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2014-02-06, 09:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Winner of "Best Comparison" award goes too...
After some sleuthing online, I found the game. It was called Republic of Rome.
I'm not very big on political type games, but I found that being silent helps other players forget you're there until you stab them in the back. Also: it's easy for Rome to fall in a war because the players can't agree to fight them cooperatively.
Not terribly long. Average play time is about two hours when I tried it with a group of four. An interesting thing that cropped up is that while the one of the game's mechanics is to backstab each other to profit, everyone instead prefered working together to share the spoils.
Which is hilarious because my friends were more backstab-happy playing actual D&D than this card game which is a parody of it.
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2014-02-06, 09:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-02-06, 11:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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I can agree with you here. AGoT always feels like a close up knife fight. Quite exhausting. TI3 feels like you have more mental space between you and your opponents even though it can vary throughout the game. Still quite draining due to length and complexity though it feels different.
I'm the same with you. Currently, I have three card games. Munchkin, Anima Shadow of Omega, and Dungeoneer. I don't know if they're good enough to recommend, but I'll try to explain Anima and Dungeoneer to you (we don't really need to explain Munchkin anymore do we?)Frolic and dance for joy often.
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2014-02-06, 01:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Awesome, definitely going on to my wishlist then. I saw a review of it on SU&SH and the guy in the review loved it. In fact, I think that site is probably my favourite board game review site. Very entertaining.
Also, someone else mentioned Twilight Imperium. I looked that up and seems awesome. Adding it to my wishlist too, even though I know my friends will probably hate it.
Ah, that'd be good for my group then. Co-op is always nice.
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2014-02-07, 08:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-02-07, 10:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ooooooooh. Ouch.
So, I just played Eminent Domain again after a long spell of not jiggering up enough interest in it. As good as I remembered it. However, I realized that I've been terrible at planning the long game, and the end of the game just sorta sneaks up on you. It's one of the most effective timer mechanisms I've seen.
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2014-02-07, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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I think an expansion for that just came out. I remember seeing something at the store yesterday.
Finally got around to playing Australian Rails last night. Interesting map, should provide a good alternative for two player games between myself and LadyMeyers when we don't feel like playing British Rails (we have Euro and North American too, but those are a little too large for 2 people).
Also played Africana. Really fast-paced, the game was over before I knew it. The moving mechanic really rewards planning and forethought.
And we picked up the Legend of Five Rings edition of Love Letter, should be fun for pickups.Last edited by Cristo Meyers; 2014-02-07 at 10:18 AM.
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2014-02-07, 11:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yep! I got that via Kickstarter, have been wanting to actually get it played. (We just played the base game last night.) The really cool bit is that the expansion fits in the base box!
And we picked up the Legend of Five Rings edition of Love Letter, should be fun for pickups.
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2014-02-07, 01:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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RE: Kemet... I don't know how you prefer to store your game components, but if you end up getting Kemet, check out the tuck boxes I made for the game. I know, a bit of self promotion, but the game had such fantastic artwork it just screamed for something better than plastic bags!
Also, someone else mentioned Twilight Imperium. I looked that up and seems awesome. Adding it to my wishlist too, even though I know my friends will probably hate it.Frolic and dance for joy often.
Be determined in your ventures.
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2014-02-07, 01:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Been enjoying this thread so much I was rereading the whole thing and noticed something I missed...
Got change for 25 million?
Fun game for its day. Still play it every once in a while.
I'm one of those people who play games because it's fun to play the games rather than always wanting to win. Of course I try to win when I play, but I don't let not winning ruin the game for me.Last edited by Kerrin; 2014-02-07 at 01:16 PM.
Frolic and dance for joy often.
Be determined in your ventures.
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2014-02-07, 02:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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That is seriously rad!
All this awesome!
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2014-02-07, 04:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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On the topic of game storage, can anyone think of a better solution for most games than simply using tackle boxes? I know a guy who uses those for Star Trek: Attack Wing and Settlers of Catan, and it works extremely well. I'm planning on picking up one for Star Fleet Battles (Finally, I'll be able to organize those pesky counters!) but I figured I'd better see if anyone had an even better idea.
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2014-02-07, 05:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Tackle Boxes are pretty awesome. The only similar thing I know of is sewing boxes, but tackle boxes are made to hold lots more stuff.
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2014-02-07, 07:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ooh, nice! If I actually get the game, I will consider using these.
TI3 is a fantastic game, but yeah, it can be a difficult one to get to the table. If you end up getting TI3, drop me a line and I can send you some materials I found helpful in learning/teaching the game. And, of course, BGG and YouTube are full of helpful stuff too!
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2014-02-07, 07:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Aye, I use tackle boxes quite often for game components. The white plastic ones with little, adjustable compartments work great. With a bit of measuring I can usually find ones that'll fit in the game box quite nicely. I especially like the ones where each compartment has the bottom front/back edges that are curved instead of 90 degrees. Makes scooping out chits easier, though such containers are less common.
And ... WOOT ... SFB! I didn't know there was anyone around who still played.Last edited by Kerrin; 2014-02-07 at 07:31 PM.
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2014-02-07, 07:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-02-08, 12:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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I got Lords of Waterdeep this holiday season (largely due to Tabletop.) So far I've listed it under "great intro to gaming" and moved on. Such has been my experience with most of the games I've seen / played on the show. Of the two I saw there first and decided to obtain
Smash Up has by far been my favorite. It's definitely one of the most replayable card games I've encountered due to all the deck combinations and face offs. It does eventually grow a bit stale, but that's where the expansion packs come in.
My favorite games at the moment are probably Eclipse, Le Havre, and Imperial.
Eclipse starts as space exploration and quickly turns to combat (apparently there's only so much universe.) The highlight is definitely ship customization. Racing your opponents to the more potent upgrades, and attempting to counter their fleet by altering your own keeps the game on its toes.
Le Havre is like Agricola (made by the same people) with boats. I generally prefer it because unlike agricola you don't start with a hand, and while there are random cards, they come out into the general use area so the game feels like there's much less luck involved.
Imperial wins for concept. You play as investors who can buy stocks in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Russia during world war I. That is, if you choose to have world war I. Whoever has the largest share of a nation gets to decide what they do. And perhaps there's more profits to be found in Britain attacking france rather than having the Germans do it.Avatar Credit: the very talented PseudoStraw. Full image:Spoiler
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2014-02-09, 03:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Played about five hours of Descent last night. As the Overlord, I actually managed to win a map, which after three consecutive defeats (including one where I didn't even get to act) I was beginning to suspect impossible. Good game, but oh my are some of those monsters completely worthless.
Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
When they shot him down on the highway,
Down like a dog on the highway,And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.
Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman, 1906.
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2014-02-13, 10:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Talking about card games anyone played chrononauts? Is it any fun?
I don't buy big board games with a lot of tidbits, simply because I'm a mess. I know that if I buy something like that, I'll lose a lot of things.You got Magic Mech in My Police Procedural!
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2014-02-13, 10:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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I haven't played it yet, but I love the concept: you set up a timeline, and all the event cards are actually an interconnected network of time-change ripples.
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2014-02-13, 12:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's a fun game. Usually takes around 15-20m for a round and requires some mental effort to keep track of your different win conditions and where everything is but I have always enjoyed playing it when it's come up. Best with 3-4 player IMHO, 2 turns into a game of 'flip that', 'flip it back' and get stale fast, 3 works pretty well but 4 is the sweet spot in my opinion. Does have the issue of 'wins out of nowhere' though, where you can be working a plan and suddenly the game is over (twilight imperium has a bit of the same problem) so that takes some getting used to.
Honestly most of the fun comes from the fact you're messing with history though. "Will you stop saving Hitler!" "As soon as you stop killing Lincoln!" is not something you're going to hear during many other games :P.Last edited by Binks; 2014-02-13 at 12:37 PM.
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2014-02-13, 01:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-02-17, 07:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hey, me and my friend is thinking to buy a good board game for two players, any recommendation? We're thinking to just buy an LCG like android netrunner, but I'm not sure about its replayability. I'd rather have a real board game. You know, something like a skirmish game, or a dungeon crawling game, that's good to be played by two players and got a lot of replayability... Any recommendation?
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2014-02-17, 10:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Pocket Battles series is a great two-player skirmish game. (Comes in three flavors, Celts vs. Romans is probably the easiest to find.) You build armies out of tiles and then send them at one another in a brutally swift battle.
Claustrophobia is a fantastic two-player dungeon crawler, where one player is the heroes (of a sort) and the other player is the commander of the demons in the caves. Simple, elegant system with a vicious death spiral for the heroes. (Asymmetrical, too--the sides play completely differently.)
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2014-02-17, 11:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Lesse here.
Skirmish wise, I'm fairly fond of Battles of Westeros. It uses the same basic mechanics as a bunch of other Battlelore games, but puts a lot of emphasis on commanders, which I quite like. Plus it comes with a bazillion little plastic dudes; just be ready to spend a couple hours gluing them to their bases.
Dungeon-crawl wise, there are the D&D adventure games if you want co-op. But why use a bastardized version of a dull system in a universe that contains Mice and Mystics? It's also co-op, has gorgeous art, and a pretty good system, which is basically Descent Lite. So if you want player vs DM style dungeon crawl, just play Descent. Mechanically it's everything the D&D adventure game (or D&D for that matter) hopes to be when it grows up and figures out exactly how tedious a d20 really is.
If you're looking for something a bit more grand strategy, War of the Ring is a tremendously good thing, but only if you really like Lord of the Rings. It's not so much a game with a Lord of the Rings theme as it is Lord of the Rings turned into a board, some cards, and a bazillion little plastic dudes. I will neither confirm nor deny yelling 'Ride for Gondor!' at a particular moment in my last game.
For fantasy grand strategy somewhat less bound to a particular novel*, I have gotten a lot of fun out of RuneWars. To a reasonable level of accuracy, it's Age of Wonders the boardgame, which at least for me makes it a strong contender for the best possible use of cardboard hexes and skeleton miniatures. It looks ridiculously complicated since it has something like ten separate decks of those little pintsize cards Fantasy Flight uses, and set-up takes a good bit of time, but it's actually pretty straight-forwards to play. It's also much improved by the expansion, which is worth it just for the alternate units.
If you like Pandemic, but crave dragons and are bothered by occasionally winning, Defenders of the Realm is exactly the game for you. Just so long as you understand you will almost certainly get your ass kicked so hard you taste boot leather, it's excellent.
*If you say Lord of the Rings is a trilogy, I will bite you.Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
When they shot him down on the highway,
Down like a dog on the highway,And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.
Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman, 1906.
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2014-02-17, 03:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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*this is proper if you mean the films
Heroscape is one of the best skirmish games created, but it's sadly out of print. It plays great with just two but also scales well if you end up with more people.
I've heard really good things about Summoner Wars, which is a card/skirmish game created by one of the Heroscape designers, but I can't say I've played it myself.
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2014-02-17, 04:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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If you're fine with super-gluing some minis together (don't worry; very easy to assemble as long as you use the rulebook's photos to work out which bit goes on which body) I'd recommend Dreadball. It's like Blood Bowl (in that it's a board game representing a fictional sport), but to quote the 1d4chan wiki: "is set in space, uses aliens, is played on a hex grid, isn't based on American football and has completely different game mechanics." There's some videos one of the guys from Mantic did with Beasts of War showing how to play it and linked on their website, though the first episode is an hour and a half long (been a while since I watched it and BoW's stuff tends to be unscripted... that and Warren has a tendency to talk a lot).
This is a much shorter video showing how it's played that Mantic made themselves during the game's Kickstarter campaign.Avatar of Gnar'tigor - former Star Player of the Hellborn Hooligans Blood Bowl team - by Savannah
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2014-02-18, 02:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-02-18, 02:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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A few games I have played that I really enjoy:
Furu Of Dracula - One player plays Dracula, the others are chasing him through Europe as a team.
Battlestar Galactica - The official tabletop game. Actually VERY well done.
Smallworld - and all it's expansions, of course.
Elder Sign - Stop cultists from summoning... something Eldrich.
Cosmic Encounter - Play an unique alien race, and win the colonization race.Blizzard Battletag: UnderDog#21677
Shepard: "Wrex! Do we have mawsign?"
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2014-02-18, 11:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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I've already posted this in another thread about video games, but this is a board game too, so..
Neuroshima Hex!
It's a strategy board game for 2-4 players
Players place hexes on the board represrinting units and supports, and try to destroy the enemy base.
Every race has special powers, units and different playstyles (Red has bulky, slow, ranged units, while for example green is all about mobility)
There are things such as initiative, melee and ranged attacks, but the rules are actually pretty easy to learn and the game lends itself to a lot of strategy and planning.
The fluff is a war between the machines (red) who have taken over the world, although mutants (blue) have just arisen, and a wilderness army force (green) is resisting the machines. Also there's a Kenshiro-like band of motorcyclers (yellow) who... Look badass?
The expansion(s) add new races (I really like Neojungle for its unique mechanics) and game modes.
It's also been released for iPhone and android; the demo is free, and it's definitely worth a try.
Oh, also, Android users can find the full game for free sonewhere (pm me if you can't)Originally Posted by actual quote from this forum