Clockwork Gadget posted:

he told me in a PM regarding Archipelago that some cultures are better than others, and if misrepresented/underrepresented/marginalized cultures want better representation, maybe they should take notes from better (i.e., white) cultures.

OgreNoah posted:

Thoughts on Twilight Imperium? My thoughts are too long, terribly disappointing ending every single time.

FulsomFrank posted:

I got to play my first ever game of Twilight Imperium III with the Shattered Empire expansion. We played with a preconstructed galaxy and 5p. I had a great time even though I was profoundly hungover and didn't really understand what I was doing. For a game that last six and a half hours it really just flew by. The only parts that dragged were people forgetting who's turn it was and minutes ticking by while everyone was absorbed in their own plans without noticing that no one had taken a turn. Thankfully we had a veteran that was doing a good job refereeing and guiding us all along. I got demolished points-wise but had quite the fleet making it's way across the universe.

KPC_Mammon posted:

I'll disagree about the path being needless. Kemet eventually becomes a predictable waiting game where people try not to leave their city until the last moment.

Tying limited availability upgrades to the move action gives incentive to moving before your opponents, which is a huge shakeup in strategy. People move out of their cities earlier, which means more targets for attacks and quicker games.

KPC_Mammon posted:

Really? People don't wait on moving until their last 2 actions?

Why would people move to temples before buying new powers?

KPC_Mammon posted:

Are you playing low player count games?

With 5 players there is no way you can justify waiting on buying powers in order to take a temple you have no way of holding earlier in the turn.

Moving earlier also means you give up your ability to react when necessary.

KPC_Mammon posted:

I like the path because it transformed my group's meta to be more like yours!

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How do I [15m] Explain to my Parents That The Way They Play Board Games Makes it Really Tense and Unfun for Me?

My parents are terrible at board games, but for better or for worse they always want to play them. My mother is not at all good at interpreting the rules, and is an apalling loser. My father won't ever do anything that impacts her negatively in a competitive board game because he's walking the drat tightrope of her going ultra passive-aggressive on everyone for the rest of the evening. This invariably results in one of three outcomes depending on the nature of the game.

In games with no capability for teaming, me or my father wins and my incessantly complains about everything.
My parents unofficially team up because my dad doesn't want to set her off by interrupting her plans. I lose overwhelmingly because I try to stop my mother winning and they 2v1 me, usually resulting in my mum winning.
We never finish the game because it turns out that mum has been playing the game wrong for the last half an hour.


Yet if I say I don't want to play when she asks, I'll recieve this huge lecture about spending so much time on the computer that I don't want to do anything else. And then she'll ban me from screens and ban me from going out for the rest of the evening so I'm forced to read or brave a loving game with her.

I absolutely do not look forward to these sessions. She will not co-operate with anybody in anything that benefits them in the slightest, but if that is used against her then she complains that everyone is teaming up against her. Yet when I try to offer deals, she invariably responds 'why should I do something that only helps you and puts you further in the lead passive aggressive laugh' so I stopped trying.

This is really rambly, because I'm kinda pissed off after getting out of a five hour game of Star Trek: Ascendancy where mum won because my dad spent the entire game trading with her while spending all his resources eliminating me from the game.

tl;dr: Mum always insists on playing board games, proceeds to be a horrible sport. How do I approach her in a non-confrontational way?

Cthulhu Dreams posted:

No-one likes 7 wonders because they don't 'get' how to win and we've played it 4-5 times.

Jabor posted:

Yeah, 6 people is at the point where I'd do a light party-ish game (Sushi Go is great) to start and then split into a couple of groups.

Love me some 6 player Keyflower though. But people who don't like the aggressive plays in Carcassonne probably won't see the appeal.

Rutibex posted:

Countblanc posted:

I'm not poo poo talking, I'm simply saying exactly what you said; that she didn't understand the game, with the possible addition of not actually caring because of the thing we've discussed in this thread a bunch where people simply shut down when they decide for themselves that something isn't For Them. That person clearly did not understand the rules of the game since a person cannot ever play a Fail card and be a Resistance member. Or, perhaps more generously and significantly less likely, assumed you were cheating and had played a "Fail" card when you weren't allowed to and wanted to give you a second chance to reestablish your pedagogical authority in the eyes of her peers.

fozzy fosbourne posted:

I'm not too picky about this stuff usually, but do you think we could port over the pandemic legacy stuff into the quarantine thread? I like to go in blind, even for strategy stuff

FulsomFrank posted:

I thought it was a bit scummy though to open the game and have the manual explicitly state that I shouldn't pay attention to some extra symbols because those are for paid DLC, I mean the expansion, as well as the reverse, giant side missing the section that you need to buy separately to make it complete.