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Jedit posted:That'll be Reiner Knizia's game. It's bad enough that I will give my copy to a UK goon if they pay shipping, just to get it out of my house. Come on dude, there are charity shops around. They can make like... 2 quid off it.
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I think I have that game too. I bought it used because I liked the art, and hey it’s a Knizia game right? My wife and I played and it was the most boring slog I have ever played. Not even kids would enjoy that game.
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Redundant posted:My planned game of Kemet got ruined by the weather so instead I will do a more general write up of the games I have played this month. Has anyone played the Seth expansion yet? The 1 vs all mode looks interesting, but it also looks like the expansion can't be played in normal Kemet FFA mode. I'm torn on whether or not to buy it since getting a 1 vs all game to the table is much tougher, and I've read that it adds a fair amount of rules confusion that the rule book doesn't address.
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Redundant posted:Azul - Since it was the best selling game of the year I don't think there's much I can say that hasn't been said before, but it's one of the few games that my non-hobbyist friends and family have finished playing and immediately asked to play again. I think this is mostly because it's really easy to start playing and be fairly productive just filling lines but it is also pretty clear how you could have improved your score. It also doesn't hurt that the game looks really nice, rummaging through the bag is weirdly fun and each decision is quick but feels vital. Yeah, agreed on all counts after playing a couple rounds. I don't know if I can get my family to play it but it seems like a really interesting game for a wide range of players.
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Azul was such a smash hit at Christmas. I have played it a dozen times throughout the year but that game hit the table 3 times a night for like a week solid, with a rotating cast of my family playing it. I like that I get to go first every time according to the rulebook. While on vacation last year we drove for a weekend out of Spain into Portugal and back. I was sitting further back in the car, which means I left Portugal last and was thus the person in the group to visit Portugal most recently  I am also ridiculously excited for FFGs new Lord of the Rings app-supported campaign dungeon crawler
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Jan 31, 2019 04:16
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Bloody Pancreas posted:Aeon's End, Flash Point: Fire Rescue, Pandemic: The Cure/Iberia, Escape: The Curse of the Temple, Kitchen Rush and Codenames Duet are all examples of good/great co-op games to consider (Aeon's End in particular). Aeon's End looks pretty interesting, I haven't tried a co-op deckbuilder before. Anyone else tried it?
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Jan 31, 2019 04:44
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alkanphel posted:Aeon's End looks pretty interesting, I haven't tried a co-op deckbuilder before. Anyone else tried it? It's fine. We all enjoyed it enough, but didn't see reason to come back to it after winning against each enemy. Aeon's End Legacy just shipped though, so we'll definitely go through that. I'd wait for reviews on Legacy before buying an AE game.
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Jan 31, 2019 05:29
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Bought the 3rd Edition of Greenland & Neanderthal on a whim... My first Eklund games. Yay or nay?
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Jan 31, 2019 09:06
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For UK people I found out that The Works online store is having a sale on board games. Nothing majorly spectacular title wise, they have Lords of Xidit, Steam Time and Android: mainframe along with several others for £10 each. Plus there's also a code at the top of the website for even more off. I picked up a couple of games this way so might be worth seeing if there is anything you like.
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Jan 31, 2019 11:15
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Selecta84 posted:Bought the 3rd Edition of Greenland & Neanderthal on a whim... Despised Greenland. It's a relentless dicefest.
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Jan 31, 2019 11:47
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Jedit posted:That'll be Reiner Knizia's game. It's bad enough that I will give my copy to a UK goon if they pay shipping, just to get it out of my house.
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Went round to some friends on Sunday to get a few games in (as they have the table space we lack), so thought I’d do a bit of a trip report. Planet. Selling point for this was a) it’s pretty cheap and b) each player has a giant magnetic d12 which terrain pentagons get attached to throughout the game. Really nice components, game is decent in play too. Basically you pick one region each round from a pool of (players +1), and have to match the requirements of a load of animal cards to try and attract them to your planet. The animals available in upcoming rounds are always visible, and ties for each species bump the animal to the next round. Each player also has a favoured terrain type; at the end of the game this scores based on the size of that terrain on your finished planet, but species that don’t need that terrain score you double points. Not too deep, only a bit of interaction, but a nice puzzle. Photosynthesis. Not going to go too in-depth as it’s been talked about a bit here. Found it fun enough, although a bit too long, and with a weirdly constrained decision space which felt a bit artificial. Joyously vicious though, and a decent play. Dice Hospital. Not much to say really. It’s a solid enough game, but mostly solo puzzles (albeit good ones) that only interact when picking patients/upgrades. Need to add the KS edition expansion to see if that mixes things up a bit - the base game feels a bit flavourless. Theme is less Theme Hospital then everyone hopes. Tulip Bubble. Sleeper hit of the session. Only picked this up on my wife’s insistence originally, but turns out to have been a good buy. It tries to simulate the eponymous Dutch financial crash, and succeeds pretty well at it. Basically, each round players first sell tulips; either for the market price or to a collector card - these each give a bonus for particular sets of tulips - then bid on up to three tulips in the market. If no-one else bids on one, you have to buy it, otherwise there’s an auction, with losing players getting money based on how far above market value the winner bids. Now you don’t have to actually spend your own money on the tulip - you can finance it, taking the value from the bank. But financed tulips can only be sold to a collector by paying them off, and they occupy one of your three bid tokens, reducing your ability to buy in subsequent rounds. Then the prices of the three colours of tulips are adjusted based on how many are left in the current market, plus next turn’s shipment. The twist is that at the start of each turn, a market card is drawn from a deck of 10 which either shifts one colour up or down in price, crashes the most expensive colour, or pushes up the price of the cheapest colour. And one of the last three cards is the bubble bursting and the game ending. Score is cash in hand, less the amount you have financed, which can easily see players ending up in negative points if it bursts early, or they push their luck. Very tense, unexpectedly large amount of trash talking, and we used Iron Clays for money chips which just made the whole thing feel nicer. Good enough we went into a second game immediately.
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Jan 31, 2019 12:27
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The End posted:Despised Greenland. It's a relentless dicefest. 
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Jan 31, 2019 12:54
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Redundant posted:I would never have associated that game with Knizia, but this is definitely it. Even as a UK goon I think I'll just let you keep it! Hey have you heard of Relationship Tightrope, another of his hidden "masterpieces".
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Jan 31, 2019 13:23
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Tsietisin posted:For UK people I found out that The Works online store is having a sale on board games. Nothing majorly spectacular title wise, they have Lords of Xidit, Steam Time and Android: mainframe along with several others for £10 each. Plus there's also a code at the top of the website for even more off. They're always having a boardgame sale. I picked up Steam Time just now and Onward to Venus and The Staufer Dynasty a little while back. If you can collect from a store you not only get free shipping but also a 15% discount on anything else you buy while you're there. Sometimes stores will have games that aren't on the site. The current code is TODAY25 if anyone can't find it.
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Played this at a game night where one person in the group basically buys every game on kickstarter with all the doodads and addons and insisted we play. My opinion is that it's just a worse version of Roll Player.
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I posted this in the chat thread but I figured it'd be good to xpost to the actual board game thread: Anyone got any recommendations for board or card games with a low set up and play time? My lunch group at work is getting sick of Coup (base game only) and Avalon (the Resistance). Social deduction, strategy, and 5+ player count are big pluses.
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Jan 31, 2019 17:45
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SciFiDownBeat posted:I posted this in the chat thread but I figured it'd be good to xpost to the actual board game thread: A Fake Artist Goes to New York might scratch that itch. You can proxy it yourself pretty easily if you like too.
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alkanphel posted:Aeon's End looks pretty interesting, I haven't tried a co-op deckbuilder before. Anyone else tried it? I play it with my brothers annually.. it's my youngest brother's favorite game ever. We have a ton of fun, but I could see quarterbacking being a huge issue. I think there's enough variance between spells and items that you can face some monsters more than once. Also if you get all of it; defeating "all" monsters is something like 20 plays.
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FulsomFrank posted:A Fake Artist Goes to New York might scratch that itch. You can proxy it yourself pretty easily if you like too. This plus Insider are two of the best clever social deduction games out there. CSI has AFfO Norwegians in stock, picking my copy up Saturday and giving it a go.
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Selecta84 posted:Bought the 3rd Edition of Greenland & Neanderthal on a whim... They're very luck dependent. Eklund is attempting to model the effects of an unpredictable, unfair environment on humans and hominins. I think the games are very interesting -- the mechanics are clever. The fun value will be relative to your tolerance for the often-punishing randomness sitting on those mechanics.
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Yeah you have to go into those games with a Vlaada “prepare a mighty fortress and watch it break” frame of mind. Megafauna is a great game too but you can literally get hit with a comet or by some radiation and go extinct.
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Jan 31, 2019 18:21
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I'm not displeased about getting Greenland, but it's solidly in the simulation category for me, along with games such as Pendragon and 1853.
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Jan 31, 2019 18:26
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SciFiDownBeat posted:I posted this in the chat thread but I figured it'd be good to xpost to the actual board game thread: If they don't hate trick taking games your options open up.
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Jan 31, 2019 18:28
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SciFiDownBeat posted:I posted this in the chat thread but I figured it'd be good to xpost to the actual board game thread: Internal Affairs. Social deduction, strategy, plays 6 to 8 with a 5-player option.
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SciFiDownBeat posted:I posted this in the chat thread but I figured it'd be good to xpost to the actual board game thread: As suggested, if your group can handle trick taking games, I'd suggest Foppen/Fool, which goes 4-8.
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SciFiDownBeat posted:I posted this in the chat thread but I figured it'd be good to xpost to the actual board game thread: Have you got all the pieces for Avalon? Lancelots + Excalibur + Guinevere (sees Lancelots before game, can be stabbed at the end instead of Merlin) really freshen the thing up. We got tired of base Avalon pretty quick, but we played 7/8P with the "full setup" every day for like a year. It was glorious. I've been playing a fair bit of Bottle Imp lately. It doesn't fit all your boxes - it's only 4p - but it has zero set up, is easy to teach, and you can play as many or as few rounds as you want. And it's a solid little game with some fun luck pushing, some hidden information through card passing/holding, and lots of non-obvious strategy to work through. Good fit for a lunch group I think.
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I've gotten a few games of Wingspan under my belt, and I can say with confidence that it's a good game, but fairly light. The actual engine building is fairly basic (you can just choose one action to upgrade to get a good score), and while there's a good amount of complexity in choosing which action you'll take in a turn, you take so few turns that it doesn't add up to much. The theming really makes the game worthwhile, though. The components are all gorgeous and you can add some narrative elements to add to the simplistic engine building decisions you make. You're not specializing in the drawing bird cards action, you're specializing in water fowl! Each bird has a unique combination of special ability, point value, food cost, and how many eggs it can hold, and even though that won't play a tremendous role in you engine building, it can help personalize your experience in a positive way. It reminds me of Race to the Galaxy, in that there's a lot of narrative and personality you can draw out of the engine building and that even just one expansion may turn the game from good to great.
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Thanks for the responses!FulsomFrank posted:A Fake Artist Goes to New York might scratch that itch. You can proxy it yourself pretty easily if you like too. Bottom Liner posted:This plus Insider are two of the best clever social deduction games out there. Jedit posted:Internal Affairs. Social deduction, strategy, plays 6 to 8 with a 5-player option. Nice, thanks! Indolent Bastard posted:If they don't hate trick taking games your options open up. taser rates posted:As suggested, if your group can handle trick taking games, I'd suggest Foppen/Fool, which goes 4-8. (I had to google trick-taking  ) depending on the implementation it might be too "luck-based" for the group's tastes so I'd have to see it in action first.jmzero posted:Have you got all the pieces for Avalon? Lancelots + Excalibur + Guinevere (sees Lancelots before game, can be stabbed at the end instead of Merlin) really freshen the thing up. We got tired of base Avalon pretty quick, but we played 7/8P with the "full setup" every day for like a year. It was glorious. Are the promo cards still in print? I was under the assumption that they were Kickstarter exclusive. We sometimes have less than 5 so that's perfectly fine. Optimally any new game would be able to accommodate 4-6 players or any superset of that.
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Have they played Hearts, or Spades, or anything like that? Standard, old school trick taking games are fairly universal. Leaping from those to more designery ones was the suggestion, I think.
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pospysyl posted:I've gotten a few games of Wingspan under my belt, and I can say with confidence that it's a good game, but fairly light. The actual engine building is fairly basic (you can just choose one action to upgrade to get a good score), and while there's a good amount of complexity in choosing which action you'll take in a turn, you take so few turns that it doesn't add up to much. I'm always excited to hear people's impressions on this guy since it seems like the must-have game coming out. Where did you get your copy? Or did it hit the stores and leave already?
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SciFiDownBeat posted:Anyone got any recommendations for board or card games with a low set up and play time? My lunch group at work is getting sick of Coup (base game only) and Avalon (the Resistance). Social deduction, strategy, and 5+ player count are big pluses. I like drafting games like sushi go party or 7 wonders better than trick-taking games at high player counts. So check those out.
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FulsomFrank posted:I'm always excited to hear people's impressions on this guy since it seems like the must-have game coming out. Where did you get your copy? Or did it hit the stores and leave already? I ponied up for a pre order of Wingspan but I kind of doubt that I'll even receive anything given the demand and huge shortage.
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Played four player Clans of Caledonia last night for the first time in a year. It's held up real good and I'm eager to play it some more. I've seen it at clearance prices all over, so it's a bargain if you want a good resource converter euro
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The End posted:Played four player Clans of Caledonia last night for the first time in a year. It's held up real good and I'm eager to play it some more. I've seen it at clearance prices all over, so it's a bargain if you want a good resource converter euro caveat: not a great 2p, but otherwise yea good game.
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SciFiDownBeat posted:I posted this in the chat thread but I figured it'd be good to xpost to the actual board game thread: Secret Hitler and Mafia de Cuba would probably scratch your itches as well. For more of a party flavor whatever printing of Telestrations/Eat Poop You Cat you can find would be fun. There's also codenames. EDIT: ALso 2nding Sushi Go Party. But if your group thinks hearts/spades is too random it may not be for you.
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homullus posted:They're very luck dependent. Eklund is attempting to model the effects of an unpredictable, unfair environment on humans and hominins. I think the games are very interesting -- the mechanics are clever. The fun value will be relative to your tolerance for the often-punishing randomness sitting on those mechanics. I play State of Siege games so that is not really a problem. But good mechanics help to tolerate it more. Tekopo posted:I'm not displeased about getting Greenland, but it's solidly in the simulation category for me, along with games such as Pendragon and 1853. I'll keep that in mind during my first game. Thanks guys
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Mafia de Cuba is bad, broken and even if you play it “properly”, really boring.
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Tekopo posted:Mafia de Cuba is bad, broken and even if you play it “properly”, really boring. Secrets is probably the same sort of thing - a social deduction game where you don't have to lie.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Secrets is probably the same sort of thing - a social deduction game where you don't have to lie. I quite like Secrets because it's chaotic but still has a proper framework that means it doesn't just fall apart like Mafia de Cuba. I sold my copy of The Resistance in favour of it, mostly because lying was the most fun part of that, and the only people I could ever play with had more or less solved it. Social deduction games are far less fun when you just math them all out.
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