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Tekopo posted:Got Doubt is our Product and it's a doozy of a game. The message in it is extremely strong, but the game is extremely playable as well, and I love the asymmetry. The Company is playing a really interesting deckbuilder efficiency puzzle, and the Movement a (moderately less) interesting tablau-builder/market row. Although I felt the message was similarly strong in This Guilty Land, I felt that the gameplay suffered because of it, but this wasn't true of Doubt is our Product. Also, the supplement that talks about the personal effect that smoking had on the designer Amabel Holland is really heartful, and spoke to me since my dad also was a smoker for decades and only just managed to beat cancer himself. Would recommend. I also got Kaiju Table Battles but haven't tried it yet. How complicated is it? It sounds awesome, but I worry it might require both players to be pretty deep into the board game space.
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Ore is really tight the whole game. Try to get the 4 power spots for ore and money when you get the chance. At the start of the game terraforming costs 3 ore per step, this is insane and you should never pay it. Use the terraforming actions for power or on the round booster instead. Try to build up econ for the first 3 rounds then focus on score for the last 3. A good goal is to try to form 3 federations. This isn't always feasible but if you're not sure what to do next think about how you'd get another federation.
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Carillon posted:How complicated is it? It sounds awesome, but I worry it might require both players to be pretty deep into the board game space.
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What’s a good board game for someone who loves Blood Bowl but doesn’t like assembling and painting minis?
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Buy an assortment of wood pieces (cubes, cylinders, etc) to represent players/positions. You only need 2 sets and then print out player cards with matching shapes for easy reference.
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Thirteen Orphans posted:What’s a good board game for someone who loves Blood Bowl but doesn’t like assembling and painting minis? Money. Use it on eBay to buy a team somebody else already assembled and painted.
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Bottom Liner posted:Buy an assortment of wood pieces (cubes, cylinders, etc) to represent players/positions. You only need 2 sets and then print out player cards with matching shapes for easy reference. I feel like a complete moron, thank you! Quote-Unquote posted:Money. Use it on eBay to buy a team somebody else already assembled and painted. Also an option!
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Thirteen Orphans posted:I feel like a complete moron, thank you! I did it with Inis and War of the Ring and I think it makes them both look way nicer.  
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Thirteen Orphans posted:What’s a good board game for someone who loves Blood Bowl but doesn’t like assembling and painting minis? Blood bowl team manager is great, but I don't know if it's actually available anywhere any more.
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Thirteen Orphans posted:I feel like a complete moron, thank you! Or you could just play the much more superior game referenced by your username.
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Bottom Liner posted:I did it with Inis and War of the Ring and I think it makes them both look way nicer. Can you recommend a good site to order some?
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Thirteen Orphans posted:Can you recommend a good site to order some? https://www.thegamecrafter.com/ I bought the WotR stuff from them at Gencon and their site has even more selection.
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Bottom Liner posted:https://www.thegamecrafter.com/ I appreciate it! silvergoose posted:Or you could just play the much more superior game referenced by your username. I could really use some more Riichi in my life.
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Thirteen Orphans posted:What’s a good board game for someone who loves Blood Bowl but doesn’t like assembling and painting minis? The 2016 Blood Bowl minis are push-fit in colored plastic, if that makes a difference. (I've never handled them in real life. That's just what I heard from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR9cunbntRY&t=188s) Of course, nowadays there's Blood Bowl: Second Season Edition is a revision of that, and those models are apparently NOT push-fit according to some Reddit rando. So buyer beware and all that.
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It's so wild how the company components just radiate evil in this game.
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Yeah, the designer notes say that they made the pieces deliberately sterile and lifeless. It's quite haunting. Especially considering the victims are represented by profit chart icons.
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Bottom Liner posted:I did it with Inis and War of the Ring and I think it makes them both look way nicer. Also switched the army minis for wooden tokens. I have mine as discs as regulars, blocks as elite, and cubes as leaders. Kept the minis for any special characters.
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Tekopo posted:Yeah, the designer notes say that they made the pieces deliberately sterile and lifeless. It's quite haunting. Especially considering the victims are represented by profit chart icons. Yeah, they pulled it off well, I think. Incredibly sterile and evil, really - they did a great job. (Is there a 'pizza party' card though, somewhere in that deck?  )
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!Klams posted:Blood bowl team manager is great, but I don't know if it's actually available anywhere any more. It isn't. Blood Bowl is a Warhammer product and FFG no longer have Warhammer licensing rights.
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VoodooXT posted:Also switched the army minis for wooden tokens. I have mine as discs as regulars, blocks as elite, and cubes as leaders. Kept the minis for any special characters. I think I've posted this here before but this is the single best improvement to any game I've made. The sticker art was like 15bucks from a sticker designer on Etsy using a bgg community file, except for the expansion stuff which I had to design myself.   
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That is very sexy. Someone should put all that in a bag and sell it to me at an inflated price because I am lazy.
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I would pay someone to do that for me. Looks like parsing is about 200% easier.
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after 3 years it's here boys lets gooooo
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PRADA SLUT posted:after 3 years it's here boys lets gooooo Welcome to the world of “every game needs a binder from now on”! Life changing.
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Just had a nailbiter of On Mars...tied for first at 105, one of my lowest scores, but won the tiebreaker: one crystal to none. Little rusty as it's been a few months since we had played, so it took longer than usual. Still, a dense game with a lot of gears and levers but not a ton of unnecessary chrome, where most decisions are devil's choices, forcing you to decide between short-term development or long-term positioning. I usually spend little time off planet and do well. I usually grab a scientist early and use a LSS bonus to remove my worker from the scientist work spot, allowing me to return there. I generally don't invest heavily in tech or blueprints. I bolster my work force by welcoming workers, leeching off the tech to increase the contingent size, and occasionally jettison one of them out the airlock when I don't have space when I cycle off/on planet. (Or, for the squeamish, send them out for cigarettes right before the rocket launches.) Thoughh, this game, I thought I had lost it because I kept coming up one worker short of a mine and thus had no source of minerals. I just wish there were four copies of the iconography book. I misunderstood my secret goal, but was able to achieve it nonetheless once it was revealed. Are other Lacerdas so tightly wound? Not a moment to breathe in the game (I mean that in a positive sense).
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Pryce posted:Welcome to the world of “every game needs a binder from now on”! Life changing. tbh using those for any game that takes cards, gloomhaven shop is in a binder, other games cut out 3x3 pages for equipment grids card binder pages should be in everyones "standard bg accessories" kit, like a pack of regular card and mini card size
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maybe if you’re crowdfundpilled and anhedonic unless the game takes up multiple kallax cells
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and with that delivery, i have zero outstanding crowdfunding games  checkmate retailists
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panko posted:maybe if you’re crowdfundpilled and anhedonic unless the game takes up multiple kallax cells true, put all this poo poo in one box, what the gently caress is this mess
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Just played Sol: Last Days of a Dying Star. Holy poo poo it's really good, plus what a beautiful design. It's elegant and what I really look for in a game. A few actions but it requires foresight and planning and it's emergent complexity. I can't wait to play it again.
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Admiralty Flag posted:
Depends what you mean. In a game of Vinhos you have 12 actions total. In Escape Plan you can take a maximum of 12 actions, and a minimum of I think it's seven. There's certainly no room for durdling in either one.
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Jedit posted:Depends what you mean. In a game of Vinhos you have 12 actions total. In Escape Plan you can take a maximum of 12 actions, and a minimum of I think it's seven. There's certainly no room for durdling in either one. Thanks, that's what I was getting at. I guess I'm sort of shopping for a new Lacerda to eventually try to introduce to the group. I've picked up that Kanban and variants is right out because it's come up in discussion about how highly rated they are, "Who wants to play work?" But this is a longer-term project; after pulling the trigger on 18Chesapeake earlier this week, I've got another shelf queen I've got to work on getting to the table first.
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Admiralty Flag posted:Thanks, that's what I was getting at. still Lisboa tbh actually, the best "I want to play Lacerda but not play Lacerda" is the new* Rococo and weather machine sucks
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Carillon posted:Just played Sol: Last Days of a Dying Star. Holy poo poo it's really good, plus what a beautiful design. It's elegant and what I really look for in a game. A few actions but it requires foresight and planning and it's emergent complexity. I can't wait to play it again. Yea we had our first game of this this weekend too, and were pleasantly surprised how snappy the turns were and how satisfying a game it was.
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My kids are now 10, 8 and 6 and I think our family is entering a golden age of gaming. In the years BC (before children) Mrs. Canyoneer and I would play lots of great crunchy games, especially with our other childless friends. When the kids were tiny babies, nothing changed, we'd just stay up late and the kids would sleep. Then they got older and required more supervision and free time got scarce, so we switched to shorter games. Now those kids can mostly entertain themselves, play together nicely, and/or play along in those games. My kids are really into the Rick Riordan book series of mythology-based kids fiction. So they are gobbling up everything Ancient Greece/Rome/Egyptian/Norse themed. Just got Paolo Mori's Caesar and they love it. It's a fun and quick little area control game.
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Just came within two rolls of backgammoning my dad. He kept rolling 1-2 as I was taking pieces off, I've never seen a game get that close to the title. Hilariously stupid outlier. Not playing with the doubling cube, just casual fun.
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canyoneer posted:My kids are now 10, 8 and 6 and I think our family is entering a golden age of gaming. In the years BC (before children) Mrs. Canyoneer and I would play lots of great crunchy games, especially with our other childless friends. When the kids were tiny babies, nothing changed, we'd just stay up late and the kids would sleep. Then they got older and required more supervision and free time got scarce, so we switched to shorter games. Now those kids can mostly entertain themselves, play together nicely, and/or play along in those games. Yeah Space Cadet is 8 in a few weeks and it's great. We've got a Pandemic Legacy campaign going as a family, I play Dominion pass-and-play with her a lot on buses and I'm so excited to see what else we can play. We tried Jaws of the Lion but she wasn't quite ready for it (despite being very keen).
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time for something new goons, post you're GOATed 3x3 and get roasted for board game taste: https://www.pubmeeple.com/top-nine da gric Still the top worker placement, from an era where worker placement was a cutthroat "i want everything and so does everyone else", instead of the modern "we can all share, here you just pay one extra resource for going after me". Still chasing that high, never seen a game simultaneously feeling like an endless struggle and also your tiny farmstead with four sheep and some grain is an immense achievement. Too many bones Chucking a fist of dice always pleases, the characters are way more interesting than like "strong hairy guy that hits things", and the rewards feel like a nice "oh poo poo this is something new" instead of the boring "I am now linerally more powerful". Sure, sometimes you get comically bad flops, but that feeling of pulling through to success is an unmatched high. Winning in Too many bones feels earned, not like "oh the designers wanted us to beat this scenario". Losing feels like "welp, missed a reward, but let's keep trudging forward to ~~the boss~~". Secret game Resilience of the human spirit in the face of incomprehensible circumstances. Exit series Played them all, hits consistently with "oh that was clever" sort of puzzles. Don't care if it follows "an escape room" narrative, but the (quite literal) outside-the-box solutions continue to impress. Legit difficult at points and feels like it respects the intelligence of the player. Quacks I will never tire of the shaky-fisted slow reveal as everyone watches in horror and awe as someone removes their hand from that bag. Also a good way to vet new groups, because you find out who is a humorless rear end who pouts about a cosmic conspiracy against them to force that final 3-pointer into their hand. The modern Galaxy Trucker filter system. Flamme Rouge Play card, move bike, drink beers, listen to Queen. Voidfall I hope I don't get screwed by recency bias, but it's probably the "fast and balanced" 4X. Enough variance to force you into a varied strategy each time, though not railroaded. Requires considering the wealth of options, but doesn't take plate spinning unless you want to bring it on yourself. Sherlock I have never been in the middle of a game, lying on the couch, staring at the ceiling for an hour going "but what does it all mean?" Etherfields Again following the whole "un-understandable" theme of mystery and wonder. No idea what you're about to experience, just a bit of situational exposition and you're dropped in the middle of a bizarre environment to work it out (often without knowing what you're supposed to do to get out). Sometimes it's humor, sometimes dread, sometimes despair, other times just an peculiar puzzle to solve. Might get supplanted by ISS Vanguard. PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Feb 26, 2024 |
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