Board Games!

[Chevre]

also I have Jackbox Party Pack 3 and Trivia Murder Party looks PERFECT for the occasion

[Sudo_Nym]

Played Le Havre last night; I seem to forget how much I enjoy Le Havre until I play it again. Really enjoyable, but I always seem to finish one turn shy of winning. Had an opponent jam the Steel Mill at just the wrong time, and realized to my regret that it meant I would be one turn short of building a Luxury Ship, and that turned out to be the margin of victory. Alas.

[Fenchurch]

also I have Jackbox Party Pack 3 and Trivia Murder Party looks PERFECT for the occasion

What is this? It looks intriguing, but also kind expensive, and I couldn't find any information about how the game actually works.

[Lady Lambdadelta]

also I have Jackbox Party Pack 3 and Trivia Murder Party looks PERFECT for the occasion

What is this? It looks intriguing, but also kind expensive, and I couldn't find any information about how the game actually works.

not a board game, it's from the makers oof YDKJ and it's a party game for 4-8 players plus an audience as the game is meant as a streaming game.

[Fenchurch]

Yeah I gathered most of that from looking it up, but I was wondering more about the actual rules, how you play, etc..?

[Lady Lambdadelta]

with your phones at jackbox.tv

TMP is a trivia gae where if you answer wrong you play a minigame and potentially die and the winner at the end is the one who escapes with their life but ghosts can try and steal the final player's body in the last round

[xRECKONERx]

i yelled and screamed drunkenly about Machi Koro on mine/UT's podcast: www.drunkdice.com

i really liked the game even though i spend 20 minutes shitting on it

[Untrod Tripod]

MEIN PODCAST

[Untrod Tripod]

Reck is gay hitler confirmed

[hiplop]

Im glad yall are doing this again. I dont have enough podcasts to walk with

[xRECKONERx]

we're just calling it season two to cover up for the fact we were just really lazy

[Vi]

7 Wonders (easy to explain and always a hit)

Meaning this as nothing against you or 7 Wonders, but it's not a game I'd consider "easy to explain". The first few games are full of questions about how the heck Science scores and what these weird yellow cards do.

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Me and some people from work finally scraped together an afternoon of board games (apparently football was on a bye week or something). Argent will still never get played because it requires only these two people to be there and for them to both want to play it.

*Carcassonne - In which I made an unofficial allegiance with the yellow player so we could score the same cities and farms, and mutually hateblocked the green player from completing a field that would have swung a 24-point farm. I came out ahead mostly from better placements (gg experience) with like 80-90 points or something silly, carrying the yellow player ten points behind me and coming close to lapping the green player, who had gone all-or-nothing on drawing one of the two tiles he needed to make that field.

*Ra - A bizarre session where two auction tracks got wiped, I wound up with like 11 pharaohs, and all three of us wanted the second epoch to have a giant meteor end it. I thought I was going to lose it 4certain because I only had highest pharaohs, high suns, and one or two 3-civ rounds, but the score turned out 37-38-40 in my favor despite everyone else having all the Niles and one person with like 25 points on monuments. Everyone agreed that no one made any obvious mistakes.

*Sentinels of the Multiverse - Parse: Fugue State + Dark Watch NightMist + X-TREME PRIME WARDENS CAPTAIN COSMIC vs. The Dreamer at the Tomb of Anubis. The environment killed so many Projections. Then it pushed The Dreamer to 1 HP and began indirectly killing us. Then it killed more projections (five out of the six needed to end the game). Then it killed us. We would have won had we been able to survive the Environment turn. :/

[Mr. Flay]

Power Grid is a three-hour game that basically comes down to the last turn as long as a given player wasn't knocked out of contention a long time ago. If you're remotely close to the lead, going first on the resource buy will probably win you the game if you've saved up for it.

Yeah, that's why I gave up on it. The end game is so disjoint from the rest, and the time investment is purely insane.

[Mr. Flay]

A note about Argent is that you will absolutely go over the advertised game length unless everyone playing has played a couple of games before. I've played several games with people from my department (and lost every one because of silly Astronomy Tower abuse on the part of one of the others/heavy gambling on schools that didn't count) and it was easily over half the gaming session every time.

Related note, are you saying it goes 150x2?? Jesus.

[Lady Lambdadelta]

A note about Argent is that you will absolutely go over the advertised game length unless everyone playing has played a couple of games before. I've played several games with people from my department (and lost every one because of silly Astronomy Tower abuse on the part of one of the others/heavy gambling on schools that didn't count) and it was easily over half the gaming session every time.

Related note, are you saying it goes 150x2?? Jesus.

Argent with no new players takes about 1 1/2-2 hours.

Argent with 1-2 new players takes 3.

Any more than that, you should be playing a "practice round" becasuse you're looking at 4+ hours with 3 newbies who have no idea what is going on

[Vi]

Power Grid is a three-hour game that basically comes down to the last turn as long as a given player wasn't knocked out of contention a long time ago. If you're remotely close to the lead, going first on the resource buy will probably win you the game if you've saved up for it.

Yeah, that's why I gave up on it. The end game is so disjoint from the rest, and the time investment is purely insane.

FWIW Power Grid: Factory Manager is a similar game with only a one-hour time investment.

LLD's time scale on Argent looks right, but playing with more than two new players just shouldn't happen, ever. It's too probable that at least one of the new players is going to short-circuit from information overload. (Full disclosure: I was that player when I first played)

[chamber]

I played with all new players and we started at 2 am the first time I played Argent.

[Mr. Flay]

Sadness. Our game group usually balks at 90m games, and everyone would be 'new players' the first time...

[Lady Lambdadelta]

Sadness. Our game group usually balks at 90m games, and everyone would be 'new players' the first time...

my advice? have everyone sit down and watch a "how to play video" AND have you read through all the rules and watch that video prior to doing it so you can answer questions.

Alternatively, play a game online with me, since I'm experienced, and I can teach you how to make it run smoother.

[Sudo_Nym]

My advice: buy a woodcutter's axe, carve "Murderin' Axe" into the handle, brandish it meaningfully while suggesting your game of choice.

[GreyICE]

Happily up for that.

If your group thinks Power Grid is the height of complexity though Argent is probably going to fall a little flat. It's a pretty big and interesting game.

[Vi]

It's a

really

big and interesting game.

Fixed. My core group (of professional nerds) agrees that it's the best game they've ever played, but also a brain-burner.

Also, I'd probably be in for committing arson dangerously near GreyICE's kids if four players wouldn't be too many. Unless the above post was referring to Sudo's post. Personally I'd be up for that too.

But, if 90 minutes is too long, I'd again point to Code of Nine as long as you have exactly four players. It's similar in concept but has many fewer moving parts.

[Lady Lambdadelta]

It's a

really

big and interesting game.

Fixed. My core group (of professional nerds) agrees that it's the best game they've ever played, but also a brain-burner.

Also, I'd probably be in for committing arson dangerously near GreyICE's kids if four players wouldn't be too many. Unless the above post was referring to Sudo's post. Personally I'd be up for that too.

But, if 90 minutes is too long, I'd again point to Code of Nine as long as you have exactly four players. It's similar in concept but has many fewer moving parts.

I think 4 is optimal for Argent, personally.

[Mr. Flay]

Code of Nine looks interesting. We're big fans of Mysterium and Code Names of late.

[PJ.]

Reading this thread got me interested in board games, so I looked up a few games I could play with just 1 or 2 others. I found Jaipur. Me and my girlfriend played a couple rounds of it and we really liked it. I recommend it.

I also grabbed munchkin but I'm sure everyone interested in munchkin has already played and knows everything they need to know about that.