toddhunter
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Jealous of all the people who actually get to play a game like TI. I can barely get snap to the table :|
Second game of Lisboa. Rarely get to play this kind of euro repeatedly like this, but I put my foot down & made our group play it again tonight after it took so long to learn last week. No way do I want to teach/re-learn it any time soon.
It's not a *hard* game, it's another incremental euro with point salad for vp, and the usual loops of turning one good into another resource to do something that gets you VP later in the game. But the way the possible actions are structured, with card play, and a follow-on action that other players can get into (a la Glory to Rom) make explaining the flow of a turn, and keeping it in your head initially, tough.
But it's a good un. Tons of tough decisions, tons of routes for VP, and did I say tons of tough decisions?
So who all came up to Gencon this year? We are sitting out here waiting for the dealer room doors to open lol
I'm going to be there Saturday. It's torture sitting at the office knowing that Gen Con is happening only 20-25 minutes down the road!
Oh also, I've been playing more Dark Souls and...It's not that bad? I mean, the treasure deck is what it is, but the game plays fine? What's the issue with this again?
It's grinding the board game. They replicated the video game, it's tons of repetition.... it's just not very fun in board game format. You just keep doing same thing over and over till you win. Also there is very little variety to the game.
Not a fan of it, but think Kingdom Death skips the boring repetition and goes straight to the meat and potatoes compared to DS.
Oh nice, seems like they kind of forgot to update us on the shipping. I'm in europe so I guess I'll still need to wait a couple more weeks.Damn Battlecon Trials is here.
I know your gonna have a lot going on, but if you see this in time while you are at the L99 booth (I see your post mentioning BattleCON Trials being there), could you see how they are distributing promos? If they are straight up selling them, a guy in town I know went to GenCon and I can message him and see if he can pick some up for me. I've got all the BattleCON promos released prior to their League Play starting. Ithry on the BattleCON Trials Kickstarter comments said they should have some of the Season One promos there when I asked if they would be available outside of league play in the future.So who all came up to Gencon this year? We are sitting out here waiting for the dealer room doors to open lol
$3 each?! Hot damn! I'll have to send the guy I know a message and see if he can pick me up some. Or I might not, because it'll probably be a hassle for him. A portion of the promos from the organized play rewards are promos from the previous War Remastered Kickstarter campaign and I have all of those, so I'll have to send him a list of what promos I have and do not have. I really want them but it's probably more work than I should ask of him.Yea it is beyond packed in here. I managed to get some stuff I wanted before it sold out, though. Got to meet Sandy Petersen and Brad Talton. I talked to Brad for a good while about BattleCON stuff. For Americans he said Trials should be coming probably next week. I didn't ask about Europe but I will go back an ask him. The new characters have small tuck boxes and Brad said something is in the works for a complete storage solution. As far as promos, I don't know which are part of which season but there are 11 here and they are $3 each. Also new Millenium Blades promos here.
The lines for Fantasy Flight and CMON are downright comical. Massive Darkness is on sale and they have 4 or 5 Rising Sun demos going. Might try to slide in on one.
Yea it is beyond packed in here. I managed to get some stuff I wanted before it sold out, though. Got to meet Sandy Petersen and Brad Talton. I talked to Brad for a good while about BattleCON stuff. For Americans he said Trials should be coming probably next week. I didn't ask about Europe but I will go back an ask him. The new characters have small tuck boxes and Brad said something is in the works for a complete storage solution. As far as promos, I don't know which are part of which season but there are 11 here and they are $3 each. Also new Millenium Blades promos here.
The lines for Fantasy Flight and CMON are downright comical. Massive Darkness is on sale and they have 4 or 5 Rising Sun demos going. Might try to slide in on one.
Second game of Lisboa. Rarely get to play this kind of euro repeatedly like this, but I put my foot down & made our group play it again tonight after it took so long to learn last week. No way do I want to teach/re-learn it any time soon.
It's not a *hard* game, it's another incremental euro with point salad for vp, and the usual loops of turning one good into another resource to do something that gets you VP later in the game. But the way the possible actions are structured, with card play, and a follow-on action that other players can get into (a la Glory to Rom) make explaining the flow of a turn, and keeping it in your head initially, tough.
But it's a good un. Tons of tough decisions, tons of routes for VP, and did I say tons of tough decisions?
Anything interesting at FFF besides TI4 and Fallout?
Mine just show up along with 7th Continent. I am watching Gaming Rules! and might try to get Lisboa to the table next MeetUP. That said, I am not excited at all about 7th Continent the more I looks at it the more it look boring and repetitive. It's like playing TIME Stories by yourself (if you play solo).
not a fan of narrative driven games?
I got mine last week and planning to play it (at least solo) this weekend. Though I may be missing some cards.
Yea it is beyond packed in here. I managed to get some stuff I wanted before it sold out, though. Got to meet Sandy Petersen and Brad Talton. I talked to Brad for a good while about BattleCON stuff. For Americans he said Trials should be coming probably next week. I didn't ask about Europe but I will go back an ask him. The new characters have small tuck boxes and Brad said something is in the works for a complete storage solution. As far as promos, I don't know which are part of which season but there are 11 here and they are $3 each. Also new Millenium Blades promos here.
The lines for Fantasy Flight and CMON are downright comical. Massive Darkness is on sale and they have 4 or 5 Rising Sun demos going. Might try to slide in on one.
I got Aeon's End: War Eternal, Cities of Splendor and Secrets on Con Day 1. Now for the most sacred of con activities: drunk lobby gaming.
I have heard a lot about Aeon's End...What is it exactly?
There were a couple of impressions earlier:Is there any impressions of Wasteland Express Delivery Service? I liked what a saw a while back and then completely fell off the bgg train. I think i may be able to start a group so i finally remembered it existed
Played Wasteland Express last night.
It's got a very daunting unboxing experience initially. One odd thing of note is that you need to keep a bunch of the cardboard sheets that you punched stuff out of. We also might have missed something but we ended up with action counters that didn't seem to have a specific storage slot. We managed to get them in though. The trays do make initial game setup go pretty quickly, which is nice. You could probably be playing 5 minutes after you grab the box off your shelf.
As for the gameplay, it was pretty fun. There's a decent amount of variety in setup to keep it fresh(and we obviously didn't even look at the campaign setups). The way the board is setup, and the way movement works is pretty cool. 90% of the rules made sense to me and were fairly intuitive once we got going. My only worry initially is that it seems like it might be prone to snowballing. Basically, you start with limited resources and storage space. Any damage you take ends up blocking your storage spots, and it costs money and actions to get it fixed in one place. So if you get unlucky in combat early in the game, you've lost half your storage space, 1/3 of your starting funds to repair, and possibly a few turns of driving to get to the repair location. I need(and want) to play it more to see for sure about that.
As for the 10% of the rules I'm unsure about, one of the other guys was going to post on BGG, but I figured i'd ask here in case Stooge knows offhand. Normally, a city might have a demand for say, water. If you deliver it to them, you get paid the market value for water, and replace that demand with a new one. There are smuggling missions though, where you deliver a specific good to a city regardless of their demand. These normally give you $4 and an ally, but we had some doubt on whether you also get market value for the delivered good. So if the smuggled good is different than their demand(if any), do you get quest reward + market value? What if the smuggled good IS their demanded good as well?
I wish I had gotten pictures but my phone was dead.
tl;dr: Wasteland is fun. Deserves some of the hype for sure.
Edit: Just remembered the one thing that did aggravate me. There are three Raider Trucks that move around and act like hazards, and each corresponds to a specific raider faction, but the trucks are identical. They do include some stickers, but there's not really great flat spots to put the stickers, and it really feels like an after thought considering how well thought out everything else is.
We played Wasteland Express yesterday. The components and inserts are amazing and while we did enjoy the game I have to agree with Shut Up and Sit Down that adding those objectives sort of ruin the fun of the game. I definitely like it more than SU&SD and didn't find it to be as terrible but that said I still would prefer playing Merchants of Venus over this.
Day one haul from GenCon:
Codenames Duet
Lazer Riderz
Wasteland Express Delivery Service
Photosynthesis
Kingdomino
Differences Jr. (for the kids)
Not a bad first day. Its my first time here and I'm enjoying myself. I did True Dungeon yesterday and hit the exhibit hall. I have a few events to go to today but that's about it. It is packed, but it still feels "roomy". I'm judging it based off of my previous experience with ComicCon. It may just be the venue but I felt ComicCon was way more uncomfortable to walk. At Indy there is definitely more space to move and sit if you need a break.
I really want to hear Cities of Splendor impressions. We hardly ever play Splendor, but it's a good game for the Ticket-to-Ride complexity level people.
Day one haul from GenCon:
Codenames Duet
Lazer Riderz
Wasteland Express Delivery Service
Photosynthesis
Kingdomino
Differences Jr. (for the kids)
Not a bad first day. Its my first time here and I'm enjoying myself. I did True Dungeon yesterday and hit the exhibit hall. I have a few events to go to today but that's about it. It is packed, but it still feels "roomy". I'm judging it based off of my previous experience with ComicCon. It may just be the venue but I felt ComicCon was way more uncomfortable to walk. At Indy there is definitely more space to move and sit if you need a break.
you know that any more positive feedback and i'll have to buy it, right? ;_;These guys did a short little discussion on Fallout. I'm quite impressed by their comments and what it LOOKS like will be a very open game. I may attempt to get a demo in on Saturday.
These guys did a short little discussion on Fallout. I'm quite impressed by their comments and what it LOOKS like will be a very open game. I may attempt to get a demo in on Saturday.
Amazon has board games as their DoD sales today
https://www.amazon.com/s/browse/ref..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=NYQSC11Q4WCWDFXPRVKB
Team Covenant is streaming the FFG In-Flight Report right now -- just started a few minutes ago: https://www.facebook.com/teamcovenant/ They're talking RuneWars right now, so hurry before they get to the stuff people care about!
Amazon has board games as their DoD sales today
https://www.amazon.com/s/browse/ref..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=NYQSC11Q4WCWDFXPRVKB
I sure hope RuneWars was worth killing their relationship with Games Workshop.Team Covenant is streaming the FFG In-Flight Report right now -- just started a few minutes ago: https://www.facebook.com/teamcovenant/ They're talking RuneWars right now, so hurry before they get to the stuff people care about!