Board Games!

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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.

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So Penguin and I toyed around with the

Defenders of the Realm

expansions last weekend. Adding in a whole 4 dragons makes the game much more difficult, but at times I felt that the game was either easy or hard entirely via luck of the draw, like the expansion removed some of the skill needed in the base game. We're still trying to toy around with some house rules to nail down the difficulty right, games so far are either routs or impossible.

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Broke open Penguin's copy of

Compounded

Monday night. http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/118174/compounded


The start up was really slow and repetitive, but the mid and endgame was quite fun. We started with 5 players but one lost interest fast. Can definitely tell this isn't for people with short attention spans. The game has some cases where playing somewhat co-operative is wise. Certain scoring items force you to also grant a score to another player.

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Martian Dice

is pretty simple quick filler fun, there's no limit to players, and if somebody drops out the game can easily continue.

In the same vein is

Dragon Slayer

Simple dice games with no real loss if somebody cuts tail and runs.


Penguin swears by

The Great Dalmudi

as well.

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Somebody should show their artists a real female.

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Because clearly they've never seen one.

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Played

The King's Armory

last night.

Game time is WAY too long, but once you get into it you lose track of time because of the level of fun. Penguin and I are trying to get a feel for how to house-rule to speed things up; even if it's just skipping the first two waves and randomizing the resulting rewards the team would have had.

Map being super modular means we can take time to really experiment, too.

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Anyone else going to Gencon this year?

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Guys, I finished pandemic legacy

Just in time for season two! It comes out soon.

I think they're previewing it at gencon.

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Gencon is fun so far!

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Guys, I finished pandemic legacy

Just in time for season two! It comes out soon.

I think they're previewing it at gencon.

speaking of

GET HYPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oyihkl ... e=youtu.be

Their booth has Band-Aids that are branded with the pandemic logo as free swag!

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Are semi cooperative games where there's a single winner but a death means everyone loses of interest?

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Seconding escape.

Found one at gencon called "dungeon dwellers" where only one player can win but a party death means a total game loss for all.

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Escape also has the benefit of being on a real world five minute timer, so once the game is setup you can go multiple rounds safely.

It is also very easy to adjust the difficulty up or down pregame to make it fair for your play group.

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Seconding escape.

Found one at gencon called "dungeon dwellers" where only one player can win but a party death means a total game loss for all.

I uh.....

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/282 ... at-caverns

boy that sounds familiar....

Yeah it is similar but there's less direct focus on sabotage in this one. We definitely got a similar feeling from it though.

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I guess we know what game you'll bring to Chicago meet two whenever it happens. Or AX.

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I definitely think that cooperative games suffer from the quarterback effect.

Some cooperative games that don't: Hanabi (people either love this or hate this), Mysterium (it can, but it's so abstract that sometimes that is helpful), Mechs Vs Minions (it's an investment though and there's a lot to it. I don't think this would be a good game for your situation, though in other regards I highly recommend it), Dungeon Fighter (cooperative dexterity game).

Castles of Mad King Ludwig is pretty fun every once in a while.

Meteor is like Hanabi; no talking, but has mechanics to build communications that allow it.

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I definitely think that cooperative games suffer from the quarterback effect.

Some cooperative games that don't: Hanabi (people either love this or hate this), Mysterium (it can, but it's so abstract that sometimes that is helpful), Mechs Vs Minions (it's an investment though and there's a lot to it. I don't think this would be a good game for your situation, though in other regards I highly recommend it), Dungeon Fighter (cooperative dexterity game).

Castles of Mad King Ludwig is pretty fun every once in a while.

Meteor is like Hanabi; no talking, but has mechanics to build communications that allow it.

I haven't played that. I'll look for it, since I happen to really like Hanabi.

Bandito is another Co-op game that you can't communicate about what you have. It's a quick little filler game. Very cute, very fun.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/166109/meteor

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Finished our first play-thru of Pandemic Legacy season one. Late to the party but hot damn was that good; and we can't wait to go again.

Spoiler: End of May Spoiler

Our CODA was red... We're probably going to do a just-us play-thru with Black Coda for the additional challenge, Red felt rather easy to contain (Only 6 roadblocks).

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Got to Pandemic Legacy April

Spoiler: Pandemic Legacy

2 lines into the update everyone at the table goes "Oh, it's a zombie virus."

We had a basically perfect run, we even almost got done without putting any 'verbleekten' (pale ones?) on the board, unfortunately we drew the one Coda city in the infection deck that we hadn't quarantined the turn before we were done.

Spoiler: April Spoilers

They are called "The Faded" in the English rulebook, so that sounds about right. Nasty little buggers, too.

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Spoiler: Pandemic April

For the moment they don't seem that bad, we haven't really had any outbreaks in Coda territory since we unlocked the quarantine specialist and they don't seem particularly more dangerous than normal Coda until you get outbreaks into non-coda cities, though there's always the joy of getting an epidemic hitting a city and then immediately drawing it.

Spoiler:

It really depends on what color of CODA you get. Players tend to find Red or Yellow CODA to be easy. Blue coda hard; and black coda nigh-impossible.

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Only buy legacy if the plan is to play 12 to 24 games of pandemic with the same exact people.

This^

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TBH they should backport the new connections to the standalone game. Yellow being an island was crappy.

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The "postgame mode" on BGG works really well; and the map is much nicer. It's a win-win.

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The "Jesus Walker" combo got arguably worse not better in legacy.

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Dominion was my introduction to deck building games and it made me not want to play any deck building games ever again.

I was happy someone talked me into Aeons End though.

But man you've really lost me if you start to describe a game and say deck building.

This is my exact opinion and feelings about deckbuilders.