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This general encompasses all board game genres - Eurogames, Ameritrash, Abstracts, Wargames, and especially the genres that one anon is autistic about at this very moment.

TQ:
How frequently do you play games outside of your comfort zone? What surprises have you found?

First for: what's in the box?
Hint: its not a /bgg/ darling.
Not OOP or a super niche import either.

>>96097674 (OP)
>How frequently do you play games outside of your comfort zone? What surprises have you found?
Barely. I am pretty open to anything, but admittedly very unexcited about coops and light tricktakers. Plus I buy like 90% of the games we play so there's little that is really outside of my comfort zone.
>Suprises
The crew still remains the exception to the rule that coops suck

>>96097723
Raccoon Tycoon

>>96097723
size of the box? could you throw a cat or baby right next to it for scale?

>>96098082
Heres a Pax for scale
>>96098061
If this box had that much empty air I would be upset.

>>96098082
The gap between the door and the floor "should" be around half an inch.

>>96097723
Between the filename and having read the previous thread, my money is on Dominion.

>>96098109
Kemet?

>>96097723
Slay the spire, maybe?

>>96098147
Could be. That game does REQUIRE sleeving. And you unsleeve and resleeve cards during play. It's not for the faint of backs.

GOAT

You are in charge of organizing board game night for 4 people. It's your task to pick a main game and two small games as starter/finisher. What 3 games do you choose?

>>96098250
Eclipse Second Edition. We don't need the other games.

I got el grande for me and great western trail for a couple of friends. Paid 75 eurobucks total

>>96098250
Open with For Sale
Feast on Warsaw: city of ruins
Close out with Scout
>>96098147
>>96098111
Burning hot guesses, anons.
I luv me some deck building, simple as.
>>96098209
>It's not for the faint of backs.
Got me in stitches over here.
>>96098236
He's pretty gud, but I don't know if he can top Knizia or Eklund (P/M) for me.

>>96098250
Opener: Power Plants
Main: Marco Polo II: In the Service of the Khan
Finisher: Just One

>>96098351
Neat. Post impressions, I've been looking into it forever but
>Turczi
>Essentially 2p
Sadly a slot that is very, very competitive

>>96098416
How's power plants. Had that one in my to remember list for so long I forgot why

>>96097674 (OP)
>How frequently do you play games outside of your comfort zone?
well my friend keeps buying uwe games for some reason

>>96098464
I like it a lot. It's cut-throat without feeling hostile and it's got a nice weight to easily get into it while also offering a lot of tactical choices. It's light and easy enough to not mind getting your ass kicked but still challenging and intriguing enough that you actually feel compelled to try and win.

>>96098236
Gotta deduct points for globohomo.
>>96098250
Taluva
Taj Mahal
Trio
>>96098351
Played this once, never again. Utterly heads down.
>>96098416
Why 2? I love the original.

Got:
Tidal Blades
Kingdomino
SETI
Patchwork
Everdell
Evenfall
Hegemony
Clank Catacombes
Shards of Infinity Saga Collection
Vales of Eternity
White Castle
Cyclades

for $260 at my LGS

>>96098657
i can't imagine buying more than 2 or 3 games at once.

>>96098657
I mean, great price I suppose but also what >>96098702 said

LNOE anon here. I'm in Portland

>>96098834

>>96098834
>I'm in Portland
Stay safe.

>>96098702
>>96098761
game store does huge sales every 6 moths, its really the only time I buy shit. And also, 70% off some of those titles, I got SETI for 20 bucks

>>96098843
I'm in no danger, I assure you

>>96099001
I can only stare in envy at the sales burgers get. Absolutely insane. That said, I've only played around half your list and seti is good-ok but hegemony is a truly great game.

>>96098657
Why? I'd pay $5 for some just to try but anything over $100 I wouldn't bother with the wasted space and resale hassle. Absolutely none of it deserves a permanent collection spot.

>>96099047
Hegemony I got for 30 NIS.

>>96099121
Not everyone is poor living in a small hovel

>>96098657
you done damn good and you know it.
>>96098316
this anon is also in for a good time at a fair price.

>>96098250
Any small-box Ticket to Ride
Terra Mystica
Coloretto

>>96099227
>Terra Mystica
In a world where Gaia Project and Terra Nova exist the only possible question is why?

>>96099121
None of those games are 100 new either, I don't know what you're on about

>>96099285
I've never played them

Turns out Hansa is not too bad at 3p.

>>96099424
Ive found it great at every count.
If you haven't already, get on those expansion maps.
Fantastic shake ups in choke points and upgrade priorities.

>>96099516
>Ive found it great at every count.
You haven't found it great at 2p.

>>96098250
So Clover
Bus
The Estates

>>96099556
I dont play fictitious player counts.

>>96099661
This man FUCKS.

>>96098250
Fun question anon.
Open with Wavelength.
Main game will be El Grande
We will end on a couple games of Bullet <3 (we never just play one match)

>>96099713
>>96099661
Curious, why do you start with the party-esque lighter laugh-out-loud games? I always keep these for the end when mental exhaustion sets in. I think they are most fun when everyone's just shooting the shit, although nothing says that you can't do that in the beginning as well.

>>96099178
Hope you learn what is good before it's too late.
>>96099316
Meant I wouldn't pay more than $100 for the whole lot.

>>96099556
Even the 1p automa someone came up with is kinda interesting.
>>96099799
Because that was the premise and they can be played while late arrivals show.

>>96099829
>Even the 1p automa someone came up with is kinda interesting.
Reminds me of So, You've Been Eaten

>Monopoly with money on free parking and no auctions
OR
>Exploding Kittens

>>96098250
Mille Fiori
La Famiglia
Leviathan Wilds

>>96099894
"No, thanks"

>>96099905
How well does Leviathan Wilds work as a closer?
Been watching from afar considering it, is the playtime consistently light?

>>96098250
Amun-Re the Card Game
Agrícola
Valley of the Kings

>>96098250
Ra
T&E
MLEM

>>96099829
>the 1p automa someone came up with
See >>96099670

I can't get enough of this game. This is the first time I'm willing to repeat a heavy euro after just playing it.

I KNEEL

Turns out I can trust a lot of anons to arrange the game night menu for my group.
You are all right, /bgg/

>>96099808
Aight find those games for under 100 together, or even under 200 combined, and I'll be impressed.

>>96098618
The second one just feels smoother to play while also giving you more options. Makes you feel a bit less tight and constrained. I think it's a pure upgrade, but the original is still fantastic.

>>96099964
doesn't take much more than an hour tops for a 4p game unless you have someone who takes annoyingly long to decide things

Pick a column.

In terms of 2-player games that are on the lighter side, this is pretty much perfect. Thoughts?

>>96100178
It will always be column 2.
And I wont even be playing middle game.
>>96100184
Ya, Im with you. The 2P games I find better need a bigger package, smidge more complexity. I love the junk effect and opening camp draft as you hum and haw over camp synergies and power vs how starved you will be for an opening hand.
Ive logged about 50 plays and it doesnt feel close to getting old.

>>96100184
This and pic related are my all-time favorite lightweight two player games, though ALS is even lighter than Radlands.

>>96100178
Ideally none. >>96100271 is spot on column 2 is the least bad, but the image is pretty representative of how I picture a heavy slop player. A more pretentious one would have more Lacerda, more autistic would have more trains, sloppier would have SETI, etc, but that's a good first approximation.

>>96100027
You don't seem to understand that I'm saying a couple of those are worth trying once for a few bucks while the lot as a whole is only really worth doing what happened to you, pawning it off on some rube for cash. The $100 is the max I would pay to recoup enough money for selling it to be worth my time.

>>96100358
My enjoyment of ALS has made me very keen to try out Compile.
Take that lane battler + flipping system but make it more grainy, with a variety of possible combos that happen when things flip/get covered/get uncovered, plus a variety of flavoured card sets to mix and match (and steal from?).
Sign me up and render my wallet already.

>>96100178
1 rejected cause I'd rather kill myself than play rondelslop like GWT
2 rejected cause I don't play antiwhiteslop like Reddit Island
5 is embarrassingly bad
3 and 4 are both decent picks, I lean towards 3 cause On Mars is underrated

>>96099894
Even played correctly Monopoly is a hell game that could last hours if people actually play it to conclusion (which they won't; they'll just give up). I'll take a 15 minute slightly cringy card game over that any day.

>>96097674 (OP)
>filename
so, does Earthborne Rangers have a decent story or what?
What exactly is the appeal here?

>>96100473
You should fix your finances. Most people aren’t thinking about selling a game as soon as they buy it. I recommend blue collar work for you

>>96100611
the story is whatever. the cardplay and deck construction is actually fun. it’s interesting to play an Arkham Horror-like as an open world game

>>96100545
>Wehrleshit
>Lacerdaslop
>O'Toolerefuse
Absolutely worst pick possible.

>>96100637
Flipping for profit is the only use for most of those.

>>96098250
Out of curiosity, I asked my friends and wife this Q.
From one buddy:
>We start with 24, the math game with a deck of cards
>Then we play love letter (with a deck of cards)
>Then we play coup (deck of cards)
He has long stood on the hill that if the game cant be recreated with a deck of cards, some sticks and rocks, it is not worth playing.l
From my wife:
>This is just one menu of many good options:
> 1) Modern art to test the waters; if they bid $50 for a painting that will bring them $30 max, I've got a good idea of what to expect for game 2
> 2) Pax Pamir. Either curb stomp the clueless or spar with the greats. Either way I'm having fun.
> 3) Captain Sonar. They're already destabilized, now we hunt them à la Red October.

>>96100178
I am always in awe about how agonizing this pick is. 1, I guess, but man do I not like beyond the sun

>>96100271
>Not playing the one good game in column 2

>>96100724
What good one? I see decent at best.

>>96100178
row 1

>>96100658
What do you take into consideration for deck construction? Do things change only bit by bit between sessions or can you wildly shift your deck around?

>>96098351
I actually sold my copy to a buddy of mine for cheap. I like the game a lot actually but the end game scoring is very obnoxious.

>>96100851
You can switch stuff around around every session, so there's some planning involved there. Do you wanna be moving about a lot, searching quickly, chatting people up, going Rambo etc. Actually getting those cards is kinda slow, with maybe one chance per session to switch out a card (with anything in the starter pile), and you also get reward cards for completing missions. Those are so good you can build entire decks around them. But a lot of the fun stuff is planning how your toolset interacts with the environment decks. They're as much of a character as your ranger.

>>96100695
I know you want us to tell you how awesome your wife is and all, but nah, she had to go for wehrleslop.

>>96100178
Column 1. I really love Dune Imperium, and Great Western trail looks good. Even if beyond the sun is a stinker, that's still 2 good games. Forgive me Pax Pamir, it's not worth suffering SI or AFFO to play you.

>>96101076
>Not getting your wife into Root to spice up bedroom life
NGMI

>>96101081
Sounds more like molly house to me

>>96101088
I'm not talking about a "wife" with a penis.

I made a tier list out of my pretty heavily curated collection, where the worst tier is "average", meaning that I don't think the game is bad, but more of a "palette cleanser" that is part of the rotation.

I'm looking for a game or two that would be at least C+ tier, the grey tiers are the games I do not own and are my hypothetical impressions of them. I'd get Bruges, but the only copies available on BGG are like 150 euros and Hamburg's iconography is simply awful. And I'm not 100% sure about pulling the trigger for T&E given I own Y&Y and I consider shelf space a premium.

Would anyone happen to have any recommendations based on my tastes?

>96101312
I won't even give you a (You) for bait this atrocious, this would be stupid even for a /v/ post

>>96101312
>Agricola in D despite Terraforming Mars in S
>Container in C despite Ra in S
>Hansa Teutonica in C
>Arcs in C
your gray list is dumb, having opinions on games you haven't played is the stupidest thing in the world

>>96101491
oh wait HT and Arcs are in D not C, i'm blind
still the point stands, don't rank games you havent played.

as for recs, >>96101312 you seem to like thematic slop so try Brass Birmingham or Ark Nova orwhatever that zoo game is called.xswkw

>>96101312
>likes Las Vegas Royale
>likes Y&Y
You would unironically enjoy Renature

>>96101312
I sincerely think you should sell Samurai and TTD to someone who appreciates them more than to put them in the same tier as Wingspan. Consolidate those two into Babylonia, which is a mix of them. That will free up a slot for you to acquire T&E since you apparently like Y&Y more. Also replace Kariba with L.L.A.M.A. Those other card games in gray B tier are great and negligible space use. Stop buying trick takers though (that includes Brian Boru and Joraku), you have the best. Sell the cozyslop like Wingspan and Cascadia. Ark Nova is a hog and unnecessary with Terraforming Mars as a favorite. A lot of the engine building stuff needs the boot in favor of Race for the Galaxy with expansions consolidated rather than New Frontiers plus a bunch of inferior crap. Do you really need pure (or not) negotiation like Chinatown when you have Bohnanza? Let Catan go. Don't bother with Amun-Re since you have better auction games.

>>96101312
>Genuine replies to the stupidest bait post made here in years
The fuck is wrong with you people?

>>96101677
The "bait" post's existing collection is leagues ahead of many of the shitty games earnestly discussed here all the time. Yeah the tier stuff is bad but the underlying curation taste is probably better than yours if you're getting butthurt about it.

>>96101677
post your list

>>96101875
Alright, here

BGA isn't even worth it if you are not premium. The waiting times for fucking Sea Salt & Paper are like 15 minutes.
They don't have enough good board games on there either. The only thing it's good for are the tutorials

>>96101965
You can't even do this on BGA. TTSchads keep winning.

>>96101955
Wow, daring today, aren't we bgg user

>>96101969
I... I kneel...

>>96101971
Yes. The safer choices would've been Ti4 over Eclipse, and GF Dune over DI

>>96101979
Just joshing, anon. Good list.

What are /bgg/'s favorite tcgs, if you have any?
I'm curious to see how the tcg format is received by board gamers.

>>96101965
Online gaming is for degenerates.
>>96102032
Gambling is for degenerates.

>>96101965
I mean it's free and you can play turnbased.
Literally the only product I can stomach subscribing to. Bga is nothing but great and I am counting the days asmodee does a 180 on it

>>96102032
Tcg/lcg/lcg/whatever are just different flavors of a money printing machine. I like the idea, but it essentially degenerates almost by definition after some time
Power creep, parasitic mechanics, lack of ideas but a fixed release schedule etc. Mtg refuses to die despite WotC truly trying to piss off every single one of their customers in new innovative ways

I'd hope all flavors of tcg would vanish but that would probably mean the end for 95% of brick&mortar stores

>>96101312
>heavily curated collection
Looks like a mish-mash of things a complete layman would buy, and someone who's just getting into the hobby would. What did you curate out of the list over Wingspan, Catan, Pandemic, and Monopoly Duel?

GoAII really does fuck so hard

>>96102106
Not a fan of ccgs either. I never understood why people don't play dueler style card games like Shards of Infinity, Star Realms, Summoner Wars, or their like instead. I guess the collecting aspect is part of it, and the little dopamine hits you get when you open a pack of cards.

>>96102032
I've been enjoying SW Unlimited lately. Not a great design by any means but really fun to play.

>>96102032
I used to play magic but post hasbro wotc got even more greedy. No I won't drop 500 euros every 6 months for the privilege of not getting completely destroyed by some smelly nerds at my lgs who think it's normal to drop 240 euros for the last powercrept mythic

>>96101312
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3543001/a-new-c-plus-tier-game-for-my-collection

>>96102176
Looks like it was posted around the same time, too. Are we double posting here and in the gulag now, or is anon always up on the freshest bait to bring for our enjoyment?

>>96102110
It doesn't look like that at all. It looks like the collection of a hobbyist who isn't antisocial. You're cherrypicking.

>>96101312
that just doesn't make any sense to me, so no recommendations

>>96102295
Based response, David

>>96102244
Sorry, it looks like a bunch of games that my normgroid friends play. Mostly stuff you'd see in the family-oriented board game shop that also sells toy cars and puzzles.

Also, I like cherries but those were rotten.

Anyone tried that Unstoppable?

>>96102132
The booster lottery would probably still give me a rush at times. I mean, the stuff is expensive enough and the highs have enough resale value that it comes frightingly near actual gambling. Plus sweet sweet randomness and huge variance are one hell of a drug. Like all former players, I truly despise mtg now.

>>96102123
I would really like to get it but I hit 6p so rarely I couldn't justify the purchase and shelfspace needed.
>But you can play at 4 as well
Allegedly a lesser experience and directly competing with ~80% of my collection.

Fucking hell lads I might just become a feldhead. Played Marrakesh twohanded just to see if it's one of these games that has just 2-3 games in it and then becomes samey. I suddenly found myself sitting there at 0230 in the morning, completely having forgotten about time. Why is it so addictive. It raises so many red flags and I should NOT like it at all in theory

Is there a chart similar to /mu/core charts for bgs?
Placing classics in different genres? Euros, Americans, etc

>>96102384
Do NOT start this again

>>96102395
c'moooon

>>96100178
I'm probably the only one here who would pick column 5
>c1: never played but looks like a stinker, played it to death already, same for GWT
>c2: I love it but my group doesn't, good, boring
>c3: nope, already stale after a dozen plays even with expansion, nope
>c4: boring MPS, ok-ish game, slop
meanwhile c5 has a game we have good fun in my group, an okay-ish mps, and a decent filler
>>96100545
>On Mars is underrated
On Mars is quite possibly the worst Lacerda I've ever played. And I played a bunch of them:
>Lisboa
>The Gallerist
>Bot Factory (mini-Kanban EV, but we're planning to play that soon too, a friend has it)
>Weather Machine
All of them are better than OM by a huge margin, especially The Gallerist. Haven't played CO2, but might be even worse than OM from what I've heard
>96101312
bait tierlist, "heavily curated collection" my ass
>>96101955
passable 3x3, there could be better picks than summoner wars and CoB
>>96101969
>le meme anime miniatures added to game components
I do play on tts, with /vm/ too on occasion, but this thing is cringe and adds nothing to the experience, when I see this i roll my eyes and pretend im not seeing it, but I guess that if you play HEAT or WL you kind of have to meme around to make it less boring

>>96102454
Pretty good takes tbqh, but you are throwing out the exact overgeneralized mps label we have been talking about. Just out of interest, would you rate TfM interaction higher or lower than gaia project?

>On mars
Not that anon but also the only lacerda I've played aside from lisboa and I did like On mars more. Both are ok-good with the rightfully criticised larcerdaesque faggotry. But I am probably just overrating on mars because I like the cycler mechanic a lot

>>96102480
>you rate TfM interaction higher or lower than gaia project?
Lower, I admit calling Gaia Project a MPS is a bit of an exaggeration
Meanwhile most of the interaction TM has is "take that" and the Colonies expansion

>>96102374
playing this for the first time next week. you're getting me extremely hyped. are you also one of the Civolution enjoyers here?

>>96102399
Roughly before which release year would you position a classic? 2007? 2000? Before that there are woefully few games that stood the test of time

>>96102384
Please, I was absolutely crucified last time for being a proponent of the idea. Let's just let the dog lie.

>>96102499
Fair enough. You are alright anon

>>96102508
>>96102539
If a game sticks around for longer than 5 years, I'd say it'd have enough merit to go on a fucking 4chan chart. Especially since there is so much competition around. For example, I'm pretty sure Race for the Galaxy(2007), Hansa(2009), and Pax(2015) could be considered /bgg/core

>>96102500
Yeah, Civolution surely was my goty last year. I thought civolution was feld straying from his usual design path of beige city name euros with box art that bores even me (seriously is he trying to make a point by making his stuff seem as generic and stereotypical as possible?), but apparently more of his designs have this superb flow and strangely addicting feeling. Maybe Bonfire (which I disliked and pegged as 'typical feld') was the outliner.

>>96102558
Hansa Teutonica*

>>96102558
>/bgg/core
Nononononono don't escalate anon we can still leave the thread unharmed
just to be clear I will also join the inevitable shitting on whatever list is posted

>>96102360
I do definitely prefer 6p Guards to 4p, however even 4p definitely beats the alternative of not playing at all
The game is such an acquired taste that I don't try to bring it out at general game nights. I'm able to schedule separate evenings where we pull between 4-8 people depending on the day. it lives in such a unique space, sort of like Clocktower for me, where I don't consider other games as competing with it at all

>>96102567
what didn't you like about Bonfire? I enjoy playing it on Yucata

>>96102032
While there are TCGs whose gameplay I enjoy, i never really bought any packs because I prefer to get the whole game, or at least a significant portion of it, when I pay for it. Netrunner, Ashes, they came close, but Sakura Arms and BattleCON are the best, despite not technically being Trading card games and just being card games.

>>96102608
It's weird, I can't really articulate it well because most of my criticism would be true for his other games. In retrospect, I find it lacks the snappy turns and flow of civolution and marrakesh and the whole game, despite its whimsical artwork seemed so devoid of soul. Maybe because the thematic disconnect was pretty strong? It didn't feel statisfying, was very heads down and obviously pretty solitaire-ish.

I suppose I'm not the only one though, Marrakesh despite its 2022 release has insane secondary market prices while I can get bonfire for €10.

On that note, I am absolutely not someone who goes for deluxe editions and pimped out games, but the essential edition of marrakesh has cardboard tokens instead of wooden keshi and no dual layer board, and I would expect this to take away a lot of haptic statisfaction. I've tried to navigate the cesspool that is queen games releases and it's just tiresome. Standard release. Essential edition. Deluxe. New classic edition. Different editions with trays included, completely different box sizes, different combinations of what component is or is not screenprinted/wood/cardboard etc., different upgrade packs for different editions, different player boards etc etc

It is a testament to how much I have been liking the game that I spent my very limited time navigating this clownery.

>>96102206
It's always the latter.

1/x

>>96101491
>>96101505

My rankings are combination of how much I would like the game, shelf size, difficulty to get (though this is a minor factor) and realistically, how much the game would be tabled among my groups. Container is C because it's insanely expensive and I have no guarantees that it would get above the average treatment or be liked enough by my groups to be able to play it at all. No point in acquiring the game if it doesn't get played.

I owned Caverna, Hansa Teutonica and Root before, and actually did pretty decent investigation of tiered games. I sold B:B as well, and all sold games had multiple plays. I reached the point in the hobby where I don't like too "complex", bloated games or the games that encourage kicking someone while he's down and/or games that break down unless they're played in a certain way - Hansa Teutonica falls apart unless everyone gets in each other's faces for example. In Agricola, I really dislike the wish for children thing for whatever reason.

And again, D in this tier list means average to me, not a bad game - they wouldn't be in my collection if I thought that they were that bad.

>>96101637
>Renature
Yes, I am aware of it, but given how decent amount of people are put off by the "tension" in TTD, and I have a space or two left, I'm not sure if it's worth the space. Torres also seems interesting.

>>96101664
>Babylonia
Samurai and TTD are smaller sized boxes though, so selling them wouldn't really free up as much space as needed for Babylonia. I will consider it though.

The other issue is that I don't think the board game market in this country is "refined" enough to find the people who see the value in these games to sell them for a good enough price.

>Kariba with L.L.A.M.A.
I will consider it, thought Kariba is a bit more compact than it.

>Stop buying trick takers though (that includes Brian Boru and Joraku), you have the best.
Thought so, thanks.

2/x

>>96101664

> Dump Wingspan, Cascadia, Ark Nova, Catan, engine building stuff
I'm trying to keep my collection as encompassing as possible, most of the people I play with aren't really "gamer gamers" but consider board gaming as one of their hobbies. Truthfully the 3 mentioned did not get tabled recently, but they have their uses in the collection.

>RFTG with expansions
I had it before and sold it, as people actually liked New Frontiers better. It takes an effort for us to gather, and people preferred playing a "board game| like NF instead of RFTG. I have San Juan preordered on Gamefound though.

> Dump Chinatown when you have Bohnanza
Chinatown won out against Zoo Vadis, but I'll have to consider this. Bohnanza is still a recent addition.

> Don't bother with Amun-Re since you have better auction games
Likely true, I just really enjoyed it's auctioning system in Cyclades when I played it.

Appreciate for the feedback.

>>96102295
kek

>>96102110
>Someone who's just getting into the hobby would

You'd be surprised! Those 4 are for "lightweight/non-boardgamer section".

> 5-Minute Dungeon
> 7 Wonders
> Bandido
> Canvas
> Colt Express
> Doodle Dash
> Forbidden Island
> Hanabi
> King of Tokyo
> Magic Maze
> Ohanami
> Raccoon Tycoon
> That's not a hat

I only have a single 4x2 Kallax to work with and I intend it to stay that way. The games you listed are at this point staples that can be played by practically anyone in the hobby. My game groups do not have any explicit "game snobs", and I'm the "board game guy" in my social circles, as I'm p much the only one with the collection.

Is Keyforge any good? The production of the game is very interesting. No idea how it'd play, though

Scout is a meh middle of the field tricktaker in a sea of mediocre tricktakers and I am tired of pretending it's not

>>96102966
Whoich one is your fav?

>>96102123
>GoA
Why did I not hear about this before the crowdfunding was way over? Is there any reprint planned?

We're a lonely couple and exclusively play:

7Wonders duel
Mind bug
Targi
Occasionally hive if my gf doesn't have brain fog
Small world but it gets boring with 2p but she loves it so much
I'd love to play stronghold 2nd ed more often but it's just too much setup and fucky rules

Thanks for reading my report

>>96102933
>You'd be surprised! Those 4 are for "lightweight/non-boardgamer section".
I guess it's a bit of a relief that they are intended for other people than a sign of your personal preference. But on the other hand, I think you would be surprised what kind of games non-boardgamers can get into after a lifetime of their only exposure being Risk, Monopoly and Catan.

Personally, I've never had an issue with dropping people straight into the deep end and having the first proper board game be some heavy monstrosity. Shit, there are people who I invited for a single game of GoT 2nd ed 4 years ago that still talk about it, it was a fuckin' event.

Not saying your collection has to be heavier than you enjoy, but give people a bit more credit and drop the slop.

>>96103029
It's already gotten one reprint campaign when they launched new character kits.
There will be more.
Not that anon either but hes right. Its such a fucking good game. Fantastic underlying structure, and wide variety of characters that can pull off satisfying combos. Reading the enemy teams play and catching people out is so fun and rewarding despite the lacking fog of war.
God I need more. Played a few weeks ago with the latest wave, at first I did not quite understand my characters kit (I had a dragon summon but...didnt do much with it?) and then things clicked and I was this hyper mobile, speedy little shit that ducked and weaved in and out to ping or threaten kills, peeling heroes off my mates. It was a blast.

>>96103029
the player count is the thing turning me off about it. I guess if you have large groups, but 4 players minimum is kinda steep as I'm sure it plays better at 4+

>>96103052
gaming with your SO is always great

>>96103118
Understandable, but I desperately need a replacement for Quartermaster General: WW2. 3v3 team games are a hell of a niche.

>>96100184
Meh. I think this game exemplifies the worst of these kind of 2 player dueling games where alot of the best strategy is to just shit on the other player as much as possible

>>96103209
I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Its a 2 player dueling game.
Hitting the other person should be beneficial.

>>96103276
its more that hitting the other person can very quickly put them in states where they basically cant do anything and might as well concede rather than play for the 1-10 percent chance they might come back

>>96103294
And how often can you pull that off in Radlands?
3-0 stomps are not at all frequent per my records.

>>96102032
FUCKFAB

>>96103309
Often enough that I sold it because my partner wouldn't play anymore

We are equally skilled and both play alot of card games, i think if it wasnt for the style of gameplay it encourages i would say its a perfect game

>>96103341
Fair enough.
My games, with four different players, have more often than not turned into close games, with the player who runs out of gas or fucks up threat assessment losing.

>>96101312
I dunno how anybody enjoys Wizard, its Oh Hell + 8 unbalanced cards that decide the game on their own. You have Tichu (actual good game) in A tier and it only has 4 specials, and it's a partnership game

>el grande and great western trail have arrived
Now I want to murder whoever designed the (big) box of el grande

AI... create for me the best board game that can exist in the universe...

>>96103608
Its a beast for such a little game.
Im almost considering getting rid of it for the new version. I have never used any of the expansions.

>>96103618
Congrats you got Brass: Liverpool

>>96102956
Yes, but $15 for a deck is more than I think it's worth. And the only good format is "Adaptive".
"Adaptive" is a best of 3 match were you borrow your opponents deck for the second game and possibly the third.
If a match goes to game 3 there's a handicap auction to determine which player gets to play the deck that won the previous 2 games.

>>96103124
It really is. We do have friends but it always boils down to catan if bgs come up in the group at all.
Love me some settlers and I'm glad we're able to avoid meme party games but we haven't even touched seafarers.

>>96100496
have you played Battle Line? Lost Cities?

>>96101965
good thing it's only $3/month

>>96102384
the board needs it, despite what 1 or 2 really vocal guys here say

>>96104476
Nope.

Whats with the random dudes in the OP?

>>96104871
:*(

>>96103608
We tried to warn you, anon
you were the one that could only get the big box for cheap right

>>96104871
RIPIP

>>96104289
You have a moral obligation to give your gaming group Chinatown and force them to play it at least once. It's like Catan but people actually trade in it instead of going "no Sam I don't want your stupid sheep for my precious bricks, you asked me for four rounds in a row now, shut up please"

I have absolutely no clue if I drafted this army well.
I hate that Mythic Battles used different card backs between Pantheon and Ragnarok so you can sort of card count/guess what unit activations might be coming up.

>>96103524
Those 8 unbalanced cards open up a myriad of strategies. Sometimes you want to play a wizard earlier so you're the one that leads and sets up the tempo, or you want to play the fool to keep the suit that you would have to follow otherwise. It's a really accessible game that has 0 bloat and fiddliness of games like Skull King.

In other news, I managed to narrow down my list to these games.

>Bruges
Yep, another middle-weight dice-related beige Euro. Looks quite fun though, but it's likely I won't be getting this due to its price and Hamburg looking like ass.

>Tigris & Euphrates
I'll likely be getting this if I manage to find FFG version on secondary market.

>War of the Ring: The Card Game
This looks like the game that would be right up my alley, as it looks just like the game for the crews that are experienced but tired of having to play longer and heavier games. I heard that it's only playable at 4 which kinda sucks.

>Pulsar 2849
Similar to Bruges, I would consider this as an alternative game to rotate between it and Lorenzo Il Magnifico when we're in the mood for "those" kind of games.

>Agricola
On paper it seems like I would like it, but the fact about having to increase amount of workers via actions and that turning into sort of snowballing advantage is incredibly deterring. Perhaps I'm wrong about it and there are some strategies where you can win while having only the initial workers, but I know that this was nigh impossible to do in Caverna, at least in my games.

>Hansa Teutonica
Perhaps I might give it another chance. My initial experience with it was incredibly soured as it was a 3p game where the meta established was rush the extra actions, so every game felt sameish and felt like you couldn't win without doing some prerequisites, and those prerequisites were a race which was determined by player turn order.

>>96105450
>rush the extra actions,
bro just like block a space on the extra action line and if your opponent displaces you that's an extra one or two cubes for you to then use a Move action on to claim some other route. Like, try being an asshole and you'll have way more fun with HT.

>https://ixbt.games/news/2025/07/14/vyzivanie-v-gigaxrushhyovke-otkrylsya-predzakaz-na-nastolnuyu-igru-last-train-samosbor.html
Apparently there's plans for a board game set in Samosbor universe (bastard child of Stalker and Backrooms), looks like a zombicide-style plastic pusher.

>>96105450
>My initial experience with it was incredibly soured as it was a 3p game where the meta established was rush the extra actions,
I have seen that happen a lot at 3p too. Every time it happened I won by not doing that and forcing the game to end before anyone recouped the actions they invested improving their action track.
I'm not going to say improving actions is a bad plan at 3p but it's definitely not a silver bullet.

>>96103029
act fast: they still have copies of the 2nd printing on their web store, along with hero packs if you want to play higher counts
https://wolffdesigna.com/collections/our-products/products/guards-of-atlantis-ii-2nd-printing-usa

>>96100184
Star realms.
Hive.

I just realized what an insane run Wolfgang Warsch has had in just the last four or so years (commercially speaking)
>The mind
>Quacks
>Ganz schön clever
>Taverns of tiefenthal
>Wavelength
>The new kinderspiel des jahres

Just saying this because I think his kids games are pretty great. Very lukewarm on the rest though. But man he must have earned lots

>>96105653
>russkie shit
Disgusting

>>96105450
>meta was rush actions
Upgrading actions past 3 actions is a trap in 90% of games. If you go 2nd/3rd, literally just block the actions path with your merchant and reap an 3 psuedo-actions for free when they bump you. I won a 5p game last night with 1 action upgrade, 1 book upgrade, and only white privilege. The trick to play Hansa is exploiting what everyone else wants to do, not forcing upgrades.

>>96101965
That's cause Sea Salt and Paper is dogshit and no one is playing it anymore. Play something good and you'll get a game in seconds.

>>96105450
>Those 8 unbalanced cards open up a myriad of strategies
And their distribution decided who wins and who loses entirely. A guy who gets 3+ specials is almost guaranteed to succeed while the guy who gets 0 has no flexibility and will most likely fail his contract. If anything, fools and wizards reduce the strategic quality of the game, the follow rule and card counting is what gives trick-takers their depth, but with 8 rulebreaking cards in the game any deterministic play goes out the window. Can I play king of hearts knowing that the only other heart left is ace? Nope, the guy with ace might just duck me with a fool and now I'm eating everything I didn't need

1/2

>>96102880
>Hansa Teutonica
Honestly I wouldn't suggest this for almost any other game, but it's so good that you should just keep forcing it on your group until the people in it, even yourself, come to appreciate it. I play with an extremely nonconfrontational person who thought they hated it until the move action clicked for them after many plays. It's good to have one game that directly challenges your preferences and you want the highest quality game for that purpose. FWIW, Container on your list will run into those same fragility/confrontation problems and it's not nearly as good.
>sell them for a good enough price.
Don't. Particularly when it comes to things like Wingspan, just give them away to the people in your group that like them most. If it feels financially irresponsible, then it was actually that to buy the game in the first place. Your collection is well refined and mature enough that you should do that so it becomes a factor in slowing your acquisitions down even more.
>Kariba is a bit more compact than it.
L.L.A.M.A. has the advantage of an exactly Coloretto sized box, also found for things like Saboteur, whereas Kariba is a form factor shared only by that publisher and a bunch of lame games. Also, after you get a few dozen plays of L.L.A.M.A. in with the same people you can graduate it to other editions that are exactly the same game plus some rules, like Party or Kadabra.

2/2

>>96102892
>Dump Wingspan, Cascadia, Ark Nova, Catan
I really do think you should just give these away. There's nothing in them that isn't being represented by better games elsewhere. Giving them to those people in your group will send the message of how much you care about them as people, how little you care for those games, and will allow those people to play them more on their own without you.
>I'm trying to keep my collection as encompassing as possible, most of the people I play with aren't really "gamer gamers"
I could tell. Your collection is actually very similar to my own despite different tastes. You converged on a TON of the same stuff because you value a design and a small number of games representing a lot of things, plus that audience. I do have a group of heavy gamers who have lost contact with normal people, but my collection is designed around being the one person in our group who hasn't, so I can recruit and retain new people.
>engine building stuff, RFTG
This was my least insistive. If it were me, I'd never have so many engine builders when I could have the best one, in a rather small box, with a ton of expansions so that it never goes stale. But I am not the only person in my group with games, others bring engine builders and I don't like them as much as I do the more interactive stuff.

>>96106483
Nta but why do you think Container isn't that good?

>>96106649
It's not bad just not nearly up to Hansa Teutonica level. The repetitive auctions aren't elegant nor does it have anywhere asuch game as is packed in the Big Box. Have also heard horror stories of the ship components breaking.

It's not bad just not nearly up to Hansa Teutonica level. The repetitive auctions aren't elegant nor does it have anywhere as much game as is packed in the Big Box. Have also heard horror stories of the ship components breaking.

>>96105892
I think all of the hero packs are out of supply though. I'm more of a all-or-nothing guy, guess I'll wait.

>>96106996
3/5 hero packs are in stock, but do what makes happy

>>96106118
Fuck you pigger

>>96104934
>>96104986
Thank you, very helpful

>>96107743
One is an in-joke and you are out. The other is just a funny face.

>>96107864
And neither have relevance to my question.

>>96107883
I just answered your question.

>>96107890
What was my question again?

>>96107902
>Whats with the random dudes in the OP?

What does he even mean by "random dudes in the OP"? black exile and hansaguy? these 2?

>>96107908
Ya, there are three dudes.
Reverse search tells me the cover is the game Earthborne Rangers. The three dudes art dont match. So what games are they from and why bother stitching them in the OP?

>>96107914
>there are three dudes.
I had not noticed the transparent Agricola guy. Since you seem to know so much about the OP image why don't you tell me why he'w there, asshole.
>So what games are they from
Hansa Tuetonica (not Big Box) and Oath.
>and why bother stitching them in the OP?
>>96107864

>they only see 3 of the 5 faces

>>96108001
Anon, dont be mean like that.
Its like the two pigs releases in the school woth the mumbers 1 and 2 painted on them.

>>96108009
*1 and 3 painted on them

Played the first el grande game with gf+a friend and I absolutely crushed it. I think her brain didn't click with the game for the first half because she's usually a fierce opponent but she ended at 70 something's to my 130 something. Probably from the next game she's going to beat my ass because she's unbeatable at roam which is another area majority game
I have to say that at even 3 players I enjoyed it quite a lot, I can already see the absolute mayhem it would be at 5

>>96104978
Yeah

>>96108025
Right on, glad it was a hit.
Ya at five its a nasty knife fight in a phone booth. Every turn someone is pissing off somebody else, sometimes the whole table. You need fingers in every pie to come out ahead, and castillo placement reveals are nerve wracking mind games.
Its a banger and a classic for a reason.

>>96108039
My condolences. I suffer the same fate and haven't played el grande in like 2 years because I once made the mistake of taking it to my parents house and forgetting it there, and I very rarely go there by car. It's truly annoying

>>96106483
>>96106491

Thanks for the feedback. Given that T&E will cost me nearly $200 in total to get it to my place from the secondary market (and I already own Y&Y), and HT is available in local stores, I think I'll give it a shot once more.

>>96108021
It's 1, 2, and 4. Just 1 and 3 is Traveling Wilburys albums.

>>96107624
>the least brain damaged vatnik on 4chan

>>96107743
Would you prefer a more standardized "lurk more"?

>>96108222
I suppose so.
But seriously what is with you people >>96108082 and that particular dude/meeple?

>>96108293
>But seriously what is with you people >>96108082 and that particular dude/meeple?
Lurk moar.

>>96108293
an anon was photoshopping the Oath guy into every game on the BGG top 100 for a while
not sure how far he got - i think around 40 or so

>>96108313
NTA and I don't get it either. I don't care about your in-jokes though.

>>96108337
>I don't care about your in-jokes though.
you care enough to ask, and that's all that matters, tsundere-anon.

>>96108469
Well, to declare at least. I do declare.

Am I the only one here who found El Grande simply OK?

>>96108816
sure but i do not begrudge you for it

>>96108816
Not the only one. This general sucks it off like it's the best thing since sliced bread but in all respects, Chaos in the Old World is the better game.

>>96108840
if i have to choose between telling somebody to buy el grande for 30$ or a used copy of CitOW for 200+, I am always going for the former.

>>96108816
I really dislike the "card game but we do some shit on a board also" type games like El Grande, Twilight Struggle, Ark Nova, TFM etc. They always feel awkward and unnatural, like Chessboxing

>>96108871
Sure, but if I have the choice of pulling Chaos in the Old World off my shelf (for free) or pulling El Grande (also for free) for a game night, I'd choose CitOW 90% of the time.

>>96108891
you may be next level board game autistic
have you considered a career in design?
you could be the thing that saves ffg

>>96108910
I've got nothing wrong with that.

>>96108913
Just sayin', I think the reason it irks me is because card games are explicitly an abstract space. While big board games tend to be thematically driven by context-justified mechanics. So when you have a game like Pax Ren where intricate mechanical dance is happening on the board, but its all initiated by a set of rather generic cards, it feels wrong.

>>96108840
Keep your Cthulhu shit to yourself Lang.

>>96108980
>Pax Ren where intricate mechanical dance is happening on the board,
in pax ren 1, the board is literally made up of cards

>>96109024
>Cthulhu shit
>Chaos in the Old World
Retard

>>96109030
cardboard

>>96109174
alright, i giggled
you win this round

I think I've chosen schadenfreude as my next trick taking game to script in TTS.

i will play Vantage, so you don't have to

>>96107254
https://wolffdesigna.com/collections/guards-of-atlantis-2/products/wayward-hero-pack-1
https://wolffdesigna.com/collections/guards-of-atlantis-2/products/devoted-hero-pack-2
https://wolffdesigna.com/collections/guards-of-atlantis-2/products/renowned-hero-pack-1
https://wolffdesigna.com/collections/guards-of-atlantis-2/products/defiant-hero-pack-1
https://wolffdesigna.com/collections/guards-of-atlantis-2/products/arcane-hero-pack-1

Says to me they're all sold out.

>>96109722
Are you region locked or something?

>>96109729
No clue, looks like we're both europoors. Maybe they're only shipping to certain countries, and mine is one of the irrelevant ones.

>>96109751
Im actually a leaf (french), but they keep the price in euros.
Thats a bummer to see for other regions, as the publishers are freaking based in the baltics.

>>96109767
I only realised how retarded my post was after posting. But yeah, looks like region fuckery.

>the publishers are freaking based in the baltics.
That is a betrayal. I also am based in the Baltics.

>>96109767
>Im actually a leaf (french)
I'm sorry to hear that.

>>96109722
>>96109729
>>96109751
>>96109767
Love seeing fuckers try to scalp it in the US even though its all in stock still.

Good game though

What's that one game you think is overrated, but only by a very tiny margin?

>>96110295
Everything by Uwe Rosenberg.

>>96110295
Kemet. It's a very good DoaM game but definitely nowhere as good as Cyclades

>>96104871
You're worried about the "random dudes" in the OP?!? JFC Anon! There's a birb in the top right corner and that Mofo's $40! FORTY DOLLARS!

>>96098834
>>96098843
> Looks at Pic #1
> Looks at Pic #2
Yaahhh! Do they actually have any board games in Portland?

>>96110295
Talisman.

>>96110511
Cyclades chads rise up, we HATE INIS

>>96110562
I probably would if I thought about it at all.

>>96110295
Bohnanza

What's the worst retheme/localization you've seen?
>trick-taking game about courtesans gets turned into a bland dog show theme

>>96110844
Nothing can be worse than German Sushi Go. I DEFY someone to post a game butchered that badly.

>>96110295
Dunc imperial

>>96110903
kek what the FUCK.

>>96110844
Yeah I wanted to post this >>96110903
as well. It's so bad it taught me how artwork is indeed more important than I thought. Admittedly, Sushi go is so little game that the art might matter disproportionally much but still.

>>96110903
>German Sushi Go.
Do I even want to know?

>>96110844
I'd rather have more animal themes than more Japanese trick-takers.

>>96110923
OH GOD! NOOO! I don't want to know.

>>96110933
Now you get both!

>>96110923
What are you guys talking about? The ontrast between nigiri is the funniest thing I've seen in a board game.

>>96110944
It has great appeal among the 'Mongoloid' gaming community.

>>96110948
You're right it does give a warhammer vibe.

>>96110923
Anyone who hates this but defends Bohnanza is a hypocrite.

>>96111015
Thing is, there is no infinitely more charming version of bohnanza to compare it to

Then again kawaii wouldn't work thematically for bohnanza anyway

>>96100658
does the component quality suffer due to muh sustainability>?

>>96111015
Sushi go is a shit game, bohnanza is kino
plus what >>96111086 said

>>96100658
How does the game actually play? I'm a sucker for these kinds of things, went all in on 7th Continent and 7th Citadel, and was not disappointed.

Thoughts on Zombicide?

The rules feel jank, but the premise is really enjoyable. What do you think?

>>96111312
It becomes a fun beer and pretzel game once you add the wolves from wolfsburg and the dead birds expansion. Otherwise it's mond numbingly boring

>>96097674 (OP)
Dice Wars Heroes of Polyhedra is frequently found for $10-$15.

Players roll some chunky as hell dice that generate units. Four basic units (d6), two elite units (d8), and one hero unit (d12).
Basic units have 1 health, elites 2, and heroes 3.

In a two player game each player rolls two armies. All hero units must be different, so reroll matching dice there.

It takes place on a variable hex map and players win by holding points of interest for enough rounds, destroying an opposing army's hero, or destroying every unit in an opposing army except the hero.

It plays fast and is really fun basic tactics/skirmish game.

>>96111312
Shit game.

No, not memeing or being a contrarian faggots here. The missions will either be milling an item deck searching for specific items or racing to "flip switches" across the board in a certain order. The second kind of mission is ok at best because players have a stupid amount flexibility for map navigation making it trivial to actually get anywhere but shit rolls have zombies merc a teammate and there is fuck all mitigation. The deck milling quests are absolute dog shit because 50% of the time all your items are near the top making it laughably easy or buried at the bottom making it downright impossible to accomplish before you are swarmed.

Some extra content and fan made missions address these problems but when you got a go outside the box to fix core issues, you made a shit game.

>>96111140
i mean they're cards. i didn't notice anything subpar about them, however it was my friend's copy and they sleeved all the cards. haven't gotten to play with the fancy wood tokens yet. the box organizer works well. my only complaint is you might want to get an extra pack of cards even for 2p, since you'll maybe end up wanting to use some of the same cards when you're starting out.
i don't think the quality suffers for the sustainability, moreso just the price is very high
>>96111282
as the other anon mentioned, the environment is a major character. as you travel around the map you'll be in different biomes that have associated cards - flora, fauna, special points of interest. Everything exists either in your play area, in a shared common area for all rangers, or within the general surroundings. To interact with something in the common area, you need to go through anything in your own area. and both zones get in the way of interacting with your surroundings. Stuff in your way will fatigue you if you just ignore it, which transfers your cards from your deck into a fatigue stack, which is generally bad except sometimes you're able to draw those cards up into your hand. since your deck is essentially a timer for the day, it's important to be efficient.
there are a number of basic actions that rangers can do, and you need to expend energy to do them, however you can also combine symbols from your cards to perform better. different rangers have different energy pools. you can always see the threshold for success on any given action, and then decide how much energy to commit and how many cards to discard for symbols. Then you flip a modifier card, and see if you got lucky or unlucky. The game isn't very swingy, you can basically ensure success at an action if you expend enough effort. Then, on each modifier card, there's one of 3 symbols - sun, mountain, or red bird. This fuels every card from the environment deck to act of its accord (1/2)

>>96111282
predators may chase after prey and take them out, prey may feed on plants, rocks may fall from the shared area down into your player area. Everything feels pretty dynamic, and if you don't watch out for potential interactions you may be caught out.
So the general gameplay loop is move to a node on the map, populate a biome deck with some characters from an overall large valley deck, draw cards and clear them by connecting with them, harming them, or some other means, and then making progress on your actual location card once you get obstacles out of the way in order to move on to a connected node. the game motivates you with an overarching story, and characters you run into will offer smaller objectives. A lot of the environmental storytelling is pretty cool, even if i find the prose meh overall. I really enjoy the deck construction and the different builds you can go for. I went with a lot of meditating and trying to play around with the fatigue deck. my friend was into technology that all had a limited number of charges. you can specialize into herbs or some magic user shenanigans. and then you'll find new cards as rewards that are powerful and useful.
there are other systems like weather changing over time, injuries, and lingering injuries. It's a cool space to explore and the cardplay is genuinely satisfying. Despite the stakes not always being death and killing, just traversing around the world and getting past obstacles is plenty of challenge and the depleting deck always keeps a sense of pressure

>>96111524
>>96111560
This all sounds fascinating, but borderline video game levels of upkeep. Is every zone of the open world some kind of separate deck then? How fiddly is it?

>Despite the stakes not always being death and killing, just traversing around the world and getting past obstacles is plenty of challenge and the depleting deck always keeps a sense of pressure
That actually sounds awesome. Not all games have to revolve around killing shit.

>>96111592
I thought the upkeep was very reasonable. Depending on what path you're traveling you switch out to a different environment deck - forest, mountain, swamp, river, etc. Some major locations have their own set of cards that you'll add into the terrain deck, otherwise you'll just throw in a few generic valley cards. I think you tend to spend long enough at each location that this bit of upkeep doesn't get annoying. Then when you're in play everything moves very smoothly - choose an action, spend your resources, check modifer, run through all the icons. It's never an unreasonable amount of cards in play at once, and you'll only have to deal with a couple types of tokens really. It's definitely less annoying than Slay the Spire the board game, and I find that playable as well.
check out a picture of the valley map if you want to get a sense for when you'll need to change terrain

Pick 3

>>96111697
I guess marco polo 2 (but 1 is better), DUNC, Arc
wasn't too hard to pick
but I never played andromeda's edge or bloodstones, how are they

>>96111697
Only played one of these - DUNC - and found it way overrated. The deckbuilding kind of sucks, and it's the mechanic of the game tying everything together.

I guess I'd try Arcs to give Wehrle one last shot before starting to shit on him completely, and two other random games.

>>96111697
Marco Polo
Dune
Endeavor

>>96098250
Mandala Stones
Tyrants of the Underdark
Blokus

>>96108913
Is FFG in trouble or something?

>>96111697
DUNC, underwater cities and, errr...marco polo I guess?

That's a pretty nefarious selection of ok-good but not quite there games

>>96111697
I burn Bloodstones in a pyre to get the Burning Banners designer to stop making American Civil War games and make the expansions faster

>>96111924
Burning Banners has been on my list for a while but I remember thinking that the combat system looked pretty dull and uninspired to me. Can you tell me more about it? What makes you such a big fan of the game?

>>96098250
Tiny Epic Dungeons
Nemesis
Neuroshima Hex

>>96111731
I have bad things to say about Andromeda's Edge and I haven't heard good things about Bloodstones.

>>96111697
Again, none. Marco Polo is best by far but that's the inferior version.

>>96111811
Depends on how you see it. FFG's been turned into a soulless empty husk that churns out politically correct ip slop...but I assume their stuff sells well.

what did uwe mean by these?

>>96111697
Dune Uprising
Beyond the Sun
Marco Polo 2(since I already have 1)

>>96112834
>Pic
Man biblios is such an underrated game, but I gotta admit how scoring manifests is a bit shit. There's a lot of moving pips up or down yet I would guess. That 80% of time all dice are either 3 or 4

>>96112858
Haven't played it enough to see it average out, but usually there's someone trolling other dice in my games. I do love game within a game mechanics. Also big fan of games with dice that you're not allowed to roll, I'm maintaining a mental list of those games that I will one day rank.

>>96112445
When were they not that? A:N and Arkham Files were both uberpozzed from the start

>>96112858
>biblios
>>96112834
One of many games that would be improved by a Dutch auction

I'm still mad how the box of el grande is as big as the spirit island one

>>96114093
Why? Do you think El Grande is too big or that Spirit Island is the most boring game in existence?
>a-at least the gameplay is good
"No!" The gameplay is dreadful; the game was terrible. As I played, I noticed that every time a minor power was played, the player did it for the symbols instead of an interesting effect.

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time a card was played for symbols only. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Reuss' mind is so governed by bland effects and thinly veiled set collection that he has no other style of gameplay. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Spirit Island by the same Kenneth Johnson. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these manchildren are playing Spirit Island at 31 or 32, then when they get older they will go on to play Phase 10." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you play "Spirit Island" you are, in fact, trained to play Phase 10.

>>96111770
Arcs is his best game, but it depends on what you want out of it, because Base Game and Blighted Reach are 2 incredibly different games.

>>96114220
Too big, I have very limited space so it triggers me when they make big boxes like they needed to justify the price tag

>>96114093
If you mean the new version how do you make the box smaller without shrinking the board? Just halve the depth?

>>96114093
>>96114477
>buys edition of the game called big box
>it features a big box
>I am now mad at the big box

>>96114837
once again, Hansa Teutonica mogs
it calls itself a big box, has all the expansions, multiple maps
and yet, is a regular sized box

>>96114220
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Spirit Island. The gameplay is deeply intricate, and without a nuanced appreciation for conditional triggers, elemental synergies, and time-delayed mitigation, the board will spiral into colonialist hell before you’ve even hit the Fear pool threshold. Most casual players are too distracted by “winning” to comprehend the real pleasure: playing a card not for its effect, but for the symbols. Yes, I played “Flash Flood” with zero targets just to get two Water and a Moon — and no, I’m not ashamed. That’s called planning ahead. Try it sometime.

There’s a deeply layered metanarrative here, too. Each Spirit isn’t just a unique toolkit of abilities — they’re allegories of trauma, resistance, and ecological vengeance. And the Dahan? Obviously trans people. Indigenous, non-binary, community-based survivors. And the invaders? Just look at them. Literal colonizers who freak out the moment a tree whispers at them. Spirit Island isn’t just a game — it’s an anti-imperialist, anti-binary, anti-simplistic manifesto.

Of course, people who don’t like Spirit Island usually say it’s “too complicated” or “takes too long,” which is just gamer-code for “I fear nuance.” These are the same people who think engine-building means playing Wingspan and whose idea of synergy is matching bird colors. They take one look at a Minor Power deck and break into a cold sweat because there are symbols on the cards. *Symbols*, Karen. They *mean* things.

And yes, I do play true solo with Finder of Paths Unseen. While tracking eight adjacency rules in my head. In my underwear. At 3am. While whispering “trans rights are human rights” to the blight tokens I deliberately put on the sacred site.

>>96114093
I only know the base box of SI, but the el grande big box is way bigger than that?

>>96110923

>>96114837
The big box should be full, not more than half empty though

>>96114906
>And yes, I do play true solo with Finder of Paths Unseen. While tracking eight adjacency rules in my head. In my underwear. At 3am. While whispering “trans rights are human rights” to the blight tokens I deliberately put on the sacred site.
The absolute mad man.
Ive yet to win as Paths.
My wife asked me to stop picking them, I do so poorly as the hummingbird :(

>>96114906
I say this and do this

>>96115162
da but
>He took a copypasta seriously

>>96114906
Is this the Rick and Morty pasta with some delicious boardgame sauce on the top?

>>96114959
They are pretty much the same but spirit island has the lid a little bit higher (because the box is actually FULL)

>>96115187
Tbh at least anon shows he knows the game.
True solo paths is an absolute bitch, the adjacency modifications are no joke to juggle and exploit.

>>96114906
>While whispering “trans rights are human rights” to the blight tokens I deliberately put on the sacred site
Absolute poetry

>>96114906
Ew, em dashes
Anon you cant even come up with this yourself? You need ai to write the jokes for you?

>>96110923
this is the superior version

>>96115361
How could it possibly be

>>96115311
>Spirit Niggers
>creative
Yeah, not going to happen anon

>>96111635
>>96111560
>>96111524
>>96100965
Why cant my order arrive yet, I so badly want to see how this all holds up for me and my group.
who am I kidding I'll mostly be playing it solo

>>96109637
I played it. It’s shit

>>96116680
elaborate

>mfw he says he doesn't like area control games

>>96117306
Or auctions.

>>96117374
Those are the same thing however

>>96117374
Auction games feel very samey. If you've played one of them you've played them all.

>>96117694
True
>>96117846
You haven't played many auction games, have you?

Is Monopoly an auction game?

Yeah lmao
And it's a dexterity game

>>96117909
New thread
>>96117909
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>>96117909
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>>96117909
Wavelength is
>>96117909
the superior part game
>>96117909
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>>96117925
I've played them all