The Thread Where We Are Board Game Geeks

aubrey plaz is a bgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jWK45NJNTM&feature=youtu.be&t=5m45s

at 5m45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jWK45NJNTM

Ha, lucky for her not to have played Risk. BSG is my favorite! But I'll probably never play it again bc I don't know anyone anymore. Have the ppl from upthread been liking Mage Knight? I was thinking of getting it, mostly to have something to play solo.

I don't even play that many board games, but man, I want one of those tables.

Totally! Also I don't have any comics but I wanted one of the card-catalogue-drawer-style storage units for comics and game trinkets.

(and then a time machine to go back to the 90s and order even more fanzines and not lose the ones I did order, so I can put the A5 ones in the comic drawers, if they even fit)

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-board-games-that-ruined-it-everyone/

I usually hate Cracked, but that's a pretty great article. All those games are so mind numbing and yet so well love, it's a travesty. My son has been coercing me to play Battleship a lot lately and I'm ready to end it all. Luckily, he's also been trying to get me to play more Ticket To Ride - Europe, so I suppose there is light at the end of the tunnel.

that's a fun article. it's made me want to look for board games to play on my iphone. i have settlers of catan and ticket to ride as actual board games (though sadly not where i live) so not those, i'd like to try a new game. looking around i saw that puerto rico was on sale (2.99 instead of 7.99 or something like that) but it's ipad only. anyways, any particular recs?

Well there's a bunch of Reiner Knizia's games with iOS versions. I just got Tigris and Euphrates for my iphone, it's great.

Has anyone ever played this particular strategy/war game? http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/62227/labyrinth-the-war-on-terror-2001

Andean Abyss looks soooooo good but may be too complicated game-wise for a beginner.

there's a 4700 post discussion of it here: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX/.1dd44a7e/0

The designer chimes in on the first page. But, no I haven't played it. It can be played solitaire which i find interesting.

not sure i want that much detail before i try it myself! just wondered if anyone here had played it.
the solitaire option does seem pretty neat as an intellectual exercise.

my 2 brothers, a close friend and i used to play risk all throughout our childhood - so we just picked up risk legacy and plan to play this weekend. reviews are great, so i'm pretty excited

tell me about it when you do im intrigued

what i play when i play:

7 wonders
pandemic
puerto rico
agricola

my bro also got citadels (card game) which we'll probably play at some point

has anyone played android: netrunner (living card game)? it looks really cool and i'm interested in trying it...

have u played saboteur, teh card game, its fun

My son and I got my wife Love Letter for Mother's Day. The three of us played a couple rounds today. It's surprisingly entertaining considering that the entire game consists of a 16 card deck and some counters for score keeping.

how do you beat pandemic? i found it really tough going with two people ... really only manageable w/ the researcher / project manager combo.

>has anyone played android: netrunner (living card game)? it looks really cool and i'm interested in trying it...

I played it when it was a CCG in like 1995! It was vg.

how do you beat pandemic? i found it really tough going with two people ... really only manageable w/ the researcher / project manager combo.

― the late great, Monday, May 13, 2013 1:49 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

make every move count!

3 ppl seems the optimum number of players. 4 is almost impossible.

quarantine specialist is a really useful role when things get hairy.

Played Metro last night with my dad & his wife. Not a good game for people with poor eyesight. To them it was like looking at a plate of spaghetti.

I played the new Netrunner once, but was very into the original game from the 90's. It seems like they kept the concept and gameplay very similar but the cards are different. Which is good - the one knock I had on the original game was that it was a bit unbalanced in favor of the corporation. If they've rebalanced the cards, that would make the game great.

Let me second the love for Love Letter, that's a game we've been playing a lot lately. Really simple game, almost no strategy, but surprisingly fun all the same.

my 2 brothers, a close friend and i used to play risk all throughout our childhood - so we just picked up risk legacy and plan to play this weekend. reviews are great, so i'm pretty excited
― Mordy , Sunday, May 12, 2013 10:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tell me about it when you do im intrigued
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Sunday, May 12, 2013 10:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is amazing; you should def get a copy slocks, esp. if you can get 4 others to commit to a regular session

think we've played about a game a month, with five, and are up to our 9th game now

it gets... TENSE

the one knock I had on the original game was that it was a bit unbalanced in favor of the corporation. If they've rebalanced the cards, that would make the game great.

i was talking to a friend the other day who has played the new version. he said that there's a way to play online, and it keeps overall stats of the results of each game, and apparently 51% of all games have been won by the corp (or 49%, can't remember)

Ha, awesome. Maybe I need to investigate the new game more thoroughly.

my copy of risk legacy is still in its original packaging :/

I remember the original as being corp-advantaging too, but I wander if that was a result of my misguided-to-nonexistent deckbuilding thought at age like 11, and in fact the runner was just always meant to be running four copies of Mouse or whatever. I guess in any case a fixed-deck variant solves that problem.

a few board games on the app store are on sale - ra, tiger&euphrates, le havre. they're all under a buck. any thoughts about these games?

I bought all four for going on holiday because of the pricing. We probably played Medici more than any of the rest, a great little filler game. Ra is very much in the same boat, although if you're playing solo against the AI it's very slow because it still 'thinks' about every move.

Le Havre looked good when I ran through the tutorial but it seems to be one of those games where you have to remember what the bonuses for a lot of different buildings are, so I reckon it's a good implementation for people who already know how to play it but I never got in the mood to play it.

Played through the tutorial for Tigris & Euphrates, didn't like it. Area control game where you use war as a destabilising technique on other areas, but with an odd scoring mechanism where you notionally have points but don't get them until you do something else and sometimes you score them, sometimes not. I might have another go and see if I enjoy it more.

Tikal was cheap for a while too, and that's definitely worth it.

I've played tabletop Le Havre and it is a mathy BEAR, one of the grindiest and least satisfying games I've played. If you did memorize what all the cards did there could be some satisfaction in implementing the most optimal strategy available in any given move but it's definitely a game won on predicting that getting the Drying Shed now means an extra 2 points three turns from now versus putting your chips on the Barrel Distributor or whatever. And you don't have enough turns, or moves per turn, to just screw all that and play it in a loose fun family way where you're just tinkering with your little sea port. Dud for me.

Yeah, ran through it again after i posted above and you have to remember what all the buildings do otherwise your opponents (if they're the AI) just go on a route to get the luxury liner as soon as it's available and you can't play against it. Then they do things like build the Seine Bridge, which it doesn't show you on the tutorial and is introduced in the "simple version, without the difficult cards". It's a dud for me too.

Also the cards are tiny so you can't see what the activation costs are, or even what buildings your opponents have. I knew one of them had the abattoir and it took me about a minute to work out which of the two of them had it.

old news i'm sure but ticket to ride on iphone is really well done imo

so i played a few games of citadel this week - it was very easy to pickup, quick moving and fun.

i also played 2 games of netrunner. the first game i was the runner and i hit a basically unprotected R&D early on for like 4 points early on w/ a maker's eye. it went so quick that i couldn't really get much out of the game except for very basic principles (we're trying to teach ourselves the rules). the second game i was the corporation and it felt very unbalanced against the runner. at some point i had my R&D and HQ protected by two decent ice each, and i had made a remote server w/ 3 very good ice that i just kept cycling agendas into and advancing/scoring every two turns. at that point was there anything a more experienced runner could have done, or if the runner doesn't move quickly enough and lets the corporation build up big defenses is he pretty much screwed? did i play the rules wrong by accident? one thing we noted after the game is that the runner relied heavily on crypsis which meant he basically never had money and couldn't put serious runs together (he settled for taking big shots w/ maker's eye at my HQ to try and luck into some agendas - but came out w/ nothing twice).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOBAQOa4MsQ

That's exactly how I remember the old game playing out, Mordy. If the runner didn't get a good early start (and some luck), they were locked out. Every ice the corp builds makes it harder for the runner, but the corp only has to activate an ice once, whereas the runner pays every time they go through. I should check out some pro-level games of this, I always got the feeling we were playing it wrong too.

i'm totally obsessed w/ netrunner now

I'd like to give it a try. I've been checking out the rules and various tutorials online.

Do you play with any of expansions or just the core set?

so far just the core set but i plan to grab the expansions soon

have i mentioned how much i love netrunner? NBN is my shit. drop in some scorched earths and flatline away.

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i'm thinking about attending my local game shop's netrunner regionals next weekend. any other ilxors playing it yet?

One of my friends won the Netrunner regional out here, think he might fly out for the nationals. I've only played it once, thought it was okay.

i doubt i'll do very well. i haven't played competitively at all and my gaming group only recently got into it so i don't have much casual experience either.

So a few mates and I have been playing board games together every month - http://sickmouthy.com/2013/05/01/what-i-alk-about-when-i-talk-about-board-games/ - and I've bought Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne, and now I fancy buying something else.

I've seen Alien Frontiers, Power Grid, and Puerto Rico mentioned and they all look like good bets. NetRunner is entirely bard based isn't it? I think I'm mostly interested in simple-to-pick-up (in terms of rules) stuff that can have relatively sophisticated tactics and doesn't require huge memory skills (Small World has way too many variations of races to figure out how to use them properly, for instance), and stuff that's either for 2 or 4 players (ideally both, and possibly expandable to 6, too).

Any suggestions?

Card not bard.