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KingKapalone posted:It's so hard to pick the next game to buy. I really have no criteria to make the final decision on but I think I've narrowed it down to Chaos in the Old World, Kemet, Agricola, or 7 Wonders. 7 wonders is a bad game. The cool thing is that you can play it with up to 7 players; unfortunately, it's best with 3-4, and is too random at 5+. And if you're going to play with 3-4, there are hundreds of better games. Kemet is amazing.
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Rexides posted:Speaking of which, what's the thread's opinion on "Legacy" games? I followed a LP of Risk Legacy (that didn't get through all the content, as far as I remember), and found it very cool. Me and my gaming group absolutely love Pandemic, and I was thinking that maybe I should get Pandemic: Legacy next year. Will I be a horrible person who supports bad games if I do so? Risk legacy is 10x better than risk. Risk is real bad though, so that's not saying much. When my group did risk legacy we basically engineered situations that would allow us to modify the board. After a few "oh poo poo!" Moments we'd be all excited to play again until we realized each time it was still risk. Just a little better.
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I need to spend $15 more at funagain for free shipping. Any ideas? I've already got the standards (love letter, resistance, etc)
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Yas posted:Through the Ages or Nations? I know TtA is well regarding both here and in general but I figured I would ask the thread if they have any strong opinions towards Nations. Last weekend I played Nations for the first time and really enjoyed it. It felt very streamlined and deep. I have played TtA a few times a few years ago and did not enjoy it at all. I liked Nations enough that I traded for a copy.
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I just learned Temporum and played a couple turns single player. I have zero idea what I'm doing. There's no cohesion to it. Gonna play an actual game tonight
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PuttyKnife posted:Got to sit down and play a 7 hour game of Avalon Hill's Dune. If you haven't heard of this game, i'd really recommend playing it by any means possible. It is fantastic but don't take my word for it, check out this informative video: Dune is a fantastic game. FFG has released Rex, a mechanically equivalent re-theme set in the TI Universe. It is also excellent.
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Big Ol Marsh Pussy posted:What are some good games with an auction mechanic? A great short game with auctions is Biblios
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Lorini posted:
Children: No More than two hours: Yes Hardest rules ever: Yes Axis and Allies?!
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The End posted:Carson City, bitches. Although it's super out of print right now Carson City is an amazing game. Agricola is a terrible game for unhappy people.
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MildManeredManikin posted:Is there a game that does what Diplomacy does but without all the bullshit? I've heard a lot about diplomacy, I've never played it myself but it just seems kind of dated and bloated with mechanics that are sort of periphery to the part of it that is actually fun. Also with a long play time and high player count it seems difficult to even get people to play it. MildManeredManikin posted:Ah, my mistake. I didn't look at it very extensively. The play time is still less than ideal but I otherwise stand corrected. Given that you didn't look at it extensively, or really at all, I'm very curious what bullshit, dated and bloated mechanics peripheral to the part that is actually fun you were referring to.
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Jan 21, 2015 07:21
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Elyv posted:How is Kemet for two? To reiterate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUa3ft2nhyA
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I just played 1944: Race to the Rhine for the first time, and it was excellent. It's a max 3 player racing game. With armies. Monty, Brad, and Patton start in Paris in 1944, each pushing east to see who can get to Dusseldorf first and become the biggest hero of the war. Each has 3-4 armies to move across the board, taking out Germans along the way, using their gas (movement), ammo (combat) and food (gotta eat) resources along the way. But each army can't carry nearly enough to get there. What do they need? Supply trucks. See 1944 isn't a racing game so much as it is a logistics and supply planning game set against a historical race. You have to establish supply lines, move resources back and forth to the right locations, and manage your convoys to make sure the armies don't stall out in the middle of nowhere. But if your supply lines are too thin, the other players can use German forces to cut them off, stranding your armies. It's a great game. Took about 90 minutes including rules.
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Feb 9, 2015 02:02
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Fungah! posted:Don't know the other two, but I've heard good things about Bora Bora. Bora Bora is the point salad shittiness of Castles of Burgundy but some how far far worse and random. Spyrium is an interesting worker placement / area control game. Same designer as Caylus.
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Feb 10, 2015 04:13
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PlaneGuy posted:Trains' greatest flaw was not being confident enough to ditch the basic dominion style. But that's a problem players can fix with the card setup. Trains' biggest flaw is unlimited actions/buys.
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tarbrush posted:So has anyone else played Homeland? The description above sounded great Yeah I'm interested in playing it now too, especially if it has zero spoilers for the show.
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Mar 8, 2015 18:20
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Blamestorm posted:I have the perfect game for you my friend. Panic on Wall Street is perfect at 6-8 players, is mostly timed so kills AP, and plays considerably under 2 hours. Other suggestions above have you covered for the four player or less range. It should be noted that Panic on Wall Street / Masters of Commerce is FAR better with an odd number of players than with even.
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Mar 11, 2015 23:21
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cenotaph posted:It plays that fast and it's brutal and great. If you have a weak player it can throw the whole thing out of whack, though. The best review of it I've seen is from clearclaw on BGG - he's the guy who taught me 18XX. clearclaw on bgg posted:Wabash Cannonball is a sub-hour 3-4 player ultra-efficient knife-fight of an economic game. I love it. The primary patterns are emergent alliances and incentive structures. Everything you do from the moment the game starts helps someone and hurts someone else, sometimes the same person. Everything you do incentivises players to take actions that variously help and hinder you. Much of the game comes down to ensuring that those short-lived emergent alliances, built totally on individual greedy self-interest, work in sum to your advantage. Everything in the game, including how long the game will last and the rate at which the game will play, is in the player's control and driven by that mesh of incentives and self-interest that the players have communally built. I've played it a few times and it is fantastic. Note there's also a $3 iOS version with pass 'n' play multiplayer on the iOS app store under the game's original name, Wabash Cannonball.
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Bubble-T posted:I downloaded the app, its very nice but the AI is terrible - I won against 3 AIs in my first game. My bad, I should have mentioned that. It's very good for playing around a table with people, but the single player is not great. I met the guy who wrote the app (clearclaw taught him 18XX too) but it looks like the app hasn't been updated since 2011.
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Has anyone developed/found a good tool for drumming up local trades/sales? I am allergic to shipping costs and want to get rid of/exchange a ton of games. It looks like BGG's rudimentary API doesn't let you retrieve user locations even if they're public.
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The End posted:How do you feel about Arctic Scavengers? It's real bad.
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Bottom Liner posted:
Imperial Settlers is a really bad game.
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silvergoose posted:Would love to hear more; it was heavily broken when I played it incorrectly, but I'm curious how it is compared to 51st state, or if you just think the entire series is flawed beyond playing. As I've said in a couple threads when it comes up, here is a great way to simulate playing IS in about 1 minute: Malloreon posted:If you want to play this game very quickly, gather 3 other players. Each player gets a die, and each sums 5 rolls of their die to determine their final score. In brief, each player has common buildings that can be attacked/destroyed by other players, and unique buildings, that cannot. Japan's unique buildings, however, can be attacked/destroyed as if they were common. To make up for it, each turn they can place one double strength defender dude. Also, one of the Egypt player's unique buildings, the Oasis, is utterly game breaking. It boils down to "every time another player does [common action], Egypt gets to do [common action] as well, for free." The game boils down to "if Egypt draws the Oasis before round 3 of 5, they will win by 30-40 points. Under no circumstances will Japan win."
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Bottom Liner posted:Someone sell me Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin and any other sets you have. if you are in the bay area CA or willing to pay shipping, have I got a deal for you. I have thunderstone, advance: towers of ruin, advance: caverns of bane, doomgate legion, and thornwood siege that I want to get rid of. Most are opened with the decks still sealed.
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EBag posted:I've been enjoying Glass Road recently which is also all about generating and converting resources, but has an interesting role selection mechanic which makes it feel more unique and plays in like 1/4 of the time as OeL with more variation to each game with all the different buildings. I'd get GR over OeL, especially with OeL being hard to find. I have stayed away from Glass Road after it managed to to pass playtesting with in infinite resource loop intact. Is it worth trying?
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Bottom Liner posted:CSI is having a Star Wars sale for May 4th No discount on the imperial assault main game? weak.
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FISHMANPET posted:ruining the game for everyone rather than just saying "I'd rather not play this." I cannot emphasize how important saying this is. I have played a lot of games. More importantly, I have figured out the types of games that I like and I play those, and avoid playing games I'm very sure I'm not going to like. My weekly game group has about 30 regulars, and there are many games that are always present, and played pretty much every week. I don't like a lot of these games, and my being very vocal in saying "no thanks, that game's not for me, but you all enjoy it" is a fantastic way to save everyone time and make sure everyone including me enjoys themselves more. Don't play games you don't like. It's not worth it for anyone!
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I ragequit a game once but I am not ashamed of it. It was a first time playing a more complicated worker placement game. We were ~75 minutes in to what turned out to be a 100-120 minute game in future playthroughs. One player announced suddenly, out of the blue, that he had to leave. Then, with his final turn, he used every single resource he had to destroy everything I'd built, reducing me to basically starting resources, cause he said later, "it looked like you were winning." I stopped right there and packed it up.
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Bubble-T posted:I'm struggling to think of what game this is. Manhattan Project or Dominant Species? Not many worker placements let you blow things up. Good one, it was Manhattan Project. Note this was a fairly competitive small group. We had a website where we tracked plays and wins by each player.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Libertalia Libertalia is the best pirate game I've played, and it also plays 3-6 comfortably.
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May 16, 2015 23:14
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Has anyone played Forge War? I blind bought it after Rahdo called it one of the best heavy economic games of the year. Also got Argent and Colt Express. first time buying games in months.
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May 20, 2015 01:57
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I used to have a board game shopping addiction and I bought far too many games till I realized what I was doing in december 2013. Since then I've bought maybe 10. I have many many games unplayed, a few unopened. I'm trying to play everything and then sell the ones that aren't long term keepers.
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I played Dominant Species for the first time today. 3 rounds and 3 hours with rules in, we decided to remove 10 dominance cards from the deck. Finished the game in 4 hours with rules on a shortened deck. Game was intense. Completely nuts, and a ton of fun.
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I'd read all the rules before hand and played a few rounds of the ipad game. I taught the game and we have some AP prone people. I think we'd be a lot faster the next time. Also, playing 6 handed the first time was probably a mistake.
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Played two games tonight: Colt Express Spiel nominee, 2nd play, first with 5, second with 6 Colt Express is a good game. it's fun, it's easy to learn and teach. There's not much to it. The choices you have aren't too complex and there really isn't too much planning you can do because you don't know the actions the other players have available, so the best you can do is make your best choice and hope it works out. I've played it twice now and I plan on selling my copy to the first person who wants it. I'd play it again, but I'd rather play something else. Aztlan A deceptively simple area control game. First time playing it, and it was great. The map has 5 different land types as well as impassable water spaces. Each player has a hand of cards 4-9. 4 is wild, each other is associated with one of the land types. each round (there are 5), each player places one of their cards face down. then you take turns placing one new dude anywhere you want (each round each player gets 8-(round number) dudes) on the board and optionally move any of your dudes to an adjacent space. After all the moves are done, you resolve conflicts in spaces where there are multiple players' dudes. each player turns over their chosen card, and that card's value is the strength of each of their dudes for that round. whoever sums to the most power gets to decide whether to kill off all the other players' dudes. If they let them live, they get a bonus card that gives extra points at the end or other benefits. then you score. for each contiguous region you control, you score 1 point for each space in the region, plus the square of the number of spaces in that region that match the card you played that turn. It was intense. The decreasing number of actions each turn (7 down to 3 in the last round) is crazy limiting. after round 2 no one skips a move without thinking super hard about it. I've owned it for 2 year and finally played it. Definitely keeping for a few more plays.
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Motherfucking FORGE WAR is everything Lords of Waterdeep should have been. It is baller as gently caress. Area control with funky thought provoking mechanics? Yes. Worker placement with tough choices? Yes. "Short" game taking ~90 minutes? Yes. "Epic" game taking 3-4 hours? YES.
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FORGE WAR with 2 players is a totally different and equally awesome game as with 4. It remains by far the best game I have played in 2015. I am gearing up to try the epic variant soon.
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Toshimo posted:I'm about to have some folks down to play BSG tonight and this is a group who isn't always the best at reading and interpreting rulebooks, and most folks have only played it 0 or 1 times, so are there any good resources or tips for making sure we are all playing it the way God intended? Base game only. I assume you're not going to read the rulebook with the whole group there, right? You're going to teach them the game and then play? Never learn the game at the table. also use this: http://www.orderofgamers.com/downloads/BattlestarGalactica_v4.2.pdf
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Rexides posted:My and a a friend of mine are going for a three-day hiking trip soon. In-between gawking at the majesty of mother nature, we would like to have some kind of game to play because we are huge nerds. Do you have any suggestions for a game where: My go to 2 player games in small boxes: Jaipur Agricola: all creatures great and small Revolver
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Keshik posted:This rulebook is just bonkers. You're bonkers. It's a wargame manual. Every individual rule is marked with a label for later reference. The redrawing after action rounds question is rule 4.5: "Deal Cards" is step B in each turn. "Action rounds" is step D. So no, you don't redraw between action rounds. Bobby The Rookie posted:I honestly find the rulebook for TS pretty concise. This guy gets it.
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Mister Sinewave posted:Anyway, it is a rewarding game once it's going. Forge War remains loving amazing. I got a two player short game down to a clean 50 minutes last night. Gearing up for a 3 player epic game in a couple weeks.
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