socket. At this point you can now introduce them to board games and shape them into properly functioning adults.
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Jul 22, 2018 00:22
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How young is too young to teach a child Roads and Boats? Or Keyflower? Or Edo?
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Had an evening playing spirit island, and it's really cemented itself as an all time favorite, is so so good! I've only played as three of the 'simple' 4 spirits, with only the beginner rules, and after 6 or 7 games I still feel like I have a lot to learn, but, in the fun "there are so many strategies I want to try out" way, and not the daunting way. I think my 'oh my God this game is amazing' moment was when it clicked that Vital strength of the earth's passive combines so well with Dahan. It's a unique and powerful strategy that calls for a different play style, that's also super thematic, and it feels almost emergent. I kind of can't wait to play the other spirits, except, I CAN, because these ones are just so good and deep that I wanna play them some more first. And this is all just at the absolute base difficulty! So good.
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Ticket to Ride New York is going over well in my household, mostly 2p. Is there a TTR that's a little less vicious without being as long as the original? I suspect the answer is "play Concordia" or whatever but the dead-simple rules are why it found a foothold.
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Jul 22, 2018 01:22
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JohnnySavs posted:Ticket to Ride New York is going over well in my household, mostly 2p. Is there a TTR that's a little less vicious without being as long as the original? String Railway is quick and simple, but a bit fiddly and not exactly TTR. TTR Team Asia is a team game so I guess it's half as vicious?
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Jul 22, 2018 01:35
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Ticket To Ride Switzerland is a smaller board, it's meant for 2-3 players, uses less trains per player and has some interesting variations on base mechanics like being able to connect to countries (and have routes that require going from one country to another) and connecting a city to ANY country, for more points the further away the country is.
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al-azad posted:When you sire a fleshling you are legally not allowed to have fun until they're old enough to keep to themselves for a few hours without sticking metal in the socket. At this point you can now introduce them to board games and shape them into properly functioning adults. My kid is 10-months old and I've told myself I will probably not play boardgames for another four years. I can't imagine bringing him to a meetup and thinking it would be fun for anyone involved.
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al-azad posted:When you sire a fleshling you are legally not allowed to have fun until they're old enough to keep to themselves for a few hours without sticking metal in the socket. At this point you can now introduce them to board games and shape them into properly functioning adults. We just take our fleshling with us and put her to sleep in a spare room. I guess that'll get trickier as she gets older, but small kids seem pretty compatible with board gaming. Screw those people that don't ever want to split the group and force everyone to only ever play party games.
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I got the investment rules. Container really needs repeated play with four or five, not something I can expect to happen currently.
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Bottom Liner posted:Been working on a dedicated gaming table this weekend and it’s turned out pretty great for what was just scrap wood and dirty cheap materials. Measures 62x34 inches. Might put a neoprene mat in but it’s pretty nice as is. How do you like Neuland? Are you using the first edition rules? I've heard they're better.
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Kerro posted:We just take our fleshling with us and put her to sleep in a spare room. I guess that'll get trickier as she gets older, but small kids seem pretty compatible with board gaming. We had a lady whose foster child would sit quietly on the couch and watch Spongebob. I can only hope for a kid as well behaved.
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My experience (daughter is now 2) is that gaming with a partner is still pretty easy to organise as long as the game can fit in between her bedtime and ours. But games with more people involve either going to meetups alone or having people over people who don't have kids. She's really enjoying her train set at the moment so I'm trying to work out how to introduce shares into the mix.
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T-Bone posted:How do you like Neuland? Are you using the first edition rules? I've heard they're better. Yup using first edition. It’s a brilliant logistics game that deserves far more attention. I can’t think of more modern games that have replaced or done similar things really. TTR:NY is also getting a lot of play with us. It’s exacty what I want from a TTR experience: fast, simple, and straight to the cuttthroat decisions.
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Bottom Liner posted:Yup using first edition. It’s a brilliant logistics game that deserves far more attention. I can’t think of more modern games that have replaced or done similar things really. Yeah I've got the Z-Man edition sitting around somewhere. I was thinking about selling it, but it's completely playable with first edition rules I guess?
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Lorini posted:I got the investment rules. Container really needs repeated play with four or five, not something I can expect to happen currently. Cool. I think it's mostly a complex rules patch for something that actually does a good job of simulating an actual capitalist enterprise, so I probably won't be using them. I hope people like it enough that I can get a bunch of plays out of my copy.
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I just played memory with my nephew and realized what a semi-genius catch up mechanic it has. Because he won even though I was leading most of the game and wasn't letting him win. I would have never thought about that concept before I got into games.
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Buck Wildman posted:I have the opportunity to get Gloom of Killforth from the developers' latest Kickstarter and have seen very mixed opinions from people online. Anyone have it that can share their impressions? I'm also curious about this; Gloom of Kilforth came up in my search for a lighter adventure game for solo play. It's advertised as being playable in about an hour, which is something I value highly. It seems pricey for what comes in the box, though maybe I'm just too used to heavy discounts on retail releases. Runebound was another game that crossed my mind, but once I saw it has roll to move I immediately dismissed it from further consideration.
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Is anyone still playing Imperial Assault? There's a new campaign coming for the app on August 8th.
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