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Broken Loose posted:Falling (and Falling 2014, the new edition that just came out) is a real-time game where you're falling and you're doing whatever you can to outlive your opponents. This sounds interesting and I haven't heard of it before, can you let me know a little bit more about it? Why is it good?
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Broken Loose posted:Falling This sounds super cool and as soon as I can find somewhere in Europe that sells it I'm getting it.
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Fat Turkey posted:Any UK people been to the Draughts cafe yet? Thinking of going over the festive period, and I've checked when its open, but interested in knowing if there's a need to get there early or any thoughts to what it is like. I haven't yet, but I'm probably going to. I seem to remember Tekopo mentioning in the last thread it wasn't all that good but I don't remember if that was from experience or a review.
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Tekopo posted:I hadn't realised they weren't open on weekdays to be honest. But yeah, it's beyond the point: when the choice is a free venue in the center of London or a venue that you have to pay for that isn't close to a tube station, there isn't really much choice involved. I've just had a look at their selection on their website: 10 different versions of Munchkin and no Space Alert.
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Dec 16, 2014 17:06
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Fat Turkey posted:Space Alert strikes me as not a great game to play in a cafe full of other people. You either can't hear the soundtrack for the other people or your game is drowning out others. Yeah it might be possible to find a balance, but does the venue provide the means to play the CD? Sounds best to just let one game go then have staff manage sound disputes. Yeah their selection actually looks pretty good even though you can describe it like that.
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Dec 16, 2014 23:04
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Tekopo posted:The extra Pets don't create this issue, but they are extremely fiddly to use because they have extra rules. As well as that, they are a lot harder to keep and can potentially destroy your shop (some of them, anyway) if you don't look after them properly. How can I not get this game to the table
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Dec 18, 2014 10:25
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Obviously it's up to you but I find that the fun is in losing horribly because you didn't quite make it to the gun in time/looking out of the window because you thought you'd dealt with everything/general incompetence as opposed to losing horribly because one guy played a red arrow instead of a blue and spent the whole mission wandering through the ship pressing buttons at random. If you don't use the trip rule, at least a few missions will be completely wasted because of it.
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Dec 21, 2014 01:36
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I've certainly played with people who go "So you told me this was blue so you want me to...discard it? Right? Play it? Discard it? Discard it." like, every turn.
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Dec 30, 2014 00:43
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:I was sort of leaning towards suburbia just because I want to build a drat city in a board game. But I guess I rarely play many games 2p as we are already pretty set for those. I do quite like suburbia - my buddy got it for his birthday a few days ago and I've played it four times since then. It does have a very sim city vibe where you have to build up your city, carefully separating the industrial sectors from the residential areas, and at the end you can look at each player's city with their distinct character (I am still confused how one lovely residential suburb with multiple excellent schools lost to the airport full of lakes). It does have some pretty funny flavour too, which you'll notice the first time you can't get planning permission for your office building because the borough to the west just built a lake. When you play it put the sim city music on in the background.
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Jan 5, 2015 18:00
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Zveroboy posted:Situation: Red and Blue have built roads than converge on an open building space. Red builds a Settlement. Can Blue then build a road on the other side of Red's settlement, or does the Red settlement effectively end the Blue road? You can build a road through a settlement.
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Jan 7, 2015 11:48
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Now I've got a craving to play the 'minion.
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Jan 9, 2015 13:08
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Azran posted:I tried to get Arctic Scavengers but a) it is like $79.99 and b) it doesn't ship to my country. Which country? I may be able to sell you mine.
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Jan 9, 2015 18:58
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Same thing with Tales of the Arabian Knights.
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It depends on the particular card - Moat only asks you to reveal it, whereas something like Beggars you have to discard.
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Jan 10, 2015 18:12
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Anyone got any good ideas for the make-your-own leader in 7 Wonders?
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Jan 14, 2015 15:34
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Poopy Palpy posted:Semiramis gets a reprint with a power in Cities, she gets one shield for every defeat token. Before that, I kind of liked the fan power that said if she won combat against both neighbors, she gets a third victory token. Mostly because the game comes with 8 tokens for each age and you can otherwise only use 7. Ah I have Cities and I hadn't realised it was the same person. The extra victory token seems interesting, it might make investing in military more viable.
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Jan 14, 2015 15:59
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Probad posted:Maximum enjoyment demands compressing as many turns as possible into as little time as possible. Remember that your friends and family are only ever obstacles to that goal. Do not be ashamed to use passive-aggressive gimmicks like timers if direct verbal confrontation fails to generate immediate, correct actions. I can't tell if you've never had an AP prone person in your group, or if you're the slow one.
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Jan 14, 2015 17:36
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Tekopo posted:No, that's just one example, because the Lich dislikes suffering too. He likes Magic and 3x (different coloured) Sickness: if you put two sickness, you get 6 score, if you put 3, you get 9 (but 2 suffering), if you put 4 sickness you get 12 (and 3 total suffering). This is a situation where it is explicitly good to give your pets suffering. If you care more about "points" than the wellbeing of your petz, well, you might just be history's greatest monster
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Jan 16, 2015 19:29
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Sim city is perfect for suburbia
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Jan 23, 2015 18:01
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Lorini posted:So sad about 2. Jeezus he only did about 1000 songs, guess his name??? drat. In fairness Tchaikovsky is a hard name to remember
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Jan 23, 2015 18:02
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I'm going to draughts, a board game cafe in London tomorrow. Anything in particular I should look out for to play, that's good in a "try it once but don't buy" kind of way?
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Jan 24, 2015 02:08
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I think it was when they stopped sitting down and shutting up
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Jan 24, 2015 10:57
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Fat Turkey posted:Get there early. Between midday and 1 it started getting hard to see a free table. Thanks for the tips, we got there at 11ish when it was about half empty, but filled up quick and about lunchtime I think you would have to wait for a table. I did enjoy it a fair bit more than I was expecting - their selection was great and they had nice big tables with a kind of extra layer underneath to keep the boxes. It did get very loud towards the end of the day, all the walls are brick/concrete which I think amplified it. Trip report: We were there for about 9 hours, and played pandemic, Agricola, power grid and dominion. Pandemic and gric we were set up by a Canadian guy who really knew his stuff, which was great - I've played Agricola before but my friends hadn't, and he gave them a few pointers to get on the same level. Power grid we were set up by someone who didn't seem to know the game as well as she thought - several pretty fundamental rules weren't explained correctly, and we had to restart after the first turn and a half because of it. She also told us the end/win condition incorrectly (first to power 17 cities rather than most cities powered when someone hits 17) which meant the game played out in what I have to assume was a very weird and wrong way. Other than that I had a great time. Their food was okay but only really lunch stuff like sandwiches and snacks. If you're in London and it's not too hard to get to it's definitely worth a visit and I'll definitely be going back. Presented without comment: 
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I'd be up for it too if there's still spots
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Username is Aston, I'm in #boardgoons but I've played it before.
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Jan 25, 2015 00:12
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Broken Loose posted:I find such behavior to be highly suspect, as it insinuates that the expansion content existed substantially in some form and was then removed, like Day 1 DLC. But I thought you liked dominion?
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Bosushi! posted:I hate this thread for the fact that it's turned me into the type of person who briefly considered making an effort post to explain what is wrong with this game. Well me and my friends have fun with it so it can't be that bad
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Jan 28, 2015 15:09
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bobvonunheil posted:barrelling down the M25 
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Jan 28, 2015 19:46
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I haven't played it but I think dungeon lords is kind of like that, with the additions of 1: you choose spaces with face down cards so you don't know which order things have been chosen in until all workers have been placed and 2: it's not always the first person to a space who gets the best benefit. Caverna also has a "take an already used space" space which I think costs some food to use.
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Fat Turkey posted:I visited Draughts again on a whim on Saturday. I got there at 11:15am and got the second to last table, and there was always a queue for tables from 11:30pm onwards. Consider that if you intend on going. Huh, weirdly enough I was there at that time too. On a second impression, I still quite like it but it gets incredibly loud once it's full up. We were all feeling a bit hoarse at the end of the day, and I was in actual pain from having to read the rules, teach and then play Dominant Species.
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I like boardgames and all but I can't understand how anyone could watch an hour+ unscripted video of top ten lists, no matter how well put together it was.
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Poison Mushroom posted:I can't wait to shout "Let's Final Combination" in an empty room and make the people I'm living with think I've gone crazy. One of the stretch goals had better be a portable version you can play on the bus.
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Feb 11, 2015 18:27
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I think I'm going to have to house rule your game Broken Loose
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Feb 19, 2015 10:53
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Broken Loose posted:waiting for the punchline.... Can't see any requirement that you all put your hands together in the middle and release on "Let's Final Combination!"
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Fat Turkey posted:I was asked about any good football board games to which I said I'd never heard of any Subbuteo?!?!
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Noaloha posted:Just been ambushed with the news that I am to go into town tomorrow to pick up a fun, two-player boardgame. I'd add Dominion to the list. It does play up to 4 but I like it best with 2. Poison Mushroom posted:Do the pets, like, fight each other? No. Oh my god this had better be the next expansion
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Feb 23, 2015 22:04
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Puerto Rico is another one which doesn't make any sense to play solo, it's super interactive.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Oh, wow. I'm trying to imagine how sad that gaming group must be after reading a bunch of these. How has he rated so many games and yet he likes so few? I think he might just not be very good at games. Edit: wtf, he's a game designer?!
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rchandra posted:Do people still enjoy PR or am I many years too late to get use out of it? I'm a big fan of Puerto Rico, it clicked for me much more than Race for the Galaxy. I kind of want to make a fan expansion similar to the occupation/minor improvement cards in Agricola, but I'm sure I'll never actually get around to it. Aston fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Jedit posted:literally nothing about it is better than the original. Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but in this game the tiles are triangles
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The Narrator posted:
Just to be clear, it only goes to the person with the least VP in a four player game, as in a 2 or 3 player game there are 6 rounds and everyone goes twice.
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I have not remembered this so far. Fortunately most of the plays I've had have just been 2 player, but that's something I'll have to keep in mind for next time.