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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.
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Since the 7 Wonders discussion continued after my post about my decision between it, Agricola, Chaos in the Old World, or Kemet, maybe I can get more advice. If I have Eclipse, should I not go with the latter two since I also don't have a worker placement game? The Chaos theme wouldn't bother the people I would probably play with, and in fact they would probably embrace it. It's random if the group would be 3, 4, or 5 (possibly more, but rare). I've played Agricola once and I'd definitely like it. I also believe it's on the longer side though and with Eldritch Horror being my other newest game, maybe one of the other shorter ones would be better.
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malkav11 posted:Chaos wouldn't scale to three very well, and requires the expansion for 5. YMMV whether adding the Horned Rat ruins the experience - some people seem to think so, I don't. Yeah I know Chaos is just for 4. Just letting people know that my group is sometimes 4 because if it was never, then Chaos wouldn't be an option.
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Played Eldritch Horror for the first time and have some miscellaneous questions and thoughts. First I'm surprised it's talked about as much here because there is so much random dice rolling. There were a lot of items that some of us bought that gave rerolls, but still. We were playing with 5 and using the starter ancient one Azathoth and it was so brutal. We didn't even finish the first mystery until we were down to 5 Doom. We didn't feel like we were doing anything wrong, but I wouldn't even say we were keeping our heads above water with how bad our progress was. The first mystery we got was the one that spawned 3 eldritch tokens in one spot on the board and we had to use two clues, move to the tokens, and "encounter" them to get them put on the mystery card. It seemed a lot harder than what mystery two was, but it was late and we didn't have the willpower to get reamed anymore knowing we would lose. I picked the Astronomer and he seemed very worthless. My action was to use two clues to kill a monster and my passive was to use a clue instead of losing a sanity. This makes it sound like clues are in great abundance, but they definitely weren't especially when they're needed for the mystery. My starting possession was a spell that I tried to use early on not knowing what it did so it backfired and I would have lost it, but we decided to give me a mulligan but then I lost it on the first mythos. Other people's items were permanent and only had good stuff. Are you allowed to look at the monster's stats freely? It seems necessary so you know to send a high strength or high willpower guy to fight them. We also felt like there was no incentive to fight the monsters. It was so anti-climatic when we killed one especially the epic monsters. Rarely did we get anything from them. Some people were also stuck trying to close the gate after the monster and it took 3 more tries to do it so they weren't really enjoying it. Do you collect the possessions off a defeated investigator when you pass their encounter? It says to put their stuff with them, but it doesn't say anything about collecting the stuff after, so I don't know why it says to keep the stuff around. What do the Eldritch Tokens do that you add to the Omen Track? We had one added to it, but nothing happened after that. Overall it just seemed to drag on so we weren't even getting the theme since we would just say blah blah blah Willpower check when reading the cards. One friend said "I can't tell if I'm having fun or not" which is never good. KingKapalone fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Dec 27, 2014 |
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:For Azatoth the token on the green omen, at least if IIRC, is that when the green omen rolls around you move the doom track down 1 for every green portal that is open? It's been a while since I've played it That's what happens by default for every omen. When the track hits the omen, all the gates that are of that omen cause doom to go down by one. The eldritch token was placed on the green omen from a research card I think, but it didn't say what it does. Earlier I solved a clue I think that told me to remove an eldritch token from the omen board, but there weren't any. The eldritch tokens were also being used as counters on certain mythos cards and if they hit 0 after some reckonings, we would lose.
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Tendales posted:Look at Azathoth's card. It's the very first of Azathoth's special rules. Oh never even noticed the additional setup rule and this rule that went along with it. This would have made the game even harder! UrbanLabyrinth posted:I believe you read or described this wrong: from memory, you can spend 1 sanity instead of spending a clue. So you only need 1 clue before visiting the mystery location you talked about (where you spend 2 clues after succeeding the check to progress the mystery), as long as you're willing to spend a sanity instead. Yep I see that I managed to read it wrong all game or it just didn't register. I didn't even get my first clue until we got near the time we quit at 5 Doom though.
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Thinking of getting Dead of Winter and then two of the following for the other ones in the Amazon B2G1: 7 Wonders, Five Tribes, or Castles of Mad King Ludwig. Thought 7 Wonders because it's another good game to get people into the hobby since I don't have a solid group really. Between the other two I don't really know. Games I usually play with my friends: Eclipse, Eldritch Horror, Dominion, and Castles of Burgundy.
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Big McHuge posted:The three games you listed are all better than Dead of Winter by miles. Seriously just get those other three. I know people here seem to bash it, but it's also ranked very high on BGG and Reddit. It's also the game of the week on Reddit so there are a lot of opinions on it, most of them positive. Anyone else have an opinion or can counter the positive elements pointed out? If BSG was in the 2 for 1, I'd probably just get that since I've played before. edit: Oh looks like the 2 for 1 on amazon has ended? That sucks, expected it to go through the weekend or at least Friday. KingKapalone fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Nov 26, 2015 |
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I played Kingdom Death Monster yesterday and I was pretty impressed. Everything is very high quality and the gameplay was fun and worked well. The RPG-lite aspect was really appealing to me since my friends and I really like Eldritch Horror and a number of us play D&D. I'm really interested by the business of the game. I don't think I place as much value on the really cool miniatures and I've never been big on collecting nerd toys, so I think it would be really hard for me to spend the $400 (I think?) on it when it reprints soon. My friend with the game also has every singe expansion pack and they sound incredibly expensive due to the miniature and premium appeal of the limited editions. I'm curious if anyone knows about the development. I'm looking at the Kickstarter page and it looks like you only needed to pledge $100 to get the game. Did they honor that price? I would totally spend $100, but wow he must have been taken a loss on some customers while squeezing profits out of the big whale customers buying all expansions to cover it.
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Baronjutter posted:Kingdom Death Monster sounds rad but good god it's expensive and good god is it full of male-gaze boobies. It's definitely a campaign. It takes place over 25 lantern years. We only did the prologue showdown, the settlement phase to finish year 1, the year 2 hunt, and the year 2 showdown. That would probably be like 3 hours. The boobies are all optional minis and not included in the base game.
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I'm surprised that Dead of Winter is still so high on BGG since it gets ripped on here. I thought the recency bias would have worn off by now if that was the case. Trying to decide on a new game now and leaning towards Terra Mystica just because I feel like based on my smallish collection, I can't go wrong with the top games and I currently only have 2 of the top 10 on BGG. I'd like to get Pandemic Legacy but don't have a consistent group.
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EvilChameleon posted:I think most people who vote for games don't later go back and re-rate them. I don't have any solid evidence for this, but it seems to make sense. Though people also like things that are bad because they had a good time with them once or whatever. There are plenty of not great games that are highly ranked for these reasons. As for what games you should get next, picking some top rated games can't be a bad choice, but if you know what you're looking for or what you've liked already it might help. Here's my list http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/KingKapalone I don't normally have a consistent group since I've moved a lot, but I'm back where I grew up for the summer with my old friends at the moment. When I'm home for holidays and stuff we play Eldritch Horror, Eclipse, and Kemet the most I'd say. I think Blood Rage would be the game for me, but it's way above MSRP right now. I played Dead of Winter once and enjoyed it. I thought Terra Mystica might be not get played enough if I get a new group to play with eventually that isn't already used to complex games.
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Here's a huge disaster that happened during our first April game of Pandemic Legacy last night. We were 3-0 leading into this game. Black is our COdA. One guy ends his turn and adds a third cube to Algiers. Next person plays and draws our 2nd epidemic, bottom decks Istanbul where we have a research station. We resolve the epidemic card and then reveal the Legacy card for April explaining the Faded. We then top deck Istanbul. Outbreak there and chains to an outbreak in Algiers. Zombies everywhere. Next person's turn, plays turn and draws Algiers. Another outbreak there and chains into Istanbul again. Next person draws third epidemic and bottom decks Moscow which obviously has zombies already. Outbreak in Moscow, chains to Istanbul, chains to Algiers, chains to St. Petersburg, chains to Cairo and we lose the game. Five of our blue cities are now Faded cities. We're wondering how this next April game and the future hold in store. At least blue might be easier to eradicate going forward...
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Johnny Truant posted:Ouch! Your Faded just hopped colours right off the bat, that's HARSH. We luckily contained ours heavily in our game, think we only had three/four non-red Faded cities. Yep Madrid, Paris, Milan, Essen, and St. Pete are teeming with see through people. We also lost our fixed research station in Istanbul which has been super valuable. Only other one other than Atlanta is in Ho Chi Minh. Plan for next game is to use the Ops Specialist to discard a card and fly into Istanbul and put a military base ASAP, so that the Quarantine specialist we just upgraded with the adjacent quarantine from bases can fly in, quarantine, and get out over, and over, and over... KingKapalone fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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We're in July in our Pandemic game. Our diseases are Dengus Fever since we like Steve Brule and Weebing Cough since the red disease is mostly Asia. How does one acquire Gloomhaven? I think I narrowly missed a kickstarter?
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May 8, 2017 18:43
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Gloomhaven seems like a game my friends and I would like. We like co-op, Pandemic Legacy, Kingdom Death Monster, and D&D. How often do people play board games? We get one night a week in usually which means we're just playing Pandemic Legacy right now. It seems like if we got Gloomhaven that we'd just play that for the next year at once a week.
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May 8, 2017 19:12
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That season 2 box has been online since early March I believe. Season 1 is so fun. My group is in the second November game now after having nearly the worst possible infection setup phase. I said I want to keep the weekly cadence going with other games and one friend said this game has ruined other games for him. Really wish I had Gloomhaven to start up with them right away. That and Season 2 coming out at the same time is going to be a problem.
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Anyone know anything about this hot new kickstarter for Lord of Hellas? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/awakenrealms/lords-of-hellas I know some great games come out of kickstarter, but I just don't think I'm the type of consumer that wants to buy things this way.
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I'm not concerned about the game not finishing, I just don't know if the game is going to be any good. Video gamers know not to pre-order games and these KS games are even more expensive.
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Jedit posted:We discussed this in the TG Kickstarter thread. General consensus was it looked mediocre and overpriced, and it had titty minis. There's a Day 1 pledge exclusive that is leading a lot of people to hop on (so more bullshit), but from comments about a fair few of them are planning to hop right off again if they don't see a rulebook and demo. Is that the right link? I can't tell what I'm looking at.
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I only know 500 and I'm from the midwest and was taught by another midwestern.
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I haven't really been staying up to date, but I saw that Boardlandia and Cardhaus both have ~$100 preorders up for Gloomhaven 2nd edition with September releases. I thought it would be closer to the $140 MSRP and a November release. But then I saw that yesterday the Kickstarter orders have been delayed to October, so I'm skeptical of even October retail: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1350948450/gloomhaven-second-printing/posts/1945408
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There was a post on reddit the other day about recency bias in game reviews. Lots of the top BGG games are very new as we all know. I've also seen talk here about how the reddit list compares to BGG compares to our own thoughts here. Reddit and BGG are fairly similar and easy to look at for recommendations. My question is, are there games that are severely underrated on both those sites in our collective opinion? There might be no answer to this because there will be tons of different opinions, but maybe the most experience posters/players have seen a common theme. For example, I don't think I have enough time nor want to spend as much money as it would take for me to ever consider buying this game Argent you're all mentioning because it's ranked 430 on BGG. Same thing applies to all forms of media really.
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Here's the TI4 site https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/8/11/twilight-imperium-fourth-edition/ 4-8 hours, $150 MSRP
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Someone mentioned that a 3 hour Eclipse game for 4 people is long, but I don't think my friends and I have ever finished that in under 3. I think one problem with some of these bigger games is that we play them once or twice and they take a long rear end time because no one knows what they're doing, and then they think they're always going to take that long and don't want to play anymore. Maybe we're just dumb and slow though... or too smart and we have AP?
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Aug 15, 2017 19:18
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If she doesn't like your monetary investment, I can't imagine how she'll take your time investment.
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Kiranamos posted:Anyone have a custom insert for Gloomhaven? There are like 4 companies making them. Laserox, Daedalus, Broken Token, and Meeple Reality. I too would like to order one of these before they all sell out once everyone gets their copies. Any more opinions? I was reading some reddit threads and it sounds like Meeple Realty does a good job with the status tokens, but the cards aren't very organized. Daedalus is the inverse of that. Broken Token offers tuck boxes for the monsters.
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LLSix posted:Where did you preorder it from? He mentioned Cardhaus in the last sentence: http://www.cardhaus.com/catalog/preorder_board_games/gloomhaven/404103
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I don't think I'd be as interested in an insert if I wasn't splitting the cost of the game and insert with my group of 4. We split Pandemic Legacy because obviously it turns to firewood when you're done. Do you think GH has enough legacy features to warrant a split purchase like this? I sure hope so... Also, I just ordered the Broken Token insert since it's $10 off right now and it sounds like those monster tuck boxes do save a lot of time, less so if you're using the companion app though? (I don't have the game yet)
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Has anyone heard recent news on when Pandemic Season 2 will be out? I saw that demo video from GenCon and the guy said it just needs to get off the boat. That means it's already on it's way to distributors?
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I'm going to be abroad on vacation with my parents and girlfriend and our evenings will probably be low key. I can bring some games, but they'd have to be small enough to travel with. I have Love Letter, but what else should I bring? I've never played Codenames with 4, but I guess that would be a possibility as well.
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Indolent Bastard posted:All those and you missed Riff Raff, Bamboleo, and Hamsterrolle? Thanks. I think I'll get Sushi Go Party. We'll be in France, so I should probably also bring Carcassonne in bag form. I also might have lost Love Letter so might upgrade to the Premium version.
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Doorknob Slobber posted:we should be getting another update today maybe we will have some news for the US deliveries Since the expected delivery isn't that far off, I feel like at this point the updates aren't going to be very informative or certainly not positive. If there's a breakthrough with the printing/shipping, I think he'd give an off-schedule update to let all us eager people know ASAP.
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For anyone who's preordered Pandemic season 2. What's the cheapest place after shipping assuming I'm not spending more to hit a free shipping threshold?
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Two things. Anyone else surprised that Amazon doesn't have Pandemic Season 2 being sold from Amazon yet? Anyone have a good/short video about Gloomhaven I could use to give a brief hype primer video to my friends?
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SettingSun posted:Last I checked Amazon was selling Season 2. It's sold out now, but it wasn't when I checked last Friday. Oh through non-3rd parties? I've been checking every day pretty much.
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Has anyone who preordered retail Gloomhaven asked their retailer for any updates? I asked Boardlandia on 10/20 and heard "The only updates we currently know are also the Kickstarter ones. Based on those I would anticipate us getting the game no sooner than mid Nov. (But that is just my guess)."
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I won't be surprised when a Gloomhaven thread gets started, but until then I have a question. Disclaimer: I have yet to play. I know people have discussed the 'legacy' elements before, but I never really considered not going ALL IN to them until now. I'm wondering if anyone has used the removable stickers and how smoothly the process fits in to the game? I imagine using them so that you can play the game again in 5 years would be better than using them so you can play two campaigns at once. Putting stickers on a character sheet only to then have to take them off for when your other friends come over later in the week sounds terrible. But playing an entire campaign and then busting the game out when your good friend moves nearby in two years after his residency and being able to start fresh from zero sounds great. I'd think this tracker https://ninjalooter.de/gloomhaven/scenarios would be better for the two groups at once thing. Could also replace using the stickers, but maybe that's too digital.
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Started up Pandemic season 2 last night with my season 1 group. Game seems harder. Barely won the prologue, lost first Jan, and won second. Even though everything is closer/tighter, the frequent infections was really getting us. We had back to back epidemics once and the infections in the discard from the first were the same drat city.
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