Board Games!

[Nexus]

You don't have the individual goals. You swap the objective to the 'hardcore' side, and just go for that.

It's pretty difficult!

[Faraday]

oh, the individual goals seem one of the most fun aspects, but I guess with 2 people it makes sense. Seems like it'll be a while before it's released widespread over here tho'

[Chevre]

Anyone have experience with

Among the Stars

? It seems like it mixes the card drafting of 7 wonders with a bit of the tile-laying that Suburbia uses.

Also,

Jamaica

is $30 (plus shipping) at Miniature Market; you can bet I snapped that up real quick (maybe a bit impulsively).

[xRECKONERx]

What is Jamaica?

[Chevre]

A light game about racing pirate ships. The winner isn't necessarily the fastest around the island, but instead the one with the most gold.

The basic mechanic is that the "Captain" rolls two dice, and then puts one on the "Morning" spot and the other on the "Evening" spot. Each player then chooses a card from their three-card hand to play. These cards each have a Morning and Evening action which involve the number rolled on the dice (for example, "move X spaces forward", "take X number of doubloons").

I also noticed that Sushi Go! is back in stock on amazon so it's in my cart and I may choose to purchase it later this week.

[xRECKONERx]

After seeing the Castles of Mad King Ludwig review, HOLY FUCK I WANT THAT GAME. It's like Suburbia with actual competitiveness.

[Chevre]

There's the Miami Dice episode for Jamaica if you are interested.

[Faraday]

Jamaica always seemed like it'd be kind of boring to me, tbh <_<

[Chevre]

that's really strange, imo. It seems to have so many options that I think it might end up being our groups favorite game.

Everyone has their own tastes though.

[ChannelDelibird]

Anyone have experience with

Among the Stars

? It seems like it mixes the card drafting of 7 wonders with a bit of the tile-laying that Suburbia uses.

I like Among the Stars quite a lot, and that's a pretty good description. I much prefer it to 7 Wonders thanks to greater reactions to what every other player is doing, and it's breezier than Suburbia but Suburbia fans won't find it in danger of supplanting that game in the way that it has supplanted 7 Wonders for me in terms of a card-drafting game.

[Chevre]

Thanks CD! I have to admit that's exactly what I wanted to hear though, so maybe that jades me a little.

Also I think I have finally organized my collection in one place but that place is a dark closet (gotta preserve box quality! jk) so once I get one of those little lights for the closet I might post a picture of my meager collection.

[Brandi]

Got Dead of Winter and Played it with my boyfriend and maaaaaaaan it's so fun! I can't wait for the real non-2-player challenge in the future!
The zombie concept didn't really feel as in your face and it was more of an afterthought. This game even seems to have some mafia elements and I can see it getting to be a very socially interactive game with more and more players.

[Siveure DtTrikyp]

I recently discovered terra mystica.

Incredibly fun.

And I'm incredibly bad at it, because there's a LOT of stuff going on, and it's all relevant, and it's all actually fairly intuitive what everything is but what you need to do isn't (In both games so far, someone has come last with basically the biggest empire, because prosperity doesn't give you any points). The factions in it are reasonably balanced - even though it's impossible to have an asymmetric game with equal chances of victory for everyone, which faction has the advantage is different each game (and choosing your faction is thus fairly important).

There's a slight paradox in that the only conflict is over available resources (including land) yet you nearly always actually want to be near to each other because there are advantages to doing so.

[chamber]

What kind of score range have you guys been getting, out of curiousity?

[xRECKONERx]

Yeah TM is probably our most played game and my personal favorite.

[chamber]

What kind of score range have you guys been getting, out of curiousity?

Same to you guys reck.

[xRECKONERx]

Man I can't even remember... I feel like 100ish is the low average, somewhere up to 130ish?

[chamber]

We start at 20 points so that early magic actually has a point cost. Out scores are normally like 120-140. So your numbers sound about right.

[Siveure DtTrikyp]

I've played it like twice and got like 120 the second time with like 3 cult points. The one experienced guy got like 140 and also got kindof screwed over a couple times by chaotic moves from the rest of us.

First time was like 90-100ish I think, with one guy about 110-120ish I think.

[ChannelDelibird]

Thinking about arranging another game of Battlestar Galactica on Vassal - Saturday October 4 would be the next convenient day that I'd be free; anyone else fancy it? Relevant information on how to play on Vassal here.

[Sudo_Nym]

I'd probably be available, but I'll double check.

[Nexus]

Thinking about arranging another game of Battlestar Galactica on Vassal - Saturday October 4 would be the next convenient day that I'd be free; anyone else fancy it? Relevant information on how to play on Vassal here.

in theory (visiting lisa this week) means i should be able to play

[Mr. Flay]

Thinking about arranging another game of Battlestar Galactica on Vassal - Saturday October 4 would be the next convenient day that I'd be free; anyone else fancy it? Relevant information on how to play on Vassal here.

I miiiight be free. What time(s) are you thinking?

I can never get anybody local to play BSG, so it'd be a good option.

[ChannelDelibird]

I can be very flexible on times that day - depends what works for others.

[Mr. Flay]

My other thing that 'day' is in the evening (6:30 Central US), so if it can be in my afternoon (European evening), I am almost 100% in.

I am not obligated to it though, so if everyone else wants to do evening, that's fine.