Board Games!

[Chevre]

Bought

Hanabi

and

Augustus

(and also some paper plate holders because those two were too cheap for free shipping).

[Juls]

Haha...I've done that before I amazon with add-on items

[ChannelDelibird]

Finally, finally played

Cosmic Encounter

tonight and now I can't wait to play it again.

[zoraster]

there are few games where the fun is determined by the people you're playing with more than Cosmic.

[GreyICE]

Mafia

,

Resistance,

and

City of Horrors

being three of them. Or

Diplomacy

and

Game of Thrones

.

Negotiation/social deception games by their nature rely on having a good group of people. More solitary, strategic games let you get joy out of the pure strategy, outside the social aspect.

[Chevre]

What type of people do you need though? Because our group is fairly close, like close enough to be able to lie and backstab and get over it, if that makes sense. But they don't like to socially strategize. :/

[GreyICE]

Cosmic Encounters

is heavily reliant on negotiating with other players, and getting them to help you. The entire game is virtually all social negotiation. There's even a "Negotiate" card where if both people play one they have 1 minute to cut a deal (cards, powers, whatever). If you want to play your own game and not talk to other people, this is not the game for you.

I mean that and the wild powers the aliens have are basically most of the game (and how much fun 20 UFOs are... and how great the cards are... and there's like 6 expansions... it's just pure fun)

[Anatole Kuragin]

Man, I love Diplomacy but it's such a pain in the ass to get 7 people together.

[Chevre]

This game looks so cool but it's totally flown under my radar.

[zoraster]

that pronunciation. not like i haven't mispronounced my fair share of games. Agricola.

[Chevre]

it's supposed to be sink terruh right?

[Juls]

French yes?...it would sound sorta like "Sank Tear". But I will ask my husband. He speaks French.

[Juls]

He says it would have to be Cinq to be French ...

[Chevre]

it is actually Italian! it refers to an areaon the southwestern coast of italy. I guess there's a pronunciation there, I shan't have been so lazy.

cheenk-way tehr-ay, I guess.

[zoraster]

Chink Weh Ter Reh

Italian is nice because the pronunciation basically is the same no matter what. The confusing thing to English speakers is that Ch is basically the opposite of english (in other words, it makes the C sound hard rather than soft).

[Xalxe]

I've been there! That's all I have to offer here sorry.

[Cabd]

Okay mafiascum, 15-dot (136 count) domino set. Besides

mexican train

and

chicken claw

, what other games are worth learning with that large a set? Assume I can have up to 10 players.

[Oman]

Of my new purchases we gave

Memoir 44

a go, and man it takes a LOT of setup but is a fun game. Looks like it'll take us a few games to kind of learn what is a good idea and what isn't (beat my mate twice in a row).

Also played

Android: Netrunner

and I'm hooked. If anyone ever wants to play this at all on OCTGN let me know. Still learning so I'll need someone with a little patience Speaking of patience, this game is really fucking hard to learn for the first time. I still don't have it, but man it took us two games just to think we had a playable understanding. I love T/LCGs but I just wish the people who played them weren't so...smelly? For the most part anyway.


Awesome fun games. Also had some non-gamers play

Pandemic

with us and TBH with 4 people and 4 Epidemic cards...it was a little easy. Really easy actually.

[Faraday]

4 epidemic cards is just like super novice level though, right? It's supposed to be p easy.

[Oman]

I dunno. Considering there are only 6, that seems like a weird scale. That there are 4 which is super novice, and 6 would have to be super hard right?

[Faraday]

Yeah. But 2 extra epidemic cards is quite a lot. I'm pretty sure it only recommends 4 for your first game?

And 6 is more like hard mode with 5 being the regular game. Even one extra makes a big difference ime.

[Faraday]

Also some of the roles are stronger than others; so that's something to consider.

[Thesp]

Yeah. But 2 extra epidemic cards is quite a lot. I'm pretty sure it only recommends 4 for your first game?

And 6 is more like hard mode with 5 being the regular game. Even one extra makes a big difference ime.

Yes - 5 epidemics in the game is an average game. (really, you increased the rate of infection by 25%!) It's difficult, but not overly so, you'll win some and lose some.

I have yet to win with 6 epidemics. They come

fast

.

[GreyICE]

OTOH 6 Epidemics isn't that tough really.

The key to Pandemic, and what makes it a less-than-great game IMHO is that chasing cubes is such an enormous waste of time. Everyone assumes the Medic is the strongest role at first, but the Medic is actually quite mediocre. The strongest role in the game is the Researcher. It's basically risk-mitigation, with you assuming exactly how little effort you have to do to stop a region from having more than one or two outbreaks, then playing race for the cure.

I hear In the Lab makes the cubes relevant again, so I'd like to pick it up.

[Sudo_Nym]

I would say that the Medic is great, but only because it minimizes the number of actions you need to spend on cubes. Generally, you don't want to spend more than the minimum number of actions clearing cubes, an ita only worthwhile on places.with three cubes already. So being able to reset a place can make it irrelevant for a large chunk of the game, saving you actions for the rest.