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Re: Board Games
« Reply #50 on: 02 May 2013, 17:44 »

I have never played a complete game of Empires in Arms. I have a friend who has played it multiple times and yes it was generally set up in a spare room or garage. I think more than one game was ended early on account of cat.

Regarding Last Night on Earth, I'm glad there's at least on other person here who appreciates the game as much as I do. I had a chance to go to GenCon last year and I spent a lot of time at the Flying Frog booth playing demos of various games. They have the people who are characters in the game there either running demos are just walking around chatting about the games or what not. They all seem very very nice. During a lull a couple of the actors sat down to play Fortune and Glory. They could've been doing it just to try to interest passersby but I like to think it's because they like to play.

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« Reply #51 on: 04 May 2013, 21:08 »

This is an absolutely amazing and hilarious review of Chess.

Chess: An Interesting Concept Ruined by too Many Design Flaws
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« Reply #52 on: 05 May 2013, 03:12 »

That chess review had me rolling on the floor.

I want to take a second to shill for a game I backed on KS that's coming out next month. Serpent's Tongue which is a CCG RPG with active spell casting and a fully functional conlang.

Here's a couple rounds of a PVE encounter of the game with an "AI" opponent.

This game's brilliant, I love the way it's battling works taking out the "monsters" from a traditional TCG, instead making you, the player, an active participant in a magic duel. They're also working on an RPG supplement for the game where the card combat will take the place of the traditional dice rolling.

Here's a couple rounds of early Alpha PVP, the game's changed a lot since a year ago.

Game play aside I'm a big fan of the world that the Sons of Gabriel (the primary team on the game is five brothers) have painted around this game, lots of secret cults, traditions of magic and fantasy hiding just behind the curtain of the normal world, lots of mysticism, intrigue, monsters, black mages. It's really enjoyable and intriguing. The website has more information www.becomemagi.com

edit: here's the original KS vid, again, things have changed a lot, the card size, thickness, art style, the language, some of the rules have all changed. This does have a decent backing to the lore though.
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« Reply #53 on: 05 May 2013, 03:53 »

If you're not willing to shell your own position, you're not willing to win.
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« Reply #54 on: 09 May 2013, 07:16 »

So I finally took the plunge into the world of HeroClix... cause you know, the money I'm saving by not buying Magic cards anymore has to be pumped into something just as useless.

Anyone else here play or know anyone that plays? I'd be interested in advice on how to get a decent starting collection going. It'll be mostly me and the boyfriend playing each other with different forces and occasionally getting other friends involved, but it'll probably be from just my pool of figures. Unless I manage to convert other people. :)
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« Reply #55 on: 13 May 2013, 13:39 »

Here's a history lesson about the most complicated board game in existence!

The Campaign for North Africa

A war game released in 1979 with 1,800 counters, maps large enough to cover multiple tables, a 3 volume rule book, best played with 10 players (5 per team) and averaging about 1,200 hours per campaign. One of the common examples used to explain how detailed it is the fact that the game's Italian troops require extra water resources so that they can make pasta. It's been called 'The Unplayable Monster' and rivals many PC war games in complexity. It's a game I'd love to own for collection sake. I'd never even pretend like I was going to play it, but oh how I'd love to own it.
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« Reply #56 on: 14 May 2013, 02:30 »

This Sunday me and some friends tried out D&D for the first time. Nobody of us had any experience with it so I volunteered to DM. After spending literally hours helping the others creating their first characters we were finally ready to start.
It was AWESOME! DMing is hard but pretty cool. At one point the players used a light spell on the fighter's armor to try and scare away a few dire rats. Great fun all in all and we're going to continue soon.
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« Reply #57 on: 14 May 2013, 19:17 »

Here's a history lesson about the most complicated board game in existence!

The Campaign for North Africa

A war game released in 1979 with 1,800 counters, maps large enough to cover multiple tables, a 3 volume rule book, best played with 10 players (5 per team) and averaging about 1,200 hours per campaign. One of the common examples used to explain how detailed it is the fact that the game's Italian troops require extra water resources so that they can make pasta. It's been called 'The Unplayable Monster' and rivals many PC war games in complexity. It's a game I'd love to own for collection sake. I'd never even pretend like I was going to play it, but oh how I'd love to own it.

Yes, the Campaign for North Africa is a legend among wargamers. I've never even seen a copy but I've heard some of the stories, like the rules for supply go as far as requiring Italian units to use more water because they have to cook their pasta. Also the campaign game was never fully playtested because the playtesters never managed to finish an entire game.

I do own one game that is considered a 'monster' game (not to be confused with a game with or about monsters. I have several of them.) and that is The Longest Day. Over 1500 counters and a playing time listed as 5400 minutes (that might just be for set up though). Here's a decent picture of the board. I've played part of a game of this but never a complete game. I have a friend who has played it several times and is willing to play it again. It's a matter of finding a place we can leave it up for a few months while we play.
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« Reply #58 on: 22 May 2013, 16:34 »

So I finally used my Amazon credit and got ahold of Galaxy Trucker. We love it even at 2 player, though it's nowhere near as frantic as I imagine 3 - 4 players would be, and I'm going to be opening the expansion and seeing what it adds to the game tonight. You should definitely check it out Eric.
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« Reply #59 on: 23 May 2013, 07:28 »

Space Alert (which is also designed by Vlaada Chvatil) is pretty much the most frantic game I've played. Dealing with enemy ships, obstacles, infiltrators, and malfunctions with a time limit? And you have to communicate with everyone else to actually make sure everything is getting taken care of and you're not just stumbling over each other? Yikes. Every game's hijinx leads to us shaking our heads and laughing. And sometimes we actually come out (barely) alive.

I thought the building phases in Galaxy Trucker would be a little more like that ("OH GOD I NEED ANOTHER SHIELD WHERE IS IT?!"), but not so much. It still has that nice "let's see just how big of a clusterfuck this turns out to be" factor though, along with that sense of achievement when you get through alive on a particularly rough course with a decent amount of cargo, so it's still a lot of fun to me.
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« Reply #60 on: 23 May 2013, 10:03 »

After messing about with The Big Expansion, this changes the game in a whooooooole lot of fun ways. There are now ways for players to interact during the game, sabotage other players, fire at them, pick on people with targeted meteor swarms, explosive cargo and so much other stuff. The new ship parts are great and add an extra layer of ship building with some rather powerful parts that require other parts to interact with, such as a furnace that can use cargo as fuel to charge an attached battery, and what is likely just a lot more chances for you to be happy you got to the end of your trip with a ship at all.

Also, the rules for the alternate ships are just marvelous.

We haven't played with this much mind you, but it looks like a wonderful thing to get peole into playing the base game and then brutalize everyone with mayhem by introducing the expansion.

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« Reply #61 on: 24 May 2013, 09:36 »

So what I hear you saying is that the expansion turns Galaxy Trucker into Space Mario Kart: The Board Game... and I'm totally down for that.  :-D
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« Reply #62 on: 28 May 2013, 08:13 »

As all the mentioned games have been strategy types, I guess I forgot to think of Scrabble - which I do play from time to time without getting riled up the way the other games make me.


......I don't know about you but Scrabble gets me VERY riled up. Nick refuses to play with me after we played a game that ended 400-something to 200-something.
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« Reply #63 on: 29 May 2013, 10:06 »

After messing about with The Big Expansion, this changes the game in a whooooooole lot of fun ways.

I got the opportunity last weekend to play with a few of the elements that are in the second expansion. It adds more tiles (of course). More cards: invaders (didn't get to use them), harder/more rewarding versions of previous cards -- even open space is more dangerous, and some fun ones that add cards to the deck ("Oh, you're in round 2? Well have a couple round 3 cards anyway!"). It also adds "specialists" to your crew. They come with fun little abilities that help you in building or getting more credits. The new ships include a tubular ship (as in you have to imagine the ship wraps around into a cylinder shape), an amorphous ship (30 of the spaces are labeled 1-6... you roll two dice... the spaces corresponding to the numbers rolled CANNOT be used), and on the backs of those are halves of ships that can be combined to form a sort of "randomized" ship.
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« Reply #64 on: 07 Jun 2013, 08:21 »

I think you were playing with The Other Big Expansion, since The Big Expansion does not include alien invasions.

Shut Up & Sit Down reviews the Anniversary Edition of Galaxy Trucker using all of the expansion components. With only two players, the ship building is nowhere near as frantic as it could be, but nothing beats watching people's shoddily built space death traps fall apart.

https://vimeo.com/67845608
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« Reply #65 on: 10 Jul 2013, 16:32 »

The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen is by far the best and most sophisticated game ever.
Unplayable game, but amazing read:

"A Game of Wagers, Wine, and Competitive Lying

Players, preferably gentlemen from good families, challenge one another to recount, as outlandishly as possible, their many exploits, occasionally wagering against the narrator's ability to incorporate complicating circumstances into the tale.The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen contains a full set of rules, background, a revolutionary system of mechanics that does away with dice or cards and uses money and fine wine instead, two combat systems ('duelling' and 'duelling for cowards'), quick-start rules and a great many insults against the inhabitants of various nations, but principally the French. This game can be learned in under five minutes, requires no GM or preparation, and takes about an hour to play. You will require pencil, paper, imagination, a manservant, money, a selection of fine wines, noble blood, a sense of flamboyance, and at least one attractive member of the opposite sex (optional)."

Seriously, it's awesome:

"Make sure that each player has a purse of coins before them equal to the total number of players... If your company numbers less than five, then give each man five coins. If your company numbers more than twenty, then think not of playing the game: instead I advise you to pool your purses, hire some mercenaries and plan an invasion of Belgium"
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« Reply #66 on: 19 Jul 2013, 06:38 »

Why I don't play Settlers of Catan:

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« Reply #67 on: 19 Jul 2013, 06:41 »

Heh. I've done that a few times (and had it done to me a few times).  :evil:
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« Reply #68 on: 19 Jul 2013, 10:34 »

So apparently my company is releasing a Firefly themed board game at GenCon this year, it's already sold $1 Million worth of product, so I think that's a sign that it's good.  :psyduck:

In nerd news for me holy shit:

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« Reply #69 on: 07 Aug 2013, 07:18 »

I'm really interested in playing some board/tabletop/card games recently, especially D&D (which my friend is trying to get a group together for). I read an article on Penny Arcade Report about Mansions of Madness and for some reason another friend decided to buy it. It looks very cool, and we spent quite a while setting up, sorting out cards, putting pieces together, etc etc... I went out for a cigarette, and everything was packed away! Haven't yet had a chance to get together and play yet, still waiting for me to pack in my bar job, and read over the rules all together. (If anyone has played and can help me out, that'd be great :D)

Something else I got in to was Android: Netrunner, which is quite fun. Two player game, and it can last a couple of hours. I'm still in my early days of getting to grips with it, so I fall for some traps (damn Jinteki), but definitely recommended from me. :)
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« Reply #70 on: 07 Aug 2013, 08:06 »

I've only played a handful of games, but I love Android: Netrunner. It really highlights what makes asymmetrical gameplay interesting. Two forces with entirely different methods aiming to score the same resources to win the game. And yeah, seriously fuck Jinteki... I'm not sure if a card scares me more than Project Junebug. XD "Must maximize hand size before EVERY run... just in case." It's also an example of why I like the idea of LCGs over CCGs.
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« Reply #71 on: 07 Aug 2013, 08:33 »

I need to find more coop/casual games.  My wife plays Dixit and Pandemic, but not a lot else.

Which is too bad, because I love Dominion to death.
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« Reply #72 on: 07 Aug 2013, 09:00 »

And yeah, seriously fuck Jinteki... I'm not sure if a card scares me more than Project Junebug. XD

Haha, it's become a bit of a joke between us when we trick each other IRL to say "Jinteki!" He's since picked up a HB deck, where every other sequence is "Do 1 Brain Damage"... That was painful...
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« Reply #73 on: 07 Aug 2013, 09:26 »

I don't know why I never posted in this thread. My mother has been playing Catan since it was released (the German release in 1995). We have many of the expansions (mostly before the redesign happened). When I look into our games shelf I'll find the original "Die Siedler von Catan", the "Seefahrer Erweiterung" (seafarers expansion), the "Städte & Ritter" (Cities and Knights) expansion, "Historische Szenarien I" and "Historische Szenarien II" (Historical Scenarios), the "Händler & Barbaren" (Traders and Barbarians) expansion (post-redesign), the expansion set for 5 and 6 players, a book with additional rule ideas and the required material for it, and "Die Siedler von Nürnberg" (Settlers of Nuremberg). That's all the original Catan series stuff. Then we have "Struggle for Rome" which is Catan based, we have the Travel-Edition of the original Catan, we have "Die Sternenfahrer von Catan" (Starfarers of Catan), with the expansion for up to six players, and "Sternenschiff Catan" (Starship Catan), and among my favourites: The card game. I just love this card game. It is a two player version, and we have all the expansions for it. Sadly they've discontinued it and released a simplified version of it called "Rivals of Catan". Especially when moving out I'd have liked to buy a set for myself. Maybe I'll have to have a look into the new version. With the expansions some of the simplifications get reversed.

We also have Alhambra and three expansions for it, I just can't remember having ever played it. We have the card game "Blue Moon" with some additional sets of cards, a game I loved to play. Carcassonne with multiple expansions is also lying around here.

Still, my favourite is the Catan card game.

Well, and I play Magic the Gathering, but that would stretch the topic of this thread a little too much.

Oh, and I was member of a chess club for several years, played some ranked games, lost many of them. I haven't played for about 4 years now though.

Edit: I had almost forgotten: There is a open source clone of Catan, playable on most operating systems, called "Pioneers" Maybe I could set up a server for the game on the same server the Mumble is running on.
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« Reply #74 on: 07 Aug 2013, 11:56 »

I really enjoy board games.
I've played Risk, Axis & Allies, Chess, and Stratego.
But I'm a huge fan of:

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« Reply #75 on: 07 Aug 2013, 12:00 »

oddly enough, I've never played SETTLERS of CATAN or MUNCHKIN.  I've seen them played, and keep meaning to sit down for a game, but....

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« Reply #76 on: 13 Oct 2013, 14:13 »

So Quinn of Shut Up & Sit Down wrote an article for Kotaku about what games are best if you want to ruin your personal relationships. It's great seeing this from a hobbyist largely because he understands that games like Game of Thrones have mechanics specifically for backstabbing, and going in you should be aware of this and expect it. The true horror comes from other factors.

5 Boardgames That Really Will Ruin Friendships

The Gawker commentors, of course, immediately start bringing up Monopoly.
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« Reply #77 on: 15 Oct 2013, 10:53 »

I was all prepared say 'feh!' And wave my hand at that list but then I saw that it included Diplomacy. That game has destroyed many friendships.

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« Reply #78 on: 18 Oct 2013, 19:24 »

I have a reasonable collection of board and games (though, not the shelves and shelves you see in some of the people's homes who do online review videos).

I have a real weakness for Deck Building games... though I actually don't like Dominion. I have the Resident Evil DBG with all the expansions, which I enjoy, and also the Marvel Legendary one with the Dark City expansion. My brother has Thunderstone and an unreasonably large amounts of expansions for that, so that gets played on board game nights too.

I also have a few games that I like to play with my kids, Ticket to Ride and Tsuro for instance. I have everything ever published for Small World except necromancer island.

I also own Twilight Imperium... though I've never gotten to play it because I have not been able to devote a whole day to playing one game. I hate being a busy adult sometimes.

Also, I recently got into the Lord of the Rings LCG, because I do like to play co-op stuff and my wife is a huge Middle Earth fan.
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« Reply #79 on: 18 Oct 2013, 19:53 »

So I just kicked the shit out of my coworkers in the Firefly boardgame. It's awesome and if you are a fan of board games, you should definitely pick up a copy.
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« Reply #80 on: 18 Oct 2013, 21:29 »

Twilight Imperium is basically my White Whale at this point in time. I'm funemployed, so dedicating the time to it is easy. The real problem is finding multiple other people to rope into it.
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« Reply #81 on: 18 Oct 2013, 21:43 »

The real problem is finding multiple other people to rope into it.

That is the other issue with it. Even when I have a free day, you have to find several other people with free days.
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« Reply #82 on: 19 Oct 2013, 03:21 »

Oh man, just slightly related, but my Numenera books came in the mail just now and I need to get a group together asap, because that setting is pretty awesome.
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« Reply #83 on: 19 Oct 2013, 17:35 »

Oh man, just slightly related, but my Numenera books came in the mail just now and I need to get a group together asap, because that setting is pretty awesome.

Numenera is on my short list for my next campaign I run. Love the setting, love the system.
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« Reply #84 on: 19 Oct 2013, 17:45 »

Numenera looks like an incredibly interesting setting. The racial designs and such look fantastic as well.

Speaking of, I now have Last Night on Earth and I have paints coming in the mail. No one to play with right now, but goddamnit it's going to have painted minis.
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« Reply #85 on: 23 Oct 2013, 07:55 »

So is it safe to say we'll be able to see your completed zombies and townsfolk either here or in the minis painting thread?  :-D

Seriously LNoE is my favorite thematic game and would probably worm its way into my top 5 games, even if some of the expansions makes things kind of wonky and I've had a handful of one-sided games. Hope you get the opportunity to actually play soon!

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« Reply #86 on: 24 Oct 2013, 07:52 »

Speaking of Flying Frog Productions.... they have a kickstarter going for their latest game. Looks like I won't be buying any new fun stuff for myself for a while. The number of stretch goals and add-ons they're doing is ridiculous and I want a lot of them...
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« Reply #87 on: 25 Oct 2013, 02:09 »

That sounds awesome. Now if I only had 75$ to spare, I'd be totally in. Hm... maybe I can round up a few friends and we can pledge something together.
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« Reply #88 on: 25 Oct 2013, 17:11 »

So I think I may have found d a DM and one person to play D&D with. Maybe, just maybe, we'll have a game starting in the semi-near future. =D

Also the hypothetical DM helped me start up a character (at least, as far as you can without dice). I wanted something unique so with his guidance I created a doppelganger cleric of Erythnul. He will be an awesome character, can't wait to play as him. Need a name though.  :psyduck:
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« Reply #89 on: 26 Oct 2013, 02:26 »

The cleric in my group is called Choleric the Cleric. He gets angry at times.

We haven't been able to play in quite some time because we never seem to be able to find a time where everybody is available anymore. :( Also one of the players quit and we haven't found a substitute yet.
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Re: Board Games
« Reply #90 on: 26 Oct 2013, 22:26 »

Why did I not know this thread existed...

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.
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« Reply #91 on: 27 Oct 2013, 05:28 »

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:
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« Reply #92 on: 04 Nov 2013, 11:26 »

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!
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« Reply #93 on: 05 Nov 2013, 07:00 »

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.
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« Reply #94 on: 05 Nov 2013, 08:07 »

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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« Reply #95 on: 05 Nov 2013, 18:37 »

I just remembered the Uncle Wiggly board game that I used to play with my mom back in the day
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« Reply #96 on: 06 Nov 2013, 18:25 »

My brother and his gf came over! We played Pandemic first.

We had cured the blue disease and completely eradicated it, cured yellow, and someone had the cards and was just moving to the research station to cure black...

But then there was a cascade of outbreaks and we lost. I think had we played a bit more conservative and used the quarantine specialist better we could have won, but we took one too many risks. Still fun game, and I am looking forward to playing it again.

After that, we played a 3 player game of Space Hulk: Death Angel. AND WE WON! Pretty spectacularly too, my brother had one of his two combat teams wiped out, and I lost half of one of mine, but out of the 6 combat teams who went in, 4 1/2 came out the other side! We had a lot of back and forth on strategy and who could do what, and after playing it again with multiple people, I realize just how it hits all the right parts of a coop game. We were constantly talking, planning, and trying to position everything in the best way.

Still yet to play from my last purchase: Wrath of Ashardalon, The Resistance.
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« Reply #97 on: 07 Nov 2013, 11:30 »

I do love Pandemic, but sometimes, the cards fall wrong and the game can be unwinnable.
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« Reply #98 on: 07 Nov 2013, 11:52 »

I do love Pandemic, but sometimes, the cards fall wrong and the game can be unwinnable.

Just had the exact opposite problem on our second playthrough. By the time we had cured blue, there had only been one blue card even drawn. It was eradicated by the about the third turn. And it was all downhill for the diseases after that.

During the last phases we had 3 diseases completely eradicated and had cleared the last few off the board before curing the last one. I think it helps that it was a two player game and the two roles we drew were Medic and Scientist, which both seem badass.
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« Reply #99 on: 07 Nov 2013, 12:48 »

I had to look up quarantine specialist since it's part of the new edition and that just made me want to either upgrade my set or sell it and get a new one. Curse you for having fun.  :wink:

During the last phases we had 3 diseases completely eradicated and had cleared the last few off the board before curing the last one. I think it helps that it was a two player game and the two roles we drew were Medic and Scientist, which both seem badass.

Sounds like you need to ramp up the difficulty next game. Can't have you saving the world EVERY game.  :evil:
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