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Repost with links Beyond the Sun Tawantinsuyu Raiders of Scythia Cloudage Prage Caput Regni Anno 1800 Paris Whistle Mountain If someone can tell me why two of them aren't parsing properly I'll fix them. Mayveena fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Nov 5, 2020 |
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Mayveena posted:Repost with links Looks like you're missing closing square brackets on the starting url tag (immediately after the url), and the text for the link.
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Nov 5, 2020 23:23
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You're missing closing ] in the URL tag
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Fixed, thanks, I forgot to actually show the name of the game thus the lack of closing brackets 
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Nov 5, 2020 23:26
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I am just waiting on: Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps! -- seems to have a lot in common with old Space Hulk, I like the ideas and it's not too expensive. I'll give it a shot. Nostalgia purchase. #ARTBOX -- Drawing game for people who can't draw Seriously though it does some of the "gamification of Pictionary" that Pictomania tried to do, but does it in a way that works for non-gamers, too.High Frontier 4e -- I ended up cancelling my 3e order when over a year went by with  on it, but I'm not backing out this time!I've been hemming and hawing about Pendulum. On one hand I'm totally on board, but on the other my only COVID-gaming-partner doesn't "do" games with any kind of time pressure. Work is tough so my gaming interests tend to be aimed more towards the lighter end of the scale this past year or two (High Frontier notwithstanding). e: Raiders of Scythia looks boss, so does Beyond the Sun The Eyes Have It fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Nov 5, 2020 |
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Nov 5, 2020 23:32
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Pax Renaissance, Pax Viking, and Bulletheart should be on their way by the end of the year and I just backed Bios: Mesofauna. I'm thinking of getting one of the other Bios games to tide me over until next year, but there's no rush on that.
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Nov 5, 2020 23:39
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Pax Pamir arrived today, Chinatown and Galaxy Trucker arrived earlier this month and I'm hoping to get Import/Export and Burgle Bros 2 before Christmas. My shelves fill up with games I cannot play. It feels like a low tech episode of Black Mirror or The Twilight Zone.
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Nov 6, 2020 00:13
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My upcoming list of games is pretty much nil. Maybe Hansa Teutonica big box, but with game night nowhere in sight, I'm not seeing any particular rush or desire to buy it only to have it gather dust (Bus, Taj Mahal, and The Crew already are). Otherwise, there are a few older games I am theoretically interested in (Agricola and Mexica), but again, not feeling any need to acquire them anytime soon. I might pick up Battle Line and Legacy of Dragonholt at some point. 2p games will at least hit the table.
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Nov 6, 2020 00:36
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Jcam posted:Anyone willing to give some Twilight Imperium tips/tricks for a table with all new players to the game? Eventually I'll be hosting a five or six player game, and despite watching a fartload of How-To-Play videos I still know it's going to be a nightmare despite being fun. The rule that we've most often seen overlooked that has a serious impact on the end of the game, is that you can only have 3 secret objectives in your play area, scored or unscored. So if you score 3, you can't get any more, and if you have 3 and get a new one, you have to put one back. It seems so innocuous, but a player ever having 4 at once is a real fucker, since games are usually won or lost on a single point, that it's SUCH a massive bonus, and it's just something that's super easy to miss. Along similar lines, but much more just me sticking my oar in than actual rules but; I would explain that giving someone the 'support for the throne' note is a reeeeaaaaallly big deal. I've never seen a game where someone gets given it and they don't then win.
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Nov 6, 2020 00:57
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Just 1882, which I bought before it was pointed out that the designer is explicitly a bastard.
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Nov 6, 2020 01:01
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I am very tempted to order the Pax Pamir 2e. I watched a how-to-play video and it seems to be extremely my poo poo. But of course thats just another 80$ box that will sit on my shelf until somebody develops a covid vaccine. Up until I watched that video I was actually completely unfamiliar with all these pax games. Are they relatively similar? I looked up a couple on BGG and they seem to be by different designers so i dont really get why they all share a naming convention.
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Nov 6, 2020 01:03
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Mr. Squishy posted:Just 1882, which I bought before it was pointed out that the designer is explicitly a bastard. hmmm what'sthis now
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Nov 6, 2020 01:06
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untzthatshit posted:I am very tempted to order the Pax Pamir 2e. I watched a how-to-play video and it seems to be extremely my poo poo. But of course thats just another 80$ box that will sit on my shelf until somebody develops a covid vaccine. They all share some design conventions but play out pretty differently. They generally all have a market row and feature tableau building with a lot of levers to pull to affect the board and other players. PP2 is the most straightforward in that you just win by scoring points at semi random times based on your presence and the board state as opposed to triggering various win conditions the other games feature. The presentation makes the game way way easier to learn and play too compared to others.
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Nov 6, 2020 01:13
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Kickstarters: A bit of Cthulhu Wars stuff Dirty Money (because Xeo Lye and Capital Gains are nice people; the game being fairly good is a bonus) Trinidad Kanban EV Final Girl Plus Belaad: Land of Swords and Quills because it's gorgeous and Iranian developers need support.  I also have a crate of Hyperborea: Light and Shadow sitting in my bedroom. Why is it that people can pay £25 up front in April with nary a qualm then take a week in November to get back with the last £3 for the postage?
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CommonShore posted:hmmm what'sthis now Just more of a Trump guy than you'd like. untzthatshit posted:I am very tempted to order the Pax Pamir 2e. I watched a how-to-play video and it seems to be extremely my poo poo. But of course thats just another 80$ box that will sit on my shelf until somebody develops a covid vaccine. They're all significantly different. The lineage is Phil Eklund of Sierra Madre puts out Pax Porfiriana, which is about the "peace" Emperor Porfirio imposed over Mexico during his reign - IE everyone's angling for their one chance to depose him, become emperor themselves, and kill all the other players. College student Cole Wehle liked this a lot, and designed a spin-off game set in Afghanistan, submitted it to Eklund who published it. That's Pax Pamir 1st Edition. These two games are, by the standards of this micro-publisher, runaway successes with multiple editions and one expansion (Khyber Knives for Pax Pamir). As it's a brand people like Phil and his son Matt publish 3 further games, Renaissance, Emancipation, and Transhumanity. They all have different settings, rules, and feel quite different to play. However "Pax Renaissance" would probably sell better than "Lords of the Renaissance", and they're all about roughly the same thing if you squint a bit. Equally powerful men jostling for position w/out immediately stabbing one another, sure that's Paxy enough. Several years have passed and Cole Wehle is now a successful game designer, and decides to polish up and publish on his own Pax Pamir 2nd Edition, which is completely different from the 1st. I never heard about any contractual wranglings so I guess the first and so far only non-Sierra Madre Pax game was put out pretty amicably. Also in the intervening years, Phil's company goes bankrupt, gets bought up by Ion games, and Jon Manker, the lead designer at Ion, is tasked to come up with their own accessible Pax, which is Pax Viking.
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I got my all in pledge of Detective: City of Angels and holy crap I did not expect all of these boxes to be so drat big.
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Nov 6, 2020 01:35
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Bottom Liner posted:They all share some design conventions but play out pretty differently. They generally all have a market row and feature tableau building with a lot of levers to pull to affect the board and other players. PP2 is the most straightforward in that you just win by scoring points at semi random times based on your presence and the board state as opposed to triggering various win conditions the other games feature. The presentation makes the game way way easier to learn and play too compared to others. Gotcha, here's another question - a couple pages back someone said Pax Pamir was a little less than great at 2 players, or rather that its a bit of a different game than at 3+. Is there another Pax game out there that works better at 2p? Im pretty much only gonna be playing games w one person for the foreseeable future so maybe theres another option for me there.
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Nov 6, 2020 01:39
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untzthatshit posted:Gotcha, here's another question - a couple pages back someone said Pax Pamir was a little less than great at 2 players, or rather that its a bit of a different game than at 3+. Is there another Pax game out there that works better at 2p? Im pretty much only gonna be playing games w one person for the foreseeable future so maybe theres another option for me there. Most people say that Pax Renaissance is probably the best one to play at 2p. But ultimately they’re all better at the 3-4p count because the Pax games shine with more player interaction.
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Nov 6, 2020 01:42
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Not a big fan of the trend of $20 games being redesigned into $80 games, especially in the midst of the greatest economic crisis in a century.
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Nov 6, 2020 01:54
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Mr. Squishy posted:Just more of a Trump guy than you'd like. Ah. I met him a couple years ago. He was a bit terse but seemed ok. Watching him play 18USA was pretty amazing. I'm not surprised that he's extremely Saskatchewan.
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Nov 6, 2020 01:58
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I went to the horse's mouth (the guy's Twitter account) and he's arguing that the term "Eskimo" isn't offensive, the wage gap doesn't exist, and there is no gatekeeping in the 18xx community. I shouldn't have called him a Trump guy, but he does seem kind of a jerk.
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The Eyes Have It posted:High Frontier 4e -- I ended up cancelling my 3e order when over a year went by with I think I'd be taking myself into High Frontier 4th if not for the pandemic, even though my HF Advanced hasn't been touched but twice in fifteen years. Maybe I'll at least convince she friends to play Space Diamonds on TTS.
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Nov 6, 2020 02:18
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I’m moderately embarrassed at all my pending KS and preorders as I anxiety shopped hard during this pandemic/election cycle to try and buy happiness 
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djfooboo posted:I’m moderately embarrassed at all my pending KS and preorders as I anxiety shopped hard during this pandemic/election cycle to try and buy happiness I pour my anxiety into Steam shopping, it's more solo friendly.
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Nov 6, 2020 02:59
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"Hey, how come all elders in Nusfjord are white dudes? Where are the women?" BGG nerds"The historical accuracy of a thematic Rosenberg title!!!!" (But a promo features a joke castaway elder and a, erm, whale elder before they ever released a single female elder in an expansion) :S
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PerniciousKnid posted:I pour my anxiety into Steam shopping, it's more solo friendly. Possibly for the best! It's generally cheaper too, if you time it right  As far as KS goes, I've only backed one project - Rallyman Dirt. I'm really looking forward to making a massive super-stage with my GT and Dirt tiles, when it comes out. Should be fun - shame I have to wait until like, July/August next year.Personally though, I've had a mixed week. Fury of Dracula arrived, which is great because after my one full game of it with goons, it has rapidly become a favourite of mine, so I'm gonna play it with friends in a couple of weeks. However on the other hand, a post van with the three Flash Point expansions I ordered was hijacked (and the driver assaulted) like, three streets from my house a few days ago...crazy. (I live in a good area, too! Guess I'm gonna have to sort that mess out, with the vendor) I'm also still waiting on Nuclear Escalation, which I was hoping would arrive today. I've been waiting two months for that, after I initially made my order.
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Mr. Squishy posted:I went to the horse's mouth (the guy's Twitter account) and he's arguing that the term "Eskimo" isn't offensive, the wage gap doesn't exist, and there is no gatekeeping in the 18xx community. I shouldn't have called him a Trump guy, but he does seem kind of a jerk. Not that it matters too much, but he’s a Trump guy. I’ve argued politics with him multiple times.
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Nov 6, 2020 07:20
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Mayveena posted:So what do you folks have on order? - Hallertau (came in yesterday) - Faiyum (hopefully this week) - MicroMacro, Crime City (a hidden object game where you have to solve 16 cases on a big city map, looking for clues. Getting this one for the family) - German Edition of Fantasy Realms, a set collection game where you try to set up certain colour combos - Palavan (a solo puzzle game with an island theme) - Praga Caput Regni as a potential christmas gift
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Bottom Liner posted:Just Oath and Jagged Earth at the moment but I’m going to check out some of these. I really want Oath, but realistically I'll never get it to the table, let alone play it enough to see the "legacy" elements in play.
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Import / Export Successors Burgle Bros. 2 ArchRavels 1861/1867 Oath Frosthaven War of Whispers Petrichor: Cows 7th Citadel And a handful of small things.
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Got a handful of small games during this year and a few preorders like Targi, battlecon, and New York zoo that finally came in. Only preorders I have now are 1841 and Luzon rails. But I do have quite a few games in my interest list: Keyflower (Quinn Games edition) Colosseum Crusade and revolution Kaivai The Barracks Emperors and 3 JP games that I’m hoping get a rerelease in TGM spring 21
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Nov 6, 2020 14:24
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I've got literally nothing coming and nothing on my radar that I want except maybe an 18xx I'll never get to play anyway. Fuckin sad.
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I haven't played a physical boardgame in the entirety of 2020 because of covid. I was honestly thinking about selling every game I have that isn't solo. I'm for sure not buying more of them
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Fat Samurai posted:I really want Oath, but realistically I'll never get it to the table, let alone play it enough to see the "legacy" elements in play. Same, I'll never play it as often as twice a year.
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Most of these I've had on preorder for a while, a few are recent though: 1882 1848 Atlantic Chase The Barracks Emperor (cool to see someone else is getting this, it looks really sweet everyone should check it out!) Import/Export (really psyched about this, one of the few games I regretted not KSing) Oath Frosthaven Kanban EV (have the original but this one is prettier and its my favorite Lacerda) Polynesia (Peer Sylvester's new game, thanks donk) Renature (Kiesling/Kramer that Capstone is doing, looks like a neat old school euro with lots of interaction) Millennium Blades: Collusion (feels like I've been waiting on this forever) Osaka Metro (expansion) Tiny Towns: Villagers (expansion) Conquest and Consequence (T&T Pacific expansion) Here's an image from Atlantic Chase and a brief description, the concept is awesome: quote:Atlantic Chase simulates the naval campaigns fought in the North Atlantic between the surface fleets of the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine between 1939 and 1942. It utilizes a system of trajectories to model the fog of war that bedeviled the commands during this period. Just as the pins and strings adorning Churchill’s wall represented the course of the ships underway, players arrange trajectory lines across the shared game board, each line representing a task force’s path of travel. Without resorting to dummy blocks, hidden movement, or a double-blind system requiring a referee or computer, players experience the uncertainty endemic to this period of naval warfare. This system also has the benefit of allowing the game to be played solitaire, and to be played quickly. 
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Papes posted:Not that it matters too much, but he’s a Trump guy. I’ve argued politics with him multiple times. Well now I feel less bad that I didn't preorder 1882 to support a Canadian designer. I didn't talk politics at all when I was there because lol going to Alberta and talking politics. That's how to have a bad weekend and be mad on a 12h drive home.
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Man, you all order a lot. I try to only order things I'm confident will best-of-the-best and trade a game when I acquire a new one to keep my collection static around 70~. I feel like there hasn't been a new critically acclaimed goon certified megahit in a long time. The current crop of games that get universal praise around here are Feast for Odin, Spirit Island, Gloomhaven, the Brass remakes, and Pax Pamir. Other than Pax which is 2019, these are all range from 2016-2018. Barrage might become a go-to recommendation in the long run, because everyone I have seen post about it has really strong positive things to say, but other than that I haven't seen any serious contenders.
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You forgot Meltwater.
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There was some good light stuff that came out in 2019. Tiny Towns and Fast Sloths are quite good. Nevsky is excellent too if we're counting wargames.
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