Board Games!

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board games :3

Wiz-War!

RoboRally is neat but feels like it goes on about a half-hour too long for my taste.

Disaster Looms! showed up at the local board game club recently. It's a nice mix of strategy and taking advantage of the unexpected.

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I've only played GOT a couple times, always with a full six players. It has fun mechanics, but some board positions are less interesting than others, like drawing Stark.

I don't know the card game version or Legendary.

My house got the expansion packs for Defenders of the Realm and the current complete Flash Point game via Kickstarter, so I'm booked for the next couple days...

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It is fun, and I think it's actually easier with the White Moon expansion.

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Escape has been the surprise hit of my game club. Although a couple of people really hate it because they couldn't make a fast decision standing between two barrels of water with their pants on fire.

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Traitor making it to the end undiscovered turns two white swords black, IIRC.

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My game group loves Escape: Curse of the Temple with lots of expansions piled in, and my family likes Defenders of the Realm. The latter involves some dice and can be played with a 'best winner' mechanic, but they're both good for avoiding the micromanager syndrome in my experience.

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How true is it that everyone likes seven wonders? I've been considering it forever but I have yet to bite the bullet and just buy it. My group likes Settlers, TtR and Tobago, and Kingsburg also got a rating of "OK."

I'll play it if other people bring it out, but I'll almost never propose it myself. Not sure why; I think it's an elegant game with nice variety. Maybe the lack of investment in what all the other players are doing? I know one has to watch what cards are being played to know what's still likely available/feasible, but there's not the same investment in using one's turn to counter moves from the opposition. It's more a matter of damage control.

Played Small World for the first time a couple weeks ago and enjoyed it far more than I anticipated. Damage Report has been a lot of fun too, although my short-term attention span has issues with the sand timers.

Really looking forward to the release of The King's Armory; I went with the Kickstarter campaign, and everything I've seen looks like a nice upgrade from things like Castle Panic.

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hype

I did not hear about this. Why is the world so cruel that I just now am hearing about this.

And after the last two pages I really want to play Dominion this weekend. And track down the booster pack for the original set.

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Just popping in to say that Board Game uPick: The Expansion Pack went into sign-ups in the Mini Theme queue here if anyone's interested.