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I've played Maskmen with two different groups, and both times we were having such a good time a player ordered the game off Amazon while we were playing it. Thanks to whomever was emphatically recommending that in the thread earlier. My wife is interested in The Fox in the Forest for a quick 2 player game, anyone know anything about it?
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Jan 10, 2020 19:48
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Llyranor posted:There is a Hansa Teutonica big box on the way, but no estimated release date Still only an idea according to the publisher at Essen Fox in the Forest is my favorite trick taking game and one of the best small 2p games. The coop version Duet is also out now and looks equally good.
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I got myself something as a late birthday present to myself: a copy of Diskwars  Been wanting one a long time and grabbed a reasonably priced copy. I'm a sucker for well executed clever ideas, regardless of how well they did or didn't sell.
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Mayveena posted:Hansa Teutonica!!!!! Love that game. Starts out looking like multi player solitaire, ends up with a lot of annoyed players (they'll get over it when they see the strategic possibilities). Bottom Liner posted:It’s out of print and hard to find because no one wants to get rid of it! El Fideo posted:Your tastes and mine have a lot of overlap!
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Zorro KingOfEngland posted:I've played Maskmen with two different groups, and both times we were having such a good time a player ordered the game off Amazon while we were playing it. Thanks to whomever was emphatically recommending that in the thread earlier. I was at least one such person. Maskmen is so delightful.
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I've been thinking about Bus a lot lately. The rules are so simple and elegant for what seems to be a pretty deep game. I've even tried a solo 3p game on TTS, and again the mechanisms have felt really clever. The only problem is that I'm not sure my group will take to such a potentially mean/cutthroat game. The game is pricey enough that I don't want to gamble on a potential flop.
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mellifluous posted:I definitely want to pick up 6 Nimmt, so it's good to know that the deck can be used to play other games as well. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be available anywhere besides ebay (which adds shipping and customs/duties fees, making it pretty expensive for what it is. I suppose it's the kind of game where you could create your own cards, but I don't know the best way to go about that). Amazon.ca lists 6 nimmt for about $15 including shipping, unless I'm misreading things. The other option is to get a copy of either The Mind or The Game, and use them to play 6 Nimmt, the only difference that you'd be capped off at "only" 9 players. eta:Also you'd have to remember how many points each card is worth, but that's trivial. Literally just check the last digit. El Fideo fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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Jan 10, 2020 21:12
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The Eyes Have It posted:I got myself something as a late birthday present to myself: a copy of Diskwars Congrats on your forthcoming purchase of a second core and two expansions and your later forthcoming homebrew factions
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Llyranor posted:I've been thinking about Bus a lot lately. The rules are so simple and elegant for what seems to be a pretty deep game. I've even tried a solo 3p game on TTS, and again the mechanisms have felt really clever. I've had several groups that really enjoyed it. But the group that usually played the heaviest games did not like it. They found the game to be far too mean, since every player will have at least one action that feels totally wasted, unless the rest of the players are really bad. But anyone who is willing to accept serious hate-drafting in a drafting game should tolerate Bus. Also, Maskmen is good, but hard to sleeve. The game only barely fits in the box already. I'd need to put it in a MTG box instead if I wanted room for sleeves.
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Jan 10, 2020 21:33
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El Fideo posted:Amazon.ca lists 6 nimmt for about $15 including shipping, unless I'm misreading things. The other option is to get a copy of either The Mind or The Game, and use them to play 6 Nimmt, the only difference that you'd be capped off at "only" 9 players.  I totally forgot to check Amazon. It's the German edition, but I will find the English rules elsewhere online. Thank you again!
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StashAugustine posted:Congrats on your forthcoming purchase of a second core and two expansions and your later forthcoming homebrew factions Need someone to play it with, first! 
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Jan 10, 2020 22:18
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after conversations with a couple of different gaming groups over the holidays I'm now convinced that I'm the only person on the face of the planet who prefers the word version of Codenames to the picture one
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You're not alone, pictures flopped among all of my family and other players. It was neat to try but you just can't string together sick nasty moves like you can with words.
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Jan 10, 2020 23:00
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Codenames Pictures and every themed Codenames is inferior to regular words Codenames.
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Jan 10, 2020 23:04
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Pictures rule To dude looking for 6 nimnt, there is this that I stumbled upon Take 5: 2 Games in 1 U.S. Version of 6 Nimmt! with Take A Number (X Nimmt!) Included https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07H73TCT1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_WtpgEbZ14NJHE
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yeah my main problem with it (besides being more of a verbal person than a visual one) is that it seems to heavily favor the team that plays first, since getting a consistent 2 tiles per clue is really easy whereas getting 3 or 4 is basically impossible, so the second team can only ever catch up and never really take the lead
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Jan 10, 2020 23:05
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Here's my hot code names take: Duet is the best way to play it at any player count.
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[word] 5 everytime or else you're a coward who has no faith in your team mate/s.
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M a x posted:Here's my hot code names take: Duet is the best way to play it at any player count. This is true. Julio Cruz posted:after conversations with a couple of different gaming groups over the holidays I'm now convinced that I'm the only person on the face of the planet who prefers the word version of Codenames to the picture one I've met very few people who prefer pictures.
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yeah Duet is just better mechanically but not as fun with a large group because you don't get to constantly give them bad advice and pick on their awful clues.
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Jan 10, 2020 23:28
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Said it before, say it again: Pictures is solely an expansion to regular Codenames or Duet. You use it in the 5x5 mixed pictures and words variant, to get the players to forcibly juggle their visual and linguistic processing centers back and forth until they're dizzy. That's it.
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Jan 10, 2020 23:44
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I have a couple friends who have dyslexia, and Pictures is obviously better for them. They know how to figure out words in the context of a sentence, but all by themselves, they'll accidentally read them as other words. They don't have any issues with pictures.
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Llyranor posted:I've been thinking about Bus a lot lately. The rules are so simple and elegant for what seems to be a pretty deep game. I've even tried a solo 3p game on TTS, and again the mechanisms have felt really clever. Simple: get a better group.
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Aeon Trespass Odyssey has their intro / sample / "PnP" on tabletop simulator. Their combat system sounds intriguing so I decided to read up on it and maybe give it a shot. I can say that "could you explain the rules without referring to anime episodes" really isn't something I thought I'd ever think when reading a board game rulebook.
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Gutter Owl posted:Said it before, say it again: Pictures is solely an expansion to regular Codenames or Duet. You use it in the 5x5 mixed pictures and words variant, to get the players to forcibly juggle their visual and linguistic processing centers back and forth until they're dizzy. That's it.
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Losem posted:Personally I still have all 3 Azul as they all seem to offer a different experience. The original allows you to play it as nice or mean as you want while stained glass feels like it's designed to be more mean. Summer pavilion is by far the friendliest of the 3 with the ability to carry over tiles to the next round. I've only played it once and haven't really delved into but we had very limited player interaction in our first game. One of my friends said it felt like a solitaire version of Azul. Personally, if I had to choose one to keep it would probably still be the original. I still think that's the best version. I own both and I agree. Azul: SP is good but definitely leans towards "figure out your own poo poo", Azul base game you are rewarded more for paying close attention to your opponent's board. If I had to pick one, I think I like the base game better.
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Redundant posted:I'll be the I recommend Concordia as well, and if you play at small player counts a lot the Brittania/Germania expansion is great. I find the small side of the base game map to still be a bit large at 2.
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Best way to play 6 nimmt! is find a pile of cheap tokens and play No Thanks! instead. Tldr I took 6 nimmt! on holiday with the family and we played far more no thanks and the mind with the deck than 6 nimmt! Something about it just didn't gel with us, strategy is kind of fuzzy, there's enough luck that you kind of don't feel that rush when you make a good play, but still feel cheated when you get hosed. And counting scores between rounds is 
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Played Maskmen for the first time last night and I think it's my 3rd favorite Oink game, behind only Fake Artist and Fafnir. Also played Insider recently and it's a contender for worst Oink (hard to beat Nine Tiles, though).
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So y'know what's not a good game? Newton. Holy crap why are there so many tracks in this simple market row action builder. I feel like literally half the game could be cut out and it would be far better for it. Also I went heavy into the books, and both my opponents did not, and I almost had as many points as both of them combined, 142 86 68.
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StashAugustine posted:Congrats on your forthcoming purchase of a second core and two expansions and your later forthcoming homebrew factions this happened to me
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Lord Of Texas posted:I recommend Concordia as well, and if you play at small player counts a lot the Brittania/Germania expansion is great. I find the small side of the base game map to still be a bit large at 2. I'm on the cusp of thinking that the salsa expansion will be worth picking up but I'm still kind of on the fence.
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Losem posted:How is Clank! Legacy? I wasn't that impressed with the original but legacy games will at least get me to look at it. Even if the only actual one I've finished is Pandemic Season 1. I've only played the first three games of the campaign, but from what I can see, the legacy portion isn't going to change your mind on how you view Clank. There are some bits I like. There are a bunch of market cards that will make players generate Clank when they arrive on the market, and healing/teleports/clank reduction cards have been toned down (for example the healing card generates clank, and heals one damage if you're standing on the right terrain, so at best, it's just delaying the inevitable). This means there's a much greater pressure on players to get in and out quickly, because that bag will kill you. I also like that the minor secrets are just in a pool now, and they pay up no matter how many people wander through the location. Maybe that's already the case with the other versions of Clank though. I've only played the original. I like that they've been cautious with giving permanent prizes for winning games. Winning a game is one of the ways you get points with the company, which gets you status levels at certain thresholds, but, at least for the first level, the bonuses you get for achieving it are pretty insignificant. I doubt there's going to be any issues with victory snowballing. The legacy part is nothing flash so far. You get missions to go to locations on the map or do certain tasks, which will then result in a little story being read and the arriving player making an uninformed choice. A bit like the Road/City cards from Gloomhaven; "You see a dog on the side of the road, do you a) pet the dog or b) throw stones at it?". This will result in some minor change to the game, without the player knowing what those changes were going to be. To begin with, it's pretty fun to go to these places and do what they ask, but I'm finding it wearing thin after just three games. The story has a irreverent tone, so there's not much role-playing to be done, the choices are made without knowing the consequences, the consequences tend not to be that significant and they rarely impact the other players, and they eat up time as people dig through the story book, sticker sheets, card/token boxes, etc, to deal with the outcome. My opinion is probably skewed slightly because we're playing four player, and one of players has mild AP, so the game deciding to grind to a halt constantly on top of that is becoming insufferable. It's probably a non-issue if your gaming group is pretty quick, but I really wish the decision making was done after the game, not right in the middle of it. If you already like Clank, I think Clank Legacy would be a good buy. Being afraid of the Clank sack is pretty refreshing, and the legacy missions give a little sprinkling of flavour to each game. If you don't really like Clank, the little sprinkling of flavour probably won't change that.
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Julio Cruz posted:after conversations with a couple of different gaming groups over the holidays I'm now convinced that I'm the only person on the face of the planet who prefers the word version of Codenames to the picture one Pictures is terrible. Who wants to add like 4 extra layers of mentally parsing clues in a party game
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Kiranamos posted:Who wants to add like 4 extra layers of mentally parsing clues in a party game
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No, but it sure makes the Grieg start going through my head. Singing Mary had a Little lamb to that tune is pretty awesome.
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