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Yeah I got partway through PnPing it with legos and said gently caress it. I ordered Container off of BoardGameBliss this morning and added their last copy of the climbers to get up to free shipping. Honestly the big ships are kind of cool. Dumb and a waste of money, but cool.
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Ravendas posted:My three year old loves Animal Upon Animal, which is just a meeple stacking game. They're extra big, so they're easy to grasp and stack. I give her some mulligans when she accidentally nudges one off the top, but other than that she can beat me sometimes. Have you seen Meeple Circus? It's a game where you stack things for points. There's a little more complexity to it that Animal Upon Animal, for sure, and I doubt a three-year-old could understand what all the scoring metrics are. But there are three colors of meeples to stacks, some elephants and planks and barrels, unique meeples (like a strongman, a camel, tiger, etc), that honestly you could probably make a really simple game around. Plus the app comes with circus music to play while you stack stuff. Also when you get done stacking you are required to spread your hands with a flourish and say ta daa!
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FINALLY was able to get a game of Battlecon going yesterday. Had the trials box for a bit now, and we just decided to make an effort to learn the game. It's great. We did the two recommended starter characters and just between the two of them it felt like there's a ton of depth. I could play that same matchup again and again. Really excited to play more of this.
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Jordan7hm posted:Yeah I got partway through PnPing it with legos and said gently caress it. I ordered Container off of BoardGameBliss this morning and added their last copy of the climbers to get up to free shipping. There’s some real weight and gravitas attaches to each decision as you place the oversized machines, warehouses, and ships on the board.
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This weekend , I introduced my niece to the world of Crossfire and she's a beast, dominated me every game. Never going to play Chinatown with my brother again, he's a math wizard, and can claim the crown as best at the game from me. Yelling out "I summon Ra" with gusto, ala Yugioh summoning Exodia, has become a thing now. And once again in a game of T&E someone asked "what color am I again?"
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Quixotic1 posted:in a game of T&E someone asked "what color am I again?" this is always the best question. 
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There are a couple of games that I considering getting and would like people's opinions. I would like to get New Angeles as I have friends who like negotiation games and have had a lot of fun out of Chinatown and Sidereal Conflence. I also like the co-op/traitor mechanic part. The other game is Dice Forge as I like dice rolling games and x-building games. Any thoughts?
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I can't speak to either's quality, but Dice Forge just got added to BoardGameArena, so you can give it a try.
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Jul 23, 2018 16:37
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I enjoy New Angeles a lot. The traitor absolutely must be kept hidden at all times or the other players will conspire to immediately shut them out of the game. It's also very easy to fall to greed and accidentally lose the game for everyone (except the traitor maybe).
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Tsietisin posted:There are a couple of games that I considering getting and would like people's opinions. Haven't played New Angeles, but I do own Dice Forge. It's pretty fun. Dice building feels cool to do, and there are some strategic choices to be made. It's a cool light strategy game with some pretty components and a great central hook. The cards you buy with the resources feel useful and sometimes have some pretty fun impacts. You will be rolling a lot of dice and it is satisfying to build your dice into something that even RNG can't gently caress up too much. It plays really quick, almost too quick to get going it feels like, but it's fun. I'd recommend.
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Some friends of mine wanted to try some game called Nemesis (on Tabletop Simulator) for the first time and I agreed to give it a shot. The designers clearly didn’t spend time balancing the different objectives, success or failure was random, one player died and sat out for the last third of the game, and the rules felt like pieces were missing or mistranslated. There was nothing interesting or compelling about the game besides the art. Of course, after finishing the game and giving my critique, my friend said that he had already pledged on Kickstarter. 
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Medium Style posted:Some friends of mine wanted to try some game called Nemesis (on Tabletop Simulator) for the first time and I agreed to give it a shot. The designers clearly didn’t spend time balancing the different objectives, success or failure was random, one player died and sat out for the last third of the game, and the rules felt like pieces were missing or mistranslated. There was nothing interesting or compelling about the game besides the art.
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Dice forge is getting an expansion, which I feel is really needed. The game is super neat but very shallow, hoping the expansion pulls it up to that next level for me.
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Bodanarko posted:Dice forge is getting an expansion, which I feel is really needed. The game is super neat but very shallow, hoping the expansion pulls it up to that next level for me. oh yeah that is huge, I'll have to check it out. It's definitely a game where you feel like you've seen everything the game has to offer very quickly. The cards you get could use some real variety.
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Tsietisin posted:I would like to get New Angeles as I have friends who like negotiation games and have had a lot of fun out of Chinatown and Sidereal Conflence. I also like the co-op/traitor mechanic part. New Angeles was worse than a lot of the semi-co op/traitor element games out there, although it was a bit long ago that I don't remember the specific reasons why. I think I recall that the reasons to negotiate/work together just seemed incredibly weak and that it was pretty fiddly to play. I do distinctly recall being rather disengaged with it and just wishing I were playing Archipelago instead, so get Archipelago instead. It's not as bad as Shadow Over Camelot though, so that's something?
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Rutibex posted:Who has been talking smack about Feast for Odin? I thought we were better than that Memememememe! I've been talking smack about AFfO!!! 
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Some biggish news for fans of GMT games:quote:Playdek, the award-winning digital board game developer and publisher, along with GMT Games, the board gaming leader for strategy and war games, today announced the launch of a long term partnership that will see Playdek developing digital adaptations of some of GMT’s most beloved series of games, as well as key titles from their extensive catalog. The ultimate goal of the partnership is to bring the best strategy games and global favorites to hobby gamers worldwide, building a global community of online digital strategy gamers. Get ready to see more of their games on digital platforms from the sound of it. Very excited to see COIN making apperances. Hopefully their implementation is well done!
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Tekopo posted:This is the Alien-esque boardgame, right? Not honestly surprised if that's the case. Yes, that’s the one. It looked really cool and mechanically it was maybe a step up from Dead of Winter or Betrayal at the House, but most of the design was seriously low effort. Each player has a secret objective that they need to complete before time runs out. One player had “do X” while another (the one that died early) had “do X and also Y”, just straight up harder, DoW style.
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FulsomFrank posted:Some biggish news for fans of GMT games: Oh drat, this means we might not ever get super deluxe twilight struggle or other games ever again!  I would pay $150 for a super deluxe a distant plain edition
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Wasn't one of you guys playtesting Imp Struggle? Did the bugs ever get worked out, I remember reading somewhere it needed some fairly large revisions from draft 1.
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Chill la Chill posted:All the serious gamers I know who’ve been looking forward to the reprint have been talking about SEVEN INCH SHIPS *pushes Gloomhaven under the table*
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Pierzak posted:Maybe that guy already has a big dick and doesn't have to compensate. On which note, in Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy every male character apart from one has three testicles. The exception is a guy who has five.
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Digital COINs rules, even if I am mad that Twilight Struggle is iPad only and these will be too.
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Bottom Liner posted:Digital COINs rules, even if I am mad that Twilight Struggle is iPad only and these will be too. Twilight Struggle is on Android too though?
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But TS is for PC as well, isn't it? And Playdek designed it! (Is the digital version any good?) https://store.steampowered.com/app/406290/Twilight_Struggle/
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Anyone know of a cooperative worker-placement eurogame (or a fanmade variant with reports I could read)? Like Agricola but all players' VPs are totaled and the goal is to both get as many VPs as possible and facilitate it for other players, so it's OK to make a bad move where another player gains more than you lose? Possibly with restricted communication so it's not too easy to avoid blocking others. Seems simple to make a variant like that, but I haven't seen any in practice.
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TS is on Android phones. It's even not too bad. The only board game I've ever been disappointed with on a phone is Terra Mystica. If you knew it going in I'm sure it's fine, but it felt like too much game to effectively learn on a phone-sized screen.
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Yeah I know it's on Steam/Android, I meant as an iOS guy it's annoying that it is only available on tablets despite being on Android phones.
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How is Liberty or Death as an introductory COIN game? Also how is it for 2 players?
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Lord Hydronium posted:How is Liberty or Death as an introductory COIN game? Also how is it for 2 players?
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Liberty or Death works well 2p as you can control allied factions and they have shared victory conditions. It has a fair amount of chrome though so for an introductory 2p game Colonial Twilight would be your best bet. Still, if you really enjoy the time period you could probably grok LoD just fine if you're used to some level of complexity in your Euros/wargames.
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Pierzak posted:Anyone know of a cooperative worker-placement eurogame (or a fanmade variant with reports I could read)? Like Agricola but all players' VPs are totaled and the goal is to both get as many VPs as possible and facilitate it for other players, so it's OK to make a bad move where another player gains more than you lose? Possibly with restricted communication so it's not too easy to avoid blocking others. Seems simple to make a variant like that, but I haven't seen any in practice. The only real coop WP I can name is Robinson Crusoe, but you aren't gaining VP there. Also it's not great.
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Medium Style posted:Yes, that’s the one. It looked really cool and mechanically it was maybe a step up from Dead of Winter or Betrayal at the House, but most of the design was seriously low effort. Awww, drat, I got drunk and pre-ordered this because it looked cool, only time I've done something so foolish. Maybe I'll be able to sell it?
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Tekopo posted:Wouldn’t recommend because it’s singularly unlike many other COINs. Thanks for the advice. Not sure when/if I'll be getting any of them, but the conversation reminded me that I've been meaning to, and LoD's theme interested me the most.
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Pierzak posted:Anyone know of a cooperative worker-placement eurogame (or a fanmade variant with reports I could read)? Like Agricola but all players' VPs are totaled and the goal is to both get as many VPs as possible and facilitate it for other players, so it's OK to make a bad move where another player gains more than you lose? Possibly with restricted communication so it's not too easy to avoid blocking others. Seems simple to make a variant like that, but I haven't seen any in practice. Orleans with its cooperative expansion (Invasion) comes kinda close, but it's not a worker placement.
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Pierzak posted:Anyone know of a cooperative worker-placement eurogame (or a fanmade variant with reports I could read)? Like Agricola but all players' VPs are totaled and the goal is to both get as many VPs as possible and facilitate it for other players, so it's OK to make a bad move where another player gains more than you lose? Possibly with restricted communication so it's not too easy to avoid blocking others. Seems simple to make a variant like that, but I haven't seen any in practice. Kitchen Rush is a co-operative worker placement game. But it probably doesn't fit with your desires because it focuses more upon real-time gameplay rather than turn-based gameplay. This means each worker in Kitchen Rush is a small hourglass, and they are able to take another action the moment the hourglass is empty.
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Lord Hydronium posted:How so? Also, to be clear, by "introductory" I don't mean something that prepares me for other COIN games so much as something that won't make me entirely lost if I haven't played one before.
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Car Hater posted:Awww, drat, I got drunk and pre-ordered this because it looked cool, only time I've done something so foolish. Maybe I'll be able to sell it? The two other players, including one that hasn’t backed it, both liked it well enough. They agreed with most of my critique but still thought it was cool. It is a very “cool” game and would be better if they clean up the rules and language. If you think you’d enjoy it, then enjoy it. My opinion is based on one play and I have a low tolerance for those kinds of games anyway.
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Bottom Liner posted:Digital COINs rules, even if I am mad that Twilight Struggle is iPad only and these will be too. I hope that they include the bots, since Twilight Struggle's AI can't really beat you after 2-3 games. If they do I'm in for one non-LoD COIN blind, others more cautiously.
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Axios is reporting that Asmodee is in exclusive negotiation to change hands from its current private equity firm to another private equity firm. Warning that this article is terrible.
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