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Looks like copies of Scout are becoming available for preorder, at least in Canada. Haven't seen any since the rush of sales after the SUSD video.
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remember to ABTANITEQ, always be trading and negotiating in the elysian quadrant
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Clank looks like a fun game but man it is too ugly for me to ever play. That art is rough.
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May 11, 2023 23:28
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Anonymous Robot posted:Every game published by What's Your Game? looks like a fun game but man it is too ugly for me to ever play
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Admiralty Flag posted:I usually don't like games completely without elements of chance (pipe down, Concordia, I see you), but much worse are games that don't allow a way to mitigate bad luck. Whether it's as elegant as Castles of Burgundy's four different ways to use each die (and one of them being get two workers regardless of what's on the die), simple as Spirit Island's "Draw four powers and keep the one you like best," straightforward as Brass:Birmingham's "Spend an action to get not one but two wild cards," or player-reliant as Orléans's "It's your responsibility to manage what goes into your bag so you can draw what you want out of it," so long as there's a way to reasonably handle it, I'm fine with chance. In the tryhard Great Western Trail tournaments, they bid VPs for turn order, and it's pretty common to see 4/2/1/0 as the final VP bids in a four player game. There's a very real imbalance to starting player order, but it's not overwhelming. Most of the time, I see first place win by more than four points.
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Then it probably won't trouble you that What's Your Game have gone completely dark on their Madeira kickstarter. They dropped off social media for over a year, and the person they later hired to handle PR has now quit.
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Jedit posted:Then it probably won't trouble you that What's Your Game have gone completely dark on their Madeira kickstarter. They dropped off social media for over a year, and the person they later hired to handle PR has now quit. I thought Clank was Dire Wolf?
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CitizenKeen posted:I thought Clank was Dire Wolf? I quoted the post about Clank, changing it to What's Your Game
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Fate Accomplice posted:I quoted the post about Clank, changing it to What's Your Game Yeah it read as if you were expanding the statement to all of the (same) publisher's games, not to a different publisher.
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armorer posted:Yeah it read as if you were expanding the statement to all of the (same) publisher's games, not to a different publisher. not my intention but rereading it I can see that
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Jedit posted:Then it probably won't trouble you that What's Your Game have gone completely dark on their Madeira kickstarter. They dropped off social media for over a year, and the person they later hired to handle PR has now quit. Where's the pr guy's quit notice? Haven't seen that anywhere.
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Memnaelar posted:Where's the pr guy's quit notice? Haven't seen that anywhere. Me neither, but people are discussing it on BGG in the entry for Madeira on the Controversial and Fraudulent Kickstarters list.
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May 12, 2023 10:42
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Jedit posted:Then it probably won't trouble you that What's Your Game have gone completely dark on their Madeira kickstarter. They dropped off social media for over a year, and the person they later hired to handle PR has now quit. When did they quit? I was getting email updates from them as recent as April 10 (after silence for a long time) and there were pictures of production boxes. quote:Dears,
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If you're still interested in picking up Unfathomable and/or L5R and/or whatever else I have, please come by the SA Mart thread. Somebody got Wingspan.
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I’ll be looking to clear out some games soon too. Final Girl, Dungeon Lords, Seasons, Inhuman Conditions. I may end up just doing a local sale for most of it tho as it’s hard to make it worth it for both partners with shipping costs
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May 13, 2023 17:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ixp5VozIs I'm like 17 minutes in and these dicerolls are just insane
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I'm so sad that they closed out the Blood on the Clocktower season. Did they announce the next season? There's nothing even close to it anywhere on YT, for BotC and it's nearly the only content I watch from them. Bun-hair with the goatee needs to stop monologuing and every single person has got to begin never mentioning that they're tired, and it's perfect.
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Perry Mason Jar posted:I'm so sad that they closed out the Blood on the Clocktower season. Did they announce the next season? There's nothing even close to it anywhere on YT, for BotC and it's nearly the only content I watch from them. Season Two is currently running on Kickstarter; will have new official roles for each episode that gets made. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/norollsbarred/season-2-nrb-plays-blood-on-the-clocktower-live
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Finally got around to playing a full three-game round of Coffee Roaster. When this game first game around, I wasn't sure about it visually but now I find the Saashi & Saashi treatment incredibly charming. I'm not a coffee snob, but it's surprising how well the bag-building matches the theme; being unable to directly see what's happening and drawing out a sample from the bag/drum. The slow increase of heat where you draw more and more each round, bringing the roast closer and closer to burning is also fairly thematic for what it is. Moisture is super weird; you draw it and it disappears. When drawn in the roast it is not replaced, essentially acting as a brake slowing things down but once it's gone it will roast faster which is also fairly thematic. On the other hand, the flavor token abilities are not super thematic, but feel opportunistic. "I drew a 3 and 4 on the crack round but thankfully I drew an acidity to preserve them" etc. Since one maintains, one splits and one merges, you feel like 2/3s of the flavor tokens can get you out of any jam, which is a reasonably satisfying number though the later coffee cultivars have like 40 tokens so each individual token means a bit less. Scoring is interestingly diverse too; the criteria for each are just a bit different. For roast level, you're trying to get as close to a certain number as possible rather than passing a 'finish line' so you could overroast your beans and gain fewer points. Flavor is just the presence of the flavor tokens in your final cup, and duplicates don't help so you want to use enough of those during the game to reduce how many you draw at the end to a desired level. You also get points if you show the skill to have three or more beans of the same value in your final cup, which is both fairly thematic since you'd want an even roast but I think it is also there to encourage you to take the risk of discarding beans even if they are not negative. The end is a very brief push-your-luck game, but the single-use abilities add a tinge of that throughout. "I drew 2 hard beans and 1 bad bean, do I discard those or wait until after the first crack to try and remove more smoke?" At first, I worried that replacing every bean every turn would be annoying, especially since it'd be more efficient to only replace some: If you have four 0s and three 1s, you can just ditch the zeroes and grab one 1 and three 2s, but honestly I find it easier and faster to simply pull everything out every time. Messing with the bits is part of the point, honestly. Among my solo games, it certainly isn't as excellent as Under Falling Skies but it's also way more chill.
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Spiteski posted:I second the opinion that Anno is a great board game. It's completely different to the computer game in all but name imho, but it's a great euro that plays pretty quickly with lots of fun n friendlyolish interaction ("who's got cotton? Have my gold!") If you had to pay for your trades it would be a very different game.
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Yea I guess "have some gold!" Is the more accurate thing, but you get what I mean
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Frank Heeren of Feuerland Games has confirmed that A Feast For Odin: The Danes will be out this year. Probably a Spiel release. It's also now a standalone game that is compatible with the original. With that in mind, the long term plan for the "Longship Edition" has been dropped and a revised 2nd Edition of AFFO is also coming this year. This will combine the base game and The Norwegians and will have a new action board for 1-2 players with modified solo rules.
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Hm... I have everything from aFfO, with a 3D Inlay, all in the base game box... Let's see how many changes there will be in the revised edition. I really don't want to buy everything again. Danes as a stand alone game sounds interesting, I like the idea of nat having to add much more to the game as it is now.
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Selecta84 posted:Hm... The big change for The Danes (and The Swedes, which is I think now an expansion for The Danes) is that the islands have been replaced by kaupangs and there's a good dozen of them. So it looks like colonisation may be more important.
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I held off getting AFFO previously specifically because I was waiting for a revised or big box edition and now I still have to choose between two different games, I am appalled.
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Jedit posted:The big change for The Danes (and The Swedes, which is I think now an expansion for The Danes) is that the islands have been replaced by kaupangs and there's a good dozen of them. So it looks like colonisation may be more important. Thanks. I will get the Danes and kaupangs instead of islands sounds interesting. Any more infos about the revised edition, besides the new action board? I think most of it will be changed occupation cards, right? Don't see any other point in changing anthing else imo.
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Selecta84 posted:Thanks. Gernot Kopke has a series of Developer Diaries on BGG in the AFFO forums. Uwe Rosenberg isn't involved in the design - he's credited as the creator, but Gernot is doing all the work on expansions. That includes The Norwegians, so at least you know he's good at it.
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Jedit posted:Frank Heeren of Feuerland Games has confirmed that A Feast For Odin: The Danes will be out this year. Probably a Spiel release. Yeah right
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Jedit posted:Frank Heeren of Feuerland Games has confirmed that A Feast For Odin: The Danes will be out this year. Probably a Spiel release. I have some MIXED EMOTIONS about this  Hope any of the 2nd edition stuff can be acquired/applied to first editions easily.BoardGameBliss in Canuckistan has a spring sale thing going on. I am eyeing up 1824 but it looks like it's more Double O chrome insanity, similar to 44/54. Can any 18xx engineers give me their thoughts on it? Also Horseless Carriage is on sale, which is mighty tempting... VVVV I try not to think about it so when it actually starts fulfilling it'll be a pleasant surprise. FulsomFrank fucked around with this message at 17:53 on May 15, 2023 |
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1824 is alright, and not actually all that fussy compared to other OO titles, the most interesting thing about it is that there are two separate train rosters, but only one of them actually advances the game, and also older trains can be upgraded to the next train rank up once available. It's been a while since I last played it but it tends to a rather nasty train rush.
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Jedit posted:Frank Heeren of Feuerland Games has confirmed that A Feast For Odin: The Danes will be out this year. Probably a Spiel release. This is very exciting to me, as someone who has intended to buy AFFO for a long time now but not done so yet. It means I can continue to not buy it for a while longer!
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Dammit I just recently got a copy of base + norwegians and printed an organizer for it!
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Spiteski posted:Dammit I just recently got a copy of base + norwegians and printed an organizer for it! Big AFfO has been lying about further releases for like 6 years, don't sweat it.
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Spiteski posted:Dammit I just recently got a copy of base + norwegians and printed an organizer for it! That's cool as hell and will continue to be cool after whatever it is they're making comes out.
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an actual dog posted:That's cool as hell and will continue to be cool after whatever it is they're making comes out. Yea that's more than fair. I've already got a dozen plays of it so it's already made itself worth it.
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Jedit posted:Gernot Kopke has a series of Developer Diaries on BGG in the AFFO forums. Uwe Rosenberg isn't involved in the design - he's credited as the creator, but Gernot is doing all the work on expansions. That includes The Norwegians, so at least you know he's good at it. Yeah, AFFO strikes me as a very expandable game, with plenty of things you can tinker around with in small ways without needing to overhaul the core concept. I'm glad it got somebody else excited enough to drive the expansions.
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Random post apropos of nothing but I played Brass:Birmingham this weekend at a meetup with two others: one who had played twice before and one who had watched Rodney Smith's video. I usually volunteer for the "novice table" at Brum meetups because I'm usually pretty good on the teach (not this week though; I was mushmouthed and confused, but the guy had really paid attention to the video and asked sharp questions) and I don't mind bringing new people into the game. I'm not a total pro, probably played 15times total or so, but I've got some experience, so I usually also try to do something new and/or suboptimal in these games. Especially in 4P, I often follow a strong cotton strategy, even with suboptimal cards. This time, I did a mixed cotton/box strat, but I tried something new: developing away my level 1 breweries for board presence in the Rail era. Mixed results; I built one in Uttoxeter (got lucky on that card) and followed that up immediately in Rail with a second Uttoxeter brewery using an industry card, which was nice, but I literally ran out of breweries to build so I couldn't do as many double rails as I wanted. Unfortunately, I wasn't keeping close track of points so it turned out to be a curbstomp. But at least I can console myself that I demonstrated the importance of link points and the value of having level 2+ industries on the board at the end of the Canal era (I had at least six tiles out, and only one was a level 1). Both players enjoyed it a lot, even if I accidentally dealt myself an extra card at the beginning of the game (sticky sleeves); that was OK, because as soon as we packed the game up and I had the box banded, a player stood up and one of her level 3 coal mines fell onto the floor. The totally new player said, "I can see why this game is #1 on BGG," and to no surprise I found myself in agreement. It's one of my three favorite games, along with Spirit Island and Dune:Imperium (I count Cosmic Encounter as an experience generator rather than a boardgame). What a magnificent game it is! When we occasionally play Age of Industry, I find myself wishing we were playing Brass:Birmingham; the one time I've played Brass:Lancashire, I was wishing it was Brum instead. It's just such a wonderful game, the right combination of tightness and tension with just enough slack so that it's not miserable.
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Is the Steam version of Brass:Birm any good? The mixed rating has me spooked and the implementations can be VERY hit or miss.
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