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Infinitum posted:Seriously? Well I may have overstated, but that's the resonance - space game with + action selection + follow. It doesn't have the politics in the same way, but to my eye the mechanics are lifted from it. Everyone who I've played TEG with has seen the same thing.
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Infinitum posted:Like if you want some fancy traditional poker chips, for actually playing poker, you can just get a set of Rounders replicas on the 'cheap'. Hot drat the bear chips look so good
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CommonShore posted:Well I may have overstated, but that's the resonance - space game with + action selection + follow. It doesn't have the politics in the same way, but to my eye the mechanics are lifted from it. Everyone who I've played TEG with has seen the same thing. So, the progression is Tiny Epic Galaxies -> Empires of the Void II -> Twilight Imperium
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I'd like to request a thread ban on discussing Twilight Imperium until I reach a point in my life where I can play it at least once a month. I think this is a reasonable thing to ask.
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I want to play TI with my close friend group, but I would have to borrow it from the friend of a friend who I usually play it with. I would be so stressed out worrying about loving up that dudes copy of the game the entire time  It's also not really a "let's play an hour on TTS, then save" sorta game either. Out of curiosity are there any planned expansions / new editions for it?
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My favorite small game is probably Sprawlopolis. It's a surprisingly (coop) clever puzzle city-builder. The variety of objectives makes it very replayable, which is remarkable considering it's only 18 cards.
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Speaking of big boy games.. I'm not sure if I mentioned it in this thread, but the lads have agreed to chip in funds to help me pickup a copy of the Norwegians expansion for Feast for Odin.  Both were ordered on the weekend, and fingers crossed they'll arrive in a few days for our next session this coming Saturday. Also linked them a 2hr how-to-play + demo of a 2 player game which they're also slowly making their way through. Very hype to be playing it soon
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Sleekly posted:i still would love to play a hella classifed version of COIN where all the cards are based on top secret intel but otoh the world is so stupid that im fairly sure the only diff between those games and ours is faulty intel The game Volko made for the CIA, where they had to get El Chapo, was the subject of a FOIA request. So you kinda CAN do that, if you are willing to reconstruct the game from terrible scans.
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nrook posted:I'd like to request a thread ban on discussing Twilight Imperium until I reach a point in my life where I can play it at least once a month. I think this is a reasonable thing to ask.  I remember getting to play TI3 once a month for a while
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nrook posted:I'd like to request a thread ban on discussing Twilight Imperium until I reach a point in my life where I can play it at least once a month. I think this is a reasonable thing to ask. I bought a copy of TI3 off of a guy for 40 bucks and everything in it was neatly organized in nice little plastic containers and to this day I'm not sure if he ripped me off or not simply because I have never gotten it to the table. The box alone is as big as a child and it intimidates even the players in my group who loving LOVE games with tons of little fiddly bits.
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silvergoose posted:So, the progression is Empires of the void 2 isn't really a 4x space empire game. It's theme is closer to Star Trek. You've got a fancy spaceship in the frontier of known space and you're going to gently caress about with the locals
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When I was 19 or 20 I had a run of maybe ten weeks where we'd play at least twice a week. Sometimes twice a night (games came down to 2-4 hours for us) We got locked into a very firm meta but it was the best time of my boardgaming life
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Does anyone have any thoughts on Downforce? I played The Voyages of Marco Polo for the first time last week in a 2p game. I'd heard voyaging was ironically expensive/difficult, and I wound up traveling to one large city only. My special ability was not rolling the dice, and my opponent had the white die plus a free contract at the beginning of each turn. He traveled to four cities (I think; maybe three or five), whereas I focused on fulfilling contracts. I won by a decent margin, but I'm wondering if that's mostly because he didn't seem to take advantage of his special ability (I fulfilled more contracts than he did). It seems pretty difficult to get across the board, so how much traveling do you typically do? I assume it's even more difficult at higher player counts when there are more dice in play. In Concordia, how often do you find that the end game is triggered by exhausting buildings vs. cards? In the few 2-player games I've played, it's always been buildings, whereas in the few 5-player games I've played, it's always been cards. I haven't played at 3 or 4 players. It makes sense to me that because building becomes much more expensive at higher player counts buying cards would be more efficient, but I wonder if I'm building too quickly at 2 players and should slow down and buy more cards.
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mellifluous posted:In Concordia, how often do you find that the end game is triggered by exhausting buildings vs. cards? In the few 2-player games I've played, it's always been buildings, whereas in the few 5-player games I've played, it's always been cards. I haven't played at 3 or 4 players. It makes sense to me that because building becomes much more expensive at higher player counts buying cards would be more efficient, but I wonder if I'm building too quickly at 2 players and should slow down and buy more cards. Six of one. By the time the cards run out, someone is usually close to running out of buildings.
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mellifluous posted:Does anyone have any thoughts on Downforce? Im not a huge fan of Downforce it just doesn't feel that satisfying and I think that Camel Cup does everything it does better.
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mellifluous posted:In Concordia, how often do you find that the end game is triggered by exhausting buildings vs. cards? In the few 2-player games I've played, it's always been buildings, whereas in the few 5-player games I've played, it's always been cards. I haven't played at 3 or 4 players. It makes sense to me that because building becomes much more expensive at higher player counts buying cards would be more efficient, but I wonder if I'm building too quickly at 2 players and should slow down and buy more cards. I just played it yesterday and I had the choice to end it via buildings or cards but I went with cards since having more scoring is going to be way better than one more spot on the map but it could have varied. We were playing two player and she ganked my Cloth Specialist card and I was furious and then thought I had lost but we forgot to add my points for buying the last card(s) and I was ahead by 1  Re: TI3/4 - I play it once a year and that's enough for me. Someone always screws up a rule catastrophically and someone always starts taking it too seriously and getting teary-eyed or silent when something doesn't go their way and it goes on for too long. That said, once a year I get a craving and excited to play it but I have to do some math and think about whether I'd rather just play a game of Civ or 1830 instead. I admit that it might play better if we did it more frequently but I think of all the games I would want to git gud at, TI is not high on the list. I've never heard of Empires of the Void II but I saw it's a Laukat game, which makes me slightly nervous but the reviews seem positive. Can anyone who has played it weigh in on their thoughts about it?
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Empires of the Void is fine, not an experience I’d seek out again. It feels like a frictionless Star Trek knockoff where you pinball between planets looking for event cards to read or places to dump your science bases.
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Look at Laukat games for the art, don’t actually play them. I reserve the right to amend this statement if Sleeping Gods turns out to be good.
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Mojo Jojo posted:Empires of the void 2 isn't really a 4x space empire game. It's theme is closer to Star Trek. You've got a fancy spaceship in the frontier of known space and you're going to gently caress about with the locals Yeah I know, but the post in question posited the genre as "space game with + action selection + follow". Triskelli posted:Empires of the Void is fine, not an experience I’d seek out again. It feels like a frictionless Star Trek knockoff where you pinball between planets looking for event cards to read or places to dump your science bases. Yeah, agreed; I played it a few times and don't particularly need to again. The bits are overproduced, though, which was nice for me getting it very cheap used. 
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mellifluous posted:Does anyone have any thoughts on Downforce? Downforce is one of my favorite board games ever. It's fun and quick, everybody always has a good time. It has a few expansions which are also dope. There's a decent balance of strategy, luck, and politics, and of course the auction and gambling. I highly recommend picking it up if you haven't.
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mellifluous posted:Does anyone have any thoughts on Downforce? It depends upon the quality of the actions on the city cards, but hitting 3-4 cities is perfectly normal in a game of Marco Polo for me. Pure traveling tends to lose to pure contracts in that game, but there is an upper limit to how many points a player can get with contracts alone. It's not that hard to slam out 3-4 contracts while still getting to Beijing if a player knows what they're doing and the random setup isn't completely terrible.
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I woke up today with a goal today of buying cardstock paper and printing out Pandemic Hot Zone from an earlier post ITT. I buy the cardstock, I didn't mentally wake up enough to realize "drat, that's a lot of ink, though" and then I sat in front of my printing just to realize the cost of ink may outweigh the cost of the game overall - the $5 I threw down for some hard paper. THEN I went on YouTube just to see if anyone else had printed the game, what the cards ended up looking like at the end of the day, just to find out that Hot Zone is a normal boxed game, it's just about $10 cheaper than Pandemic and a bit shorter and smaller. So now I'm at a weird standstill. I can get the game printed on cardstock for about $15 and not waste any ink in the printer here, pay $25 and get Hot Zone off Amazon, or throw down $35 and get the full Pandemic. I feel like just based off videos I've seen and the overall type of game it is, I'll enjoy it anyway, but... I don't know. Any opinions would be cool. Should I just go for the normal (regular Pandemic) now or get the cheapest (printed Hot Zone PDF) to decide if I like it and then go for Legacy?
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Pandemic is also an app. I think it's  ?I'm helping!
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LODGE NORTH posted:I feel like just based off videos I've seen and the overall type of game it is, I'll enjoy it anyway, but... I don't know. Any opinions would be cool. Should I just go for the normal (regular Pandemic) now or get the cheapest (printed Hot Zone PDF) to decide if I like it and then go for Legacy? If you're confident that you'd play out the campaign with a steady group is recommend Legacy, it's an interesting experience. Ideally you can get other players to chip in. Edit: If not Legacy, I'm not sure that Pandemic is the best coop game on the market anyone, depending on your play situation.
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We went to ikea and bought some Kallax shelves today. After assembling two 1x4 and two 2x4 shelfs i have decided I am never doing this again. So my limit is whatever I can fit in two 2x4s. The 1x4 stores bike gear.
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To anyone who missed it like I did, there's currently a team-game of Twilight Struggle going on.
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Ropes4u posted:We went to ikea and bought some Kallax shelves today. After assembling two 1x4 and two 2x4 shelfs i have decided I am never doing this again. So my limit is whatever I can fit in two 2x4s. Kallax are easy to put together though. Just need a mallet and a screw driver. I have a 5x5 I put up in my basement, then decided it'd work better on the 2nd floor of my house and took it apart, dragged it up and put it back together. Solo. ezpz
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Ravendas posted:Kallax are easy to put together though. Just need a mallet and a screw driver. I have a 5x5 I put up in my basement, then decided it'd work better on the 2nd floor of my house and took it apart, dragged it up and put it back together. Solo. It is a bargain, but my 56 year old back hates the process. I also added legs.. 
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The only thing worse than assembling IKEA furniture is disassembling it for moving. Went through it with 3 Kallax, a sectional couch, and two bed frames. Never again.
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Bottom Liner posted:The only thing worse than assembling IKEA furniture is disassembling it for moving. Went through it with 3 Kallax, a sectional couch, and two bed frames. Never again. It’s not my favorite, but we have two of their goofy chairs and they are dang comfortable. Kallax shelf’s complete. Leveling them on the concrete floors would have been impossible without the legs. 
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Ropes4u posted:It’s not my favorite, but we have two of their goofy chairs and they are dang comfortable. How did you get that double-wide cell in the upper right? The up-downs are 2 'cells' wide and the side to side are 1 'cell' wide. Did you take what would have been the up and down section and rotate it across the gap, using one of the 1-sized pieces to support from the bottom? How sturdy is it?
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As a heads up  Tabletop Simulator is 55% off at the Humble Store TTS has been straight up one of my favourite pickups due to the Coronavirus. It allowed my various gaming groups to continue to get together to play games during this pandemic, and has allowed me to trial and discover many many new games I would not have previously had the opportunity to do so. Word of warning though - It does look like they're running low on keys, but they do add them to your download page as soon as it comes in.
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Magnetic North posted:How did you get that double-wide cell in the upper right? That’s a common board gamer Kallix hack. You just leave out an upright and I believe just clip the dowel in half. It’s still very solid, esp if you do it on a top shelf where there is less weight stress.
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Magnetic North posted:How did you get that double-wide cell in the upper right? The up-downs are 2 'cells' wide and the side to side are 1 'cell' wide. Did you take what would have been the up and down section and rotate it across the gap, using one of the 1-sized pieces to support from the bottom? How sturdy is it? Yes I rotated one of the vertical slats to horizontal. It will easily hold up the four or five games that are in big boxes. If I had though it through better I would have made another one in the Kallax on the left, and I would have added epoxied to the leg bases when I screwed them in place. II should have bought some of the drawers or canvas boxes to store bags and bits.
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Infinitum posted:As a heads up Literally been waiting months for a sale so my friends will finally pick it up, thanks for the heads up! Also what the hell they should have put it on sale months ago, those idiots!
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Stan Taylor posted:Literally been waiting months for a sale so my friends will finally pick it up, thanks for the heads up! Also what the hell they should have put it on sale months ago, those idiots! I think it’s been on sale at least once since sheltering began. If not on steam, on humble. Highly recommend you/everyone dig up that curated list of the best mods for the bgg top 500 and subscribe to the ones you like / want to try
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ketchup vs catsup posted:I think it’s been on sale at least once since sheltering began. If not on steam, on humble. I don't want to hear this!
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Does anyone have a link with the good TTS mods (or if there's a thread)? I'd be most interested in Arkham Horror LCG and Spirit Island or anything else that's soloable, especially since Asmodee is cracking down on that.
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GrandpaPants posted:Does anyone have a link with the good TTS mods (or if there's a thread)? I'd be most interested in Arkham Horror LCG and Spirit Island or anything else that's soloable, especially since Asmodee is cracking down on that. Here’s the link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2086043930 The best AHLCG mod has been taken down. I might have it on one of my machines, I’ll look.
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