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What's a good civ game these days? I guess maybe someone along the lines of clash of Cultures, civ: a new Dawn, and I guess twilight imperium, although 3 hours or less would be nice.
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If you want a short-ish 4X game, your options are Civ: New Dawn, March of the Ants, and Flow of History. Civ: New Dawn is the one with the largest tech tree and the greatest emphasis on advancement. I think March of the Ants is the closest to the traditional 4X formula. Flow of History is a card game with a mix of bidding elements and traditional civ progression, but it is also the fastest of the three.
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Jun 26, 2019 02:13
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New Through the Ages hits about 3 hours.
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Jun 26, 2019 02:14
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Bottom Liner posted:Antiquity tiles came in and they are great Played a couple of games of my friends copy of these with these tiles, could not imagine trying to do so with a bunch of similarly colored cardboard tokens, all with little muddy symbols on them. Splitter has a serious garbage visual designer, drat. I just wish whoever made the tiles also changed the pictures so they weren't those washed out blurs.
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Jun 26, 2019 02:35
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I posted some board games for sale (or trade) in SA mart https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3892682 Please buy some of my games so I can buy more and my wife won't get mad at me
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Jun 26, 2019 04:26
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Bottom Liner posted:Antiquity tiles came in and they are great How? And what sort of tray are you using? Looks like for beads or something? My antiquity box isn't close to closing properly. I unironically would love to see you post pictures of how your box is set up.
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Jun 26, 2019 14:16
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https://twitter.com/ulible/status/1143862800550436866
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loving finally
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I'm out of the loop. Tell me about this?
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Jun 26, 2019 14:41
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armorer posted:I'm out of the loop. Tell me about this? Die Macher is one of the early heavy Euros (and I believe it was Mayveena who pulled up an archived usenet post from '89 when she talked about this weird new German game). When it was reprinted in the 90s when the board game market was built on German style family games it was kind of a window to today's Euro design of gears within gears not totally dissimilar to what Terra Mystica looked like when it came out. I think it was the first board game submitted to BGG. It's still a good game that's kind of a blend of area control with some open drafting. Everyone is a politician who stands for various hot button issues. These issues have positive and negative opinions in the different regions that will participate in the election. You're trying to influence the election, either by altering the public perception of the issues or your stance on the issues. Because you can see future elections you have to make decisions about where to allocate resources, like maybe flip-flopping will help you now but will kill you two regions down the line or maybe you intentionally ignore this vote to pool all your resources into the next one for a leg up.
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al-azad posted:Die Macher is one of the early heavy Euros (and I believe it was Mayveena who pulled up an archived usenet post from '89 when she talked about this weird new German game). When it was reprinted in the 90s when the board game market was built on German style family games it was kind of a window to today's Euro design of gears within gears not totally dissimilar to what Terra Mystica looked like when it came out. I think it was the first board game submitted to BGG. It was. It's worth noting also that it was still in the BGG top 10 ranked games as recently as 2005 or 2006.
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Jun 26, 2019 15:25
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Its also great because the previous edition has a manual printed entirely in comic sans
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Jun 26, 2019 15:30
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It would be hilarious if the second edition continues to be the best one. There have been rumors that the new one has some weird rules changes. When I got Die Macher, it really shone a critical light to all my Lacerda games. I’ll keep Lisboa as a more convoluted Concordia but die Macher is a much sleeker version of Gallerist and Kanban. Chill la Chill fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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Jun 26, 2019 15:51
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Thread darling 7th Continent is getting a cut-down retail releaseSerious Poulp posted:For months now, we’ve been receiving daily an influx of messages asking if The 7th Continent will be available again in the future, as well as alerting us about the rampant speculation on the subject on the second-hand market. It's also getting a sequel on KS in 2020.
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Jun 26, 2019 15:51
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We played Across the United States last night from OKAZU Brand (Japanese). It's really good if you like a nice straightforward pick up and deliver game. I called it Empire Builder 2019 on Facebook  . Thing is, it's lacking in components and the player aids are in Japanese. The English rules are on BGG so no worries there. Note that they completely cheaped out on the components so you'll have to do something about the houses all being the same color. It's available from amazon.jp and I was able to have them ship it directly to me in the States within a week. Recommended.
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Jun 26, 2019 15:58
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Chill la Chill posted:It would be hilarious if the second edition continues to be the best one. There have been rumors that the new one has some weird rules changes. They've done this to Power Grid of all games as well. I need to get a base map and China/Korea in the old style before they become impossible to get. (no longer lose plants that are obsolete based on city count, instead use the Deluxe $1 plant rule. Also don't support proper 2p games in the rules, instead using the Trust rules from Deluxe).
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Jun 26, 2019 15:59
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Translation: "what with people selling their replacement cards for £25 because they comprise everything you need to play the game bar a few tokens, we've realised that we can't scam fuckwits for £120 any more and our entire remaining stock is worthless".
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Jun 26, 2019 16:00
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The new edition of Die Macher is revised and has some pretty key changes from the previous Valley version (not to say that's better or worse) but you may want to read up on that here if you plan on backing: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2217951/rules-comparision-limited-edition-vs-valley-games In general it seems like the changes reduce luck and reduce play time, although perhaps at the expense of player interaction/negotiation.
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Jun 26, 2019 16:02
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If I were to "fix" anything from Die Macher it would be the random chance cards. They're usually so situational that it's an absolute waste to bother with them which makes them poor bargaining chips, something modern political board games like Corporate America have fixed.
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Correction to my Across the United States recommendation. There's an error in the translation meaning you don't have to sub in different housing and the game is now even better.
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FulsomFrank posted:How? And what sort of tray are you using? Looks like for beads or something? My antiquity box isn't close to closing properly.    Yeah it’s just a bead box from Walmart.
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Mayveena posted:We played Across the United States last night from OKAZU Brand (Japanese). It's really good if you like a nice straightforward pick up and deliver game. I called it Empire Builder 2019 on Facebook Interestingly enough I just got a marketing email from Meeple Source and they are selling it: https://www.meeplesource.com/proddetail.php?prod=AcrossUnitedStates
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Jun 26, 2019 20:05
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T-Bone posted:Interestingly enough I just got a marketing email from Meeple Source and they are selling it: https://www.meeplesource.com/proddetail.php?prod=AcrossUnitedStates Multi-track drifting?! 
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T-Bone posted:Interestingly enough I just got a marketing email from Meeple Source and they are selling it: https://www.meeplesource.com/proddetail.php?prod=AcrossUnitedStates It’s cheaper from amazon.jp. $70 shipped vs $70 plus shipping. Pure pick up and deliver game.
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Jun 26, 2019 20:24
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This is hilarious. On the info segment of the BM&O and German rails winsome news, they include: Designer: Eddie Robbins (John Bohrer)
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Jun 26, 2019 20:51
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give everyone in this thread a (John Bohrer) avatar
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Jun 26, 2019 20:57
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Giving a thumbs up to Pax Pamir 2e. It really is a two-point-oh as it's 90% the same game but the wonkier rules have been streamlined. I still find the game to be too dry in a series of games known for being chaotic and emergent but the result is easily the most strategic Pax game. It's interesting that I don't think any of the Pax games (haven't played Emancipation) replace each other but rather supplement each other. PaPa2 has the best board strategy but lacks the wild dynamism of PaxPor's card play which lacks the ruthless Machiavellian flow of PaxRen.
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They should've work shopped that tagline just a little harder.
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al-azad posted:They should've work shopped that tagline just a little harder. Shopping is women's work.
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Wow, that's terrible. Here's to hoping it doesn't affect Eggertspiele too much by proxy; CranioCreations (the company behind that tweet) are just localizing the game, but I'd wager plenty of people will see it and say "well gently caress THAT game" :/
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Merauder posted:Wow, that's terrible. Here's to hoping it doesn't affect Eggertspiele too much by proxy; CranioCreations (the company behind that tweet) are just localizing the game, but I'd wager plenty of people will see it and say "well gently caress THAT game" :/
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Jun 27, 2019 06:29
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Still, much love to “hashtag mattel a cock”.
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Jun 27, 2019 06:38
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yea i seriously don't want to play it even though it looks like the kind of game i'd like.
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Jun 27, 2019 08:39
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And the tweet is gone. Edit: For anyone late to the party, it said "roll and write is for children, roll and build is for men".
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al-azad posted:Giving a thumbs up to Pax Pamir 2e. It really is a two-point-oh as it's 90% the same game but the wonkier rules have been streamlined. I still find the game to be too dry in a series of games known for being chaotic and emergent but the result is easily the most strategic Pax game. I just want my copy and then to stain it like other people have  Sounds like if I'm lucky it'll be here today or tomorrow just in time for the long-weekend. VVV Everyone's work I've seen looks great so far, which makes me hopeful that I can scratch together something myself. FulsomFrank fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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Jun 27, 2019 14:39
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FulsomFrank posted:I just want my copy and then to stain it like other people have Oh I guess I never posted the results of my paxpam ruler tokens in here. Thought I did. https://twitter.com/Ravendas16/status/1143507060807671809 You don't have to stain them to make them look good. Some cheap craft paint and drybrushing works well too.
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PMush Perfect posted:And the tweet is gone. They do have a habit of saying stupid things but really the vitriol they get is unwarranted in my opinion. They are just games after all 
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Mayveena posted:They do have a habit of saying stupid things but really the vitriol they get is unwarranted in my opinion. They are just games after all It's more than just a game, it's a community and culture and it doesn't take much effort to not rely on 90s style "BE A MAN!" marketing in 2019.
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