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FulsomFrank posted:Maybe this thread could help me on this question but how difficult would it be to proxy up my own version of Advanced Civ if I already have the original Civ? I know there would be some extra trade goods and techs or modified ones at the least but curious if anyone has any clue. Advanced Civilization was an upgrade kit. You needed original Civilization to play.
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Chill la Chill posted:Anyone play Riff Raff? MM has it on sale for $69 and I was wondering how it stacks up to other dexterity games riff raff is very good but I wouldn’t consider it an alltimer. maybe 7.5/10. it loses points for me for being just a little bit too technical and fragile for most young children and for being a game where it’s easy for a player to gently caress up catastrophically which dooms them and then makes the rest of the game a cakewalk for the other players. I like that a player can catch falling pieces before they hit the table and not be debited them though. hamsterrolle still the goat.
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Jedit posted:Advanced Civilization was an upgrade kit. You needed original Civilization to play. Yeah I just meant whether there are non-boxed versions floating around out there of the tech cards and trade goods that I could acquire and just add manually rather than have so track down an entire $400USD box of them. So far it looks like: https://www.camelotgamestore.com/civilization-advanced-trade-cards and maybe these: https://www.camelotgamestore.com/advanced-civilization-advancement-cards And maybe this: https://www.camelotgamestore.com/advanced-civilization-reengineered-map Are my best bets?
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# ? Apr 12, 2024 16:08 |
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panko posted:riff raff is very good but I wouldn’t consider it an alltimer. maybe 7.5/10. it loses points for me for being just a little bit too technical and fragile for most young children and for being a game where it’s easy for a player to gently caress up catastrophically which dooms them and then makes the rest of the game a cakewalk for the other players. I like that a player can catch falling pieces before they hit the table and not be debited them though. hamsterrolle still the goat. Thank. Will wait patiently for the hamster. Sad they didn't change the graphic, but it's fine. The wheel would make for a better furniture display piece than the box anyway.
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# ? Apr 12, 2024 16:38 |
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Someone on Reddit posted these 6 years ago
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trying to decide if those would be less embarassing on the forearm or the leg
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FulsomFrank posted:Yeah I just meant whether there are non-boxed versions floating around out there of the tech cards and trade goods that I could acquire and just add manually rather than have so track down an entire $400USD box of them. That’s about right yeah. The western expansion map isn’t necessary unless you play 8 players afaik. You’ll also need a copy of the AST (the scoring track) as I think it was adjusted, but I could be wrong.
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FulsomFrank posted:Maybe this thread could help me on this question but how difficult would it be to proxy up my own version of Advanced Civ if I already have the original Civ? I know there would be some extra trade goods and techs or modified ones at the least but curious if anyone has any clue. I've done it, and it isn't hard. There are sites that sell scans of the classic Avalon Hill wargame collections. Not sure what the legality is of selling scans of an out of print 50 year old board game. I will say that it cost a remarkable amount to rebuild Adv Civ from scratch and you might be better off with one of the reboots people have published.
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Went to a meetup yesterday, got to play 3 games I own which is a rarity (1 of which was someone else bringing the same game) I finally got to play Brian Boru (I've had it on the shelf since Christmas) and it was really good, we played without drafting since it was everyone's first game but it was still interesting. It's an area control game where the winner is the one with the most points at the end of the game; points are gained mostly via having majority control of various regions of the map but there are other scoring opportunities (one of which can potentially be game-winning almost by itself if a single player can focus on it) including "presence on the most different map regions". Each turn the players are dealt some cards (you're supposed to draft here but since nobody had any idea what a good card looked like we didn't bother) which you then use to play rounds of trick taking; the lead player chooses a location to contest, leads a card matching the colour / suit of that city, and everyone else can choose to either follow suit or not. Cards are played face up clockwise from the lead player, so as the last player to put down a card you will always know exactly if you're going to win or lose a trick (it's more of an economic game rather than a bluffing one). Each card has a numerical value and a colour, and also has a couple of associated actions; if you win a trick with a card, you carry out the top action, and if you lose a trick with a card you carry out the bottom action. Generally speaking, winning tricks with higher value cards has you paying resources for the priviledge of winning a location, and winning with lower value ones has you gain extra resources. After you've played all but one card you run through upkeep step where players gain or lose control over locations and points are allocated based on resource track placement, and then you go from the top again. The resource tracks all work slightly differently but are all various takes on "the winner gains a benefit and resets their track, the runner up gains a smaller benefit and loses 1 resource, the loser gets nothing but retains their position". In particular, the game tends to break ties in such a way that forcing ties is impactful; for example, if last place for "minimum viking influence" is tied, then both players lose a location to viking raiders. If first place for "highest church influence" is tied, then nobody gains the benefit for that round. Thanks to this and how the trick taking part of the game broadly works, there's a lot of decision making around how exactly you want to use your cards; some map locations might not be very useful to you, and tricks targeting those areas are where you're looking to play card which give a lot of resources for losing, but you also don't want to give away points to the opponent who might see an opportunity to lead with a low value card and score a location as well as getting extra resources. There's also some more complex decision making to do with map placement, as a secondary game mechanic allows you to take control of additional locations on the board by paying coins, but only if they are directly adjacent to a location you already control (adjacency determined by roads on the map) so there is an element of blocking other players both directly (by taking locations they need to score) and indirectly (by blocking the road routes they want to use) Overall it's extremely unlike anything else I've ever played, with complex layered indirect competition between players as well as a smaller amount of direct competition, all processed through the drafting and trick taking process; definitely a game where your overarching strategy is just trying to get maximum value from every card play, but exactly what that means is going to vary wildly for each trick, and reading and predicting your opponents choices is a big part of that (especially since you always draft in the same direction, so you will always know which cards you've passed to the player to your left and subsequently have a good idea of the available card pool of the player after you in play order). Definitely looking forward to playing this one some more! I played Beyond the Sun with Leaders of the New Dawn for the first time; I'm not sure if I liked the new leader cards or not, with my general impression being that they added more variability at the cost of game balance, similar to using the advanced player boards which come with the base game, but I can see that this might be beneficial once you've played the core game a lot, and the fact that you draft them ameliorates the added imbalance somewhat. The other additions to the game (new techs, events and achievements) were great and I think the overall tech balance is definitely better now (tier 2 red / yellow are clearly more competitive), but given the price tag I don't think that I'll be buying the expansion for my own copy an time soon, unless the price goes down. I also played Hansa Teutonica with the East Hansa map for the first time, with 3 players as I'd previously been recommended this map for any player count; while I can see that this map setup has a lot going for it, I'm not sure if it's well suited to 3 players, since having 3 routes into the action upgrade space kind of ruins the early game tension over board upgrades, and at least in this first game, the first player to get an action upgrade was able to run away with the game. Possibly exasperated since the other player immediately put a trader in the action city and farmed points, which left me as the only player not benefitting from the other two players spamming action upgrades. Not sure what the correct action to take here was in this particular game (I probably should have been doing some abusive stuff with bonus tokens, but as one of the players was new I held back on what I generally consider to be a slightly degenerate strategy) but I'll certainly be looking to use this board more as I can see that it will have some really interesting implications for 4 and 5 player games both with increased power / viability of merchant-heavy strategies via the naval trade routes and the different map setup around the action upgrade city
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Just ended a 3p game of cribbage with my dad and wife. She was one point from winning, I was eight back, my dad a few behind me. With her leading, ten card, I played a five for two, my dad played a five for two, my wife played a five for six to win...and I slammed down the case five because goddamn I don't know if I've ever come so close to a four of a kind during the play. Robbed!
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3p cribbage drives me nuts. Gonna be the guy in the retirement home screaming 1v1 me in the cafeteria, noob
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Actually tracked down a real copy of Adv Civ for a shockingly reasonable price compared to the hilarious ones on eBay/BGG market. Just a matter of acquiring it properly now...armorer posted:One of these years I will finally get Eastern Empires or Western Empires to the table. Then maybe within the decade that follows that I will get a combined play of both in, and never talk to more than half the room while the game is going on for a weekend or so. Dude, you are missing out. Just cap it between 5-8 people, give people a week plus notice in advance, account for attrition if you've got flaky loving prick friends that bail on you at the last second (no, I'm not bitter what are you talking about) and set a limit on trades and the day. The 18p game is a once a decade thing unless you're swimming in free time and happen to know enough other people in the same boat. I did it once and my friend and I didn't play at all, we just refereed and spent time organising trade goods. 12 hrs but people still talk about it. FulsomFrank fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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One of these years I will finally get Eastern Empires or Western Empires to the table. Then maybe within the decade that follows that I will get a combined play of both in, and never talk to more than half the room while the game is going on for a weekend or so.
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Eurogoons, I have to sell a significant number of my board games. Before I create an SA mart post, I wanted to get an idea if it'd be worthwhile, as I'd rather rehome these to folks from SA, instead of venturing onto eBay. I can ship to continental Europe, but not overseas.
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Afriscipio posted:Eurogoons, I have to sell a significant number of my board games. Before I create an SA mart post, I wanted to get an idea if it'd be worthwhile, as I'd rather rehome these to folks from SA, instead of venturing onto eBay. I can ship to continental Europe, but not overseas. This type of post is fine, so far as I've been lead to believe. Any deals should probably be in SA-Mart to have the added protections from the subforum-specific rules there, but AFAIK it is not a requirement if someone just want to deal in PMs. Caveat emptor and all that. For Android Netrunner specifically, I might suggest finding a netrunner community. It's still going strong thanks to the effort of Null Signal Games, though rotation is making the older cards less and less necessary.
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That list does raise a question that I imagine has been asked about a million times (possibly by me already?): Under Falling Skies or Warp's Edge? I like the idea of the UFS campaign with the comics etc, whereas I probably would prefer a bag builder style game compared to a dice puzzle. I could always just check out the PnP for UFS and see how it grabs me before I make a decision.
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I strongly prefer Warp's Edge.
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Afriscipio posted:Eurogoons, I have to sell a significant number of my board games. Before I create an SA mart post, I wanted to get an idea if it'd be worthwhile, as I'd rather rehome these to folks from SA, instead of venturing onto eBay. I can ship to continental Europe, but not overseas. I´d be interested in Android Netrunner.
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Okay, fess up, which one of you is this? Cross-post from the GBS r/relationships thread.The Alchemist posted:AITA for wanting to finish a game of monopoly?
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Some people have pretty weird ideas about forfeiting a game, I had a friend in the past argue with me that it's a bad thing to do even if both players agree that the game is no longer enjoyable and that the winner is obvious; they mellowed out on this but it was a big argument at the time and they got really mad about it (related: if you must play Terraforming Mars, especially don't play it 2p)
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The superior move is threatening to resign in order to win a game. Through the Ages is truly the game of kings.
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Magnetic North posted:Okay, fess up, which one of you is this? Cross-post from the GBS r/relationships thread. I don't think anyone in this thread would willingly play Monopoly.
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Perry Mason Jar posted:I don't think anyone in this thread would willingly play Monopoly. I would sooner play Terraforming Mars.
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Nothin wrong with a little Monopoly if you follow the rules. Teach your kids the unfortunate realities of capitalism.
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SettingSun posted:Nothin wrong with a little Monopoly if you follow the rules. Teach your kids the unfortunate realities of capitalism. "It seems like I rarely make decisions, almost none of my decisions matter, and the winner is chosen by elements completely out of any person's control"
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I wouldn't use it as a teaching tool. The bank never makes an error in your favor, there is no such thing as free parking, being in jail is extremely expensive, UBI does not exist... I can go on. Monopoly world is a relative utopia.
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more people should play go to learn resigning when a game is obviously lost is a good thing that lets you play more games
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Resigning in a 2p game should be more common and accepted. Less so in a multiplayer for a variety of reasons.
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Perry Mason Jar posted:I don't think anyone in this thread would willingly play Monopoly. I regularly host board game nights with friends and frequently have strangers come up to my door because they think my house is a pub. But that's a whole other thing. About a year ago a lady came up to my door asking if she could come in, because she regularly saw people playing boardgames and she wanted to play. I said she was welcome to join, but we were in the middle of a game right now so she might have to wait. Then she asked if we could play Monopoly next. When I said that we don't play Monopoly she had an extended rant about how I should put signs up to say that my house is not open to the public.
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Quote-Unquote posted:I regularly host board game nights with friends and frequently have strangers come up to my door because they think my house is a pub. But that's a whole other thing. First of all, wtf lady. Second of all, what kind of house do you have that people frequently think it's a pub.
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Morpheus posted:First of all, wtf lady. Second of all, what kind of house do you have that people frequently think it's a pub. I'm going to try to not doxx myself but my house does look like it might be a pub from the outside because it's a corner property with a patio area with a huge awning out front and bigass windows that let you see inside to the pool table and bar area (the pool table has a topper we use for board games). It used to be an off-licence (liquor store) 30 years ago and a lot of people remember that for some reason.
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Quote-Unquote posted:I regularly host board game nights with friends and frequently have strangers come up to my door because they think my house is a pub. But that's a whole other thing. You say it's only open to publics who don't want to play ancient bad games
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mikeycp posted:You say it's only open to publics who don't want to play ancient bad games Nah we play Talisman every few months when we just want to get drunk, roll dice and chat poo poo for 4 hours.
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That's just an old bad game. I'd also rather get drunk and play that than monopoly tbh
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# ? Apr 18, 2024 02:37 |
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The advantage a four-dragging-hour game of Talisman has over a four-dragging-hour game of Monopoly is that the outcome of the Talisman game is not a forgone conclusion for 3.5 of those hours.
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Does Talisman have an equivalent house rule that became the rule for some (my) family whie playing monopoly of "pay fines to the middle of the board and get it all for landing on free parking"? I have a copy of Kingdom Hearts Talisman that i bought back when KH3 came out but never actually got to play it after all these years and i've never actually played OG Talisman.
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Quote-Unquote posted:I regularly host board game nights with friends and frequently have strangers come up to my door because they think my house is a pub. But that's a whole other thing. "No but I'll send over anyone who wants to play Monopoly to join you."
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Tekopo posted:The superior move is threatening to resign in order to win a game. Through the Ages is truly the game of kings. There was controversy in the MtG community recently when someone did this in a tournament. Simplifying the situation: it was a four-player game, player A had a combo that could win the game immediately but needed player B's cards to still be in play to do it. B said "If you try to jus win the game with this, I'll just resign"; B would lose anyhow so resigning wouldn't cost B anything, but A wouldn't be able to immediately defeat C and D because B resigning would remove B's cards from the game and break the combo. Since B didn't want to lose and A didn't want to not get any value out of their combo, they negotiated and agreed that B wouldn't resign as long as A only used the combo to gain some advantage instead of going for the immediate win. People got really mad about doing that in a tournament for prizes but I dunno, I feel like that kind of politicking is kind of what you get when you try to play a four-player free-for-all
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Lottery of Babylon posted:There was controversy in the MtG community recently when someone did this in a tournament. this is actually smart and should be lauded
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It's not King making if you're trying to not be dead
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