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The New Board Game Thread (Newcomer Friendly)
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joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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5th spot on the shame tier. 2% off.
My last order put me into 6th tier for 2.5% :x
platypotamus
Member
Affeinvasion
Member
I actually get most of my stuff from TrollandToad because it usually comes out cheaper in the end with shipping. I also use Miniature Market from time to time and they have a reward point system.
piratepwnsninja
Member
Same. Not too far off from the ninth circle of hell either.
By the way, Gen Con was great. Managed to grab two copies of Netrunner (they were actually gone in closer to 5 minutes, if it even made it to that) and Mage Wars. Sold two of my co-workers on Warmachine and also picked up Level 7 [ESCAPE].
CoolMiniorNot wins the breast, er, best booth babe award for a Relic Knights booth babe. It was literally, "Lets find the skinniest woman with the largest breasts we can that can protrude through this open topped Samus Power Suit." I mean, they had to put pasties on her to cover up areola/nipples.
I know I feel l should get a badge or something. I guess the discount is the prize though.
The unfortunate thing is it doesn't stack with when they're having other %off sales though those are pretty rare.
Mr. Lemming
Member
8th tier as well. Now I just need Kickstarter to have rewards, probably have spent more money on there this year than CSI.
piratepwnsninja
Member
I love what I've seen of it prior to Gen Con, and today in demo format too. I'll try to get it to the table this weekend, no guarantees though.
Just need to figure out whether to invest in that or Summoner Wars for my g/f and I to play.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
This is what happens late, late at night inbetween games while we are tearing down and setting up lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kUnz9-p9c
He was going like this for like.... 15 minutes. We managed to catch a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kUnz9-p9c
He was going like this for like.... 15 minutes. We managed to catch a bit.
BattleMonkey
Member
Yea Miniature Market tends to come out cheapest for me. The in Florida sales tax basically kills the discounts for CSI for me, so MM works out the cheapest. I order from CSI just to get stuff fast if I do since it's next day within the state, while MM takes 5-6 days
I've only made it to the 7th level of Hell.
This is after barely a year of getting back into analog gaming though. I need help!
7th tier for me! 3% off.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Friend and I played Twilight Struggle yesterday; I won as the Soviets mid-war. Second time we played it, not sure we finished the first game (was probably close to a year ago). Fun game, though I think I prefer the card-driven games where each side has a deck (Paths of Glory, Blue vs Grey).
After that we broke out some Panzer Grenadier, which involved more re-learning (I don't get to play it very often). Played a fairly boring little scenario to teach the rules. Hopefully we'll break out the tanks next time. Really wish there was Vassal support for the game so I could play it more often.
After that we broke out some Panzer Grenadier, which involved more re-learning (I don't get to play it very often). Played a fairly boring little scenario to teach the rules. Hopefully we'll break out the tanks next time. Really wish there was Vassal support for the game so I could play it more often.
bloodydrake
Cool Smoke Luke
LOL for most of that video I thought he was doing that routine to a roach/spider on the floor...i was waiting for the big splat at the end..
piratepwnsninja
Member
As I mentioned earlier.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
Member
Oh shit, lol.
Gaming Truth
Member
I wanna report in that I loved the demo of Spartacus at GenCon, bought it, then loved it even more after playing it. It's a fun game that people can get into.
Captain_Spanky
Member
Just got the Game Of Thrones board game from my lovely girlfriend for my birthday. Awwwwwwwwwww yeah.
BattleMonkey
Member
Booth babes always creeped me out. Not really the girls, but all the geeks salivating over them...
I watched their GenCon video this morning, and it sounded like Chris Petersen was going to give their "In Flight" speech later today at 1:30(?), and there would be a few surprises announced during that.
The kickstarter for Great Fire of London ends soon. Why haven't you joined up yet?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872179144/the-great-fire-of-london
It needs about eight grand more, so I can get custom meeples!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872179144/the-great-fire-of-london
It needs about eight grand more, so I can get custom meeples!
Might want to avoid the official Dominion IOS/website game for a bit.
That's downright shoddy,sloppy & a massive possible security hole right there, especially if they're expecting people to use their FB logins... No way would I be thinking of giving them money right now.
That's downright shoddy,sloppy & a massive possible security hole right there, especially if they're expecting people to use their FB logins... No way would I be thinking of giving them money right now.
JetBlackPanda
Member
FFFFFFuuuuuuuuu!! what a joke.
wow pricing is points based and looks like a joke too! oh well no more workplace dominion games on boardgamearena.
sad day.
Blood Bowl Team Manager expansion incoming Q4
*does the Happy Dance*
Board & Base ‏@BoardandBase
"Sudden Death" announced as an expansion to Blood Bowl: Team Manager. Will include 3 new teams and a new league.
The three teams are Vampires, Undead and Dark Elves.
*does the Happy Dance*
Board & Base ‏@BoardandBase
"Sudden Death" announced as an expansion to Blood Bowl: Team Manager. Will include 3 new teams and a new league.
The three teams are Vampires, Undead and Dark Elves.
Ooh you're so close to the $65k...
timetokill
Banned
I threw in, finally. And again, I will need to change my address for both games once I figure out where I'm moving to.
Fuck yes!
In the display cases outside the FFG booth they had spaces with cards saying new product coming soon. I think they are all filled now.
I think that's all the new stuff. I'll double check tomorrow
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
yaya Stooge!
Mr. Lemming
Member
Cool to see that Fantasy Flight is distributing Legend of Andor in the US. Always can use more coop games.
I was pleasantly surprised to see 7 Wonders Cities is now shipping from CSI. CSI is probably happy to finally get my order out of their warehouse.
I was pleasantly surprised to see 7 Wonders Cities is now shipping from CSI. CSI is probably happy to finally get my order out of their warehouse.
platypotamus
Member
They still have to hold my order until November(ish) for the Eclipse expansion. Bastards will probably trick me into adding stuff to it before then.
JetBlackPanda
Member
Ok guys I need some help, I want to step it up And get a dungeon crawl / RPG board game right now my group plays constantly.
Puerto Rico
7 wonders
Last night on earth
Space hulk: death angel
Dominion
Forbidden island
So.. What would you guys recomend? No worries about how complicated it is.
Descent 2.0?
Mage knight?
Castle Ravenloft?
Mansions of madness?
Anything you guys love feel free to let me know.
I am pretty new into games so please help me out.
Puerto Rico
7 wonders
Last night on earth
Space hulk: death angel
Dominion
Forbidden island
So.. What would you guys recomend? No worries about how complicated it is.
Descent 2.0?
Mage knight?
Castle Ravenloft?
Mansions of madness?
Anything you guys love feel free to let me know.
I am pretty new into games so please help me out.
Me and my friends are having a blast with Descent 2.0, they keep nagging me at work now that we should get the group running again (have had a 2 week break). So I thinkt that is a sure buy.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
Member
Depends on what they add. I'm not a fan of the rat expansion.Hype-o-meter reaching critical levels! I need more info on this
JetBlackPanda
Member
Me and my friends are having a blast with Descent 2.0, they keep nagging me at work now that we should get the group running again (have had a 2 week break). So I thinkt that is a sure buy.
Thanks man! One person has to play the creatures in descent correct?
platypotamus
Member
Correct. He's like a Dungeon Master in D&D, but aggressively competing against the players. I also recommend Descent 2.0. We've got an ongoing campaign we've been playing at work, and it's been a blast. I never thought I'd say this about a board game, but the level design is so good!
(Full disclosure: I have Mage Knight on my will-eventually-ship CSI order, and expect I'm going to love it as well, so if you were asking this question a few months from now, I might be recommending that over Descent, but Descent is still a solid purchase).
Blue Ninja
Member
Just popping in here to say that I recently played Dominion with family, and loved the shit out of it. Might consider buying it, but the people at home just don't care about board games.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
I see it's been mentioned, but Descent 2nd is worth it? My friend is at Gen Con and was going to pick it up for me if I want. How pod does it play with just two of us? I don't have a big group to game with...If there are other good campaign-y style games (in the similar light of Runebound, WHQ, Decent 1st, etc), any idea what they are?
With two players you have the Overlord on one side and the Hero player, who controls two characters, on the other. The game scales to the number of heroes by limiting search counters, number/strength of monsters spawned, etc.
I've played 2 player once with my daughter as I was learning the rules. The more the merrier (as is the case with most games) certainly applies, but we had fun. And it's quick. Super quick. As in the intro scenario took about 20 minutes to play through.
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