Advance one space, activate trap, pin you, hit for two [no reaction], spend a boost for free attack, roll for melee, hit for five, GG? Wait, what do you mean range was off by one? Okay, rewind everything, let's try that again.
Forcing square pegs through round holes since 2014, it's the Combination Edition of the Board Games General!

Previous: >>96160193

Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8

Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rq

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

TQs:
Do you prefer your combos clean and straightforward, or convoluted but exciting?
Should combos and synergies in games give incremental advantages, or huge payoffs for proper sequencing and synergies?
What are your favorite combos in games?

And for those with no opinion on the above:
Is putting suboptimal player counts on a box akin to a lie or is it just a welcome option to have (this includes solo gaming)
What high player count game has been rotting on your shelf?

First for Dune Imperium is slop.

>What high player count game has been rotting on your shelf?
Ave Caesar. Too light for snob gamers but not themed to attract today's newbies.

what game in OP pic?

>>96183435
Battlecon, but those are not standard bases, and with the amount of editions and various stand-alone boxes, I couldn't tell you which ones have that art (older version had very...rudimentary art on the base cards).
Solid fighting game system though. Too notch shit.

>>96183270 (OP)
New idea for a Root expansion: Racial Tensions.
Replaces the Woodland Alliance with three separate factions that the one player pilots simultaneously. The Mice, Rabbits, and Foxes that must fight each other to the death whenever present in the same clearing. Each faction has their own VP tracker in addition to the player’s VP tracker. The goal is to suppress the critters of the woodland and prevent them from organizing by forcing them to pay their VPs to you.

>>96183492
I'd just play Hegemony at that point.

Good morning sars
Caverna is the best Uwe game

>>96183555
Today I will remind them

>>96183492
I'd just play a better game instead

>>96183488
>Set it during bubonic outbreak. I read the book called Black Death: A Personal History recently and apparently plagues often led to mass remarriages and real estate repossessions. This fits nicely with Pax Renesque coronation and conspiracy mechanics. Players could represent wealthy landlords trying to use chaos to establish wealth and stockpile for the winter while using their serfs as pawns to undermine their enemies. They could move bishops around to infect the houses (priests were historically responsible for a lot of disease spread)
Well I am convinced anon. Been reading between two fires and you are on the money on the setting and socio-political and economic ramifications.
Pitch it to Phil already, I think it would be up his alley.

>>96183572
Thank you, anon. Amen.

Jamey Stegmaier has designed no good games, prove me wrong

>>96183555
>>96183572
>Sloppenberg

>>96184195
True, but Stonemaier Games has released one good game, Between Two Cities

>have a buddy rave about how great Final Girl is
>Brings it over for me to try
>Says the first game is tough to beat
>Get maybe a tenth of the way into the game and realize it is 95% RNG
>Dice gods were in my favor and I beat it flawlessly in under 20 minutes

Apparently a lot of the difficulty comes from the dice fucking you over pretty steadily and when they don't do that at all the game is laughably easy. Do the other titles rely on dice screwing you over as much? Because if they do it's kind of a shit series. Good theme though, I will give it that.

Kinda weird Warp's Edge is still the best solo game with a fast setup and play time I have come across.

>calling fields of arle mps when it's a single player game that comes with spare components

If you were to time travel back to ancient egypt and interrupt a game of Senet, which board game would you teach to them that they won't execute you for witchcraftery/blasphemy?

>>96184225
Your friend invites people over to play solo games?

>>96184195
Public executions for virtue signallers.

>>96184195
>Free replacement parts
>$1.00

>>96184386
>we ask that you pay us to fix a ''''''mistake''''' we made.

>>96184336
boop.

>>96184195
>We ask you that you replace these cards with these other ones
>Yes you must pay us to do so

>>96184356
Solo players are that fucked up in the head.

>>96184336
Do you ever wonder why board games were never developed for centuries until like the last 40 years? You'd think such low-tech activity would have a storied history of artists and designers stretching from the times of antiquity. And yet, for thousands of years people were content with super gay shit like backgammon, dice, and trick taking games. It's weird.

On one end of the worker placement spectrum we have Argent.

On the other end we have Agricola. Which one tickles your fancy?

Do any of you like campaign games?

>>96184643
The availability of low cost mass-production wasn't there in the past. Plus all the tools that help with design only came with home computers and especially the internet. I don't think it's such a big wonder board games exploded with the 2000s.

>>96184850
I love the concept, but unfortunately the actual games underneath the campaign tend to be mediocre to trash.

>risk
>machi koro
>betrayal
>king's dilemma

So far, the only one that really works on both levels was Clank. Gloomhaven is good too, but it's just too damn fiddly. Any anons played it with the companion app? How much of a painkiller is it?

>>96184972
those 4 games you listed weren't campaign games though

I feel like despite gloomhaven having all the components physically, X-haven app is required to streamline setup and managing the game much easier.

>>96184850
No.

>>96184643
I agree with >>96184874; trick-taking games and other traditional card games worked because you just needed one deck of cards to play all of them. Same for dice games. Chess and checkers used the same board and were easy enough to proxy. Actually, now that I think about it, it would be interesting to take an existing "modern" board game and try to make an entirely different game using the same components. You'd probably want one with minimal text.

>>96184850
The only campaign games that I played before were Arkham Horror LCG and Pandemic Legacy, both shit.
I think Fields of Fire Deluxe looks interesting, I just need to get bored enough to invest 100 dollerinos into heavy gmt solo slop

>>96184850
The campaign mode for Arcs looks pretty fun

>>96184643
Less leisure, less education, less sedentary. For example, this was created by a medieval Buddhist scholar specifically for something for his mother to do while she was recovering from illness. But most historical games you hear about were for nobility if complicated enough (including the invention of the wargame for Prussian aristocrats) or very simple games that could be constructed by and entertain children. To the extent what you're talking about did exist, that creativity probably went into sports.

>>96184985
How is a campaign game different from a legacy game?

>>96185467
Legacy alters the game physically and often can't be repeated. Campaigns don't and can.

>>96185636
Legacy is just a campaign game with gimmicks. I'm glad this meme format is largely dead, selling one-time use board games is vile.

i played dragonspam and didn't hate it

I just received Nemesis Retaliation and I'm very excited to play it tomorrow.

I absolutely love when I'm checking out used games for sale and people write "only played once." It's hard to imagine a phrase more helpful at saving me money, either because you just told me either the game is bad or your consumer habits are so repulsive I'm going to low-ball you.

What games are currently on your wish/ research list?

>>96185762
I played it once. The game is better than birds but the theme is worse. Still not that good overall.

>>96184752
I can't convince myself to get this as it's a big tablehog. Really want to try it though.

>>96186248
Mint Works
Tigris & Euphrates
Love Letter
Rove
Chinatown
Dune: The Dice Game
String Railway
Coin Age
The King is Dead 2e
Galaxy Trucker 2e
Stationfall
Ave Ceasar
Fossil Hunters (NOT Jurassic Parts)
23 Knives
Duck Dealer
Castle Combo
Pax Porfiriana 3e
Key Flow
Faiyum

Used to play mostly longer and heavier games but recently I'm starting to enjoy smaller, shorter games.
Did you notice your preferences in games change over time?
Also give some recs, about your favorite shorter, lighter games.

>>96186248
Nexus ops
DS Marine
Evolution Climate
Bios origins 2e
Neuland
March of the ants
Sub terra

>>96186309
>blacked edition of love letter

>>96186248
Meltwater
Civolution
Amalfi renesanse
Skymines/Mombasa

>>96186309
>Did you notice your preferences in games change over time?
I started with mtg style direct interactionbtake that games, to multiplayer solo euros and now somewhere in the middle with more interactive "euros". Want to try some wargames. Thinking of one of the undaunted games.
Also have to check that videogame RTS 1v1 game. Cant remember the name.

>>96186248
Tigris & Euphrates reprint is really the sum of it at this point. Everything I want is something others in my group have and I just want them to bring more often, so I'd only grab it in a really good sale or if an obviously definitive edition came out. This decade has not been strong so far with its new releases.
>>96186288
>Dune: The Dice Game
Interesting!

>>96186248
Circadians Chaos Order

>>96186309
I started with heavy MPS euroslop because it's what people brought, but I doubt it was ever my preference. When I started buying my own games to play in that group, I realized it was things like Hansa Teutonica. When I really began collecting with the intent at branching out to public game nights and not just sweaty game stores, the come-to-Jesus moment was Reiner Knizia and obviously he remains my savior.

>>96186616
Thoughts on Schotten Totten?

>>96186430
Get The Last Hundred Yards for a good modern intro wargame.

>>96186627
It's good. I don't use the tactics cards often because I usually play it with non-gamers, particularly a family member who practically has board game phobia, and it wouldn't need it unless you play it very often with the same person. There's a nice amount of uncertainty among an open decision space which allows for someone very experienced with board games to play and have fun with someone very inexperienced.

>>96186483
I got it recently because it was on sale and holy fuck is it a great game.

You should play it anon, as long as your group aren't a bunch of care bears who hate conflict.

>>96184774
>>96184752
Both are truly excellent games and demonstrate how wp as a mechanic can be great in different ways

>>96184850
yes. playing Middara with friends, Oathsworn waiting for getting played in future.

>>96187130
Hows Middara?