Board Game Thread 4e: The Call of Catan

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Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

The best zombie game is pandemic with all the outbreak cards. Just pretend the diseases are different styles of zombies.

I seriously need to rip off the mechanics and print that game with zombie minis. I'm pretty sure I could make a fair sum of cash.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2014 02:33

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 22:39

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

ConfusedUs posted:

My family and I do this already.

"Oh no, the fast zombies are in Hong Kong!"

It's really a brilliant idea...

# ¿ Dec 14, 2014 04:22

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Is Dungeon Petz out of print or due for a reprint I can't find it online. Alternatively my googlefu is a wreck at 5am.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2014 13:17

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Early giftmas prize from my blushing bride. Seriously doubt I will win many games of Go against her, but it's low set up time replay ability means it will hit the table often.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2014 22:52

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Xom posted:

Come play Go with goons!
(We're in Ask/Tell because TRADITION.)

Should have known there was a thread, bookmarked and on the reading list.

It's a great game that has been on my list for a while and one I know I will get my money's worth from.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2014 02:56

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

sector_corrector posted:

I've mostly been getting casual party games over the past year or so, but I was thinking about getting something weightier. I have 50 dollars on my Amazon account, and want to put at least some of that towards a board game. My favorite game of all time is Dominion, so Temporum seemed like a logical next step. I know that 7 Wonders is lighter, but is probably easier to teach and more extensible for seating players. I've also never done a worker placement game before, so I was also looking for good first steps into the genre. I'd like to optimize against these factors between those three options:

Price. Can't be over 50, and ideally less.

Accessibility. Most of the people I would be playing with tend towards the less intense side of board gaming. All of them like Dominion and Catan, but I feel like that's the upper limit.

Time. I'd like to keep a session at around 45 minutes to an hour.

Extensibility. Expansions are a plus.

Any opinions based on that?

Castles of Burgundy
Dominion expansions?
Stone Age
Forge War

# ¿ Dec 25, 2014 19:05

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

S.J. posted:

He also really hates the fact that he's most well known for Munchkin, a game that he knows is poo poo and doesn't like.

But he sold out to the mighty dollar and produced it anyway.

FE: I would to cause $$$$

# ¿ Dec 25, 2014 22:12

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

CNN Sports Ticker posted:

I'd be really interested to see a redesign, or perhaps design contest, using the components of Munchkin but not the rules to make a new game.

Zombie Munchkin
Zombie Munchkin with minis
Cthulhu Munchkin
Dice Munchkin

I could be a millionaire...

# ¿ Dec 26, 2014 01:53

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Lord Frisk posted:

They made 3/4 of these already. For that matter, they also have munchkin minis.

That's is funny and sad all at once.

# ¿ Dec 26, 2014 03:07

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Ohthehugemanatee posted:

EDIT: Looks like everything's done so disregard this post. And my sincere apologies to that one guy who is either upset that I'm giving stuff away or that I don't like Kemet. Or both. I dunno.

Alright, it's time for the annual purge of the games that don't get played often enough. I could drop these off at half price books but I hate doing that when things can go out of print and I'd rather have them to go to folks who will use them. I also once threw away a copy of Avalon Hill's Civ and Advanced Civ (later rebuilt from scratch because god drat) and as such am now pathologically unable to throw away a board game.

I'm trying to get rid of the following:

~~Netrunner~~
~~Dungeon Petz~~
~~Memoir 44 with Pacific Theater expansion thingy~~
~~Summoner Wars master set with the Filth expansion thingy~~
~~Kemet~~
~~Nations~~

They're all decent to good games (except Kemet, I stand by disliking that one even if everyone else loves it), but they just don't seem to come out often enough to justify keeping them around. They all suffer from being almost as popular as something else my group is into.

Here's my system:

If you want a game, post and claim it. My email address is my username at yahoo, so email me an address for shipping and I will mail it out to you. One game per poster. Go ahead and post a second request if you'd like and if no one else wants it, I'll throw that in too.

Once I get everything sent out and you get a game, buy me a 5-10 dollar amazon gift card to cover shipping and send it to my email address.

Edit: Should probably mention I'm in the US and can only really ship within the States. If there's a question, I can look into how much shipping is elsewhere but I suspect probably too much.

Nice gesture, but I kind of want to hate you since I wanted like three of those

# ¿ Dec 30, 2014 02:50

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Denver area has a couple nice game stores that I visit when I get to town. Good coffee and a wide variety of games at not terrible prices.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2015 04:56

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

CodfishCartographer posted:

What's the thread consensus on King's Forge? I played a game of it over the weekend and had a pretty fun time, but we only played a single game so didn't really have a lot of time to get a solid read on it.

My wife and I have played a few games and We really enjoyed it. So I think it will be amongst my collection sooner or later.

I didn't back the kickstarter because my friend went on a rant about professional game companies using kickstarter.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2015 04:13

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Broken Loose posted:

Sadly, the answer is no. There are a few points where it would make unwinnable game states.

What difficulty did you have it set at?

edit: Here's an idea of what 2P FA! plays like, be forewarned that the video cuts off just before Final Impact and there's a ton of swearing.

Thanks for posting that video. To be honest I wasn't sold on the idea until I watched it

# ¿ Feb 15, 2015 02:49

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

ashez2ashes posted:

Are there any good co-op zombie apocalypse survivor games?

Pandemic - pretend the cubes are zombies

# ¿ Feb 21, 2015 04:07

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Fat Turkey posted:

But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that rolls snake eyes with me
Shall be my brother

If I owned a game store that would be forever painted on the front window.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2015 13:21

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

What games?

# ¿ Feb 28, 2015 15:46

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Jabor posted:

By playing people of an approximately similar skill level. Are chess clubs in schools still a thing? The kids aren't usually excellent players in an objective sense, but by playing other kids with similar skill level they can be motivated to improve themselves and also measure their progress against their peers.

The best way to learn is by playing close games, so you can see where things went well or poorly for you and think about things you could have done differently. One-sided games between players of widely different skill levels aren't usually that educational.

Depending on your area Chess still exists in schools.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2015 12:43

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

My wife and I played Lagoon land of the Druids last night. We were happy with the component quality, and the ease at which we able to grasp the rules and concept of play. t's not a crunchy game but I think we will get our money's worth from the game.

TLDR: lagoon appears to be a playable and fun game for us.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 23:54

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Following "Bottom Liner" post I decided to see how many games I own. Sadly there are some misses and some that have gone unplayed as of yet.

Andean Abyss (unplayed)
Android Netrunner + expansions
Boss Monster (gift unplayed)
Castles of Burgundy
Chess
Cranium
Copper County (unplayed)
Descent 2nd edition
Dominion + expansions
Dominos
Eclipse + expansions
Euphoria
Go
Lagoon land of the Druids
Love Letter
Old maid
Ogre 2.95 version (unplayed)
Pandemic +expansions
Province (unplayed)
Ticket to Ride
Tiny Epic Kingdom
Thunderbolt Apache Leader
Quiddler
Resistance
Scabble
Smallworld
Star Realms
Tokaido Collectors edition (one day)
Yahtzee
7wonders

Despite knowing I won't get them to table very often I also want to own.

Commands and Colors
Unconditional Surrender
Dungeon Petz
Keyflower
Mage Knight

# ¿ May 21, 2015 01:58

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Morholt posted:

Go for it imo, you can always solitaire it. It's really easy to learn considering its scale. The naval rules are a bit harder to grasp but you can always start with the scenarios that don't involve them.

I'm hoping I get it for my birthday on Saturday, but i am guessing my wife took one look at games and said, tie..

# ¿ May 21, 2015 19:22

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

My birthday is tomorrow so my wife ask what I wanted to do tonight, I picked Eclipse. lol.

# ¿ May 23, 2015 02:36

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Some Numbers posted:

First question: how do you have all your discs without either Advanced Robotics or Quantum Grid?
Second question: why are you playing Planta?

Removed the discs before we started and I forgot how horrible Planta can be..

# ¿ May 23, 2015 03:28

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Lord Frisk posted:

In a 2p game, planta can just poop cubes across the galaxy unimpeded

I kept running out of cash, this isn't a great game to leave in the closet for months on end. I need to renew my desire for an organizer and the economy trays. It's a great game and I'm sad I have never played with more than two

# ¿ May 23, 2015 04:59

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Lord Frisk posted:

Yeah, the descendants of Draco. Both allow you way more access to the hex tile decks than you really have any business having in a 2p game.

Getting your economy on lock is basically doing the explore action and only the explore action until you can no longer explore any more. It becomes kind of a rote system. I recommend the expansion to help mitigate this, as you can place ancient dreadnought tiles where other players homeworlds would be. They also don't contribute to dracos win condition, so you can begin with a more formed, more hostile Galaxy. Either way though, don't play planta/descendants in a 2p game.

I love eclipse so much I bought the expansion, I need more nerdy friends.

# ¿ May 23, 2015 16:38

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

StashAugustine posted:

Just wait for that Angola COIN for all your minority representation needs

Why wait get MMP's Angola game

# ¿ Jun 5, 2015 02:33

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Tekopo posted:

My favourite thing about the Internet is people being butt-hurt over valid criticism of anything they like.

Fixed it for you.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2015 17:55

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Tekopo posted:

You are neither the owner of this Web-site, nor anyone else empowered to alter my writings in any way. I consider it the height of egotism and frankly an abridgement of my First Amendment rights. If you want to engage in open and fair dialogue, I am all for it-but for you to even DARE to edit my writings and then slap 'FTFY's all over them is a minor outrage-and once again is showing me the caliber of people associated with this particular game.

I have never in my life run across a game with such poorly written rules. There are pages upon pages of questions, responses, folks chiming in how their actual games have come to a halt for 30-45 minutes of "lawyering" to try and ascertain what the rules might possibly mean-and I, for one am becoming convinced that there are Grand Canyon sized holes in the 'logic' of this game that all but kill it.

And I am even willing to go there. To say "Yeah, once again, the author is contradictory/unclear, and our house rules are ____." But for you to act as if you know the answers and then edit my answers-is very Orwellian. Respond to my writings if you wish. You have NO permission to 'fix' any of them....

I was commenting about how people on the internet get outraged when something they say or like is challenged, not on the game.

FYI - In general I value your well thought out responses and input into games. Calling attempt at humor Orwellian was slightly over the top

# ¿ Jun 6, 2015 20:46

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

silvergoose posted:

Did you not see it was a quote from bgg?

I'm dumb - excuse me

# ¿ Jun 6, 2015 21:32

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Kai Tave posted:

Game stores are already pretty weird though, so.

Some neckbeard offering to blow another neckbeard in order to steal his piece is more like a bad acid trip that weird.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2015 05:29

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Azran posted:

Remember a while back when I complained about Argentinian prices for board games?

http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-569913574-star-wars-imperial-assault-en-espanol-_JM

Yes, that's indeed $500 and change for Imperial Assault. Only copy on sale in the country I could find after a day of googling.

Have you tried buying off amazon or eBay and having the game shipped?

# ¿ Jul 20, 2015 00:10

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Azran posted:

I tried to buy High Command that way in Janauray. I posted about it in the thread, but basically it went this way:

1) Shipping was as much as all the poo poo I was buying. (Like $100) But whatever, it was a birthday self-present.

2) They shipped the stuff to my country, got here in five days.

3) Customs delayed it for A MONTH, arguing I need to register myself as a professional importer or an imports business to get the package. Registering myself as either kicks me up a couple notches on the tax hierarchy, forcing me to pay extra taxes for owning a business I don't actually own.

4) When I checked with Customs, there wasn't anything particularly special about this - it's just the default system they've got in place when it comes to imports. I told Amazon, they said the package would be written off as lost in shipment, gave me back my money, gave me a discount code and told me I could send them an email if I ever wanted to do that exact same purchase again. And you might need to pay them again a % of your total purchase just to "clear odds and ends".

Supposedly this is going to change come December since the current administration is going out and it seems the neo-liberal candidate has the biggest chance of winning, but still - incredibly lovely situation, to the point where print and play has become my only option.

How about a goon sending them to you?

# ¿ Jul 20, 2015 01:03

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

I played Star Wars Armada, though not technically a board game i had fun and felt like sharing. I played the Rebels while he the evil empire through the first set up. Neither of us had played before and we made some errors with movement, tactics were laughable until the end when it was to late. I liked the game enough to want to play it again when we have time.

There is really no point in buying because my wife, who loves board games, would laugh at me and walk off.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2015 04:37

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Lord Frisk posted:

1846 is going into P500 via GMT games, so if you've ever wanted to get into the 18XX games and not wait three years for a hand made copy from some guy, this may be a pretty good thing. If i recall the old 18XX thread, this was pretty highly recommended.

I'm so down for this...

# ¿ Aug 7, 2015 00:53

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Mojo Jojo posted:

How is Star Realms? The tiny box makes it attractive in a world where I have too many things in really big boxes.

I will be the lovely enabler. It is random as hell but my wife and I enjoy it for what it is, a random time filler.

With the expansions you are in for less than $20 and it is always in our carry on when we travel.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2015 12:35

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Zombie #246 posted:

What was everyone's least successful/least enjoyed boardgame they brought to their group?

I think mine was Android (not netrunner), it was agonizing

Tiny Epic Kingdom - it's beautiful, but IMHO not a very fun game.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 12:09

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

S.T.C.A. posted:

Why do people hate Star Realms so much? What makes it inherently less skillful than Dominion?

I'm off man out I guess. It is a game of luck but my wife and I enjoy kicking out a few games. We usually take it with us when traveling whip it out in airports or hotel to relax, granted this trip my wife brought Jaipur instead so maybe I am the only idiot who likes it.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2015 23:06

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Kaddish posted:

Going on a 16 day trip to Italy with no checked luggage and am bringing:

Battleline
Tides of Time
Haggis
Tessen
Standard deck of cards (mainly for casino)
Jaipur

All tucked in the Battleline box. Now if only I could win a single game of Haggis against my wife.

My blushing bride and I spent three weeks in Italy. If you have a chance kayak the Amalfi coast, and spend at least one day aimlessly walking around Rome.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2015 23:22

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Bubble-T posted:

4 player game of Concordia ended 120-119-117-116 last night. Sadly most of my group think it's too dry so I probably won't get it to the table often. The weird thing is the other guy who likes it is usually our most Ameritrash player and this is one of the few games he really sits down and calculates his turns for.

Haha one of my regulars does this on purpose just to gently caress with me. The best part is me straightening things up bothers him just as much.

That is my wife (messy) and I (ocd)

# ¿ Sep 26, 2015 03:09

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Mister Sinewave posted:

Sheesh, what a mess.

I can't help but think once again how good project managers are hard to find

At board game prices probably almost impossible.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2015 00:31

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 22:39

Ropes4u: May 2, 2009

Lorini posted:

You have to look at this from their point of view, not yours.

This is the Internet, and goons, and as you are aware the world revolves around Internets and goons. That game should be hand crafted by highly skilled artisans and cost $9.99 max, and it better include free loving shipping.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2016 03:54

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