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I'm very much into board games, although I tend to prefer deck building games (lots of ones similar to Dominion even though I have not in fact played Dominion). Just had a small group of friends over for dinner, Cards Against Humanity, and Smash Up. CAH is obviously fun, but no one else has mentioned Smash Up yet and it's very fun and the combinations can get very interesting. Personally I am a fan of trickster-dinosaurs, trickster-pirates, and believe that dinosaur-bear cavalry would work nicely. (Tonight I played wizard-bear cavalry and wasn't a huge fan.) My husband is in love with robot-wizards. It's kind of silly but has enough of a challenge in tactics to keep it interesting.

I'm also a fan of Small World, Race for the Galaxy, Pandemic, Settlers of Catan, and Ticket to Ride. And I think Castle Ravenloft was the first board game I played and I quite liked that one, too.

ChaoSera:
Oh man, Pandemic. It's a nice game, but we had to convert it into a browsergame for a project at university. That kinda ruined the game for me.  :psyduck:

Emperor Norton:
I just received a new shipment of board games Saturday (I've almost gotten to the top level of discounts at Coolstuff! I spend way too much money there). Included in this package was several coop games (Space Hulk: Death Angel, Pandemic, Wrath of Ashardalon) and a social traitor style game (The Resistance).

The only one I've managed to get out so far is Death Angel, which I played with my wife last night. The game is AWESOME. It drips with the theme of being ridiculous parodies of psycho macho soldiers ripping up Aliens style hordes of things that want to chew us up on a derelict space station. We started with 8 Space Marines, and as we moved room to room we slowly lost more and more as the swarms of Genestealers got bigger. We made it to the last room, with only 2 surviving marines, one of mine, a badass using claws named Brother Claudio, and one of hers, the flamethrower using Brother Zael. All we had to do was activate the control panel in time! I activated it to give us the 1/3 chance on the roll to win, after which Claudio was eaten by a horde of 11 Genestealers, she activated it to make the roll... and failed. After that Zael tried to flamethrower some, but it just wasn't enough, and Zael went down in a bloody mess.

It was really really fun. I liked the pacing, I liked the feeling of slowly being whittled down and things getting progressively more and more aggressive and that we ALMOST won. like 2 inches from winning. It was also really well thought out and innovative, there wasn't a lot of drawing or hand type stuff, its really a different style of card game, lots of innovative mechanics and the set up and breakdown is really really fast once you know how it works.

Oh and also the box is tiny, I love tiny box, big fun games.

I'll come back again when I get to try out the other 3!

Game and Watch Forever:
Pandemic is a lot of fun but Z-Man Games really pissed me off when they decided to make a new edition that is incompatable with the old version. All the card backs are different and the art changed, so either I sleeve everything and deal with the art differences, I buy an "upgrade pack" that trades out the proper cards and pay for a crazy shipping rate (crazy for domesitc shipping, anyway), or I rebuy the base game and expansion. Wouldn't be a big deal except soon after they came out with a new expansion that adds a lot of nice stuff from what I hear. Guess I won't ever have it.

I don't even understand why they felt the need to do all this, aside from trying to appeal to a greater audience with the artwork (which they could have done without alienating their current audiences). Oh, and force people to buy everything over and make money... yes, I'm bitter and will find it hard to buy another Z-Man Game.


Rant over. I'll be positive now: The Resistence is a lot of fun and I feel makes Mafia/Werewolf more appealing to people who want hard data to analyze and discuss. I tried to turning it into a forum game on here before (I'll have to link to it later) and was met with mixed results, but in person it's wonderful.

Emperor Norton:
Yeah, I had read about the redesign of the pieces and all, which obviously doesn't affect me since I just bought it for the first time last week.

It is a little bit weird. Its one thing for a game that has been out 10+ years to get a redesign, but Pandemic is what like 5 years old?

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