Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted May 30, 2017 Paid Members Posted May 30, 2017 Just ordered that Star Realms game. Should pass some time on the 12 hour flight at the weekend. Quote
Rey_Piste Posted May 30, 2017 Posted May 30, 2017 Star Realms is a perennial favourite filler game amongst my group of board gaming mates. Though I doubt we will play it with more than five people again, theone six player game we played seemed to drag. Quote
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted May 30, 2017 Awards Moderator Posted May 30, 2017 The base Star Realms game is free to play as an app if you want to try it out. Quote
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted May 31, 2017 Moderators Posted May 31, 2017 It's so cheap as a card game I've ordered it off the strength of the comments in this thread and a little bit of reading about it. Looking forward to trying it out. Reviews compare it favorably to Dominion, which I really enjoy. In a similar aesthetic, has anyone here played Race for the Galaxy? It's a lot of fun, definitely recommended. Quote
Paid Members mim731 Posted May 31, 2017 Paid Members Posted May 31, 2017 I love Race for the Galaxy. Not played it for a good while, but enjoyed the last session with it. Nearly always follow it up with a crack at the surprisingly good Firefly game, and Cosmic Encounter, which is always a winner for me, especially with the expansions. Quote
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted May 31, 2017 Author Paid Members Posted May 31, 2017 Interested in Terraforming Mars. It's very popular on the solo gaming group, and im playing solo most of the time a the moment due to having no social time. Still love pandemic like hell. Quote
Paid Members JNLister Posted May 31, 2017 Paid Members Posted May 31, 2017 Just realised I forgot to mention here when I did a series of board game articles last summer: Why you should join a game group: https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2016/10/03/board-game-week-join-game-group/ Understanding hobby game terms: https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2016/10/04/board-game-week-understanding-hobby-game-terms/ 3 Picks to start your game night: https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2016/10/06/board-game-week-3-picks-start-game-night/ 3 must-have expansions: https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2016/10/07/board-game-week-3-must-expansions/ How to teach games: https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2016/10/05/board-games-week-teach-games/ Quote
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted May 31, 2017 Awards Moderator Posted May 31, 2017 22 minutes ago, Thunderplex said: Interested in Terraforming Mars. It's very popular on the solo gaming group, and im playing solo most of the time a the moment due to having no social time. Still love pandemic like hell. It was quite difficult to go back to vanilla Pandemic after months of Legacy. But bless it the game played itself out in the most perfect way: after much debate we'd figured out with 4 turns to go (player card deck dwindling) we couldn't cure the fourth disease. We decided to play through. Wouldn't you know it the perfect card turns up allowing us to cure it on the penultimate turn! Nail-biting. Quote
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted May 31, 2017 Paid Members Posted May 31, 2017 Those articles are great, Lister. It's funny, I thought I'd had a bright idea when reading this thread to pitch a feature article based on the enduring popularity of board games in the technological age, only to find the Guardian had published about a 9,000 word feature on them last year ? Quote
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted June 4, 2017 Moderators Posted June 4, 2017 Been playing a bunch of games of Star Realms over the last couple days. A few points: 1) thanks for the recommendation; it's tremendous fun. 2) The Cutter is ridiculously overpowered. The Federation lifegain archetype seems very powerful. 3) we're using a life counter app on my phone that I have for playing Magic the Gathering to keep track of authority points and it's a lot better than fucking around with the cards for that. Strongly recommended if you're playing on a flight, Spurs. Quote
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted June 4, 2017 Awards Moderator Posted June 4, 2017 Oh fucking counting down from 50 using cards is ridiculous. I grumbled a lot about that when I first played. I use the Carcassonne score counter (pen and paper would work fine). Cutter is great VFM, but Blobs are unstoppable en masse. Playing some Star Realms tonight actually. Using the Colony Wars expansion. Quote
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted June 4, 2017 Author Paid Members Posted June 4, 2017 Had Star Realms for ages but have never even opened it for some reason, must rectify that. Quote
cobra_gordo Posted June 23, 2017 Posted June 23, 2017 I'm going to pick up Star Realms just off the back of this thread. Any other games as portable as this i.e can fit in a deck box and don't need loads of bits? Quote
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted June 23, 2017 Paid Members Posted June 23, 2017 On 6/4/2017 at 10:38 PM, Thunderplex said: Had Star Realms for ages but have never even opened it for some reason, must rectify that. I've had it about a month now. I've opened it and had begun to deal a game when I was in Mexico but then my partner said she was tired and haven't tried to play since Quote
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted June 23, 2017 Moderators Posted June 23, 2017 Checking in from holiday in Portugal Have bought the colony wars expansion and have played twice already here. Will play a 4 player game for the first time later; will report back. Quote
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