It was a combination of a few things. I did heavy resource creation in winter and then moved them all to my lumber yard for 3 points each, as well as having upgraded all my buildings.In post 674, Scigatt wrote:Let me rephrase. How did the winner win?In post 670, hasdgfas wrote:Are you asking what my strategy was or how you win/lose the game?In post 669, Scigatt wrote:How did you win/lose?In post 667, hasdgfas wrote:I played Keyflower last night. It's a very interesting auction/worker-placement game where your currency for the auction is your workers. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It has just enough depth to make it interesting without being too intimidating, I think.
I won the only time I played with most of my points off a single tile(Mercer's Guild). As for green meeples, we had two tiles where we could get them. The only time I used them was to secure first turn in winter, though.
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3 hexes total in a 5-player game. I got one of them.In post 676, Scigatt wrote:How much transport was in your game? We only had the wainwright come up, and that was in fall. I kept my village small, though, so I could flip every tile worth flipping early on, especially the Workshop.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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Had an awesome first night at a LGS with my friends! I mean, we kept to ourselves, but it was fun nonetheless.
I wished to introduce my friends toTicket to Ride, but wouldn't you know it the other group there was playing it. I don't even know if I could've because they quite quickly picked out some board games to try:World War ZandChupacabra: Survive the Night. I also broughtIncan Goldover because I knew it was simple and had a fun mechanic.
We started withWorld War Z, which is, in reality a commercial version of Pandemic. Like literally. There is a map of the world divided into different areas which populate with zombies that you have to killl. However, we found it immensely difficult. The lowest-level horde is just as strong as a human, so rolls usually do not end up in your favour. Additionally, players can be eliminated and turn into zombies which directly oppose the remaining human players. Suffice it to say, we lost.
Next we playedIncan Gold, and they really liked it once they got the hang of it. Pretty simple, nothing much to say.
Finally we playedChupacabra: Survive the Night, which is a simple dice rolling game. Basically you have dice that have differing types of livestock on five faces and a chupacabra on one, and you use any chupacabra rolls you get to capture other players' dice that rolled livestock. It is very easy and luck-based, but fun. I ended up buying it at my friends request.There will be no kisses tonight
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Games I've played recently:
Agricola: I lost pretty badly, I think. Didn't get a lot of people or upgrade my houses. (Final score:24)
Village: I managed to win this by some margin, with a combination of points mostly from the chronicle, the market, and travel.(Final score: 55)
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I remember being in a board game group, and always wanting to play agricola, even though everyone thought agricola sucked. We did play it at some point and actually it was kind of nice, though it didn't blow my socks off or anything. I think it gets much better if you play it a couple of times.
What I did play recently is DIPLOMACY. The full thing with 7 players ! In lack of a dedicated GM we just put the orders in a box, which works fine. The game lasted, I think, maybe 6 hours or so. We stopped when the winning alliance was kind of obvious; this is not a game you want to play till the bitter end as it can get very tedious at that point.- inHimshallibe
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Worker placement is a saturated market, but I feel like Agricola is just the most balanced between theme/strategy/agony/fun. I've played the game so many times, it never seems to lose replay value.In post 683, sirdanilot wrote:Nah, there are too many games of that type for it to be my favorite...
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I've found that Agricola overstays its welcome about a half hour to an hour too long for me, especially if you have a new player.- Sudo_Nym
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For the first time in six years, no.In post 689, Axxle wrote:Anyone at gencon this weekend?
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Large Amazon sale on strategy board games - hnggh
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Saint Malo has also caught my attention. Very interesting game with dice-rolling mechanics where you DRAW your lands/estate/whatever.There will be no kisses tonight
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