Board Games!

theplague42 · Post Post #2377 (isolation #0) » Fri Sep 30, 2016 8:23 am

Does anybody have any suggestions for a board/card game for about 3-6 players? Looking for playtime of less than an hour. We've been playing BANG! a lot recently, and I'm looking for something new. I'm probably going to purchase Small World at some point, fyi.

theplague42 · Post Post #2379 (isolation #1) » Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:52 am

Is that related to Roll for the Galaxy? My boss actually suggested it (Roll) today lol.

theplague42 · Post Post #2389 (isolation #2) » Sun Oct 02, 2016 11:40 am

I ended up buying Small World and Axis and Allies (longer play time but it was cheap on Amazon). Unfortunately my roommates have an exam this week so probably won't be able to play for a few days.

theplague42 · Post Post #2390 (isolation #3) » Tue Oct 04, 2016 10:07 am

Played Small World last night with 5 people. Easily the most fun I've had in awhile. It took just over two hours, so way longer than we thought. I expect it'll be shorter as we get more familiar with the rules.

theplague42 · Post Post #2422 (isolation #4) » Sat Oct 08, 2016 8:19 am

I got 2v1'd in a 3 person Small World game last night. I had a super strong first two races so my two friends ganged up on me for basically the whole game. Still only lost by 3 points.

theplague42 · Post Post #2424 (isolation #5) » Mon Oct 10, 2016 6:47 am

Yeah I started warning them about turn 7 that I wasn't nearly as far ahead as they thought I was.

theplague42 · Post Post #2427 (isolation #6) » Mon Oct 10, 2016 7:58 am

The semi-hidden scoring makes it both easier and harder to try to avoid ganging up.

theplague42 · Post Post #2437 (isolation #7) » Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:11 am

$37 on Amazon seems a bit steep

theplague42 · Post Post #2439 (isolation #8) » Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:57 am

I was thinking it would be cheaper because it's a card game.

theplague42 · Post Post #2442 (isolation #9) » Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:27 am

Lol I did not realize it was that many cards.

theplague42 · Post Post #2466 (isolation #10) » Wed Oct 26, 2016 3:06 am

Anybody have any Power Grid strategies? We played an abbreviated 5p game yesterday (only played to 7 cities but stopped at 5 when we realized that without stage 2, all but one of us would get blocked off at 6 cities lol). Fun game! I like the economic aspects like resource prices changing with supply/demand.

theplague42 · Post Post #2468 (isolation #11) » Wed Oct 26, 2016 4:54 am

Mainly curious about general guidelines. Eg. about how much should you be bidding above a plant's normal price, how fast should you diversify to nuclear, etc.

theplague42 · Post Post #2526 (isolation #12) » Wed Nov 09, 2016 6:42 am

Every citizen will be legally required to purchase a copy

theplague42 · Post Post #2534 (isolation #13) » Wed Nov 23, 2016 9:41 am

Oh I just found out BGG Con exists and I live in Dallas.

theplague42 · Post Post #2567 (isolation #14) » Thu Jan 12, 2017 6:00 am

One of my really good friends bought Dead of Winter and Betrayal at the House on the Hill during some store's 3for2 sale. I'm excited to starting playing stuff again... Was gone all winter!

theplague42 · Post Post #2574 (isolation #15) » Sat Feb 11, 2017 2:07 pm

In post 2567, theplague42 wrote:One of my really good friends bought Dead of Winter and Betrayal at the House on the Hill during some store's 3for2 sale. I'm excited to starting playing stuff again... Was gone all winter!

Played Dead of Winter last night, with the "get to the colony" main objective. Is the general plan to maximize searching then rush for the objective? I felt like we ran out of resources pretty quickly once we started moving people in.

theplague42 · Post Post #3206 (isolation #16) » Tue Mar 27, 2018 3:53 pm

Has anybody played Lisboa?

theplague42 · Post Post #3233 (isolation #17) » Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:03 pm

Codenames is fantastic.