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Infinitum posted:We've scheduled round 2 of Nemesis this weekend, and one of my players linked this in the group Discord today Saving this for later, i'm finally gearing up to hopefully play the first game of Nemesis soon I got all of the content so it's a bit of a minefield to navigate, plus I want to paint everything
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FirstAidKite posted:
Dunno if this is the thread for it, but yes, it is certainly not obvious to me why the unstated position opposing that poster is right.
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radmonger posted:Dunno if this is the thread for it, but yes, it is certainly not obvious to me why the unstated position opposing that poster is right. Please read the OP.
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Apr 1, 2022 14:02
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I'm just glad to have any excuse to delete my Kickstarter account and remove all temptation of backing anything in the future. Once Blood on the Clocktower and Root: Marauder ship I'll finally be ready to slip the surly bonds of the hype machine. Until another youtube channel convinces me I need to buy something Almost anything worthwhile will absolutely come to retail and/or get another print run. Besides, my pile of shame is far too big already. Current pile of shame: Great Western Trail 2e Hansa Teutonica Istanbul Kingdomino Long Shot: The Dice Game Mottainai Mini Pax Pamir 2e Pipeline Trambahn Vast: The Mysterious Manor Welcome to the Moon I have a problem. Send help.
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Apr 1, 2022 14:13
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The only purpose crypto stuff serves is to break up an monetize ever more things that used to be free. Even in an ideal world with no environmental impact this would be bad.
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Apr 1, 2022 14:26
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radmonger posted:Dunno if this is the thread for it, but yes, it is certainly not obvious to me why the unstated position opposing that poster is right. Here's the relevant bit from the OP quote:Inexplicable Crypto Baloney in the Trad Games Space
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Store I want to grab Ark Nova from is out of stock  Tempura Wizard posted:I have a problem. Send help. Yes, not enough games. Shameful.
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Apr 1, 2022 14:48
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Tempura Wizard posted:I'm just glad to have any excuse to delete my Kickstarter account and remove all temptation of backing anything in the future. Once Blood on the Clocktower and Root: Marauder ship I'll finally be ready to slip the surly bonds of the hype machine. Until another youtube channel convinces me I need to buy something Come come, you have to play Hansa Teutonica! I'd also recomment Pax Pamir 2e and Pipeline.
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Apr 1, 2022 16:01
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Mayveena posted:Come come, you have to play Hansa Teutonica! I'd also recomment Pax Pamir 2e and Pipeline. You're right, I think Hansa has to be the first out of the pile, doesn't seem too bad to teach. The spirit is willing, but the table is so, so weak. I'll get them to the table someday. 
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Apr 1, 2022 16:11
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Mayveena posted:Thanks I must have missed your previous post. I'm going over the rules with a fine tooth comb so I can be prepared for our session. Any thoughts on '49? I was thinking about playing that on 18xx.games hotseat style. I really like '49 but my group didn't like it as much. Per Hex Trains and the randomised company availability are really neat. THAT SAID... the gauge changing system is super goddamn finicky and playing in person could be a nightmare because of just the sheer volume of unique bloody tiles to choose from. It leads to great strategy and some gently caress YOU tile builds but aside from that is kind of annoying in practice.
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FulsomFrank posted:I really like '49 but my group didn't like it as much. Per Hex Trains and the randomised company availability are really neat. So awesome that there's an online implementation I can try before buying. Unfortunately 1848 isn't on 18xx.games otherwise we'd be hot seating that one too.
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Apr 1, 2022 17:31
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I really like the look of HT but it doesn't play 2 which is problematic for me and I also have so many other vaguely similar euro games in my collection it's hard to justify the purchase. It's kind of annoying when you're really into European history because I love the theming of these games but everyone else thinks of them as being ultra-dry and boring.
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Apr 1, 2022 19:02
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RabidWeasel posted:I really like the look of HT but it doesn't play 2 which is problematic for me and I also have so many other vaguely similar euro games in my collection it's hard to justify the purchase. Yeah it's definitely not for two players. I will say this: it's one of the oldest games in my collection in fact it's the second oldest game after Civ/Adv Civ. We love it!
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Apr 1, 2022 19:06
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Hansa Teutonica has been on my to buy list for a while, and I finally got a chance to play it this January which definitely solidified it into a must have. Unfortunately I passed on picking up the big box at my FLGS in November, and it's been backordered ever since.
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RabidWeasel posted:I really like the look of HT but it doesn't play 2 which is problematic for me and I also have so many other vaguely similar euro games in my collection it's hard to justify the purchase. You may be right that you have similar games in your collection as there's plenty I haven't played, but I have played a lot of euro games and still find HT to be pretty unique in its mechanics, the way interactions occur between players and the feel of the game, even though it looks like every other early-mid 2000s euro game. I'm the opposite on the theme, I really enjoy HT and find it an amazingly well-designed game but the aesthetic makes me far more reluctant to pull it off the shelf. So many modern games have such beautiful art and graphic design, I've become much more influenced by 'prettiness' than I would like. I wish more of these solid older games would get the Brass Lancashire treatment. In other news, it looks like Carnival Zombie 2nd ed. has finally shipped only 2 and a half years late, and with no pictures released of the final product before shipping. I'd written it off as my first failed kickstarter but looks like I'll be receiving something, just god-knows what 
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Kerro posted:In other news, it looks like Carnival Zombie 2nd ed. has finally shipped only 2 and a half years late, and with no pictures released of the final product before shipping. I'd written it off as my first failed kickstarter but looks like I'll be receiving something, just god-knows what In honor of April 1st you'll in fact be receiving a brick 
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Kerro posted:In other news, it looks like Carnival Zombie 2nd ed. has finally shipped only 2 and a half years late, and with no pictures released of the final product before shipping. I'd written it off as my first failed kickstarter but looks like I'll be receiving something, just god-knows what An actual carnival zombie. 
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I recently played Concordia at a Meetup and enjoyed it. Amazon is running a promo where if you buy something that is listed as "sold by Amazon" and you have it delivered to a locker/hub, you can use the code 10OFFPICKUP to get $10 off a purchase of $20+. So I decided to order Concordia (already $20 off MSRP + $10 more). I'll get xpacs through my FLGS to make up for my sin of feeding the Amazon beast. Speaking of which: The catch is I'm in a 2 player household until mid-May. Any suggestions on which board/map set to get for 2P? Also, BGG seems to concur that Salsa is the best xpac for Concordia. Anyone confirm/deny?
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Admiralty Flag posted:I recently played Concordia at a Meetup and enjoyed it. Amazon is running a promo where if you buy something that is listed as "sold by Amazon" and you have it delivered to a locker/hub, you can use the code 10OFFPICKUP to get $10 off a purchase of $20+. So I decided to order Concordia (already $20 off MSRP + $10 more). I'll get xpacs through my FLGS to make up for my sin of feeding the Amazon beast. Speaking of which: I try to support local, but Salsa for $18? Yes, please. Here's hoping it's not counterfeit.
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Admiralty Flag posted:The catch is I'm in a 2 player household until mid-May. Any suggestions on which board/map set to get for 2P? Corsica (from Corsica/Gallia) is a good recommendation. Another option is Aegyptus/Creta. Both maps are meant for 2-3 players and it comes with a variant of the card market.
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You could also use the official Solitaire Modul to simulate a third player or to play solo. The bot is easy to use and I like it quite a lot
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Hive is probably one of my favorite and most-played games, but by god I don't think there has ever been a situation where the pillbug expansion tile has ever been useful at all. The ladybug, on the other hand, the ladybug wins games.
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Admiralty Flag posted:I recently played Concordia at a Meetup and enjoyed it. Amazon is running a promo where if you buy something that is listed as "sold by Amazon" and you have it delivered to a locker/hub, you can use the code 10OFFPICKUP to get $10 off a purchase of $20+. So I decided to order Concordia (already $20 off MSRP + $10 more). I'll get xpacs through my FLGS to make up for my sin of feeding the Amazon beast. Speaking of which:
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Llyranor posted:Corsica/Gallia or Creta/Egypta, either one is fine If you got base Concordia, I'd get Aegyptus/Creta because it comes with the alternate card market. If you got Concordia Venus, this is included and either map set is good. Also a solo variant called Concordia solitaria was just released that lets you choose to play 1v1 vs a solo deck, 1v1v1 with it playing a third player to two human players, or 2v1 with two human players teaming up against the ai deck. This will give you a lot of two player variation, and let you play larger maps with "two" people
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Admiralty Flag posted:Also, BGG seems to concur that Salsa is the best xpac for Concordia. Anyone confirm/deny? Concordia is excellent. Salsa is nice; the wild resource is very interesting, though I only got like 2 plays before lockdown. I'd play it vanilla for the first few trips around to get a handle on it. I honestly haven't done the forum tiles yet, because it feels a bit like the King of Tokyo: Power Up! expansion, which I honestly felt was unnecessary. Still haven't gotten to play the Balearic Islands map yet. And I should buy Concordia: Solitaria the solo expansion.
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Admiralty Flag posted:Also, BGG seems to concur that Salsa is the best xpac for Concordia. Anyone confirm/deny? I haven't played with Salsa and have never felt it to be a loss. I would say Venus was the essential expansion, as it includes a 2-player map and expands the player count to six.
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I like the Forum cards better than Salt out of the Salsa expansion. It makes the start a bit more variable and tips the balance on certain strategies enough to be interesting. It also makes re-collecting your cards early a more interesting decision. It’s also very little rules overhead, I toss it into new player games with no issue.
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Mr. Squishy posted:It's hard to diagnose what (if anything) you're doing wrong, but that's certainly not been my experience of the game. One immediate rule you might have missed is the final scoring being doubled, which is a strat stolen from cheap gameshows to keep things competitive till the end. threelemmings posted:The game is designed in 2p that if one person is able to hold total dominance then yes, they are in an incredibly strong position pointwise. 2p is almost a totally different game then 3p. The more normal scoring will have a first place/second place split of points either due to unsuccessful dominance or a last minute loyalty swap. Either way, when you split points it takes several rounds to secure a win, swap the playing field so that you win where they couldn't compete. In 2p that pace is just faster . Just wanted to return to these months old posts and thank the posters for the insight. It's clear I'm only scratching the surface of the strategy in this game. To be concise, what I'm struggling to overcome is that in a 2p game, you can't survive losing even two failed dominance checks in a row, or you'll lose. So if your opponent has even one or two additional cylinders in play, what's to stop them from fairly quickly forcing two unsuccessful dominance checks and ending the game super early? Winning a successful dominance check is usually an indication that the winner had a more robust tableau (I assume). And because an unsuccessful check doesn't reset the court cards or the board state, the person who won the check is already in the lead as they approach the second dominance check of the game. Am I missing some rule, or just playing like a dumb dumb? It just seems awfully unforgiving that you can't survive two unsuccessful dominance checks, and that losing one likely means you'll lose the next one too. On an unrelated note, I wanted to say that I have been an outspoken skeptic (and occasional critic) of Spirit Island and in particular, Jagged Earth. My criticisms mostly revolved around bad copy-editing and finding the card effects awfully hard to parse sometimes However, Bottom Liner very helpfully pointed out a 50% off deal on JE recently so I gambled and bought it. I'm pleased to report that I was extremely wrong about JE, and I am joining the thread consensus that it's absolutely fantastic. My spouse decided her first play of JE was going to be as Starlight Seeks its Form, which nearly gave me a heart attack, but she managed to assemble a really powerful spirit and we won our first game (and our second). Anyway, I couldn't be more pleased with the expansion and it's dramatically increased my appreciation for the game (and its longevity). Thank you, thread. edit: Also please no one be offended by my AV. A lovely antisemite bought it for me and I haven't had a chance to change it yet.
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I've been playing a bunch of D&D with the kids, but they want to play it more often than I want to DM. So anyway, I picked up a D&D adventure board game - Wrath of Ashardalon thinking it could sort of bridge that gap. What a tedious piece of garbage. Sprawling, fiddly, pointless mess. Boringly, grindingly random. Dry... endless deserts of downtime, with turns lost to curses or misses or just... nothing. Poorly themed, boringly interchangeable enemies. Player characters felt like much-too similar lumps, with very little special, super-repetitive turns, with much too little progress through the session (and most sessions being standalone, so no help there either). Box full of tiles with grid chunks... but whole map felt mostly irrelevant. Far too much play time spent resolving crushingly boring "Encounters", far too many of which were effectively "lose a turn" or "everyone takes damage". An incredible amount of "no-decision" randomness. One of the worst designed, least enjoyable games I've played. CONS: Interminable joyless turd. PROS: Components are fine. jmzero fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Apr 2, 2022 |
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I'm always absolutely baffled whenever anyone ever recommends the D&D board games (Ashardalon etc) as my experience exactly mirrors yours. It was almost perplexingly boring, the total lack of variance or interest at any point. The fact that they released an entire range of these games and that people seems to like them just highlights for me how individual taste can be as I just can't wrap my head around it (But then I feel that Nemesis is an equally miserable game, for different reasons, and that seems to be very well liked for the most part). Edit: Also I think you're being unreasonably kind regarding the components, what the gently caress is with map tiles that are just endless grey featureless rooms.
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So as a fellow parent, what is a good game along those lines? I love gloomhaven and descent, but I'm not teaching that to a 6 year old.
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Catacombs of Karak is very good for younger kids (my 5yo loves it, as does her 8yo friend). I'm less sure for older kids, but much older than that and you probably could just start playing Descent/Death May Die etc. Edit :I should add that it's very much just a board game though and not at all D&D-lite. There's no character progression besides gear, no campaign mode or anything, but it's very solid for what it is.
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If your kids are young CoraQuest seems pretty good. My kid (7) absolutely loves it.
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Kerro posted:I'm always absolutely baffled whenever anyone ever recommends the D&D board games (Ashardalon etc) as my experience exactly mirrors yours. It was almost perplexingly boring, the total lack of variance or interest at any point. The fact that they released an entire range of these games and that people seems to like them just highlights for me how individual taste can be as I just can't wrap my head around it (But then I feel that Nemesis is an equally miserable game, for different reasons, and that seems to be very well liked for the most part). I think those games sold well because it was a reasonably affordable way to pick up a bunch of reasonably decent miniatures for playing real D&D with. And I assume the minis were the components he was talking about, not the tiles.
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SuperKlaus posted:I seek discussion on balance and good play in Unfathomable. We're five plays in, never played BSG. 2 human wins, 3 hybrid wins, at player counts 4, 5, 5, 5, 6. That win rate balance doesn't look bad, I know, but both human wins were in games with training wheels beginner mode on (all hybrid wins were normal rules except that we accidentally gave everyone 5 cards to start) and even then seemed exceptionally narrow down to seating order of players being the clutch difference. The hybrids felt like they just Responding to a post from a few months back to maybe start some discussion back up on Unfathomable. I had my first play of this today. It is a great game. Everyone had fun with it. But all of us thought it seemed really hard for the humans to win. Our revealed traitor(and me, the non revealed) didn't have to do much of anything for the victory. Now, just one game under my belt, so I don't want to make any proclamations, we don't know what we don't know. So a couple of questions for discussion now that some more time has elapsed and maybe some of you have more plays in: Are there good human strategies for this game that players could be employing to improve their chances at success? And then even with that, is the game slanted towards the traitor and should we make some adjustments for future plays?
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Our group is also having a similar experience (five or six traitor wins, zero human wins), but we also remember our Battlestar experience which went from us thinking the Cylons were OP to the humans winning most games unless the Cylons played close to perfect over the course of many games over the years. We’re gonna give it a few more playthroughs — right now we think we haven’t been utilizing the fuel room anywhere near enough, given that fuel seems extremely difficult to lose. Aerox fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Apr 3, 2022 |
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Just got  Cosmic Frog!  Now to convince everyone to play a mean game.
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Kerro posted:Catacombs of Karak is very good for younger kids (my 5yo loves it, as does her 8yo friend). I'm less sure for older kids, but much older than that and you probably could just start playing Descent/Death May Die etc. Descent 2e was ok with my 6 year old (now 7) with me as the overlord, but we then tried it co-op with the app and it was a huge success. Way faster and less setup too. We’ve now been doing Jaws of the Lion and so far so good, around 3 missions in, bur I think it hasn’t captured his attention as much as other games.
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