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Rad Valtar posted:Did you guys just do the games you own or did you include any game you have previously owned? Rated 8+, owned, for sanity's sake. I have way too many ratings of 5s for mediocre games that won't ever show up in contention for top 20, much less top 9. Dre2Dee2 posted:I don't mean any offense, but this list comes off like one for a 60 year old man 
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This pub meeple is just brutal with the comparisons for me Root or SidCon Pax Pamir or Inis Eclipse or Antiquity don't... please don't make me choose... Anyways, this is what I ended up with after filtering down to my 9+ rated owned games. 
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Rad Valtar posted:Did you guys just do the games you own or did you include any game you have previously owned? It seems bizarre to me that someone might not own their 9 favorite games in the world. I guess if someone else in your consistent gaming group owns it?
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CaptainRightful posted:It seems bizarre to me that someone might not own their 9 favorite games in the world. I guess if someone else in your consistent gaming group owns it? For me this is Spirit Island: TWO people in my consistent gaming group own it, and I've borrowed it before for like.. 4 months then given it back with no issues.
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Ravendas posted:This pub meeple is just brutal with the comparisons for me I'll just cheat and say this is mine too.
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Oct 21, 2019 05:50
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 I thought TGZ would make it but it didn't, this feels about right otherwise.
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i guess we're all doing this so hi, i have a wargames problem
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Pretty sure this is the same list I would have come up with manually. I like co-ops, clearly.
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ketchup vs catsup posted:Tell me more about Mysthea A deeper, thinkier, more interesting blood rage. The End fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 07:51
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Here's mine guys, I'm pretty satisfied with what it came up with
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Any recommendations for a group that appreciates Memoir' 44 and Axis and Allies 41, but would like it slightly more nerdy/simulationist?
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The End posted:A deeper, thinker, more interesting blood rage. And much much longer. I really like it too, but it feels like it just runs too long with anything more than three - and if anything I could imagine it getting longer with repeat plays and better knowledge of the cards.
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Tias posted:Any recommendations for a group that appreciates Memoir' 44 and Axis and Allies 41, but would like it slightly more nerdy/simulationist? Conflict of Heroes. 3rd edition is out now.
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Tias posted:Any recommendations for a group that appreciates Memoir' 44 and Axis and Allies 41, but would like it slightly more nerdy/simulationist? Combat Commander: Europe
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Terminally Bored posted:Conflict of Heroes. 3rd edition is out now. Seems to be sold out.. cenotaph posted:Combat Commander: Europe Groovy, I'll see if I can dig up a copy!
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Tias posted:Any recommendations for a group that appreciates Memoir' 44 and Axis and Allies 41, but would like it slightly more nerdy/simulationist? War Room!  If you're too much of a casual to drop $240 on that one, you might check out two grand strategy WWII games from GMT: Triumph and Tragedy and Cataclysm. Both emphasize political, diplomatic, and economic aspects in addition to pushing your dudes around Europe, and both take a big-picture view of the war with a lot of abstraction and alt-history, but Cataclysm leans in even more to the high-level abstractions than T&T does. Lots of differences between the two are detailed in this BGG thread. I have no clue what tactical/squad games are beloved these days, but there are quite a few. Also consider operational-scale games which take place on a scale between Memoir 44 and the Axis & Allies series and involve coordinating a decent number of military units in a front. Empire of the Sun is an interesting example, though as a card-driven game it's not all that similar to those you mentioned. How is Axis & Allies these days anyway? I last played the 2004 "Revised" version and felt it turned into stalemate quickly, due to no stacking limits whatsoever.
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The game board on War Room really irks me for some reason. Why iz round  Well, A&A 1941 is the "lite" edition, and it has a bunch of things that endear it to me: - Can be set up in 5-7 minutes and played in two hours with unskilled players. - Retails below 25 dollars, at least in my country. Pieces are a bit on the cheap side, but look fine. - Well balanced. Both sides can win no problem. - Actually a bit more true to history than before. A peeve with axis&allies to us milhist types was always that it's possible to command way too many divisions and create them too quickly compared to the real story. Here production numbers are scaled back, which makes the balance look kinda real. Cons would be the reliance on dice luck. It's not as bad as in Memoir 44' for example, and was always part of the Axis&Allies model, but it should be mentioned. Also, it can be played with 5 players, but leaves one in the suck zone as the soviets. They're nice to play as part of an allied play bloc, but as one player they're bound to get in trouble between the Axis powers.
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Something that cropped up on Facebook: * If it's named solely for a place, it's a Euro. * If it's named solely for a date, it's an 18XX. * If it's named for both, it's a wargame. I'm trying hard to come up with a counterexample.
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I did one of these as wel, just over 35 games that I have/had Predictably Power Grid is the best, though sometimes it does feel like choosing between your children. Played Kemet for the first time last night and it was pretty good for a man on maps game. I'd place it as better than Bloodrage but worse than Inis for me. I snuck a win with a cheeky little teleport.
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Jedit posted:Something that cropped up on Facebook: New York 1901. (E: Fixed link).
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Hooray, Feuerland just confirmed the mini expansion for aFfO for 5 € on their Facebook page. And the Fields of Arle mini Expansion (which was in the board game advent Calendar) with 2 buildings and a new cart for 5 € as well. Selecta84 fucked around with this message at 12:14 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 11:44
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1989 Dawn of Freedom is another: unless dawn of Freedom counts as a place.
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Oct 21, 2019 12:49
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Hello goons. I think you might appreciate this bit from detective game Disco Elysium: 
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Synthbuttrange posted:Hello goons. I think you might appreciate this bit from detective game Disco Elysium: 
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Jedit posted:Something that cropped up on Facebook: Bruxelles 1893 too.
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Oh and there's plenty of wargames that are just the place: Gettysburg, Stalingrad, etc
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Jedit posted:Something that cropped up on Facebook: SpaceCorp: 2025-2300 AD is the best I can think of but not a place Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Candyland
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Jedit posted:Something that cropped up on Facebook: 1960, if nothing after the colon counts? meh, i guess "Solely for" Deathlove fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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I'd unironically play a euro-style game where the theme was just "cubes" and they didn't represent anything else.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Hello goons. I think you might appreciate this bit from detective game Disco Elysium: Thanks, now I don't have to spend any Real on it Disco Elysium is some good rear end poo poo
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silvergoose posted:Oh and there's plenty of wargames that are just the place: Gettysburg, Stalingrad, etc Those are named after battles, not places 
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Safety Biscuits posted:Those are named after battles, not places I mean yeah but the battles are themselves named after places, and by the transitive property...
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Safety Biscuits posted:Those are named after battles, not places https://goo.gl/maps/NNnnqTi3HybJkY4P6 The reason they are named such is because of where they were fought, right? I guess they could have called it the winning battle of the North or something but that's like way too long.
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Here's my top 9. Lots of coops with some euros mixed in.
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Mayveena posted:https://goo.gl/maps/NNnnqTi3HybJkY4P6
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Doctor Spaceman posted:New York 1901. Also a profoundly under rated game IMO
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Got my second game of Pax Pamir in. For the second time, I pulled a faction up from the trash only to get sniped by a double dominance card for the final victory check.  Next time I'm going to make it a point to switch to every faction just to break my habit.
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tokenbrownguy posted:Got my second game of Pax Pamir in. For the second time, I pulled a faction up from the trash only to get sniped by a double dominance card for the final victory check. In my most recent game I had a solid dominance ruined by a new player that sabotaged himself by accident too. Luckily I went and screwed myself over by taking a betray action I didn't need to do which cost me most cylinders and ARGHHH what a great game.
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