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Round 10 Pick 3 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends  It's Go, but with DRAGONS and FANTASY. It's also Vlaada. Vlaada is good. No swaps because I picked correctly the first time. Games That Can Play 6 Players: Dominant Species Games Rated Outside of the Top 300 of the BGG Overall Ranking: Through the Desert Games That Implement Dice: Commands and Colors: Ancients Games Based on Non-Board Game Properties: Marvel Champions Games Released During Or After 2016: Nokosu Dice
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Round 10 - Pick 4 Fast Sloths This was not an easy pick. Going through the list of games I realised that I'd earlier been mistaken and nobody had, in fact, taken Legendary. If I hadn't made that error then I would almost certainly have taken a combo of LE: Alien/Predator for my thematic game. However, it's a bit late now and I'm satisfied with my pick for that round anyway. My draft lacks a deckbuilder, but it's got a co-op and it's got games with solo modes so I'm covered for anything else LE can provide. So I'm sticking with what I'd decided would be my pick when I thought that LE had gone: Friedemann Friese's race game Fast Sloths, which fills several niches that I didn't have. It's lightweight but strategic, and it's heavily interactive in more ways than just blocking opportunities. It was very popular wherever I took it and it's high on my list of games to get to the table when face to face meets are possible again. I'm making a couple of changes to my theme picks: Games That Can Play 6 Players: Mysterium Games Rated Outside of the Top 300 of the BGG Overall Ranking: Fast Sloths (rank 2470) Games That Implement Dice: Island Project Games Based on Non-Board Game Properties: Armata Strigoi Games Released During Or After 2016: Smartphone Inc Unthemed: Roads & Boats, Orleans, London 2E, A Feast For Odin and The Gallerist
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Round 10 Pick 5 Cribbage Had to get a tradgame in before the end and with riichi gone, cribbage is next. It's a surprisingly deep, tricky game that plays great at two and pretty good at 3 or 4. Worth trying out if you own a deck of cards! Only one swap for me, one that should be of no surprise to anyone: Games That Can Play 6 Players: Keyflower Games Rated Outside of the Top 300 of the BGG Overall Ranking: Lords of Vegas Games That Implement Dice: Roll for the Galaxy Games Based on Non-Board Game Properties: Dune Games Released During Or After 2016: Blue Lagoon
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I still can't believe Jedit was the one to take roads and boats smh
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Round 10 Pick 6 A Fake Artist Goes to New York Continuing my theme of Japanese games about professionals going to population centers we have the best social deduction game around. My draft has been stilted toward the heavier economic titles I enjoy but on the occasion that you have a larger group looking to play something light and quick I can't think of a better game to pull out than Fake Artist. I've yet to see the game fizzle with any group; in fact conversely it's a safe bet there will be laughter within a minute of starting when someone adds wheels to a cat and acts like it's totally normal. Really the only way to get more fun out of a smaller box is for that box to contain drugs. No meme can be funnier than the game itself so instead here's a very good portrait of a frog  For theme breakdown: 6 Players: A Fake Artist Goes to New York Outside of the Top 300: The Bridges of Shangri-La Dice: Root Licensed Property: Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation During Or After 2016: Psychic Pizza Deliverers Go to the Ghost Town
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Round 10, Pick 7 Hive  A goon gave this to me in a secret santa a few years back. Somehow it had entirely slipped under my radar. Chess had gotten stale in high school, and while I adore Go you can only lose by a zillion stones so many times before you just want something that you've got a prayer at. The less said about the brick wall that is Shogi, the better. I gave Hive a try. Then I tried it some more. And then some more. Nowadays, Hive and one other game occupy a permanent space in my board game duffel; If I'm bringing anything then those two are going. Hell, sometimes I take Hive in my laptop bag. I don't know what stronger endorsement I can give. It's quick, it's a simple teach, and a game is over before you've finished your beer. Well, unless you're two-fisting like you're early at a Sunday afternoon bobblehead day. I use Hive as a litmus to see if someone is gonna be into slightly deeper waters, and I like getting surprised by new players who aren't afraid to try something because even if it doesn't work the whole game was ten minutes. The single most common thing I hear when I bring out Hive is, "Wanna play again?" I ain't changin' a single thing about my category picks. Never second-guess. DINGERS friends? i got plenty: Cosmic Encounter not hiveminded: Mythic Battles: Pantheon live by the die: Liar's Dice i don't know what original means: Crusader Kings gimme that old time rock and roll: Rising Sun
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Last pick of the draft for Memnaelar means it's time for Glen More II: Chronicles./pic5086510.jpg) (SCOTCH NOT INCLUDED) I needed a game that runs a little bit more short as I have a lot of LOOOONG games, I needed a game that played with some sort of geometry/tile placement as I'm terrible with those and need practice, I needed a game that has that awesome time mechanic where players can line up multiple turns if others get greedy and over-reach for a selection they really need, and I also love interesting end-game scoring that requires a player to diversify instead of just relying on a single abused mechanic. Glen More II has all of that. The original is a classic and anyone who complains about the sequel losing something from the original is wrong. The clan board gives players room to diversify and create some needed asymmetry. The loss of fiddling with roads on tiles when you already have the river mechanic is ultimately trivial. Because the endgame scoring compares collection of assets and the distance between the lead player and the last-place player in each type of asset, you have to really watch what other players are going for and that helps make downtime a bit more interesting. And the game includes a MILLION "chronicles" for varying up the gameplay. Some fuddy-duddies complain that they're unnecessary because the classic gameplay is so strong. SO DON'T USE THEM. You can enjoy a nice short classic game. But you can use these individual modules in whatever combination to tailor a game more to your liking, creating more interaction, a race, a new commodity -- you name it. Glen More II is an excellent update on a classic from one of the hobby's greatest designers and gives you a whole lot of game in a very short timeframe (without modules). It's a happy addition that rounds out my draft and collection.
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Oh, and all my picks stand as is for theme rounds. I pick once and pick well!
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Round 10, Pick 9 Maria https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40354/maria An amazingly good light wargame that you don't have to be an extreme grognard to appreciate. It rewards proper management of resources and over committing to win a battle is often far worse than accepting a minor loss which leads to interesting decisions for every battle. Plus it plays 3 perfectly which is quite rare for a wargame. It's good enough that I strongly considered subbing it in to my games rated >300 slot since it's just over the cut at 309 but changing theme picks is for cowards. I will keep all theme picks as my representatives for their slots.
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Chill la Chill posted:I still can't believe Jedit was the one to take roads and boats smh Nobody could prevent my usurpation, I'm not married.
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Round 10: Pick 10 Zendo This is more a pick to round out my selection, but it's also a giant "gently caress you" to everyone that says they have a game with infinite replayability. Well, you are wrong, because not only does Zendo have almost infinite rules, it also does not require to actually use the components in the box. You can play it with stones, sticks, cards, emoji, painting, meeples, you can literally play it anywhere you want. That is true flexibility. And that's why Zendo deserves to be in my list. (my picks for the theme rounds are my selection for the themes, no switcheroos needed)
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nimby posted:Round 10: Pick 10 https://i.imgur.com/QCK5x5D.mp4
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Aug 11, 2020 12:04
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MORON KONFLIKT!
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loving...Zendo...
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nimby posted:Round 10: Pick 10 The alpha and the omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
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Aug 11, 2020 15:31
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Nimby ended as he began, a grave disappointment
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Shadow225 posted:Nimby ended as he began, a grave disappointment You have to have expectations in order to be disappointed.
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Shadow225 posted:Nimby ended as he began, a grave disappointment Hard to see his start as a disappointment in a draft where someone 1st-rounded Cosmic...
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TI is just overly long and convoluted CE, change my mind
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Shadow225 posted:TI is just overly long and convoluted CE, change my mind TI is just overly long and convoluted Eclipse, if Eclipse had a baby with Master of Orion: the Board Game. (Which is actually a card game.)
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To be fair TI came before Eclipse, right
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StashAugustine posted:To be fair TI came before Eclipse, right That is both accurate and needlessly pedantic.
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Do you like space 4x games? Do you wish Twilight Imperium was shorter and had more battles? Do you like your research choices to actually be impactful? Do you like your ships to be chunky? DO YOU LIKE FUCKIN' CUBES? Then do I have the streamlined tactical masterpiece for you! Quantum! 
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I know that Quantum has several features that people here don't like. It suffers massively from turn order effects, which I always make clear to everyone at the table ("Your primary duty is to make sure the person after you in the turn order doesn't win"), and sometimes an individual battle can swing the game. But other than that I love just how massively streamlined it is, while presenting an interesting optimisation puzzle every turn. There are usually between 2 and 4 "obvious" moves, and you need to figure out which one is best. I like the big chunky dice, and I like that it has a clock. No-one can ever lose a point, everyone just inexorably climbs the score track until one person manages to break through with the final point. No game has ever lasted more than an hour. Plus, you know, it sparks joy. Dancer fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Aug 11, 2020 |
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Let it be known that I will refuse to cast any votes for the cowards that have not changed their name into something Zendo related on Discord.
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Dancer posted:Let it be known that I will refuse to cast any votes for the cowards that have not changed their name into something Zendo related on Discord. There's a Discord?
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Jedit posted:There's a Discord? Not when I type. I thought about taking Quantum. It's beautiful and elegant and the only reason I didn't do an effortpost on it is that it's got some bad runaway leader I haven't really taken the time to try and mitigate. I took the time to goo gone every single one of my dice in the box so when I do pull it out I get to use the awesome frosted translucent ones instead of the later opaque ones.
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Jedit posted:TI is just overly long and convoluted Eclipse, by the transitive property cosmic is a short and straightforward eclipse
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Round 10, Pick 12 Shogi This brings me to having four of my five games rated 10 on BGG in my draft. It's the best chess. It's *not* the best 2p abstract, but it might be my favorite, because I'll never feel even remotely passable at Go, but Shogi I intuitively get the tactics. It's good. It's crazyhouse chess where you build your own castle instead of a stupid move king two spaces bullshit. gently caress moving picks, I'll keep mine as is. 6p NT I will never ever ever turn down a game of this at any even player count up to 8. Outside 300 Poker is (I'm wildly speculating) the game on bgg played the most at any given time. Dice Riichi WELP THIS CATEGORY SUCKS I HATE DICE GAMES APPARENTLY Licensed WotR THIS ONE DOES TOO BECAUSE IF I HAD ANOTHER ONE I COULD SWAP THIS INTO DICE Recent Wind The Film! is great no regrets
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Casnorf posted:Not when I type. This is like the exact opposite of what I have. Quantum has some pretty strong rubber bands. If someone reaches n-1 points then the person ahead of them in turn order will just constantly be blocking. They are then slightly screwed, but they usually gain dominance at a steady pace and almost always get a chance at a comeback.
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While we wait for the final two picks, here is how scoring worked last year and thus this year. With that in mind, here is what I decided upon. You will each vote for each other in three weighted categories: Best Overall Collection - 50%, Best Collective Nominees for Draft Themed Rounds - 25%, Appeals to Widest Range of Tastes - 25%. In addition, you will be using a ranked voting procedure where you vote for your top 3 choices in each category. Your rank one choice will receive three points in that category, rank two will receive two points, and rank three will receive one point. Each player will have their three category scores totaled, weighted, and summed to achieve their final score. Here is a small example: Player A received 10 points in Best Collection, 20 points in Thematic Collection, and 13 points in Well Rounded Collection. That player's score will be (10*0.50) + (20*0.25) + (13*0.25) = 13.25 points. You can vote for the same player in multiple categories, but you cannot vote for yourself. PM your picks to me, preferably through here, but Discord works fine as well. If you have neither of those, we can work out something. After you decide amongst yourselves, we can let the peanut gallery both here and maybe reddit with the names filed off take a swing. Here is a template that you can copy paste: code:Did you find the reimplementation chain rule as a decent metric to define game families, both in coverage and ease of access? How did you feel about the themed rounds themselves? How did you feel about slow rolling the reveal of the themed rounds? How did you feel about the ability to sub in other picks instead of being forced to use your themed round picks? Did you feel that I was fair and consistent in my rulings? Anything else you would like to add? I'll effort post about themed rounds and get an audience poll up probably tomorrow. Gonna play video games now. Shadow225 fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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10.13: Russian railroads I like salad with my points. No reshuffling picks. Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant - best with 6 Gloomhaven Automobile - out of top 300 Arkham Horror: The Living Card Game The Voyages of Marco Polo - dice Forbidden Stars Battlestar Galactica - licensed Android: Netrunner Barrage - after 2016 Russian Railroads
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RR is honestly lovely.
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Round 10, Pick 14 Titan The last, will be first. This is the only game I rate 10. The Monster Slugathon Fantasy Wargame. Build big armies, smack into other armies, zoom in to a tactical map and fight. There are a lot of general nuisances with multiplayer games, and Titan does well to get around them: Attacker has combat advantage, must keep moving / splitting to recruit - discourage turtling. Winner of battle gains points, which provide combat strength, units, survivability of the Titan, and the endgame teleport power - avoids "you two fight, I win". Restricted movement - can't just bash leader / pick on weakling. Player elimination - players are not trapped in a game and forced to kingmake when they can't win. Dice luck - if you're in, you can win! If the chance has become unrealistically low, you would also usually be able to resign without ruining the game. Also, sometimes you just want to throw 18 dice, while still feeling the better player usually wins. When the "300-" round was announced, Titan was ranked a perfect 1.000 on BGG. Also eligible for 6p and dice!  Dominion Spirit Island - new game 1846 Codenames - 6p Age of Steam Sekigahara - The Unification of Japan Star Wars: The Queen's Gambit - themed Backgammon - Dice The Crew Titan - rank 300+ rchandra fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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I'm pretty happy with how my selection turned out. Hey, wait a minute... Zombicide El Grande Northern Pacific Dungeon Lords Outfoxed Ra Over Hill and Under Hill Consulting Detective Kingdomino San Juan 
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I'm pretty happy with how my selection turned out. Holy poo poo
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Sweet zendo jesus.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I'm pretty happy with how my selection turned out.  BAN
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Okay, go ahead and start sending in the votes in one of my DMs. The second post has the below, but make sure I didn't make an error recording it. rchandra Dominion Spirit Island - Games Released During Or After 2016 1846 Codenames - Games That Can Play 6 Players Age of Steam Sekigahara - The Unification of Japan Star Wars: The Queen's Gambit - Games Based on Non-Board Game Properties Backgammon - Games That Implement Dice The Crew Titan - Games Rated Outside of the Top 300 of the BGG Overall Ranking ketchup vs catsup Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant - Games That Can Play 6 Players Gloomhaven Automobile - Games Rated Outside of the Top 300 of the BGG Overall Ranking Arkham Horror: The Living Card Game The Voyages of Marco Polo - Games That Implement Dice Forbidden Stars Battlestar Galactica - Games Based on Non-Board Game Properties Android: Netrunner Barrage - Games Released During Or After 2016 Russian Railroads silvergoose Napoleon's Triumph - Games That Can Play 6 Players Through the Ages Poker - Games Rated Outside of the Top 300 of the BGG Overall Ranking Hansa Teutonica Riichi Mahjong - Games That Implement Dice Bridge War of the Ring 2E - Games Based on Non-Board Game Properties Guns of Gettysburg Wind the Film - Games Released During Or After 2016 Shogi Dancer Food Chain Magnate - Games That Can Play 6 Players Galaxy Trucker The Estates - Games Rated Outside of the Top 300 of the BGG Overall Ranking Wir sind das Volk! 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Doctor Spaceman posted:I'm pretty happy with how my selection turned out. This is the only good reason to have picked Zombiecide 
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