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PerniciousKnid posted:When I played Coup it felt just as random as Masquerade, but less fun. Imo masq takes the coup problem of "the game ends when one person fucks up or goes against the optimal deadlock" and makes it the entire game
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Bottom Liner posted:I do agree the endgame of the US version of Mysterium is crap. What's different about it? (vs. say other versions?)
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There's a Coup-like game I have some fondness for called Blood Bound. You have various roles ranked 1-9 in two teams of blue and red. One person has a knife and chooses to stab someone and they either reveal their rank, reveal their role, or someone else can leap in to take the hit. The person who got stabbed then takes the knife. If your role is unrevealed you can reveal it to do a special ability like the warrior stabs back whoever stabs him. The game ends immediately when someone dies (can't reveal a token) and everyone reveals themselves: if you killed the lowest rank of the opposing team you win, if you kill anyone else you lose. You've got some interesting additions for subterfuge as everyone knows the team (but not the rank or role) of the player to their left, but one role has reversed colors so the blue spy's team icon is red. Some roles have no team affiliation so their tokens appear as a question mark. And in odd player counts you have the Inquisitor who wins by giving the lowest rank player of the team they think will win a curse. But truly the best thing about it is the original art before Fantasy Flight reprinted it with illustrated art. I want anyone reading this to go to BGG and see the original art for Blood Bound but lets just say it's like they booked the same shooting schedule as Touch of Evil and threw a bunch of wigs on college drama students needing credit hours.
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jmzero posted:I think the call is reasonable with 4p or less. Yeah, it feels like a tougher call at 6p. It's still less than a 3% reduction in winrate to make that play, but when you are starting out at 17%, that feels more significant. I think 4p is the best player count for base coup.
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The End posted:It helps that 2018 was kinda meh for new games. I know for my group we've been reaching back into the vaults. Yeah 2018 was the year of good reprints. 2019 might be as well, considering the Roads and Boats announcement along with Pax Pamir.
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What are some ‘19 games to look out for? FCM and new line/sequels to Jaipur are all I have on my list.
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Bottom Liner posted:sequels to Jaipur Wait, what? Please elaborate, googling gives me nothing.
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Bottom Liner posted:What are some ‘19 games to look out for? FCM and new line/sequels to Jaipur are all I have on my list. Irish Gauge, 1862, 1830.
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Bottom Liner posted:What are some ‘19 games to look out for? FCM and new line/sequels to Jaipur are all I have on my list. FCM expansion is a million times higher than anything else I've seen thus far, and honestly other than that the only thing that comes to mind currently is Era: Medieval Age from Matt Leacock & Eggertspiele which was just announced and looks really cool, will be really curious to find out more about how it plays. Maybe Century: A New World, if the giant Voltron version of the game when combined with games #1 & 2 is actually interesting. Plan B's publicity rep has dropped the comment a few times I've seen on FB that they're reconsidering doing Golem Editions for #2 & #3 due to continued demand from people, which would be nice, too. And even though it'll probably be mediocre, suuuper looking forward to the Fight Club deck-building game from Mondo, and nothing anyone says will change that. 
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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. A few pages back but thanks for the heads up, this feels like a steal to me: 
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PerniciousKnid posted:When I played Coup it felt just as random as Masquerade, but less fun. What I find interesting about Coup is that yes, it feels random as gently caress, but then some people consistently win more than others.
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Bottom Liner posted:What are some ‘19 games to look out for? FCM and new line/sequels to Jaipur are all I have on my list. Here are some games I'm looking out for: Barrage: Daniele Tascini's next game that mixes an iteration of his Tzolkin style clock gameplay and a unique kind of route building. Black Angel: A sci fi game by the Troyes team. Glen More 2 The new Vital Lacerda games Escape Plan and On Mars Tokyo Tsujiki Market
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I just bought Feast for Odin and oh my god how are there this many tokens
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El Fideo posted:Wait, what? Please elaborate, googling gives me nothing. https://twitter.com/BoardGameGeek/status/1091566641517875201
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Feb 3, 2019 20:18
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2019 reprints worth looking at Age of Steam deluxe 1830 1862 pax pamir Roads & Boats Irish Gauge Clinic Deluxe? May be 2020 Pastally english release new stuff: FCM expansion Root expansion 1822Mex 1828 Ghandi COIN City of Big Shoulders Pipeline Bios Origins 2 Pax transhumanity new tokyo series stuff Vast 2
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Papes posted:new stuff: Forgot about this one, definitely is on my list. Re: FCM expansion pre-orders, has anyone here who ordered it directly (or have ordered direct from Splotter in the past) been charged as of placing your order? I got my order confirmation email but couldn't figure out where the next $120 in my bank account was coming from until I realized that I hadn't been charged for the game last week. Do they not charge until things ship, or are they just slow?
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CRISPYBABY posted:I just bought Feast for Odin and oh my god how are there this many tokens I take it you don’t own Antiquity.
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Papes posted:2019 reprints worth looking at Good list, thanks!
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gently caress. YES.
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Papes posted:2019 reprints worth looking at The reprint of Key Market that was supposed to happen in 2018 got pushed to 2019, so maybe that will happen.
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Is there any expectation 1828 would be published beyond pnp files on github?
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Mr. Squishy posted:Is there any expectation 1828 would be published beyond pnp files on github? I think clearclaw plans to sell copies if I recall correctly
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CRISPYBABY posted:I just bought Feast for Odin and oh my god how are there this many tokens Now imagine having to punch them in a German hotel room to save a kilo from your luggage weight allowance.
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GMT's twitter has been gushing a bit lately about having secured a third 18xx title in the last week or two.
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Mayveena posted:I take it you don’t own Antiquity. Punching out Antiquity triggered allergies I didn't know I had. I was a runny nosed sneezing mess by the end.
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Jedit posted:Now imagine having to punch them in a German hotel room to save a kilo from your luggage weight allowance. Sounds honorable and pure tbh. CommonShore posted:GMT's twitter has been gushing a bit lately about having secured a third 18xx title in the last week or two. What's the word on 1862, anyhow? I've only played 1846 and I like it a lot, so I'm curious to get into one that's a bit more wild in terms of the market.
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'62 is extremely un-wild in terms of the stock market. I mean, it's wild that there are a lot of weird rules, but every weird rule in the game is directing players to focus on the operational rounds. You cannot loot a company, you cannot have companies dumped on you, if a company is doing well or badly enough, even your ability to affect the share price is diminished. And that's ok! there's wildness in the ORs - there are no junctions! Blocking companies with stations is absolutely vicious, and of course there are 3 different types of trains operating on a unique (to my knowledge) routs system. However, I gotta say my enthusiasm is limited because it's a big ol' chromey mess. I'm looking forward to seeing the GMT rulebook because the old one could certainly use some punch-up. There are a few systems in there I've not seen cause to interact with yet, and I've had surprises when going to the manual, finding little exceptions tucked away I must have skimmed tens of times.
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Papes posted:2019 reprints worth looking at Age of Steam deluxe is an Insta buy for our house, any idea when this will be available?
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CRISPYBABY posted:I just bought Feast for Odin and oh my god how are there this many tokens Everybody puts a giant pile of them down on their board every turn. You need enough for four people to pile them up like maniacs. It's a pretty unique experience seeing it all come together! And The Norwegians seems like it's tailor-made to address veteran sticking points about the game. A tighter board at lower player counts, occupations being playable for either their effect or the top of a declining stack of VP tokens, spaces on the board designed to eat up giant stacks of extra weapon cards, and some additional variant starting conditions in the form of artisan sheds.
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Ropes4u posted:Age of Steam deluxe is an Insta buy for our house, any idea when this will be available? A lot of stuff on that list is hitting Kickstarter this year so release next year
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So Prêt-à-Porter is getting a rerelease and it has always intrigued me on theme alone. I assume it is trash since Ignasty is the designer?
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Ignasty is a significantly cooler name than he deserves lol
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djfooboo posted:So Prêt-à-Porter is getting a rerelease and it has always intrigued me on theme alone. I assume it is trash since Ignasty is the designer? I heard years ago they rethemed it to designing video games. Is this still true?
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al-azad posted:I heard years ago they rethemed it to designing video games. Is this still true? They thought about it, then went back to the fashion industry. The new version's art is by Kwanchai Moriya, which actually raises my interest in it a bit.
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Slimchandi posted:A few pages back but thanks for the heads up, this feels like a steal to me: Got this to the table last night. We hosed up one rule that is easily missed (you get the income from an upgrade when you buy it as well as during the income step), but it's not bad. However, I would say that you either have to play it twice or make sure everyone knows the Alpha effort cards have six different crystals on but the Omegas have three pairs. Otherwise people won't be able to plan correctly.
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Mega Civ took 9.5h including rules teach and almost finished. Basic AST, one step away from winning but with some catastrophes coming up I imagine it would’ve taken another 1.5-2h. Superb owl was going in the background and would’ve taken a pic of the game with pats doing pats things as proof but meh was having too much fun and too involved with trading to remember.
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Chill la Chill posted:Mega Civ took 9.5h including rules teach and almost finished. Basic AST, one step away from winning but with some catastrophes coming up I imagine it would’ve taken another 1.5-2h. Superb owl was going in the background and would’ve taken a pic of the game with pats doing pats things as proof but meh was having too much fun and too involved with trading to remember. Nice, how many players did you end up with? Did you have people doing simultaneous turns? What did you cap trading times to? Did your group enjoy it?
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Is Feast for Odin still the best "making weird shaped tiles fit on your board" game?
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KPC_Mammon posted:Is Feast for Odin still the best "making weird shaped tiles fit on your board" game? I personally dislike the other Uwe ones (Patchwork, Cottage Garden/Indian Summer/the third one in the series). FITS is fun but much more of a filler.
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You might be the only person I know that doesn’t like Patchwork! But yeah, that and Feast are the best of the litter by a mile. Barenpark gets a lot of praise too for a non-Uwe
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