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I really would recommend El Grande as an exactly 5 player game. It doesn't expand past that but it is much better than the typical 4-player w/ a barely play tested expansion set experience.
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I'd want to put a definition of area-control games into the OP, but the only two I have experience with is El Grande and Tammany Hall. Still a good game that demonstrates the flexibility of meeples without the cold brutality of Agricola. Ladies & Gentlemen deserves a shout out for being good at the under-served "Games for multiple couples and/or large pansexual swinger groups" versus crap like Cranium, Pictionary, et al.
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Jabor posted:I'm always confused when someone brings this as somehow being complicated, because it's literally the opposite. Like, you can literally just put the cards on top of each other as you play them (and then one-at-a-time into the graveyard as they actually take effect), it's dead simple. It actually isn't once you get beyond "the stack", and instead get into the resulting state-based-effects when things go into and out of each zone which triggers each and every other zone. 613.1, regarding Layers, is actually something you have to memorize if you want to judge events.
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I played Arkham Horror for the first time with friends and it was enjoyable solely because I was playing with friends and the guy who owned the game was willing to let us be purposefully fuzzy on the turn order to "beat the game" and we got lucky more than a few times with the timing of the decks. I think I could backwards-engineer a good game to meet the same expectations, but it would involve me setting upon the rulebook with a hatchet. Its a conversation-piece beer-and-pretzel game and is really only challenging if you don't know how to subtly quarterback / receive the team to victory.
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