A guy in my group recently picked up Sentinels and all the expansions. We've played three times already, we got creamed once but the other two times we beat the villain. I love this game and so far my favorite character is Wraith.
I held the Summoner Wars master box lovingly in my hands the other day at the FLGS. The only thing holding me back is the fact that my wife won't touch it and I never play with just two players otherwise (always 4 to 5). Has anyone done the 2v2 thing with a second board? Any thoughts?
I've also been pondering Eclipse for a long time now. I think the main holdup for me here is the length. My group plays a couple of longer games (Axis & Allies mainly), but they're few and far between these days. We almost always do three or four shorter games in a night rather than one biggun. Any thoughts? I've read a lot of good stuff about the game but I'm still hesitant. I'd love to hear from someone who just hates it.
I held the Summoner Wars master box lovingly in my hands the other day at the FLGS. The only thing holding me back is the fact that my wife won't touch it and I never play with just two players otherwise (always 4 to 5). Has anyone done the 2v2 thing with a second board? Any thoughts?
I've also been pondering Eclipse for a long time now. I think the main holdup for me here is the length. My group plays a couple of longer games (Axis & Allies mainly), but they're few and far between these days. We almost always do three or four shorter games in a night rather than one biggun. Any thoughts? I've read a lot of good stuff about the game but I'm still hesitant. I'd love to hear from someone who just hates it.
I've also been pondering Eclipse for a long time now. I think the main holdup for me here is the length. My group plays a couple of longer games (Axis & Allies mainly), but they're few and far between these days. We almost always do three or four shorter games in a night rather than one biggun. Any thoughts? I've read a lot of good stuff about the game but I'm still hesitant. I'd love to hear from someone who just hates it.
I'd love to hear from someone who just hates it.
Bought Forbidden Island for my girlfriend's christmas gift and it will be our first tabletop game. Good call? Hopefully we'll have fun with it and be able to justify buying more of these
we've been meaning to make a boardgame collection, as we already own Stratego, Creationary, Clue and a couple of other casual ones... but we've been wanting to try more complex stuff for a while now, and I've seen pretty favorable reviews for Forbidden Island as a gateway into the more elaborated games Forbidden Island is a good choice.That's pretty much what I'm thinking
Flash Point is great. It's pretty chaotic since the fire propagation is random, but it's not too random that it's unbeatable.Slacker said:
I liked Flash Point the few times I played it
There are some roles which are somewhat better/more necessary than the others, but it's a very tense game overall. Make sure you don't overexplain everything at the start. You'll be playing together, so you can explain how it all works as you're going along. Thanks for the recommendations. Ticket to Ride is definitely in my list, since it seems to be a pretty established classic, and I'll be looking into CME soon
I guess I'll also report back with our impressions on Forbidden Island as soon as it gets unwrapped, that should tell me if we'll be looking to get more games.
Let us know how it went. Hopefully I wasn't too far off.
The Starlit Citadel youtubers reviewed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxpAvWWnzS0
One of my favorites, but its not the easiest game to just jump into for new players. The game is an engine building game. However, instead of making money you are trying to lose it. The flow of the game takes a a couple rounds to a full game to get a feel for it. The game is broken up into three phases. There is the action selection phase where you are choosing the amount of cards, the number of workers, and the number of actions you get for the round. Next is the worker placement phase, basically you place workers in order to get more cards or manipulate the housing market. Finally is the action phase where you play the cards you received in the first couple phases. It's also a game that heavily uses icons which can take a game or two to get comfortable with them. Once you get past those, ultimately, small hurdles it's not a super hard game to play.Yeah that's actually why I came here to ask, saw the review, looked interesting, came here looking for impressions
I can totally relate. For some reason people think TI is Axis and Allies or Risk. The first two times I played it I had a guy (same guy both times) sit next to me and all he did was just attack me. For no reason at all, it turned out, because both times his hidden agenda had nothing to do with attacking the home world of another player. So for 7 hours each game I did nothing but play defense and couldn't do anything else. It soured me on the game but I did give it another shot without that guy playing and had a better time. It's a good game if played with the right people.
Let us know how it went. Hopefully I wasn't too far off.
Bought Forbidden Island for my girlfriend's christmas gift and it will be our first tabletop game. Good call? Hopefully we'll have fun with it and be able to justify buying more of these
Power Grid is a perennial favourite. I actually have all the maps, and depending on the type of people you're playing with, the game has a very different feel.
I'm trying to keep myself from buying every expansion to every game I get (Carcassonne taught me not to do that). Is there one map that stands out as a winner? We'll typically have 4-5 people playing. Is the Robots expansion worth a purchase?
I'd tell you to pass on robots unless you really want to pad 1/2 more player than you have people for. It generally is somewhat slow to manage, doesn't make logical choices (causes it's just conditional cases), sometimes cheats, and is easily gamed. If you want anything out of PowerGrid that isn't maps, I highly recommend the new Powerplant deck, which feels more balanced and is more interesting than the base deck. I'll go through the map packs (each pack comes with 2 maps):
I've been tinkering with a few ideas, but just wasn't sure how people are finding the game.