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Johnny Truant posted:Dang, that's a lot of responses for FCM online! Alright so we've got... Friday night should work for me if I'm feeling better. Sunday is board game night and Monday is board game playtesting so I won't be around for either of those
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canyoneer posted:I like the German version. I have never needed a German translation x-wing card more than at this moment.
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thespaceinvader posted:I have never needed a German translation x-wing card more than at this moment. Guess someone already has ASSROT.
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I thought Brewcrafters was worse than Agricola. Also Runewars Miniatures might be worth a look, board gamers are enjoying it.
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LongDarkNight posted:Anyone get the Terra Mystica app yet, any thoughts? For my group, it's a buggy mess so far. We had one player use the spade action on his bonus card to terraform a yellow hex to brown but still got charged three workers for it (and the card became marked as used). We've had multiple times where people haven't been able to take their turn or the turns haven't synced up properly. And right now we had two players pass, but then when I passed it showed both the others as still having their original bonus cards and I couldn't pick either of them. Then the round ended and one of those other players now doesn't have any bonus card at all (possibly because the game let me pick the same card that he had already picked)! So yeah. The design of the app seems really nice, just buggy. At least in multiplayer anyway. We're also playing cross platform, so that may be making things worse? No idea. NuclearWinterUK fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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thespaceinvader posted:I have never needed a German translation x-wing card more than at this moment. Chill la Chill posted:Guess someone already has ASSROT.  Mmmm hmm!
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Late notice but anyone want to play FCM online starting at 11pm EST, finish the game tonight.
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Just finished a game of Feast, 3p. I started with the bean farmer as my initial occ, which does the following: at any time, you may trade 2 beans (2x2 orange) for a peas (1x2 orange), a mead (1x2 red), and a fish (1x3 red). Went for whaling boat, shetland to get an extra bean bonus, then heavy houses and filled up my home board with all the big stuff from whaling. Long story short, bean farmer turned the insane number of beans I got from going heavy houses/shetland into extremely easy to place food for said houses. It felt really, really powerful. Anyone have any experience with this occ? I won with a respectable 127, but it felt stronger than that.
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So how do you guys introduce The Colonists to people? I have played it solo, but don't really know how I would go about a first game with others. Do you use the intro campaign? That seems a bit short for me, not really catching the proper game. I was thinking maybe 2 eras with the setup form the intro game?
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So has anyone experienced gloomhaven? I'd like to get a copy just for solo gaming. Right now mageknight gets all my solo play love.
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lordsummerisle posted:So how do you guys introduce The Colonists to people? I have played it solo, but don't really know how I would go about a first game with others. Just play two eras. The complexity in The Colonists comes from planning ahead, not the mechanics. I've introduced plenty of people to it that way and lost to them as well.
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Gameko posted:So has anyone experienced gloomhaven? I'd like to get a copy just for solo gaming. Right now mageknight gets all my solo play love. I have played it a bit now, with two different groups in the same world. I love it to death, and I come from playing Mage Knight. Mage Knight is definitely tighter in the puzzles it creates. Gloomhaven is more swingy and ameritrashy, but still far more engaging mentally than Descent and the others.The main card play mechanic is brilliant, forcing you to make tough decisions, but also adapt to your opponents (and your friends) acting differently than you expected. This lack of perfect information makes it feel more random and less determined than MK. Your class deck also lets the classes really feel different, compared to other dungeon crawls where I often feel they are slight variations on each other. Customizing these decks through leveling makes the characters come more to life. The AI deck is truly amazing, making the different monsters feel really unique and thematic. This is, however, where the randomness in the game really comes from. Sure there is a "dice deck", but if you play well, the RNG from it will usually not doom you. The AI deck, however, can really make a match a cakewalk or a nightmare based on the draws and what the enemy is doing at the time. Some enemies can kill themselves without you not doing anything. I find this hilarious, others might find this bad game design. It fits thematically, though. Setup is a bitch, and I just leave the board out a few days at a time, because I can. I love it, and everyone I play it with wants to play more. It is not perfect, but it brings a dungeon crawley experience I always wanted, but never got. (Mage Knight gives me more of a power leveling HOMM feel than a dungeon crawl feel). Solo might really tax your brain the first few games, because you will be learning and co-ordinating 2 completely different classes. I think this will change over time, and you could probably introduce a 3rd character after 10 plays or so, if you feel comfortable.
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Alright roll call, who's down for Food Chain Magnate tonight at 9:30pm CST? Might be closer to 9:45, my place is wrecked from having people over last night, ha.
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Banana Man posted:How is runebound as far as the "tell yourself a story on a map" genre goes Extremely bad. Talisman bad.
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canyoneer posted:I like the German version. I seriously cannot be the only person who calls this Hot poo poo Co-Pilot...
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Johnny Truant posted:Alright roll call, who's down for Food Chain Magnate tonight at 9:30pm CST? I likely will be down but cannot 100% commit at this time. Hopefully you can get other people in and I'll just join in.
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Anyone played 'High Treason : The Trial of Louis Riel' ? It seems to have high recommendations.
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Johnny Truant posted:Alright roll call, who's down for Food Chain Magnate tonight at 9:30pm CST? I'm still pretty sick but if I'm awake I'm in
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Johnny Truant posted:Alright roll call, who's down for Food Chain Magnate tonight at 9:30pm CST? If it was a tad earlier I would be in but I have plans at 10:30 cst.
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Looks like FCM may not happen tonight, but we'll just play it by ear then! I'll post in the thread before I bike home, probably like 8:30pm, and we'll just go from there. If it happens, cool beans, if not, ain't no thang but a chicken wang.
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Tekopo posted:Anyone played 'High Treason : The Trial of Louis Riel' ? No but I have a healthy curiosity about it. I had a chance to pick it up but couldn't really make heads or tails of what to really expect at a short look and passed it up at the time. I don't think I have a 2nd player who'd be very interested 
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Tekopo posted:I just ordered it so might give it a whirl/do a PBP for it. I just ordered it too.
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Tekopo posted:I just ordered it so might give it a whirl/do a PBP for it. It's yet another entry into the very crowded "game made from a historical courtroom trial" market so I will be interested to read what you think of it.
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Papes posted:If it was a tad earlier I would be in but I have plans at 10:30 cst. I might be able to swing it a bit earlier, gonna have to play that by ear. I've got a birthday dinner to go to that I honestly really don't want to attend, but  I have already committed to it. Probably just pop in for a drink then go home. I'm so goddamn lethargic, I'm like  hungover right now.
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Johnny Truant posted:I might be able to swing it a bit earlier, gonna have to play that by ear. I've got a birthday dinner to go to that I honestly really don't want to attend, but Someone just make a skype group
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CommonShore posted:Someone just make a skype group We already have a discord
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silvergoose posted:Extremely bad. Talisman bad. Talisman is better, it has more expansions.
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Papes posted:We already have a discord Can you invite me? Johnny Truant #8594, if you need email to invite just let me know.
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Tekopo posted:Anyone played 'High Treason : The Trial of Louis Riel' ? It seems extremely interesting, but a simple reddit search brings up a drama bomb. Looks like designer Alex Berry has no idea how to respond to negative criticism over the internet. I wish I hadn't looked deeper into the game, since the initial reviews hyped me up.
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Kashuno posted:btw what is BGC if we aren't gonna play tonight I might set something up instead~ Err, say what now? Also if anybody wants to set up any asynchronous games, I'm down, as well! Never played them but it's gotta help my FCM strategy at least a little bit, right?
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lordsummerisle posted:I have played it a bit now, with two different groups in the same world. I love it to death, and I come from playing Mage Knight. Mage Knight is definitely tighter in the puzzles it creates. Gloomhaven is more swingy and ameritrashy, but still far more engaging mentally than Descent and the others.The main card play mechanic is brilliant, forcing you to make tough decisions, but also adapt to your opponents (and your friends) acting differently than you expected. This lack of perfect information makes it feel more random and less determined than MK. Your class deck also lets the classes really feel different, compared to other dungeon crawls where I often feel they are slight variations on each other. Customizing these decks through leveling makes the characters come more to life. Strong recommend for Gloomhaven if you're at all into dungeon crawlers. It's got a wonderful, meaty, tactical engine, which, contrary to lordsummerisle, I feel is a lot less random than Mage Knight. I know you can play cards sideways to mitigate against getting screwed on one element or another of MK, but in my experience, I'm much more likely to have a situation in MK where I can't meaningfully move the ball forward than in Gloomhaven (although it is slightly mitigated by the fact that in Gloomhaven, there are turns where I'm resting, but my allies are moving ahead). The dice decks are actually an amazing bit of game technology, in that they allow for controlled randomness and character modification in a super-intuitive way. The monster decks are great, and really help to make the various critters feel different, although I'd say that I wish the AI targeting priorities changed from monster to monster, though it does help to make taking something you can actually do. Agree w/r/t the Ameritrashiness, though. There's a lot of fiddly components to keep track of, and it's easy to forget a modifier here and an element there. Doing it solo will be a huge challenge, but it's a great experience.
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