The Thread Where We Are Board Game Geeks

what do ppl itt think of smallworld? It attracts me aesthetically...

I own it. The aesthetics are awesome and add a lot to the fun of the game. The gameplay is pretty interesting too - it's based around a mechanic of mixing and matching races and classes, so you get different experiences each time. That said, I've played about ten games and don't play it anymore. The winner almost always comes down to people playing kingmaker, and worse, sometimes players get into positions where they are losing yet the other players are incentivized to keep attacking them, which is really unfun.

I don't mind playing the IOS version(which cost next to nothing depending on when you bought it) but have ABSOLUTELY no desire to play the IRL game no matter how you could present it.

That must be for iPad only bc I've looked for an iOS version specifically

Can anyone recommend a relatively quick/straightforward game that is fun with two players (preferably not collaborative)?

Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer

Thanks, cool. Decent enough with just the base set?

Yeah, it's pretty basic but fairly fun

Coloretto

2 player Dominion is my favorite Dominion

Yeah, Dominion is a good 'un. Similar game mechanics to Ascension.

opinions on twilight imperium?

fun, though sometimes it feels like a bunch of different games cobbled together—i could do without like, the politics angle—but as an eight-hour, once-a-year thing, i dig it

I really have far too many games.

Brits of a certain age really shouldn't snooze on Tony Boydell's game of Ivor The Engine. It's a proper game and not just something for kids, plus new Firmin art just for it. Lovely.

Boydell's Snowdonia is also fun, with a lot of points trades to be worked out through progress or development.
I have got Caverna out 5 times now and still never started a game, I got completely bored with Agricola as it's just "build a food engine, grow your family" with very little variation beyond that but the scope of Caverna has scared me into putting it back each time.
Great Fire of London is a superb little pseudo-co-op with hidden victory points. The players work ostensibly together to fight the fire, but have areas they want to protect for final bonuses.
Letters from Whitechapel is a pretty good hidden movement game. A good player will pretty much always win whether he plays the ripper or the police though, and some house rules can balance it.
For people that found Arkham Horror too fiddly and tried Elder Sign because they liked dice, but found THAT too fiddly; the answer is Ancient Terrible Things. Plays like a treat and scratches exactly the same itch.
Cornish Smuggler is potentially great, although the mechanism for recruiting allies feels a bit too unbalanced.
A Study In Emerald could be a great Martin Wallace game, but I haven't played it with enough people to make the hidden victory conditions worthwhile. It's a deckbuilder at heart, but pretends not to be - unlike London, which clearly is a fun deckbuilder and none the worse for it.
Compounded is a really fun little set collection game.
Finally got around to Stone Age which seemed a little to basic of a worker placement for me these days tbh.
Unlike Viticulture, which is a great worker placement game and about to be expanded.
I finally got around to Forbidden Desert and it's much harder than Forbidden Island, it's killed us every time thus far.

Played Libertalia and Nexus: Black Ops over the weekend, both v good.

I got Bootleggers out, had a fight during the rules runthrough, put it away again.

Sorry, Nexus Ops, dunno where I got Black Ops from.

I kinda wanna try either Android or Netrunner

netrunner is so good

Can I ask - is there a reason so many of these games have a vague medieval European setting?

is there a reason so many of these games have a vague medieval European setting?

― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin)

Tolkien.

That they're made by Germans and have a medieval setting which means a simpler economy that you can abstract into gameplay that much easier? I dunno.

Blame Klaus Tueber for whatever historical kick he was on when he designed Settlers.

played superfight tonight, which is like CaH but good

it's not a board game, but is Gloom worth a look?

who plays the amazing BOHNANZA?!

wow, Dixit is such a divisive game - some people I've played with it can't believe what a wonderful idea it is, others get frustrated right from the beginning and quickly lose interest. i quite like it - once people get into the flow of it, it can be a lot of fun, especially if you can suss out people's clues based on their own personalities. my only qualm is you get used to the cards quite quickly so expansion packs are a must.

I kind of hated bohnaza. Dixit, is ok, but I really rarely have a desire to play it. I'll give it a go if someone else wants to.

bohnanza is so great tho

addicted to star realms on ipad

we all loved dixit the one time we played it but we got stuck in the habit of only using book/movie titles

anyone play hanabi? fun.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/18/like_stratego_with_more_bagpipes_scotland_independence_referendum_hammer_of_the_scots

so did anyone else notice the kinda crazy board game appearances in gone girl?

anyone wanna play some deus on boite a jeux?

http://boardgamegeek.com/article/15680469#15680469

http://www.wargamespace.com/2015/01/26/hell-on-a-very-small-map/

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/12/behold-the-stephen-king-cinematic-universe/full-post/

http://www.wargamespace.com/2015/01/26/hell-on-a-very-small-map/

That guy is awesome & so are his fluctuating bangs. Seriously, great video & gets to why wargames are the best games.

yeah, he's the best. he makes me wish i played more wargames (and had more ppl to play against)

i played twilight struggle tnite for the first time -- so much fun

I've been playing the hell out of Five Tribes recently. A suitable gateway in the way that TtR is - simple mechanic to grasp, few actual rules - but a very complex group of win strategies, to the extent there are opportunities for AP if players are so inclined.

Londoners who may not have heard of it yet; this place is really great: http://www.draughtslondon.com/
and has got me addicted to Munchkins

picked up the Adventure Time Munchkin set this weekend. it will be difficult to find a 3rd, so I'm just hoping that I get to play it someitme this year.

We are finally playing (well, learning) the famous Twilight Struggle. Much easier than Labyrinth; plenty yet to internalize, though.

Just bought Space Hulk (again). Looking fiorward to being slaughtered by aliens soon.

Thoughts on Talisman, people?

I loved Talisman as a kid, played it again as an adult (2nd ed) and was very disappointed. It was interminable and arbitrary, though I understand later editions address this a bit.

Lovely artwork though.

I'm digging Dominion currently. Interested in getting Castles of Mad King Ludwig and Euphoria, anyone played those?

I have Euphoria, but read an early review that there was one key mechanism/decision that effectively was the kingmaker in the game and it's never made the table. Viticulture (by the same guy) very good though.

twilight imperium y/n

Been playing mainly filler games recently - Give Me The Brain, Unexploded Cow, Stuff & Nonsense, Love Letter, Unexpected Treasures, Yardmaster, Tower, TEK and TED.

On a bigger scale, been enjoying Town Center, Waggle Dance, Cubist, Shipwrights of the North Sea, Scoville and Hoyuk. Need to get Pay Dirt, Brew Crafters, Bright Future, Asking for Trobils and Meteor to the table some time soon.

Imminent goodies include the Ancient Terrible Things expansion, the Compounded expansion, Dead Men Tell No Tales and Web of Spies.

And I still can't get a win at Ghost Stories after logging about 15 games.