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[Sudo_Nym]

Beyond the ability to handle them manually?

[Juls]

BSG players - how does Saturday evening (GMT) look for you? Thinking around 7pm GMT/2pm EST

I can't do it Saturday. I forgot that Alabama vs. Auburn was happening. I'll probably just /out for now cause Sunday isn't looking good either.

[Nexus]

i could do saturday

[ChannelDelibird]

Beyond the ability to handle them manually?

Yeah, as far as I can tell I can shuffle them into the pile of human cards but the Final Fives can't be drawn from that pile into the loyalty deck. There are always five cards left over in the human pile that just won't move. I've posted a query on the Vassal forums but those boards seem a little dead so I doubt we'll get a good answer.

[Sudo_Nym]

I've played around with it, and it seems you can shuffle them in from the other piles, just not from the human cards. So it would work if we were willing to move the human pile into a different stack, but I don't know how dedicated we are to Final Five.

[Porochaz]

Pretty unlikely to be able to do Saturday.

Can almost certainly do Sunday.

[Thesp]

Mysterium is the dixit like game? With the cool art? How did that play. It sounded like a cool concept.

Also interested in your thoughts on spyfall and tragedy looper which I was considering buying.

From all I've seen of the cure I don't think I need it, I already have pandemic. Looks fun though with the custom dice.

I've given a full rundown of everything here. Mysterium was a great and innovative co-op, and my one regret of the con was not buying it when I could.

I also really enjoyed my brief two plays of Spyfall and now must own it. Tragedy Looper was also innovative and different, but tough to wrap my head around at first. I want to play it again, and was glad I was taught by someone who knew what they were doing. I worry that needing exactly 4 players to play (which it really needs), along with the complex structure of the game will hamper the ability to play it without a regular group of players.

And I agree that you probably don't need both Pandemic and Pandemic: the Cure. I have the board game and won't be getting the dice game, but if I didn't have the board game, I'd probably get the dice version.

[Nexus]

maybe bsg

[ChannelDelibird]

I've played around with it, and it seems you can shuffle them in from the other piles, just not from the human cards. So it would work if we were willing to move the human pile into a different stack, but I don't know how dedicated we are to Final Five.

Ooh! That's an easy enough solution. Good spot.

Prozac: Nexus can't do Sunday in case we overrun like crazy again.

PEDIT: Will follow up on that

[Sudo_Nym]

I can do either day, so I guess we go whenever is most convenient for the most players.

[Nexus]

don't hold it up on my account tbf

[Porochaz]

As I said on skype Im happy to start earlier, but I really dont think there is any way I can do Saturday.

[Porochaz]

That said if more folk prefer Sat. then thats fine.

[Chevre]

Is

Dominion: Intrigue

any more difficult than basic

Dominion

? BGG says it's better, and the sale at MM puts it one dollar cheaper than the original base game.

[mykonian]

Slightly, but not in a bad way. It has a couple more cards that have interaction with your opponents, which give them choices in play again, and it has a couple of cards that have options on them. So yes, you are probably a bit more involved in the game, also on your opponents turns, and that's probably good for the game.

[ChannelDelibird]

Yeah, Dominion's main flaw is a lack of interaction with other players. Intrigue doesn't solve that completely, but it addresses it much better than the base game. Difficulty spike is not a big one.

BSG players - Saturday is mildly better for me than Sunday but can do either.

[Chevre]

Thank you!

There are some good deals about on sites like Cardhaus and MM (for example both have Rise of Augustus at like ~13 which is wow) and also Target (TtR and SoC are 32, Tapple and Telestrations are 9.99 and I hope to capitalize.). Hope y'all take advantage!

[Sudo_Nym]

So for the purposes of scheduling, I currently have Juls and Prozac as preferring Sunday, CDB available for either but prefering Saturday, Me available for either, and LLD, Nexus, GreyICE, and Patrick with no stated preference.

It looks like Sunday's in the lead, but people should weigh in. I assume we're going around 7 GMT for the sake of our British players? Also, is it GMT or BST now? I don't know if that affects scheduling, but I'm curious.

[ChannelDelibird]

We're on GMT now and, aye, 7pm our time would be ideal.

[Juls]

I'm not going to be able to play Sunday either, sorry. My husband is taking my daughter to the movie so I have the baby. I may listen in though and observe.

[Sudo_Nym]

Alright, I need to make other plans for the weekend, so I need to call it on this thing. Unless I hear back, I'm going to assume we're playing Sunday, 7 GMT.

[Faraday]

Got Betrayal for €25 incl shipping from amazon uk. Very happy, since they went super quick. Sad I missed dixit yesterday, but c'est la vie.

[Nexus]

I'm out, then. Have fun.

[ChannelDelibird]

Prozac, since you asked: 7pm.

[ChannelDelibird]

Reminder for BSG players: In addition to Pegasus and Daybreak from before, you'll need to install the Exodus module on Vassal. There's a separate 'Exodus Cylon Fleet' module as well but DON'T install that.