Man, that Puerto Rico screenshot looks godawful, it just makes me sad. I can't believe the positive responses to it on BGG. On the other hand, the same dev did Ra and their upcoming version of Tikal doesn't look bad so maybe there is some hope for the other games they are releasing this year (Le Havre, T&E and Through the Ages).
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joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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So the Smallworld thing that was teased a week or so ago turns out to be a stand alone offshoot from the series.
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DOW Game Page Link
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I'm curious to see how this game will work with the existing races from Small World and the expansions.joeyjoejoeshabadoo said:
Will races and powers that involve region types that aren't on the new board basically become useless, only meant to be passed over and taken when enough victory points are placed on them? Or maybe certain regions on the Underground map will be analogous to regions on the original map.
It's also possible that the maps from the two games can somehow be combined, with tunnels linking them together. Perhaps 2-player boards from each game can be linked to form a 4-player game. That might make for an interesting dynamic.
platypotamus
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MrMan2k3 said:
Yes, sorry, poor choice of words, pun totally not intended, etc.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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The new races can be used for the base game. I don't know if the same is true the other way.Cathcart said:
Well, in the description on Days of Wonder, it says "Play Small World Underground on its own or combine it with other Small World game elements."Cathcart said:
So, it is a standalone game, but they also intend it to work with items from the existing Small World, so it can effectively function as an expansion as well. I have the feeling that some races and powers will be useless on one map or the other, however.
Anybody want to give 7 Wonders on that French site a try? I have never played the game, so I will be struggling, but I am interested in learning it.
http://www.jeuxsurunplateau.com/fr/jeux-en-ligne/jeux-en-ligne~34~playing~m7.html
http://www.jeuxsurunplateau.com/fr/jeux-en-ligne/jeux-en-ligne~34~playing~m7.html
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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I'll play.Yaboosh said:
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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Joined.Yaboosh said:
Is the 7 Wonders web game in English? I'd like to play to try the game out before deciding on whether or not to get it. As a big Magic drafter the premise of the game appeals to me.
Also, for Arkham Horror is there any good tutorial video or document? Thinking of playing a game by myself to get the flow down but would like a reference.
Also, for Arkham Horror is there any good tutorial video or document? Thinking of playing a game by myself to get the flow down but would like a reference.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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The game is in french on the site but 7 Wonders is fairly language independent. Most of the game is played through icons and the only words on the cards are the names of them. The game is totally playable on this site even if you don't know French.Hero said:
MrMan2k3 said:
I imagine you'd simply remove the non-relevant powers (mounted, hill, forest, swamp, etc) and there might be modifications for races like Humans who rely on a region type, or you could simply remove them, too.
With 15 new races and 21 new powers, a combined game would still end up with a larger pool after you removed those that didn't work with the new board.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo said:
Well, that would suck if you wanted to play a card for free because you had already played it's prerequisite. I guess you could just match up the words even if you don't know what they say (not like you have to read kanji or something). I'm going to have to give this a try one of these days as I do enjoy 7 Wonders.
In other news, I ordered my second core set for LOTR LCG.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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It's easier than you think.Mashing said:
EDIT: We have a space open if you want to play now.
Doublethink
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It was board game night last night. The first game we played was Letters from Whitechapel. One player plays Jack the Ripper while the other players control the investigators looking for Jack. The Jack player chooses a woman to kill and has to make it back to his hideout before the investigators find him. I thought this game was really fun. I was playing as one of the investigators and we were baffled as to what routes the Jack player was taking. Over the next few turns we managed to narrow down where Jack's hideout could be and the Jack player almost won the game but we got lucky and made an arrest attempt and won. If we hadn't gotten it then, the Jack player would've made it back to his hideout and won.
We also played Navegador. Really fun game but me and another player were fighting over the chapels while the other player had all of the shipyards to himself. I was able to use the market pretty effectively, I think, but I should've put the money to better use.
We also played Navegador. Really fun game but me and another player were fighting over the chapels while the other player had all of the shipyards to himself. I was able to use the market pretty effectively, I think, but I should've put the money to better use.
Doublethink
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Neverfade said:
Same designer but I haven't played Imperial so I can't compare them.
Hello Board Game-GAF!
I was feeling nostalgic tonight and discussing with a buddy of mine some of the old board game nights we used to have when we were kids. We used to be really into playing a game called HeroQuest, which I'm sure at least some of you have heard of. I did a quick google search and found that this game is no longer made, and fetches ~$100-120 used. I may be willing to drop that much some time in the future, but I was wondering if any of you knew of a current game that is similar in play style, with a dedicated DM and such?
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here are some pics:
A pic of the box cover
A pic of the actual board set up
I was feeling nostalgic tonight and discussing with a buddy of mine some of the old board game nights we used to have when we were kids. We used to be really into playing a game called HeroQuest, which I'm sure at least some of you have heard of. I did a quick google search and found that this game is no longer made, and fetches ~$100-120 used. I may be willing to drop that much some time in the future, but I was wondering if any of you knew of a current game that is similar in play style, with a dedicated DM and such?
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here are some pics:
A pic of the box cover
A pic of the actual board set up
*paging neverfade, battlemonkey, et al*
hahah yup. used to play heroquest myself when i was a kid, and we still have the game back at home.
some quick hits from me (check out neverfade's section on thematic games in the op too) while we wait for the experts to chime in:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17226/descent-journeys-in-the-dark
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36932/claustrophobia
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10640/doom-the-boardgame
hahah yup. used to play heroquest myself when i was a kid, and we still have the game back at home.
some quick hits from me (check out neverfade's section on thematic games in the op too) while we wait for the experts to chime in:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17226/descent-journeys-in-the-dark
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36932/claustrophobia
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10640/doom-the-boardgame
BomberMouse
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AstroLad said:
Those seem to be the best regarded in print dungeon crawlers. I'll add couple more to that list:
Dwarf King's Hold: Dead Rising Recently released from a new miniatures company, looks fun.
Castle Ravenloft there are 2 other games in the same vein.
Catacombs A flicking "dungeon crawler".
Last night on earth Not really fantasy themed, but it's a 1 player (zombies) v/s many (humans) dice fest
Also, tax refunds + many interesting games + birthday in a few days = HUUUUGE order from me. Alien Frontiers, 7 Wonders, Tales of Arabian Nights, Ice Flow, Rattus, Survive + a bunch of fillers and other family games. Almost bit on Claustrophobia and copy of normal blokus but there was no more room left on the package due to international size/weight restrictions. I think it's for the best though, it's an addiction (and now I have a few games to fill a new order when Smallworld Underground releases
)Can't wait for the package to arrive.
BattleMonkey
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Cyrillus said:
"Descent" is the best DM dungeon crawl board game, with tons of options and expansions that pretty much give it near infinite replayability.
TwiztidElf
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Picked up 7Wonders last week, and we've played it 4 times now, and WOW. Believe the hype, this game is the business. Really enjoying it. Goes up there with my favourites now (Pandemic, Puerto Rico, Ticket to Ride and Battle Line).
Yeah, I enjoyed 7 wonders as well. Plus my wife LOVED it, so that makes it an easy buy. She is tough to sell on card based games and I think 7 wonders is no simpler than Thunderstone, Dominion, or GoT (definitely less obtuse than RftG though), but she seems taken by it more than those others.
I'm REALLY interested in the Dominant Species card game. That is either going to be a huge winner or a colossal disaster.
I'm REALLY interested in the Dominant Species card game. That is either going to be a huge winner or a colossal disaster.
BomberMouse
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AstroLad said:
I'm always up to some play by email. I only have 2 active games right now.
BomberMouse
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AstroLad said:
I'm "carno" on Yucata and BomberMouse on that french site (for 7 wonders).
Played my first game of Dominant Species. There were three of us and I've read the sweet spot is 4 or 5 but we wanted to play with an animal apiece and not try the variant where each player takes and controls 2 animals.
I have to say I'm impressed that throughout the 5 hours it took us to play we rarely needed to check the rules book. And when we did it was mostly to check on some of the dominance cards functions. Mechanically it's pretty simple and of the 5 hours an hour was spent methodically going over every action step for the one player who hadn't read the manual before hand.
The game is pretty sweet. The mish-mash of a lot of different game mechanics blends together real well. I was solidly in last place for most of the game but at the end, because I was dominating a ton of tiles, I had a serious chance at running for first place. One miscalculation ended up being my undoing on the last turn, otherwise I would have won. The mammal player was in the lead 3/4 of the game and ended up in third. The reptilian player was in second the whole game and ended up winning, and I was playing as the arachnids and ended up second.
Like Civilization I really hope we can get the play time for DS to under 4 hours so it can make it into the regular rotation.
I have to say I'm impressed that throughout the 5 hours it took us to play we rarely needed to check the rules book. And when we did it was mostly to check on some of the dominance cards functions. Mechanically it's pretty simple and of the 5 hours an hour was spent methodically going over every action step for the one player who hadn't read the manual before hand.
The game is pretty sweet. The mish-mash of a lot of different game mechanics blends together real well. I was solidly in last place for most of the game but at the end, because I was dominating a ton of tiles, I had a serious chance at running for first place. One miscalculation ended up being my undoing on the last turn, otherwise I would have won. The mammal player was in the lead 3/4 of the game and ended up in third. The reptilian player was in second the whole game and ended up winning, and I was playing as the arachnids and ended up second.
Like Civilization I really hope we can get the play time for DS to under 4 hours so it can make it into the regular rotation.
platypotamus
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I'm also kind of low on yucata games at the moment. Invite me to anything, I'll accept whether I've played before or not. I'll even accept invites to Hey That's My Fish if anyone wants to basically earn free points off of me
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