Me and my friends play it every week before the new episode. So much fun every time. Make sure to randomize the Houses so the experience is always fresh.
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Me and my friends play it every week before the new episode. So much fun every time. Make sure to randomize the Houses so the experience is always fresh.
Wish I could! That was one of the stories I heard from one of the people who had played UFS. Not sure if it is true but apparently people would make entire giant boxes, sorted with cards and use that as their "decks" and therefore as their hand. Then it would be a tourney rule that the deck must be possible to shuffle with their hands and I believe the solution was somewhere along the lines of "a giant pile of cards you just dug through and shuffled around when needed". Next time I meet him I am gonna ask if he can try to remember the card.
RaySpencer
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Yeah, I just had much different expectations before I played it, so I dont think I was in the right frame of mind.
Its really quite crazy how you have so few choices, and nearly all of them are VERY simple, but every choice leads you down completely different paths. I guess my biggest complaint, is that I dont feel like like long enough, it feels stupid to say I wish there was more too it, since well...look at that fucking board, its insane how much shit is all over it, haha.
We will play it again probably on the weekend, and I will give it much more of a chance now that I understand it.
The art director of Harmonix and the creator of this image:
has been doing a Kickstarter for a mythological combat boardgame called High Heavens.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlesser/high-heavens-the-board-game-where-gods-battle-in-t
I know the guy personally and he's really passionate about this project. He designed the ruleset and did nearly all the art himself. I think the game's been somewhat overlooked on kickstarter and I think it deserves a lot more attention.
has been doing a Kickstarter for a mythological combat boardgame called High Heavens.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlesser/high-heavens-the-board-game-where-gods-battle-in-t
I know the guy personally and he's really passionate about this project. He designed the ruleset and did nearly all the art himself. I think the game's been somewhat overlooked on kickstarter and I think it deserves a lot more attention.
AlphaTwo00
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So Cards Against Humanity just put this up: http://cardsagainsthumanity.com/deathmatch/
Don't know how many people here have been working on something like this, but it looks damn cool.
Don't know how many people here have been working on something like this, but it looks damn cool.
Dig the art. Anyone know what the gameplay is like? Looks Summoner Warsish.
That's really cool. Would be nice to see something decent come out of it. And it looks like they'll be pretty strict about making sure they're really helping someone who otherwise might not get their game published and/or promoted.
The art director of Harmonix and the creator of this image:
has been doing a Kickstarter for a mythological combat boardgame called High Heavens.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlesser/high-heavens-the-board-game-where-gods-battle-in-t
I know the guy personally and he's really passionate about this project. He designed the ruleset and did nearly all the art himself. I think the game's been somewhat overlooked on kickstarter and I think it deserves a lot more attention.
I saw this. Wasn't really into the components, myself. Looked overly simple. I like the theme, however.
Got a little more info now, it was apparently the first release of the Street Fighter character Hugo to the game who's ability was he had a smaller hand then everyone else with a 3 card maximum but who was through some knocks and turns able to just each turn pick the cards the wanted from his deck. Can't confirm this as its somehow hard to find a picture of the cards but it is what I heard now.
Huh. I wonder if I can dig that card up. Was he a promo?
I still have sealed decks and boosters of this in my SF collection storage. Still love the Udon-contributed artwork!
Yofaycesux
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Would this be the place to discuss Boardgame-online?
Sure, A lot of folk organize and discuss online games, never seen anyone complain.
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We might be able to step in pretty well since we are Twilight Imperium vets. Going to go ahead and get it.
Yeah the Game of Thrones boardgame is really great. We've played 3-4 games now and most people are starting to get the hang of it. Last time was the first time I started making allegiances and that really paid off. Won as Lannister.
That being said, I'm the one who owns the boardgame and therefore I am responsible for knowing the rules and teaching the rest in our group. So I have a bit of a headstart.
I can't wait for the rest to really catch on and have really intensive games with alliances being broken and stuff. Will be epic.
That being said, I'm the one who owns the boardgame and therefore I am responsible for knowing the rules and teaching the rest in our group. So I have a bit of a headstart.
I can't wait for the rest to really catch on and have really intensive games with alliances being broken and stuff. Will be epic.
I *love* the GOT board game. I think it's absolutely the best light-ish war game out there. It's absolutely brilliant. I'm also a massive fan of table talk and negotiation, and this game has one of the best back-stabbing mechanics out there.
It's one downside is the license I think will catch up to it a bit. It is a pretty dense game strategically that can lead to a ton of downtime and/or AP..
I think when it first came out the theme was an amazing fit because if you knew what GOT was you were super nerd and were likely ok with a 4-6 hour game. I've had some of my non-gamer friends come over and see the box and really want to play it since the HBO show came out. That is not the game for them....
Not to plug our own game, but to me it scratches that Diplomacy in less than 18 hours itch that Tammany Hall does too, but with a little more structure to the mechanics and a bit more 'game' depth... where Tammany gets most of it's strategy directly from player interaction I think GoT also allows for a lot of clever chain-strategies that lets you scratch the screwage itch as well as the 'look how clever this combo is' itch.
It's one downside is the license I think will catch up to it a bit. It is a pretty dense game strategically that can lead to a ton of downtime and/or AP..
I think when it first came out the theme was an amazing fit because if you knew what GOT was you were super nerd and were likely ok with a 4-6 hour game. I've had some of my non-gamer friends come over and see the box and really want to play it since the HBO show came out. That is not the game for them....
Not to plug our own game, but to me it scratches that Diplomacy in less than 18 hours itch that Tammany Hall does too, but with a little more structure to the mechanics and a bit more 'game' depth... where Tammany gets most of it's strategy directly from player interaction I think GoT also allows for a lot of clever chain-strategies that lets you scratch the screwage itch as well as the 'look how clever this combo is' itch.
Glad you enjoyed that, it was substantially harder to do than it should have been.
the photoshop layers for the print files are meticulously named... auf deutsch. Which I haven't tried to speak in like 10 years and not well then.
hehe
That is interesting -- I always wondered what kind of assets you'd have asset to. Part of me just assumed you might get original scans and have to do the design work over.
Came back from my local boardgame shop which had a sale today and got myself Among the Stars, Mansions of Madness and REX for 60 euro together. Can't wait to play them, especially REX.
Also looking forward to complete get my last Mirkwood booster next week for the Lord of the Rings LCG. Time to get into deckbuilding for my solo playthrough of all Mirkwood adventures.
Also looking forward to complete get my last Mirkwood booster next week for the Lord of the Rings LCG. Time to get into deckbuilding for my solo playthrough of all Mirkwood adventures.
5gb+ psd files.... had to buy a new pc with massive amounts of ram...
There's one (of many) of those hard to predict additional Kickstarter expenses.
I'm pretty new to designer games. I really enjoyed all the gateway games, partly because I can complete a game in less than an hour. Does anyone have a recommendation for a moderately hard-hard game that is less than an hour? Most of the games in the OP seem to take about 2 hours. Also, after playing a few games, I realized I hate deck building games like Dominion.
Gaming Truth
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Pandemic?
Duration: Short to medium
Difficulty: Okay to impossible (configurable)
Cooperative
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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Less than an hour, 7 Wonders. It takes about 30 minutes to play, a hair more with new players. It's a card game where people are draft cards to play in their "civilization". Downside is, it doesn't play we'll with two. You need at least three but 4+ is the sweet spot.
If you can push a 90 minute game, I absolutely adore Lords of Vegas. The game has you building casinos on the Vegas strip. The game has really a clever use of dice and excellent player interaction. It's a good next step game and doesn't take much longer than a gateway would take.
Alcotholic
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I would suggest Betrayal at house on the hill. Game length and difficulty can vary, but it's usually been around 40 minutes for me. Most importantly though, it's a shit ton of fun.
The main premise of the game is everyone is exploring an old mansion for a reason unknown. As you play the game, you will explore the mansion by flipping over room tiles and getting items, encountering events, or revealing Omen cards. Eventually, depending on the omen card you reveal in a certain room, "The Haunting" occurs, which reveals the real reason why you're there and who the traitor is. One player will then be pitted against everyone else with 50 different scenarios that can happen involving such things as: Ghost brides, Cannibals, Porcelain Dolls, Giant Bugs, The House sinking into hell, etc.
Eclipse reviews are largely glowing. It's in the top 10 at BGG. Yes, those thing are pretty subjective but it's one of the safest buys out there. The game is great. You'll have no problem selling it off if you're a mutant who hates good games. Do it.
Affeinvasion
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I've never been able to understand the disdain that Dice Tower has for Eclipse. They love Exodus like it's the second coming though...anyone played Exodus and can compare the two? I love Eclipse, and I've only played as humans.
Dice Tower leans heavily to the thematic side of gaming... they like a lot of Euros, but I think Tom has a hard time swallowing a game that looks like TI3 being a worker placement game.
Dice Tower is pretty great once you just accept that Tom has his biases (which he totally admits to) and leave it at that. imo he does overall have quite good taste in games despite the occasional idiosyncrasies. I actually agree with him a lot more than I do Eric, who leans toward way too dry games imo. (Though I appreciate the Odd-Couple approach for the show.)
superrobot
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You can pick up the occasional bargain from amazon but the range is more limited than from the specialist retailers.
Try boardgameguru (when his holiday is over), shire games, iguk, gameslore for starters.
If you look for recommendations on BoardGameGeek you might see some others.
Ive never seen anyone at the dice tower but Sam Healy (sp?) have negative things to say about Eclipse. I think Tom's expectations were a bit off, but that's easy to understand given the look, feel and presentation of the game. He gave it two thumbs up.
timetokill
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It's fantastic, and takes something that looks very complicated and does it in an extremely elegant, simple way. When you first lay out the pieces it will overwhelm you, but when you start playing you see how amazingly it comes together.
You can't go wrong with Eclipse unless your group hates games that take longer than 2 hours.
The worse part about Eclipse is handling the population cubes. Seriously. If you're super neat about having your pieces all organized, those cubes will drive you crazy
The cubes are probably what puts me off the most. I'll probably pick it up when they do a reprint with new pieces (hopefully fixing the cube thing).
That seems like a pretty solid makeshift solution.
Anyone have any experience playing City of Horror? Considering picking that up. The great thing about it is it sounds like it takes the fun stuff about politics and backstabbing from GoT and puts it into a simpler, quicker game.
I still want to get Formula D once the reprint ships and I think I may get Smash Up for smaller gaming groups.
Anyone have any experience playing City of Horror? Considering picking that up. The great thing about it is it sounds like it takes the fun stuff about politics and backstabbing from GoT and puts it into a simpler, quicker game.
I still want to get Formula D once the reprint ships and I think I may get Smash Up for smaller gaming groups.
I personally thought it was inferior to Mall of Horror, the game its derived from. The whole thing is supposed to be pretty meta, but CoH tries to cram too much "game" into the box.
Cheers for the advice.
The best part about Dice Tower is Ryan Metzler. The types of games he enjoys meshes with mine the most. This is talking about the video reviews. I've never listened to any of their podcasts.
Also, he doesn't throw all the components on the table all the time. That irks me so much for some reason!
Damnit, I know some people of GAF don't recommend Memoir '44 but the guys at Shut Up & Sit Down are making it so hard to ignore with their latest video of them playing the Overlord expansion.
I think it's also free on Steam. I just don't like how RNG can screw you if you need to move army on the right side but not draw the cards for them.
BattleMonkey
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Game is great! Always recommend it. Slick package and quick to play.
Overlord is fun but it's not something I would play often since it requires large teams. It's good for con like events though. The overlord expansion is kinda lame since it has a paper game mat, best way to play overlord is to have two full boxed games so it gets pricey.
While it's not as nicely made, I often will recommend people get Battlecry over Memoir 44. Same game essentially but it was the original version of the system and the little difference in the game to me make it better and slightly less random than Memoir. Battlecry lets you move around generals that give you more control of troops and prevent retreats, as well as the cards having less random effect type cards, or better ways to cycle to get what you need.
BomberMouse
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It's a great game as long as you don't mind a lot of luck.
I don't know about Overlord, and I own way too many M44 expansions as is, but to me it's a super-fun game if you just think of it as a battle-themed gateway and not a wargame per se. Also I would strongly recommend playing with the rule where you switch sides (so you get a change to play both sides) and the winner is whoever scored the most points in the whole match. The scenarios are purposely unbalanced for the most part.
>>I<< recommend M44, dammit!!
I've been fiddling around with creating my own "balanced" maps, scenarios and rulesets. No more Victory Points now. I came up with an objective-based ruleset where capturing them contributes to a reinforcement system we use. This allows for less "more killing of units = winning" and more importance to strategic taking of chokepoints and the objectives. Still ironing out some kinks and balancing some bits here and there, but things are coming out well.
I don't have enough for Overlord, just yet. Need to save some $$ for more expansions and ultimately the Equipment and Terrain packs (and likely another core set).
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