Anyone else excited for Doomtown:Reloaded?
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Anyone else excited for Doomtown:Reloaded?
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Anyone else excited for Doomtown:Reloaded?
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Did they give out details on the deluxe edition yet?
I think I almost might be ready to start my first game of Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition. Anyone have any stories about it?
I think I almost might be ready to start my first game of Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition. Anyone have any stories about it?
For those of you curious about Dead of Winter, my friends and I made a "let's play" of it. It's pretty long, but not really considering it's a 5 player game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoaEoZsGQf0
I've been on the same fence. I think I wanna play it before I buy it though. So expensive! The catch-22 is that I'd be really intimidated to play with strangers.
I think I almost might be ready to start my first game of Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition. Anyone have any stories about it?
I've been on the same fence. I think I wanna play it before I buy it though. So expensive! The catch-22 is that I'd be really intimidated to play with strangers.
Watched this earlier today and was actually coming to post it here. You guys did a great job with this video and the game looks fantastic!For those of you curious about Dead of Winter, my friends and I made a "let's play" of it. It's pretty long, but not really considering it's a 5 player game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoaEoZsGQf0
For those of you curious about Dead of Winter, my friends and I made a "let's play" of it. It's pretty long, but not really considering it's a 5 player game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoaEoZsGQf0
I've been on the same fence. I think I wanna play it before I buy it though. So expensive! The catch-22 is that I'd be really intimidated to play with strangers.
I think I almost might be ready to start my first game of Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition. Anyone have any stories about it?
That's kind of why I felt underwhelmed with it.Oh man...Zombicide: Season 3 looks pathetic! The new stuff is just stupid and looks like they ran out of ideas/super jumped the shark.
I am. I enjoyed the original game back in the day and have been looking forward to the reprint since they annouced it.Anyone else excited for Doomtown:Reloaded?
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I haven't watched the video yet, but did you enjoy it? It looks like it might scratch the same itch as BSG, how similar (in tone) do they feel to each other?For those of you curious about Dead of Winter, my friends and I made a "let's play" of it. It's pretty long, but not really considering it's a 5 player game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoaEoZsGQf0
Make sure you tell people the game isn't Risk or Axis and Allies. While combat is important it's not the main goal. Combat is really expensive and unless you are going after a particular goal can take your focus away from what is really important and that's points. I played two games where the guy sitting next to me felt it was his duty to try and eliminate me from the map. The problem this caused was not only was I not focusing on my goals and trying to defend myself he wasn't working on his goals. In one game he actually left a point producing planet just to attack me for no reason. The game wasn't fun for me at that point and I refuse to play with that guy again. Subsequent games have been better, but that was the biggest lesson I learned while playing TI3.I think I almost might be ready to start my first game of Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition. Anyone have any stories about it?
I think I almost might be ready to start my first game of Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition. Anyone have any stories about it?
For our first game we used the Strategy Cards from the expansion. Seemed like it worked pretty well. I think we mostly did it because it avoided the crappy thing in the base game where the first two picks are always Imperial to get two points and Initiative so you can pick Imperial next turn.
The expansion strategy cards are better, but also feel that they can make the game run longer too.
As a follow up, Mage Wars is fantastic. Very much an influx of information to pull in when you just start and TONS of rulings and phases within phases. As MtG players me and my friends are handling it pretty well. The decklists they have in the book aren't that great though, only having played with the Priestess and my boy playing Beastmaster. Definitely going to get in there and make some changes. Who plays here? What do you normally run?
Legendary Villains is out. Set got almost no marketing push, UD been strange with how quiet they are with the game lately. But it's a separate core set me of Legendary that you play as Villains instead.
Yea it seems kinda odd all around. Another reg Legendary expansion apparently Oct, but sad to hear that they are going to make non Marvel Legendary games as well. Meh
I think I prefer more of the superhero games where you can play with any character, rather than get locked into a hero/villain dichotomy.
So it's possible to use Magneto as a hero in that game?
I picked up Eldritch Horror as my first board game ever (besides the random basic games growing up). I am intimidated by sitting down to learn it but I have two days off starting tomorrow, so hopefully I can figure it out and then play a game with my fiancee before bringing it over to our friend and his wife's house to do a four player game. I sort of blindly purchased it at a board game shop and I am glad I chose it over Arkham Horror due to it being a newer game with less expansions and a more streamlined experience. I hope I enjoy it! I also hope I have enough space for it. Otherwise, I might bring it with me to this newly opened board games plus craft beer bar here in Orlando to use one of their tables.
I've been strongly thinking that I want this too. But I'm without a doubt picking up Betrayal at House on the Hill and despite their obvious and many differences wonder if they'll crowd each other out.I picked up Eldritch Horror as my first board game ever (besides the random basic games growing up). I am intimidated by sitting down to learn it but I have two days off starting tomorrow, so hopefully I can figure it out and then play a game with my fiancee before bringing it over to our friend and his wife's house to do a four player game. I sort of blindly purchased it at a board game shop and I am glad I chose it over Arkham Horror due to it being a newer game with less expansions and a more streamlined experience. I hope I enjoy it! I also hope I have enough space for it. Otherwise, I might bring it with me to this newly opened board games plus craft beer bar here in Orlando to use one of their tables.
I feel the same about Camel Up. Good times if you are looking for a light family-style game.Been playing alot of Camel Up. Fun fun game, easy to teach and actually has some interesting timing and movement mechanics. I read a lot of complaints about it being too random, but I think if you play consistently better than everyone at the table (bet faster, bet often, clever tile placement, balance risk vs. reward, etc...) you have a good chance at winning the game.
Also busted out Skull at the bar last night. This game is much much better with 5 people, I am tempted to say its one of the best games I have played in a drinking setting. Feels so good flipping up the last flower on a 6 flower call, high fives all around, cheers, people at other tables looking jealous at all the fun we are having.
I go to BGG and GenCon! We should hang out! Or maybe some other time? Just message us on Twitter or FB and tell me who you are and we can meet-up sometime. I'm pretty normal and not super into commiting murders these days, so you might have fun! Lord knows you gave us some early encouragement we needed!I keep forgetting you are a GAFer and only remembering that you know people that I know in real life.
and yet we've never met.
Hey guys, is Lord of the Rings the LCG simple to learn and play? Got interested seeing an entire wall covered in the stuff at a local shop, but didn't think anything of it until late last night.
The supposed solo aspect of it interests me, and I'm a fan of LotR and the Hobbit. But I'm worried it might be too complicated.
I played it quite a bit a while ago. It's not really complicated, just extremely fiddly. The thing that turned me off was the meta-deck building where you had to tailor your deck(s) to each individual adventure (you play against an AI deck of sorts). That meant you either played through the adventure first with your current deck and lost (sometimes dragging on for far too long), or you looked through the adventure cards first to know what you were gonna be up against (which seems anti-climatic to me). Then you would realize you needed more X in your deck, and you'd change out some cards and try again.
I really enjoy the theme and the mechanics, and the fact that a lot of the adventures feel very unique (unlike Pathfinder: The Adventure Card Game, for example). However, the turn-offs I mentioned above were enough to eventually turn me from the game.
Would you prefer Pathfinder over LotR?
Pathfinder I was interested in too, but can that game be solo'ed as well?
LOTR LCG is a game I really want to love, so badly. But I just can't. A lot of the quest design is really lazy (oh, you drew a treachery card that automatically eliminates one or your heroes. Yeah? Fuck off.). The art is amazing, but it's incredibly frustrating that there's a lot of luck-dependent stuff in order to beat any given scenario (like not pulling certain shadow cards or treacheries, lucky pulls off the encounter deck when you push hard on a quest, etc.). I've personally had more fun with Pathfinder ACG, but LOTR is probably more dynamic as an experience.