SapphiCine
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I started with 8. Only lost one marine (the most tactical sacrifice I have ever made) prior to the reaching the Hive Lord. Then a death spiral claimed the rest,
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New Board Gaming |OT2| On Tables, Off Topic
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antiquegamer
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Nickle and dime is nothing new for tabletop gaming and have been around since Magic the Gathering and all the WizKids games from the 90s. If you don't like their model don't support it personally I think it's great that they bring back old games that have potential and doing a new edition and in case of Mansion, the app is really what the game needed to fix many of the first edition's issues. If you had try the game you would see that they put a lot of works and thought into the app and the scenarios all have good replayabity. The original version might came with five scenarios and frankly half of them were terrible.
Anyway there are thousands of board games coming out each year if you don't like this particular model don't support it there are still so many choices to pick from I am sure more than time you have to play them. People were screaming about TIME Stories and Legacy games like it would be the end of board gaming, and I don't see how they ruin anything and there was no deluge of legacy games actually, this year we saw even more great games.
A buddy of mine organized a get together this past weekend, we rented a cabin in Maryland and twelve dudes crammed in there for a four-day weekend of board games, beer, and too much food! I played:
Secret Hitler
Captain Sonar (with 7 players)
Mafia De Cuba
Isle of Skye
Masmorra
Happy Salmon
Quartermaster General
Cry Havoc
Blood Rage
Scythe
The Others (with Men of Faith vs Gluttony)
Dead Last
Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn
Room 25
Codenames: Deep Undercover
Specter Ops
Euphoria
Mission: Red Planet
After all that I need a vacation from my vacation! Whew!
Secret Hitler
Captain Sonar (with 7 players)
Mafia De Cuba
Isle of Skye
Masmorra
Happy Salmon
Quartermaster General
Cry Havoc
Blood Rage
Scythe
The Others (with Men of Faith vs Gluttony)
Dead Last
Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn
Room 25
Codenames: Deep Undercover
Specter Ops
Euphoria
Mission: Red Planet
After all that I need a vacation from my vacation! Whew!
I wish I hadsomany boardgamefriends
This sounds so epic.
Find a board game meetup in your area and start attending! One of the regulars and I hit it off, he invited me since he thought I'd be a good match with his bigger group of friends and a few others from the meetup. It was a great time!
Have everyone take picture of the location sheet so they can view it easily on their phone.
Asking anything related to the specific image on the card is definitely forbidden.
It's okay to give a vague answer sometimes as the spy. Also use the roles listed on the cards, cause it can change things a bit. It gives reason for people to have atypical answers.
One Foul Note
Member
Of course my man Zael is one of the survivors. That guy is such a champion in all my Death Angel games he has becomes somewhat of a mythical figure among my friends.
Played 2 games of MOM2 this weekend. One with 2 players. We won and had a great time. Bad things happened and man that game really pulls you in.
I played solitaire with 2 investigators last night. Same scenario (the easy one) and it went WAY BAD. Mistakes were made. There was a portal, bad things, Monterey Jack completely lost his sanity after becoming claustrophobic in a house full of small hallways.
Great game!
I played solitaire with 2 investigators last night. Same scenario (the easy one) and it went WAY BAD. Mistakes were made. There was a portal, bad things, Monterey Jack completely lost his sanity after becoming claustrophobic in a house full of small hallways.
Great game!
BattleMonkey
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Even on phone, the spy is the one who is typically going to be constantly staring at the phone, it is a major problem with the concept of the game. You still have to memorize a bunch of cards and their details, otherwise you are looking at multiple images. Those who aren't the spy don't have to look at the image much at all once you've seen your card once. It's a big flaw with the game, and what everyone I try playing with complains about, as it's too easy to spot the spy.
Only way we've found to try to avoid this, is only playing in smaller groups around a tight table where the cheat sheet is within everyones view so the spy is not so obvious.... but it's still difficult to see all the cards on the cheat sheet since they are all partially covered on the sheet, and hard to see the small partially covered images from all angles.
After how dry and confusing some people found Agricola, I'm a little scared. Still, thanks for the heads up. I preordered at CSI since Miniature Market was out. I've been switching to Miniature Market in general since they have better preorder selection typically and lower shipping even though they're further away.
If you like Star Wars I think you'd be hard pressed to hate it.
Note: it's still not as good as War of the Ring. Buy that first if you don't have it !
Yeah, it's a fantastic piece of kit for stealing peoples work.
The owners of it and Valve absolutely refuse to do anything to stop people from posting "workshop" games that are 300 DPI scans of artwork that cost us thousands of dollars.
It's hurt me a couple of times with deals to get App versions of our games made in the last few months. Digital board games are worth money. Creating a platform where thousands of people have downloaded our games for free is essentially a piracy market in my eyes, and given that the developers won't do anything to stop it, I'm guessing it's a feature. If you "partner" with them for official DLC they do a hell of a job keeping pirated versions from popping up on the workshop.
Have you tried legal action against Valve and/or the company? I'm sure it's expensive, but something as simple as DMCA takedown notices that work on YouTube should work in this situation, otherwise either Valve or Tabletop should end up in massive trouble.
"Should" being the operative word.
Yeah I saw the paid options the other day and it rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't even think of it like a shakedown situation, where they only protect you if you pay them.
The thing is, it's direct copyright violation when someone scans artwork. I can't imagine a situation where it's legal for there to be no takedown option.
DMCA takedowns work, but I have to do a seperate one for each instance.
The problem is I have done about 75. Valve takes them down and within a week a bunch more are back up there again.
Valve should remove the software. It is nothing but stolen work.
As of right now there are 7 versions of Machi Koro alone.
Megalosaro
Banned
I've been looking into machi koro. But I've heard bad things about quality control. Have those Been resolved
It was only ever a problem with the very first print run of about 2500 units where there was an issue with card sizing that caused some real issues especially when the first expansion came out.
The rest of it is BGG "experts" claiming cards have gotten thinner when they have objectively been made thicker and cheap Chinese printing when we've actually moved all production to the US.
SillyEskimo
Member
Get the purple box Target exclusive"Btight Lights, Big City". It is the best version of the game and includes the expansions.
LunarKnite
Member
That's part of the reason why I've yet to purchase TableTop Simulator. Aside from those that are officially supported by the designers/publishers of the game, a lot of it seems to be essentially piracy of board games. I used to use VASSAL a fair amount before TTS and Tabletopia were made and I know publishers had mixed feelings regarding their games on the service. I much prefer Tabletopia as a platform as I feel they are doing things the correct way.
Received Summoner Wars Master Set in a trade recently. It's gone over extremely well with my fiancee - she seems more obsessed with it than 7 Wonders: Duel, which is saying a lot.
Has anyone here purchased the big box Alliances Master Set? If so, would you say it's a worthwhile investment? Also, would that be all I'd need to buy in order to have "everything"?
Has anyone here purchased the big box Alliances Master Set? If so, would you say it's a worthwhile investment? Also, would that be all I'd need to buy in order to have "everything"?
The thing about VASSAL back in the day was there was no real market for digital board games. So, having them online was good marketing. I was also almost always asked by the online platform for permission.
Now that app versions and digital versions are a revenue source, it's far more problematic.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Stooge that sucks man. It didn't really strike me as that because I went and modded in games I already own to play with my friends. I was shocked at how easy and how many versions were there for basically every game I own.
I would pre-order it, but I will be getting The Others and Mechs vs Minions the same day. On top of that we are basically only playing BattleCON and Through the Ages (is this the best game? yes is the answer) at this point.
Let me look up War of the Ring I guess.
I would pre-order it, but I will be getting The Others and Mechs vs Minions the same day. On top of that we are basically only playing BattleCON and Through the Ages (is this the best game? yes is the answer) at this point.
Let me look up War of the Ring I guess.
Through the ages sounds cool, but no one including me wants to play 3 hour games, heh.
Its worth it with TtA though :b
SapphiCine
Member
Can those unofficial versions charge money? (Not familiar with the software or Steam Workshop.) If not, I can see why the developers and Valve won't do anything. It's bad for you and your feelings are valid, but I don't think they are entirely in the wrong. Giving preference to official add ons is scummy. Pragmatic but scummy.
Pirates gonna pirate, the only thing you can do is make it more alluring for people to go the legal route. Still free advertising for your products.
toddhunter
Member
Besides the piracy thing, I just find tabletop simulator to be awful in general. How do people really play a game with it and not get frustrated as hell?
I think I would rather do a print and play by drawing the components myself instead.
I think I would rather do a print and play by drawing the components myself instead.
The issue is chiefly that people are scanning and copying the artwork, which is blatantly illegal. You can't stop people from playing a home-made "Spyfall" with some index cards and a marker, but all that artwork adds value that people are just copying wholesale on TTS.
The other thing is that playing stuff on TTS is made possible by being able to find rules PDFs online - a huge privilege for gamers that starts to look like a huge abuse on TTS.
EYEL1NER
Member
Now that the B&N clearance hit 75% off, I went back to my closest one and picked up a few things. Like always, they never had too much that was good, certainly none of the amazing things other people find. I did get some things to play with my family though: Star Munchkin Deluxe, Apples to Apples Junior, and Pictomania (which might be my first Vlaada game!).
I also got the Firefly: Blue Sun expansion. Man, would I love to play Firefly again.
I also got the Firefly: Blue Sun expansion. Man, would I love to play Firefly again.
SapphiCine
Member
Those are good points. My bias is as a consumer.
EYEL1NER
Member
Oh yeah, it is coming out that soon, isn't it? I know that a couple at the local store who loves Betrayal has it pre-ordered and is planning a big Halloween-themed game night at the store. I might buy some of the custom character board holders (with spots for the clips where they don't move around) on Etsy in advance for my personal copy and bring that in.
That's annoying that people use TTS as leverage in negotiation. I'm an insanely hardcore board-game player with a PC I built, and I've never touched that and have little interest. I could see supersuperfans who have no alternative getting into games they already own that way, or just cheap people who wouldn't even pay .99 for an app anyway, but it's total apples & oranges in terms of whether it's competing with competent board-game apps. I think there's no way it is at all.
toddhunter
Member
The ios version of patchwork is on sale and is well worth picking up.
Just in time for cottage garden. I'd love to try Feast for Odin but I'd never get to actually play it. A bit of Uwe gardening might go down alright though.
Just in time for cottage garden. I'd love to try Feast for Odin but I'd never get to actually play it. A bit of Uwe gardening might go down alright though.
2 hours is the upper limit of what I can rope people into ("2 hours" games take 3 hours in reality), so I can play stuff like Scythe every once in a while.
At the very least, Feast for Odin has a singleplayer mode, so I figure I'll get to do that.
It's kind of where I am right now. If it wasn't for TTS I would play my tabletop games with my brother only 1 or 2 times a year.
Same with some of my friends, I already did the trip in train, it's still better experienced this way, but time & cost wise it's simply not something I would do every weekend, or even every month.
antiquegamer
Member
Wait but they did review the game. I think Astro need a new hat. 😁
I'll be there tomorrow picking some stuff up and trying a few games.
Castef
Banned
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Lol yea we play some abaolute monsters