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Caricatures are good and so is colonialism. If the third world doesn't like it they can stop appropriating our culture of industrial production.
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Rutibex posted:Caricatures are good and so is colonialism. If the third world doesn't like it they can stop appropriating our culture of industrial production. But your posts are a caricature, and not good, so . . .
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Jun 4, 2017 15:03
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Without colonialism we would not have the hit game The Colonists, checkmate.
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Jun 4, 2017 15:05
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Megasabin posted:Antiquity is pretty old at this point, and I know a lot of other games have taken inspiration from it. Does it's gameplay still hold up at this point? Is it worth getting to the table? How long is it compared to Splotter's other games? Yes, it's still a great game that deserves play. Nothing quite like it out there. As for length, I would say it's not as long as Roads & Boats but not as fast as TGZ.
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Jun 4, 2017 16:22
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I'm trying to run through a tutorial game of ADP with some friends. The tutorial book doesn't state where the patronage marker starts, but looking at the starting number of Coin+Patron (17), and total COIN controlled population (12), the starting patronage should start at 5, right?
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Jun 4, 2017 19:12
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Chill la Chill posted:I'm trying to run through a tutorial game of ADP with some friends. The tutorial book doesn't state where the patronage marker starts, but looking at the starting number of Coin+Patron (17), and total COIN controlled population (12), the starting patronage should start at 5, right? Yeah, starting Patronage is 5 on every scenario.
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Jun 4, 2017 19:55
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How is Antiquity on BGC? I just realized it was available for play there with all this talk of it...
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Jun 4, 2017 21:20
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So Betrayal at House on the Hill is being reskinned with a dnd theme, Betrayal at Baldur's Gate
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Jun 4, 2017 23:10
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Johnny Truant posted:How is Antiquity on BGC? I just realized it was available for play there with all this talk of it... It's a bit ugly/clunky but works just fine.
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Jun 4, 2017 23:27
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I'm going to vent about boardgames real quick. So my sister calls me and says the used bookstore has Dominion base for 20 bucks. I say cool, buy it, it is a good game. I get over there today to play it and I discover that it is a used copy. I didn't even know the store sold used games. I've only bought new games from them. The cards are unsleeved and very well used, and a bunch were water damaged. Not only that, a bunch of cards (like half of the provinces) were just flat out missing. My sister is unfazed by both the quality of the remaining cards and the fact some were missing, and this just made me livid. I mean, how can you not be upset that you pretty much threw away 20 dollars? Ugh, I've never been so mad at cards.
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Jun 4, 2017 23:28
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SettingSun posted:I'm going to vent about boardgames real quick. So my sister calls me and says the used bookstore has Dominion base for 20 bucks. I say cool, buy it, it is a good game. I get over there today to play it and I discover that it is a used copy. I didn't even know the store sold used games. I've only bought new games from them. The cards are unsleeved and very well used, and a bunch were water damaged. Not only that, a bunch of cards (like half of the provinces) were just flat out missing. My sister is unfazed by both the quality of the remaining cards and the fact some were missing, and this just made me livid. I mean, how can you not be upset that you pretty much threw away 20 dollars? Just sleeve the cards and the damage won't matter. Make up the missing provinces with playing cards that have "province" written on them. Problem solved!
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Jun 4, 2017 23:32
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If the copper cards are as well used as I imagine, their backs should have nice white spots to write 'PROVINCE' on
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Jun 4, 2017 23:34
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Wir Sind Das Volk is pretty drat fun, just finished on BGC. Pretty good interface once you get the hang of the game.
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Jun 5, 2017 00:09
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Alternatively, buy and eat a bunch of cereal, and you will have plenty of material to make your own new cards.
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SlyFrog posted:Alternatively, buy and eat a bunch of cereal, and you will have plenty of material to make your own new cards. 
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Jun 5, 2017 00:18
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You can also buy a pack of Dominion base cards, which have nicer art for the money and VP cards, to replace your provinces. Bad news is that's another $20.
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Jun 5, 2017 03:48
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Selecta84 posted:I own Ottoman Sunset, Hapsburg Eclipse and the latest version of Dawn of the Zeds. The first two games are, like Tekopo said, fine but not amazing. If you want to have a quick solo game that can be unforgiving and at times a bit infuriating then they are wahr you are looking for. I think your description of a quick solo game that can be unforgiving and at times a bit infuriating is a very apt description of Cruel Necessity.
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Johnny Truant posted:Wir Sind Das Volk is pretty drat fun, just finished on BGC. Pretty good interface once you get the hang of the game. It was fun! I liked the different value cards for each side, and the asymmetric component was very cool. It was difficult to me to grok the consequences that our moves would have on the final of decade check, but that will probably come with time. There are a couple of quirks with the implementation. For example, it seems that you can reset actions after the opponent makes a move with your card, which is pretty bad. Also the game is ugly as sin. All in all, it seems a very tight design.
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Beffer posted:I think your description of a quick solo game that can be unforgiving and at times a bit infuriating is a very apt description of Cruel Necessity. Well it is after all a State of Siege game. The good points I read about were theming and more interesting decisions.
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Jun 5, 2017 11:06
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I found it funny that I checked BGG this morning and, despite all the usual hyped up garbage that shows up under the hotness, campaign for North Africa proudly stood at the second from the top of that list.
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Chill la Chill posted:I found it funny that I checked BGG this morning and, despite all the usual hyped up garbage that shows up under the hotness, campaign for North Africa proudly stood at the second from the top of that list. Yeah someone on reddit made a thread about the 'Heaviest game ever' and bam. e: Man Capstone is reprinting: The Climbers, Neue Heimat, Wildcatters, American Rails, Vanuatu, Lignum (2ed), and the Carson City Big Box over the next year or so. 
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Chill la Chill posted:I found it funny that I checked BGG this morning and, despite all the usual hyped up garbage that shows up under the hotness, campaign for North Africa proudly stood at the second from the top of that list. Good... good.
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T-Bone posted:
They can take all of my money. The only one of those I probably won't get is the Climbers which I already own.
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Papes posted:They can take all of my money. The only one of those I probably won't get is the Climbers which I already own. same but Vanuatu also. I'm not sure if I'll pick up the CC big box or not, but I'll grab Neue Heimat and Wildcatters for sure, and American Rails and Lignum maybe/probably. The hesitance with CC is I hear it's kind of random and redundant for its genre, but maybe the expansions rectify that? e: They're also doing the rest of the Spitzer coal trilogy. T-Bone fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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Jun 5, 2017 15:47
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Neue Heimat is really good and allows you to lose friends really fast.
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Jun 5, 2017 15:48
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Tekopo posted:Neue Heimat is really good and allows you to lose friends really fast. Yeah I actually bought some materials to PNP it, but I've been too lazy to paint so I'll probably just use them for something else.
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Jun 5, 2017 15:49
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Tekopo posted:Neue Heimat is really good and allows you to lose friends really fast. Same but Vanuatu
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Game con weekend - spent lots of time as a volunteer GM. Played shitloads of Captain Sonar with something like 20 different people. Everyone loved it, but I don't even want to look at my copy for a while now. Did a promo "play to win" section of Biotix, too. It wasn't as bad as I feared, based on the description on BGG and the "let's ripoff munchkin" box art. It's a pretty simple exchange/trading game with a push-your-luck element to the table politics - the whole table has the ability to dogpile and undermine any obvious front runner. I wouldn't refuse to play it, even if I wouldn't want to play it all night, and it might be worth picking up on a sale for under $20, if you want a different light palette cleanser game. The rules aren't perfect, though - we had to agree on a few things. One game that I would refuse to play again, though, is A Surplus of Popes. This is the worst piece of trash I've ever personally encountered. The game designers managed to get a section of it scheduled for what seemed like literally every slot of the entire three-day con. Gross art, unfunny "lolrandom" themes, and a completely uninteresting game with no decisions and no skill. I'd compare it to War, but War is literally a subgame that the game can trigger. I haven't played Exploding Kittens but I can't imagine that it's any worse. If you took a standard 52-card deck and said "if you play a black card you get the face value in points, and if you play a red card you lose the face value in points, and if you play a face card you flip a coin to see if you gain or lose points, and if you play an ace we play a game of war to see who gets lots of points," you have the game. Whenever I encountered an ambiguity or hole in the rules they said "we encourage people to make house rules." Oh and a significant number of cards do literally nothing. To get away from these dudes I actually sat down at a table next to where my friend was running whatever new version of Artemis Spaceship Sim and set up a solo game of AFfO to chat while we both played.
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How is Carson City? I read through the rules and it looks good, but I'm afraid all the good reviews are from Kickstarter hype over the Big Box. I like the idea of an aggressive Worker Placement that plays out in 2 hours or less.
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Jun 5, 2017 17:38
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Holy poo poo how did I just find out about this now: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/220520/caverna-cave-vs-cave Anyone played it yet? Is it the re-implementation of All Creatures Great and Small?
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Crackbone posted:How is Carson City? I read through the rules and it looks good, but I'm afraid all the good reviews are from Kickstarter hype over the Big Box. I have played it once, the base game. It's a worker placement game where you can try and use occupied spaces by committing workers + gun tokens to duel the other player's workers off the space. At the same time, you're trying to build a town on a shared map to make the most money from your buildings. I liked it a lot, but haven't played it again since.
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Crackbone posted:How is Carson City? I read through the rules and it looks good, but I'm afraid all the good reviews are from Kickstarter hype over the Big Box. I don't like it at all. A worker placement where you lose your actions from a combination of player dickery plus luck just ends in a bad experience. If you want an aggressive worker placement, choose Caylus or Argent, where the dickery is at least not luck based.
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FulsomFrank posted:Holy poo poo how did I just find out about this now: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/220520/caverna-cave-vs-cave It's more of a Caverna-lite, but much like ACG&S, it will probably end up being a tighter and better 2 player game than the original. It only has the cave building portion, not the farm area, and much more limited tiles and spaces. I'll have a copy as soon as CSI gets it in stock and will do a report.
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FulsomFrank posted:Holy poo poo how did I just find out about this now: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/220520/caverna-cave-vs-cave Kinda maybe? It reminds me of a smaller Fields of Arle with the way the ressources are tracked but I never played Caverna so I don't know how similar they are. Look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83bec9LN2Lc
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Fat Samurai posted:It was fun! I liked the different value cards for each side, and the asymmetric component was very cool. It was difficult to me to grok the consequences that our moves would have on the final of decade check, but that will probably come with time. Yeah, the resetting after certain Events is very interesting, probably just an oversight by whoever moved it to be online like that? I'm still down to play asynchronous games of both FCM and WSDV for whoever's interested. Need to start another FCM game, I got a slight taste of success last game, so I need more now!
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Selecta84 posted:Kinda maybe? It reminds me of a smaller Fields of Arle with the way the ressources are tracked but I never played Caverna so I don't know how similar they are. This looks quite interesting. Cavernia without the vestigial remnants of Agricola tacked onto the side.
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Jun 5, 2017 19:13
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Johnny Truant posted:I'm still down to play asynchronous games of both FCM and WSDV for whoever's interested. Need to start another FCM game, I got a slight taste of success last game, so I need more now! We have our second WSDV online yet. Just send me a PM when you want to have a real time one.
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Rutibex posted:This looks quite interesting. Cavernia without the vestigial remnants of Agricola tacked onto the side. But I'm not sure if I really need it, cause you know Fields of Arle...
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Selecta84 posted:But I'm not sure if I really need it, cause you know Fields of Arle... I haven't played it but my GF and I attempted to give it a shot one night at a board game cafe and the table footprint on FoA is enormous. We had a four person table to ourselves and we were still having to move things to chairs and push the limits on space. We ended up running out of time to learn it before some friends showed up but size alone would be enough to make me say yes. That and I think it's only $30 CDN, which seems really reasonable.
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I see your points but for me it would just feel redundant to have FoA and Cave vs Cave (plus I have All Creatures Big and Small so it feels even more redundant) But I would get it if I wouldn't own those other ones.
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