The Gaming thread - anything but video games

[Onyx2]

1 minute ago, Thunderplex said:

Settlers is a classic to me, but if it’s your first time, you would played similar but better in the past that will push it down for you a bit.

That was our guess, that so many others have built on a great mechanism. A bit like watching Citizen Kane for the first time in 2020.

[Onyx2]

On 12/21/2020 at 11:55 AM, Thunderplex said:

Love Agricola, in my opinion the best game ever released.  

We adored it. Played it twice. So frustrating at first ("I'm never going to be able to get all my jobs done") to a screeching finish as everything completes. Going to buy the copy off the rental place. 

What games did you buy today you mentioned in the other thread? 

[Thunderplex]

Really glad you liked Agricola, it feels like a different game every time, just make sure you feed everyone!  Nusfjord is another one by the same author that can be gotten dirt cheap at the moment that it’s also excellent.

Caverna cave vs cave, which is a very stripped down version of Caverna, the massive sequel to Agricola, Gloom of Kilforth which is a fantasy deck builder and chocolate factory, which I don’t know much about, but the girl in Travelling Man said it was excellent solo and she had amazing tits, so I was convinced.  I have Paladins off the west kingdom on order from Amazon, and Dead of Winter from Zavvi.

 

[Onyx2]

I have Dead of Winter, played it a bunch. Needs a good group and ideally at least 4 to make the traitor mechanic work. 

Agricola reminded me of Lords of Waterdeep which I love. Give it a try if you don't know it. 

[Thunderplex]

Love Lots of Waterdeep.  The iPad app is an excellent conversion of it too.

[Onyx2]

My second batch of Rent a Meeple arrived:

Photosynthesis: a competitive 'grow trees' game. Yes really. Very elegant and simple game of placing and harvesting trees at the right time to capture the most sunlight. More pleasing than it sounds.

Castles of Mad King Ludwig: construct a castle from random tiles and win points according to adjacency and patterns etc. LOTS of fun and I can see me buying this one.

Horrified: Universal horror flavoured hunt-the-monsters game. Great timing. Wonderful theme and camp fun.

Tang Garden: create the most beautiful Chinese garden. Many factors influence scoring. Hurt my head with all the different tokens and icons involved but probably gets easier with practice.

Castles and Horrified will be entering heavy rotation soon.

[cobra_gordo]

I dont know what game I'd use these in but I need them. D&D party? Ted as a wizard, Dougal as the apprentice and Jack as cleric. Mrs Doyle- fighter.

[Chest Rockwell]

Ted is clearly a rogue!

[Thunderplex]

@Onyx2 Love Horrified.  Just a simple fun game with loads of variety.  Tons of user made monsters on boardgame geek to add to it to.

@cobra_gordo they are fucking incredible!  Buying these tonight!

[Onyx2]

So this anything but video games but... there's a Humble Bundle right now to get loads of great Asmodee conversions including Terraforming Mars and Pandemic:

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/asmodee-tabletop-2gether

[Thunderplex]

Would have been perfect if I’d not already paid full bastard price for them all already!

[PunkStep]

We've gone game crazy in recent months,  what with Christmas and multiple lockdowns. The following is a selection of the new additions over the past few months:

Carcassone, Who Knows Where, Animals Of The World, Fluff (basically liar's dice), Labyrinth 3D, Scrabble, Subbuteo!

And to cap it off, my 9yo son got Pokemon Battle Academy for Christmas- which incudes three card decks, a board and a few other bits. We're both hooked. He's since got another couple of theme decks (he also had quite a lot of cards anyway but just collected them) and a Trainer's Toolbox expansion.

Played a game tonight where his psychic deck destroyed my grass/electric hybrid deck. He even deliberately let me faint one of his just so he could send out MewTwo to embarass me with a GX move to finish the game.

[Thunderplex]

Good to see you are bringing him up well!  Still love Carcasonne.  Play it mostly on the switch at the moment, but it’s addictive.

[PunkStep]

It's ace. I can't believe we waited so long to buy it (actually I can- the £30 price tag), I've played it with friends plenty of times and had it on mobile too. 

[Onyx2]

Carcassonne is so peaceful. Very therapeutic. 

Been playing the Hogwarts Card Battle, standard deck building with poor difficulty scaling. I don't recommend. 

Speaking of not recommending, I played Tapestry too. A civilisation progression game. Another Stagmaier game of his that I dislike. All style and mechanical substance, with very little heart or joy. No player interaction.