All right.
So i managed today to put my hands on an edition of Legends of Andor, quasi mint condition, for.. 8$. Canadian $.
Twice (2nd copy IS mint condition)
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All right.
So i managed today to put my hands on an edition of Legends of Andor, quasi mint condition, for.. 8$. Canadian $.
Twice (2nd copy IS mint condition)
That's insane. The general cost of that from Board Game Bliss is like $60 Canadian. :smalleek:
Also, I'm considering purchasing Tokaido for my family and I as we cancelled our order for Carcassonne considering the delays and issues that game has been having. Anyone here had any experiences playing Tokaido?
Well, since i originally intended to give the extra game to a charity organisation of a friend (who set up a Game Library for poor kids, and encourage parents to come and play games with their kids), I'll just take it as karma coming back to help itself.
Ill give him the mint condition. At worst, he will not add it to his library (if he judges it innappropriate) and get a good trade deal. At best.. Well, it'll be a quality addition. The game really look splendid..
But yhea. Sorry, I had to brag a bit about my good luck. Vanity & all :-P
Have you checked if the game is actually cursed :smallbiggrin:?
A friend of mine swore his copy of Robo Rally was cursed. The first time he played with some mutual friends after purchase, his computer motherboard fried spontaneously when they started the first round. The second time he tried to play, I was watching him and two friends play. About 10 minutes into the game one friend got dumped by her boyfriend via text message. The third and last time he attempted to play with our friends, he and another friend were called by their manager-- both lost their jobs in a downsizing and the call was to not bother going in for their shifts.
He threw the game out in the trash.
Thats actually scary...
Id have burried the game deep, or cast it into the Fires of Mount Doom.
Or purified it with holy fire
Ugh, Dented OOTS Board Game is half price at ookdook but I'm currently pressed for money.
So I'm on the hunt for a couple more board/ games. Ideally, these would be board games that work well in a group of about 6-10 people, and would not be a variant of Apples to Apples or the such. I can accept a game that gets rough at the edges at 10 people. I'd also like to avoid games that solve the problem by having multiple teams work from the same pieces/hand.
The Resistance, and its derivative design, Secret Hitler.
Bang! The Dice Game
Cash & Guns (up to 8)
All extremely fun and relatively quick games, easy to learn. There are very few games that go up to 10 players with depth and work well. 6 is something of a limit.
That's about the ideal group size for Ladies & Gentlemen. Players work in couples of two, so you would want an even number. Each couple has a lady and a gentleman, who then do different tasks throughout each turn to prepare for the ball at the end of the week. Whoever is the most elegantly dressed wins. I think it doesn't fall into the problem you were talking about, because each team member does very different tasks throughout the day (to the point of almost playing two different games).
If they're evenly-distributed, that's a good group side for Space Cadets: Dice Duel. It's a real-time team game where each player gets to run a different part of the ship, Star Trek style. There's two teams that are each running a starship, trying to shoot the other ship down. It's loads of fun, very hectic, and definitely heavily about coordinating your team.
Diplomacy ideally works with a bunch of strangers you will never meet again
Coup works with that many players, although I strongly favor the 3-5 player variant because there's less of a predictable endgame since fewer cards are revealed.
Not really—in such cases, there's no incentive not to lie and backstab 100% of the time, at the earliest opportunity, because future trust doesn't mean anything if you gave up an opportunity to defeat an opponent early on. Moves are therefore going to be constrained to defend against early stabs until the question of "who's attacking whom" is settled not by diplomacy, but by military positioning. But with a consistent group of players, if you develop a reputation for always lying, people learn not to trust you, and likely to focus on eliminating you early. Thus, it becomes advantageous to only lie at specific key points, and early-elimination stabs become less viable. Plus, it's a more interesting game if you know the other players' psychologies going in.
So, I've been seriously considering purchasing the Zombicide: Black Plague game (I passed on the originals because guns don't really interest me, and the reviews about rule silliness - like shooting into melee - were not good signs). The reviews of this new one say they have fixed the most glaring issues with the rules, and of course fantasy is a lot more down my alley. I also need a fully co-op game, because playing against my SO is not fun. However, given the price tag, I'd rather make sure I'm not stepping into dangerous territory. Is there anything you'd warm a first-time buyer?
Thanks,
Grey Wolf
I'm usually against advising new players to buy something big and expensive as their first game, but if you both like board games and zombies, I guess it won't hurt too much.
Anyway, my only suggestion is find a short review/gameplay video in youtube if you haven't and see if you think you'd like to play that.
I hadn't heard of it before your post, Cikomyr. Well, my favorite gaming podcast\Youtube channel just covered it...
...and I am NOW!!!! :smallbiggrin:
7 Wonders is pretty good at accommodating a lot of people, and it's fairly casual.
Speaking of upcoming games, has anyone else been following Codex? It's a bit of a niche game for now, but there's a bunch of stuff I really dig about it. Basically, the designer set out to use deckbuilding + CCG frameworks as mechanisms for an RTS-inspired theme. Similar to Magic, you have different "colors" that control the cards you can use in your deck, but instead of bringing a deck to the game, you build your deck as you go, using a card pool that's kinda like the possible units that you can build in an RTS, depending on your race.
It also uses hero units (so, a lot like Warcraft 3) who have abilities that you can trigger, and you use heroes to cast spells as well. So, really interesting mix of a bunch of different genres that I dig.
It depends on the group of course, and not sure how easy some maybe to find.
formula-d players race cars around a track, up to 10 players.
Democrazy players voted on the rules of the game, 4 to 10 players, at least 6 is best.
7-wonders was mentioned need an expansion to add more than 7
citadels-dark-city. It is late can't think of a good example, plays up to 8. I really enjoy it.
I believe bang was up to 7, more with expansions. I like bang but for some groups it is bad, especially with newer gamers. I t is easy to be eliminated quickly and witha many player game they are stuck doing nothing while every one else plays.
What are people's thoughts on Chinese chess vs. Western chess?
I'd say they're at least remotely alike; in addition to being descended from the same game, most of the pieces act the same (the pieces in the corners move orthogonally and at great speed, the ones just inside of that move in an L shape, the one in the middle is crippled in movement), capturing works the same, and the object of the game is the same.
Edit: Obviously, the games play out quite differently in certain aspects (pawn-skeletons aren't really viable in Chinese chess and Western chess has far more offensively capable pieces), but there are definite commonalities.
Goddamnit. Please forget my previous comment. When you said Chinese chess, I for some reason imagined Chinese checkers.
Wow. How have I not noticed this thread before?
Anyway, I've been playing alot of board games lately, but my favorite has got to be Sheriff of Nottingham. That game is absolutely wonderful, every time we play there is some new strategy or bluff to try and our appreciation of the game keeps evolving as we try new approaches as both the merchant and the Sheriff. Has anybody else here played it?