Getting anons riled up like it's Monday, welcome to another rocking thread of the Board Games General.Previous: >>96428867Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8Survey results: https://pastebin.com/YJPZ44rqThis general encompasses all board game genres - Eurogames, Ameritrash, Ameritreasure, Fillers, Party, Abstracts, Wargames, and especially the game that one anon is autistic about at this very moment.TQs:What off meta plays/builds have you seen severely irritate other players?Are you a scripted openings or wild child type? Trigger /bgg/ with ONE word. Hard mode: anything mentioned last thread off limits.
>>96448485>First for TI4 rocks!Also, FUCK RENATURE
>>96448485First (probably not, I'm phoneposting and slow) for Root sucks>Tq1 In my group off meta strats dont irritate anyone, we like to experiment>Tq2Im more of a wild child, yep>spoiler Eh that's hard, not even gonna try
>>96448485TQs>Barony of Letnev player said "oops all reds" and went straight for War Suns. The table was not expecting it and were unable to hold them back while also dealing with each other's BS. Some real fun battles happened, though. Memorable game.>I prefer to go with standard openings and stick to a tried strategy in general. When I do go rogue, I have a good time playing rough and scrappy. I just have to be in the mood.>CORE
>>96448677>Barony of Letnev player said "oops all reds" and went straight for War Suns.Fucking hell that is a rich alternative to Barony swarm.I havent gotten to play TI3 in years, and never got a chance to try TI4. I wish the stars could align for that, Im quite fond of the series and the memories.
First for LNoE is the best survival horror game out there
>>96448485>off meta builds irritate other players?Using the same dealership for two (or more) mainlines in Horseless Carriage, but it only irritates whoever is using it, because it makes the factory cramped and impossible to deal with. Despite that, my opponent still won, mostly because I also went for two mainlines one dealer approach early and didn't expand my factory in a way that'd let me diversify in the midgame.>scripted vs wild openingsBoth is good, depends on the game really. Even a scripted opening in round 1 can evolve unpredictably in round 2 in response to what your opponents do, and those are the most fun types of games, where you play reactively and proactively with other people. Scripted build orders are best when they just help you reduce the thinking needed for the boring bit of the game, to let you focus on the interesting interactive bit with more brainpower.>Trigger /bgg/ with ONE wordHey Anon, thanks for inviting me over to game night to play your vintage copy of that old game that's never getting a reprint, check out what I brought over: Cheetos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnv20zwUdH8
>>96448690Well, the Barony player was the person at the table who is usually the most amicable. So they were kind of ignored when another player was kicking in doors as Sol, aggressively expanding, and I was launching unprovoked strikes as Nekro, feeding on weak fleets. Top it off with Barony getting first slice pick and taking the most resource rich one, it was a recipe for disaster.>I wish the stars could align for thatTook me about 3 years to get a group together that I could convince to try it. That first game was cautious but magical in its own right. Best part was at the end, everyone sat there, mentally exhausted, and one person flipped over their faction sheet to read their lore. They said "wow, there's a story here?" Then everyone did the same (I had told them lore prior but I guess it went over their heads), that seemed to make everything click and suddenly they all were excited to try again. I get why folks dig on it, but I love the game for its theater and memorable moments.
>>96448923Many of my favorite moments were post game.4 a.m., everyone burnt out, Im driving people home, and one guy chimes out something he wish he played differently.Now the whole car is awake and chattering on alternate builds, synergies they missed out on in the early game. The excitement to play again was so palpable.
Does anyone else rate games on the gulag they've never played? I find I can watch a playthrough and rate the game within 1 point (usually bang on) of what I would had I played it 5 times. I've rated over 400 games I've never played this way
>>96449009Pretty clever way to answer the secret tq
>>96448994>>96448923Based and passion-pilled. Love these moments
>download Aftergame app because BGG integration and maybe find a group to play with>no one uses it>location filter doesn't filter by state, so cities with the same name show up in searchWelp, back to Meetups.
>>96449009>doesn't also log a play of it and write a comment shitting on itAmateur.
>>96449009"3/10, can't be that good if I've never played it"
Id shit on a game while my comments hint that I actually played another game entirely. If you arent raising a geeks blood pressure when he account stalks you, are you truly even trying?
Okay bgg, here's a hard mode questionYou're on an island 3 other peopleYou're not allowed to have sex with any of themInstead, you must survive one year and can only take one Jamey slopmier game with you (expansions are allowed)And you must play the game at least once a day, no burning it for warmthWhat do you take?
>>96449427Vantage.
>>96449427If it can be a non-Stegmeier game from Stonemaier, then Between Two Cities since I actually like it. If it has to be designed by the man himself, then idk, I've only played a couple and thought they were fine but nothing special.
>>96449427Wingspan with Asia, Oceania, and the Nesting box.I shall live in the Nesting box.
>>96449438I see what you did there
Anyone play Sweet Lands?
Best board game of all time?
>>96449863Carcassonne with the first two expansions
>>96449863War of the ring with LoME
>>96449863Hansa Teutonica big box>>96449879Abbey and Mayor is also really good. It's probably not as popular because it doesn't have many pieces in the box, a lot of people likely saw it as a bad value.>>96449971Hard to argue, War of the Ring is such a beast but it's a good time.
Thoughts on Dead of Winter? I just bought the game but haven't had a chance to get a game of it going. I guess if it's shit at least I'll have the worlds most expensive zombie standees.
>>96449863If aliens come down to earth and ask for our best board game, I'm going to give them GoBut within the hobby space, probably Hansa Teutonica or age of steamRoute building is just such a great mechanic that I think any game even in contention needs it.
>>96450021It's more of an "experience" than a "game."
>>96450021Quarter-backing issue. No thanks
>>96450332wtf do you mean by quarter backing
>>96450332Which doesn't work due to traitors and personal goals.If I need to hold onto gas to win, no Im not going to pitch it to the current crisis unless we are on the edge of losing. No amount of quarter backing will convince me otherwise.Its the one good element of the game in how it sows doubt and mistrust even if the game has no traitor dealt it.
>>96450416Tom Brady is in his group and just tells everyone what to doWhen people accuse him of quarterbacking, he says that's God damn right and stares them down
Why is the manual for Caylus 1303 filtering me so hard? Is it a bad manual and/or am I just stupid? I swear I play more complicated games.
We know that TGZ is just a less cool Keyflower, but did you realise that FCM is just a less cool Dominion?
>>96450828Horseless carriage is also just a lamer Eclipse
Spirit Island is a poor mans Twilight Imperium. I was just too blind to see it.
TIL Castle Combos King married a barren woman.
>>96450021A common complaint is that a competent traitor is difficult if not impossible to win against. Meanwhile a middling to bad traitor will throw the game every time.
>>96450741If I remember correctly the game is super straightforward and easy, but a few key concepts, especially flipping the buildings are strangely worded. I do recall me staring at the building tiles unsure how it is supposed to work as well. Just watch a video of that part, takes a few minutes and is, to my great annoyance, better than the rulebookI found the game pretty meh and wish I liked it more
>>96451036Nice detail and I really like the game (I assume you recommended it?) but man fuck that art
>>96451061What about the original Caylus? I see people hype that one to death, the shop I bought it from actually had both versions on the shelf. I grabbed the newer one, only because it seemed easier to get to table.
>>96451076>Oath if it was woke
>>96451076Oh yea CC is addictive as all get out. Easy recommend.
>>96450992Most games can be reduced down to "Eclipse but lame" so that's not really nuanced commentary. Try again?
>>96450021the crosswords cards had potential to be very cool yet are like 90% boring "Trigger if [character x] goes to [location y]". It's pretty ameritrashy, but in a bad way where you fiddle around with relatively irrelevant stuff. That said, I think the basis of the game is sound, it's just what >>96451037 says: a competent (read: person with a working brain) traitor is basically impossible to stop and will play along just fine only to ruin everything in one turn, making it quite unthematic. If you play without a traitor, it is trivially easy.It's kinda like nemesis in that the game gives you handful of cool moments (I remember narrating my betrayal as blasting the john cena intro through a megaphone I found and thus, zombies overran the base) at the cost of an otherwise somewhat broken, meh game.If it came out today, everyone would comment on how it builds narratives and is a storytelling game. That is fine and all, but if the underlying mechanics don't work well, the game isn't magically amazing.
The world would be a better place if Isaac Vega's mom didnt pester Colby Dauch at church to give her son a job.Sure, we wouldn't have gotten Ashes, but its a trade I am willing to make.
>>96451085Never played it. Had the same "yeah I GOTTA play caylus someday" drive, thought the 1303 version was the cleaner one and felt relatively disappointed. The thing that makes it interesting is obviously the provost, and that one failed to cause any sort of drama at our table. Not because we are averse to conflict but because it seemed inherent to the design. An example:>last 3 buildings are occupied with other players workers>Haha!>You either waste an action using the provost building or 3 workers in the river phase>if you aren't last in turn order, players will either work together to put the provost back or a single player will get fucked>either way, you actively spent resources to either hurt one other player while the third/fourth player laugh at you or you invested way more than the other players involved in the provost hot potatoI get that turn order is massively important, but provost movement didn't play as big a role as I had hoped. Plus I have begun to find the 1 if someone else uses your infrastructure that many euros have more and more annyoing because it's always just a consolation prize and doesn't really see other players considering if they should gift you the points.All in all a fine game but a bit too bland to me
>>96451061>spoilerDont talk to me or my son ever again.
>>96451036I think the likelier implication is that the king got cucked by the monk. It's quite tiresome
>>96451317I was worried if 1 would be too little. When I play Hansa Teutonica with my friends, we all groan when somebody gets that one point in the late game, when you really want to finish up your networks and somebody is at 16-17 points. It's great tension.I'll still try it and get back since well, I already have it. It was somewhat of an impulse buy since a shop had a 15% all gaming sale, and I like Worker placement mechanics that aren't afraid to be a dick. I LOVE Agricola and Dune Imperium.
>>96451358The Stable boy is called bastard in the french edition.
Harvest (2024) by Trey Chambers is such a fun game that i'll forgive his annoying posts on BGG
>>96451453What makes his posts annoying?
>>96451360Was pretty much my story as well. Honestly, who knows, might just not be our game, I wouldn't call it bad by any means. It just tries the less is more approach but clearly pales in comparison to eg HT
I hate how all my friends play blood on the clocktower.
>>96451596how so?
>>96451615I'm not smart enough for it. Also they play it all the time. How do people not get tired of constantly playing the same game?
>>96451630you dont need smarts to play botc, it's just a social game, if your friends only play that kinda game then maybe it's for the best
>>96448149 Same developer. https://www.eerko.nl/>>96448485 Sleeves.>>96449115 There's also Facebook.>>96449427 My Little Scythe, per >>96449452.>You're not allowed to have sex with any of themThis would change anyone's answer?>>96449879 I prefer South Sea over vanilla Carcassonne.>>96450416 This one tripped me up for a while too. It's when a solo game masquerades as a co-op.>>96450828 My eyes are opened.>>96451210 The carriage has no horse because lame horses are sent to the glue factory.>>96451630 You might have autism.
Just played (and won) Apiary. It's resourceslop but the bee theme is cute.>>96451474NTA but he's very political.>>96451689Wtf is this posting format?
>>>96451826 Wtf is this posting format?We may never know why lines of text were in reply to which posts.
>>96450021It's a waste of time. Too hard to win, and even without a traitor sometimes survivors fill fuck the team over just so they con complete their objective.
>>96451630with custom scripts it's literally impossible for Clocktower to get old. Even the base 3 are basically endless fun>>96451683the logic puzzle for good can get really complicated
>>96449863Castles of Burgundy, not even close
>>96451061>>96451085The original is better than the update.
>>96452364Why Castles of Burgundy?
>>96452391With opaque bags there's basically no setup, it lulls in morons with the simplicity of it, but has enough depth to be engaging after hundreds of plays. The best part of it all though is just how you have the moment right after scoring where you look down at your kingdom and you've built something, after all of your decisions, there's a concrete thing in front of you totally irrespective of the score. There are plenty of games that do one of these things well, but there are none like Castles of Burgundy that do all of them together. The best part of it all is that the old version filtered the worst people in the hobby
>>96452364I can't call it the best, too multiplayer solitaire for that. But I can definitely call it a personal top 5.And fuck the haters, I like the special edition. Those acrylic tiles are great, so are the double layer duchy boards.
>>96452377How so? Consensus seems pretty evenly divided between OG and 1303 when I look online.
Got my copy of Heart of crown 2nd
>>96453013Sweet. I really want to get this when it hits retail. How is the card quality? Is there enough room in the box for the expansion cards?
>>96448485>spoilerkniziafaggots
>>96453289But that's a proper noun compounded with a word. Two words. OP said ONE word. Try something like this:>Miniatures>Quinns>Cole>Oath>Catan>Sleeves
>>96453333please excuse me, I'm German
>>96453274have more than enough room after removing the two gap-fillers (see those above the box). Ive put expansion to the top left of the box and still have plenty more room for future expansions. Cards look nice but feel exactly the same quality as usual cards (randomly compared with Imperium Classics and Sentinels of the multiverse cards). Would definitely sleeve them
>>96452391CoB occupies the same space as Carc or Catan, as in "its fun as your first boardgame but why the fuck would you play ot when better games exist?". It's a dice chucker that throws in a few euro mechanics so you don't notice that its basically Monopoly
>>96452364>>96454088I used to think CoB was at least the best feldIt's not even in the top 5
>>96454124Yeah it's not even the best feld, much less the best board gameanon probably hasn't tried out his other games
anyone played it? the idea and gameplay looks fun but the art looks so woke-fatiguing its turning me off
>>96454345Wrong, I've played Civolution, Carpe Diem, Trajan, Bora Bora, Marrakesh, and Notre Dame. None of them are close to as good as Castles of Burgundy, although I did really like Civolution and Trajan quite a bit.
>>96454736>Notre dame not better than cobI dont agree but sure okDo try In the year of the dragon though
>>96454785The guy who has it in my group keeps flaking whenever we are supposed to play it. It's on the docket we just haven't been able to table it. I still want to try Alhambra and Amerigo too, but i don't know anyone who has either of them.
>local board game store closed (sign is down) without warning or notice Surely they're just remodeling, right?
>One morning, when Anon woke from troubled dreams, he found his torso transformed in his bed into a dusty cheeto.
>>96453552Thanks for the pic and info anon. If you get around to trying it I'm interested to hear if the expansion is worth it
>>96455900did you play there a lot? you're probably fucked
>>96455900Facebook is your friend for this stuff
>>96449605not yet, still waiting for the Tabletop Simulator module
Bringing Hegemony to the game day today, will it get played? place your bets!
>>96455900>>96455974Is this loss?
>>96456862no, we will be playing wingspan (4 players) and flip7
>>96456862Well, can you teach it?And I mean ALL of itIf not don't even try
>>96456894No, it's Metamorphosis.
played galactic cruise this weekendI liked it, we'll see how replayable it is
>>96456862Hegemony is a destination game - you can't just show up with it and say "hey, you guys want to play this 4-5 hour game with an involved teach for each faction?". It might even be a game that lots of people you know want to play but it's a huge commitment in time. Best you can hope for, if you have the players that are good with it, is a learning game of a round or two.
>>96456862Betting no and when I win I want my prize to be that you buttchug some hot coffee. Anyway, I hope that motivates you to read the rulebook and commit the time to teaching.
>>96453337https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/47222714/#47223427
>dry spell from the start of august has just been extended by another weekBefore I bore you with further blogposting, I have now gotten a whiff what makes people go full consoomer. I have, probably subconciously as a replacement for the fun/destressing I was supposed to experience, bought more games in this 1 month than in the last six months. To be fair, most were superb second hand deals but still, it's insane how quickly I have accumulated a pile of shame.Furthermore, everyone trying to rebrand it as "Pile of opportunity" is a faggot
>>96454088What Carcassonnesque game is better than Carcassonne?
>>96457781Rajas of the Ganges and AlhambraAnd Horseless Carriage
>>96457781
>>96457848If you can't strand your opponents' meeples then it's not as good as Carcassonne, sorry
>>96456799Explain
>>96458008Unless you live in the middle of the middle of nowhere there is a Facebook group for board game reselling in your local area. It can connect you with meetup events or gaming groups looking for players.
>>96456838>he missed the TTS module when it was still upThe publisher has explicitly said they'll takedown any TTS uploads, so you're gonna be waiting a while unless you grab the backup save.
>>96449863I'm gonna say Last Night On Earth
>>96458008check the game store on Facebook, they all dont stop yapping every update on there
Favorite bullet character and why
Wait, what is even the point of money in Food Chain Magnate? You don't do anything moneylike with them aside from paying salaries which is the equivalent of harvest in Agricola.
>>96459050>what is even the point of moneyIt's how you determine who the winner of the game is.
>>96459161Sure enough. It does say that.
What is even the point of victory points in Concordia? You don't do anything pointlike with them aside from determining the winner at the end which is the equivalent to scoring in El Grande
>>96459292I never understood why there was a victory point track either. Maybe it's relevant to one of the expansions. I only have Venus.
>>96459306Yes actually, but barely. There's at least one forum tile in the Salsa expansion that gives you points mid-game.
Pick 3.
>>96459161Sure, what I meant is whats the point of physical monopoly money? Since there's no economy within the game, money doesnt trade hands, its not spend on anything, no loans or investments, you may as well just abstract it into tokens, or even a track
>>96459343
>>96459485I don't want any of these. Can I have the background instead?
>>96459485How did you manage to find eight of the blandest games imaginable?
>>964595327 of them are her right now. And I've definitely seen the other 2 here before.
>>96459485Burning BannersArnakArcs
>>96459564Why aren't you buying Vantage?
>>96458942I mainly play Arle (on TTS). I uploaded Vic Viper who seems pretty fun, only played her a couple times though since she's not scripted.
>>96459564They shouldn't be
>>96458942I am torn between Rose and Rei.I either want to make love to the camera, or get the sweet satisfaction of hitting homers.
>>96459485>BB, DIU, ArksEasy choices for me since the goal is to bait people into playing Here I Stand and TI4.
>>96457848>spoilerthe fuck does it have to do with Carcassonne, come on>>96459485Arcs, Ark, Dune uprising i guess, but the only other games i've played from that selection are SETI (meh) and Arnak (the novelty runs out very fast and then it just becomes painfully mediocre), Burning Banners seems funI played Dune Uprising with 6 players and it was surprisingly smooth and fun
>>96456838>>96458090As it turns out, they uploaded an official mod but then hid it later.https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3261600134
I have the best taste in board gamesProve me wrong
>>96461291I can't stand the taste of cardboard but maybe I'm cooking it wrong. Post recipes.
>>96461296>cooking your gamesWhat? No. Plastic miniatures are perfectly chewable without that
>>96461302>Plastic miniaturesWelp, there you have it. Proved how shit your taste is. Why would you eat that artificial crap when wooden and metal pieces are right there? Much more natural, nutritious, and not filled with all those chemicals big brother is using to turn you into a onions boy. This generation, I swear.
>>96459485Arnak, Andromeda's Edge and Endeavor because those are the ones Ive played. Arcs is the only one that loses on merit.
>>96454629Too simplistic. You think the decks stacking element is going to be interesting but then it just never goes anywhere. If your woke fatigue is terminal, the gameplay will not be strong enough. Sakura Arms still exists.
>>96459485I have heard that Burning Banners is unpleasantly long. It is also expensive. >SETI>Ark NovaI don't know why you'd spend money on these. They're just like Unconscious Mind, and you can go get Unconscious Mind second hand from the people who are already bored of it for much cheaper.
>>96456838>>96458090>He isn't in the secret Discords.https://files.catbox.moe/a8zcpf.json
>>96461634This is just dolphin porn.
>>96461634But to answer the original question; Sweet Lands is about jacking off over your pretty player board until someone arbitrarily wins due to having the best special ability.So standard modern euro stuff. I'll play it again after I update the TTS mod to my absurd standard.
>>96461658>comfy>good art>japanese theme>totally uninspired, rote gameplaywhy are they like this
>>96461634Yes, yes, we're all in the TTS Save discord. I have both uploads too.
>>96461658But what about the worker placement action selection? I thought that was gonna be at least somewhat interactive...
>>96461766Go play Argent then.
>>96461634>>96461658>Korean version>when the English version was posted a few posts before youNot the brightest bulb...
