"The grass is always greener on the other side" Previous: >>96491716Pastebin: 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:- Favorite Eurogame?- Favorite Ameritrash game?- Do you think the distinction matters these days?- Bonus question: Is there a designer you admire?
1st for Wehlre
>>96505010>Bonus question: Is there a designer you admire?Friedemann Friesse
>>96505038Are you going to Essen to see him?
What are other nice stock market boardgames that are not a 18xx game?
>>96505049https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamemechanic/2005/stock-holdingHere you go faggot
Gaia Project: yay or nay?
>>96505023Misspelled his name award>>96505049Bites
>>96505064I always assumed it was another Terraforming Mars-type game and ignored it.
There's plenty of WWII games but do any of them handle the Holocaust with grace and respect?
>>96505010>- Favorite Eurogame?Lorenzo il Magnifico>- Favorite Ameritrash game?Stifling Dark, if it counts>- Do you think the distinction matters these days?Nah>- Bonus question: Is there a designer you admire?My nigga TauCeti
How hard is it for the government to win in Hegemony?
>>96505010ill play euro gamestep 1 murder the kingstep 2 murder the chief one fjord overstep 3 no standing armies and no ancestral conflicts mean everyone is a farmer or boatmaker or whateverwith everyone making and no one throwing away and everyone else busy killing the guys they hatewe become the dominant power in the regionreestablish a standing armybe big and intimidatingdont be meanbe niceask for fair tradeoffer huge payment for minor strips of land between territories of rivalspay both full price for contested territorybecome unconquerable humanitylead into a new dawn of kindness and goodnessturn it into a solar colonization gameturn tens of thousands of moons into millions of starbaseshave all the suns power at our disposalmfw dont need a military because garbage thrown out a spaceship window hits harder than any nukebe happy up in spacedelve down into the human mindunlock destiny from its shacklesthe apotheosis commences
>>96505688when are you publishing?
>Favorite Eurogame?Civilization A New Dawn with Terra Incognita expansion>Favorite Ameritrash game? Earth Reborn>Do you think the distinction matters these days? Yes. My group has gone full on FotM multiplayer solitaire euros and I find them all terribly boring. "Use mechanic x to unlock 3 of resource y which can be used on 7 different scoring tracks and bonus multiplier z." Now let's spend the last 10 minutes doing arithmetic and see who wins the point salad. While I can appreciate chaining together a nasty combo, that shouldn't be the whole fucking game.>Bonus question: Is there a designer you admire?Christophe Boehlinger. Someday I will find a group to play Archipelago with. Living Planet is a weird but good game.
>>96505010>TQs- I'm not the biggest Euro fan, though my group loves them. I prefer fighting and having direct interaction. I'd have to say Bus, as it definitely is about efficiency but can be very cutthroat and I love it. (Would I like Hansa Teutonica? It seems intriguing and somewhat similar)- My favorite Ameritrash would have to be TI4. There are shorter games I enioy, shout-out to Arcs, but TI is just such a grand experience and I never stop thinking about it.- I wouldn't say it matters, but it definitely is useful to know just to get a sense of what the game will be like. Pax Pamir is probably my favorite game of all and I honestly wouldn't know how to define it in those catergories. So the terms are useful only to an extent.- Wehrle, of course. As it is always said, to the point I feel like a broken record, he may not have perfect games but at least there interesting to think about. Oath is one of my favorite games for what it sets out to do even though it falls short of making it happen.
>>96505713>Now let's spend the last 10 minutes doing arithmetic and see who wins the point saladthat's the worst part by far. I consider that shit game design.
>>96505688what?>>96505713>the distinction matters because... MPSyou know "euro" and "multiplayer solitaire" aren't synonyms right?>ArchipelagoI ended up selling mine because no way that was going to get played... but would've been cool to try
One of the mps I enjoy is Anno 1800. It's basically just a big communal tech tree. You're building different stuff and can use others people's stuff that they have built. It very relaxing in a way. Anyone else likes it?
>>96505809>you know "euro" and "multiplayer solitaire" aren't synonyms right?True but multiplayer solitaire is essentially a staple of *modern* eurogames.
>>96505049Wabash cannonball
>>96505064Seems like a more open version of terra mysticaNeither looks interesting enough for me to try
>>96505010>Favourite EurogameMille Fiori? Does that count? If not then probably Kingdom Builder (Which will probably also not count because le randomness)>Favourite AmeritrashWar of the Ring>The DistinctionNot really, it feels like most "American" designs all trend towards being Eurogames now and it feels rare to see proper traditional Ameritrash outside of amateur designers who don't know any better>BonusCarl Chudyk for having such a breadth of designs and also just being able to design the ones he has is an insane achievement. I'm not sure there's another designer in the tableu-buildery field that comes close to just having GTR, Mottainai and Innovation. Maybe Tom Lehmann with Jumpdrive, Res and RFTG
>>96505877Is this the default cube rails game
>>96505956>GTR, Mottainai and Innovation.what a trilogy. GTR should be reprinted. can't that fag who owns the rights and is blocking them just die or something? lol
>>96505995I think he's so traumatised and butthurt by the black box KS financially ruining him that he'll never give it up and is hoping Carl eventually cedes to giving him another chance on a reprint.
>>96505980Yes
>>96505064It's zhe best of the terra mystica games, but also the ugliest by farYou're gonna have to decide yourself if that's something you want>>96505075Kinda like me confusing through the desert with forbidden desert for around 15 years
what game has the best combat mechanics in your opinion?
>>96506082Carcassonne
>>96506091mmm you mean like when you sneakily steal someone else's buildings?
>>96506100YesBut also the antagonistic tile placement where you build near your opponent to limit their options to finish their features
thoughts?
>>96506147Seriously faggy design and borderline nongame but I can't help but respect jamey for making a pretty experimental design a big smg release
>>96506147>Chibi batman>Fat pokemon >Some bug mechs>Stonemeier game
>>96506147>Draw new card>Huh, it's a game store>Oh neat it prominently features WotR>Coose 'buy' keyword>'You buy vantage from the store three blocks down'That's vantage in a nutshell
>>96506147A game you can even win by deciding not to play. Mindblowing.
>In Board Game Geek’s top 100 you find these little tough nuggets like Dominant Species or Twilight Struggle that have been put there by the diehards who kept board games alive throughout the 80s and 90s and early 00s, and to whom Brass is as rich and addictive as tobacco. And if they’re having fun with it, awesome. That’s fantastic. But now, with more games and types of games and more people and types of people playing games than ever before? When the competition is astronomical? Brass is a shade too awkward. It’s tiring to learn, tiring to teach, tiring to finish, and very intense in between.S:https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/bgg100-40-21/Is he right?
>>96506203>It’s tiring to learn, tiring to teach, tiring to finish, and very intense in between.skill issue
You now remember Jamey Stegmaier's blog.
>>96505048I want his autograph
It's good to know even the shittiest Knizia is more enjoyable than Monopoly.
>>96505713>Now let's spend the last 10 minutes doing arithmetic and see who wins the point salad.I won't defend this design feature universally, but I find it to be fun in something like GWT when people call out their individual points, I write them down and tally up, and people have that bit of opportunity to guess who won. Often it comes down to someone else than everyone thought, which is a cool moment of surprise at the end.
>>96506272Shut up kowalski
>>96506305Kowalski is anti-Knizia. You have it backwards, bud.
Is this any good? a friend recommended this to me.
Is this the spirit island general?
So a new Kiesling-Kramer game came out this year. It's called Immortal. Even though I like the theme of planting flowers in a graveyard, the gameplay is too simple. It's basically Rummy with tiles. Tiles (flowers) come in 4 colors and they go from 1-13 (I think). You're meant to place them in vertical or horizontal lines of sequential numbers of the same color or different colors but the same number. First player to place all his tiles wins. That's it. I guess it's meant to be extremely light.
Is Chess technically Ameritrash?
>>96506147I was genuinely impressed by Vantage. like another anon said, it's borderline not even a game. there's just enough decision making there to fuel the exploration. honestly the art carried a lot, much of it is very attractive. the writing does a good job staying out of the way. there's a bunch of neat surprises to discover, and a meta skill of better navigating the planet based on what you learn in previous runs. i'd much rather use the webapp for book entries than the physical books though. overall it's obvious that the whole thing is a labor of love and I respect him for it. there's a palpable sense of exploration and discovery, so I'd say it succeeds at what it set out to do
>>96506424chess is an abstract game. they're their own thing. they're neither eurogames nor ameritrash.
>>96506303I think spooktacular did it very well. You have your open score plus tickets that (can) range from 4-8 points. Scores are both very quickly calculated yet not immediately obvious. It's great.
>>96506426Any game it could be compared to? Earthborne Rangers, 7th Continent/Citadel?
>>96506381Nah, it's to our left, you want >>/lgbt/
>>96506487Agreed. I thought the tickets were going to be stupid, but it's a good surprise at the end and forces you to do things you wouldn't otherwise do to get a ticket
>>Carnegiesome anons were asking me about this last thread:I play this with people who love 18xx fairly regularly, and the interaction in the networking part of the map is fairly vicious with them. I wouldn't say it's easy at all to connect all 4 cities if other players are trying to be dicks properly. There's also a race for several aspects - donations, departments, and topping transportation tracks. The economy is tight enough initially that the injections of resources from maxing train tracks can make a big difference, and certain departments can be strategy defining. I've found that there's a variety of viable strategies, so even if the major gameplay loop is largely homogeneous between games there is a lot of nuance in the particulars of a strategy and where you can eke out efficiency relative to your neighbors. Game-to-game i've seen pretty different distributions of actions taken. Even the player boards are pretty important to pay attention to, since selecting actions that your opponents aren't prepared to capitalize on is pretty crucial. Forcing another player to pick HR and then going last to see what everyone else is powering up and then piggybacking off of it is a satisfying interplay. Even if some of the interaction is indirect, what other players are doing has a big impact on how the game goes for you. I also recommend playing with the starting auction from the expansion.
>>96506502Did you get more plays in anon? I am still unsure how deep or shallow it is, but after my initial 3 games my dry spell which I continue to blogpost about startedOnly thing I am pretty sure about is that it's better with at least 4p
>>96506509>Only thing I am pretty sure about is that it's better with at least 4pthe gulag agrees
>>96506510>11 total voters
>>96506505>I play this with people who love 18xx fairly regularly,what other games does your group like besides Carnegie and 18xx?
>>96506509I only played at 4 and 3 players, which was pretty fun. Turns go super fast once everyone knows what to do, and the board changes so fast. You really can knock out a good game in 35min.To answer your question, the consensus is that there are monsters that are good at all player counts, then there are monsters that work at 3+ player counts. I haven't weeded them all out, but I'm sure there will be stats on the gulag before long. Kind of wish there was a preferred player count written on the monster sheets. Definitely enough content to play at all player counts, imo
Is Sol any good, or does it just have a smoking hot board?
>>96506539It's approved by Cole Wehrle.
>>96506493the game is heavily inspired by 7th Continent/Citadel and Sleeping Gods, powered by a dice system fairly similar to One Deck Dungeon. i think there's a bit of inspiration from Earthborne Rangers, but it doesn't play anything like it. He also mentions Tainted Grail in the rulebook. Overall it's a lot lighter and breezier than all those games. the fail states are very forgiving and the win conditions give you options.
Container will be reprinted next year. Thoughts?
>>96506574
>>96506574Seeing how quickly the hype died last time around and how little I've heard of it since, I'm gonna sit this one out. Also reminds me>Remember when Container cost like 110 euro and people were completely shocked at how high bg prices could go?
>>96506203SUSD have always been wrong and retarded
>>96506598you base your purchases on other people's hype?
>>96506603pip? cynthia?
>>96506574I think Arkwright is also getting a reprint
>>96506634This one is Pip
>>96506605Not directly, but I do believe a game that people keep playing because it's good will be talked about years later.
>>96506651The game is almost 20 years old and still made it to Hotness. Above Vantage, the big Stonemaier release.
>>96506634This one is Cynthia. Old collaborators, I think.
>>96506665The release I talked about was 2018 or so. Also being in the hotness is the exact kind of hype I meant.I'm not saying the game is 100% shit or I'm never gonna touch it ever. Just telling you what I noticed and assume from that information.
why isn't there an 'essential collection' of ROVE by Button Shy like their other games (Sedlec, etc)? ROVE is their 2nd biggest game ffs
Any good hidden movement games? Thinking of giving Scotland yard Sherlock a try, it's $15
>>96506710Allegedly sniper elite is very good but I haven't checked and their recent kickstarter had additional cost almost as high as the games', so I decided to wait for retail
>>96506710They're fun but anti-climactic as the investigators can just stumble on the hidden guy. That's the primary reason why Fury of Dracula is so much better.
>>96506574played it for the first time recently and thought it was super cool. glad it will be accessible to purchase again
>>96505049HF4ALL module 5
>>96506203>number 40 used to be Dead of Winter Goodness how the times change.
>>96506539The first game was a solid hit for my group.Max player count, game length written on box didnt lie, and we are playing it again this week.Now, whether it has legs remains to be seen, but the variable powers set up every game should certainly shake things up.
Do you anons also have a deliberate blind spot you cannot be arsed about? Talking less about whole genres because that's too easy but rather a particular series or subgenre.I, for example, have never bothered to look at Luciani(?)s T-game series or the xyz of the west kingdom/south tigris/north sea games
>>96507008I avoid party games like the plague, but can be convinced to play social deduction party games>T-game seriesI think Teotihuacan is the only good one in that series, Tzolkin seemed a bit overrated but I've played it only once, and Tiletum is mediocre
I steal two coins from you with my captain
>>96507008Sure do, most recent euro game releases. Ive heard of the italian designers, lacerda, all those nature themed light weight games.A good chunk of modern releases are on my radar, but Ive never been gravitated towards'em.
>>96507080Alas! I am but a humble Ambassador and block the thievery.While eating this delicious curry and paneer.
>>96507008Garphill games. Don't know why but their art style is easily recognizable so I just skip them on sight. Same for any Marvel/ Star wars/ Disney games. They could be great for all I know.
>>96507094>Same for any Marvel/ Star wars/ Disney games. They could be great for all I know.For two decades I've avoided the pull.And now, like a sirens call, captains chair has been breaking me loose from the mast.And I'm not even that big a trekkie.
>>96507145so what attracted you to the game?
>>96507080>mathematically buckbreaks the game by always claiming DukeWhat are you going to do, call me out on the first turn? The odds are against you.
>>96507228>willingly putting a target on your backRookie mistake.
>>96507008>Luciani(?)s T-game seriesYou mean Daniele Tascini. Is he still cancelled for saying the n word?Anyways to answer your question, never bothered playing GMT games, which is weird because I always give anything a chance but GMT games irk me and choose against sitting at a table with them.
>>96506358I didn't like it but the guy who tabled it did.
>>96507008I haven't played any of the Garphill games, I hate the art style, and they seemed like overwrought designs. They might be fun but I'll let someone else buy them and bring them to the table
>>96507008Seconding that Teotihuacan is the only good one of the "T" series.
>>96507080>takes one coin as incomePlease don't do that again
>>96507263What target?https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zyc9SAq0pmtSB8wmKiNo5QrXih35O4DMwMtYpSw9CMs/edit?tab=t.0
>>96507735The more coins you have the bigger threat you become to the table. You will become a prime target for assassination and captain.
>>96505038>punic grin>merchant handwringingWhat did he mean by this?
>>96506236Fret not, in an interview a "journo" gave him the opportunity to publicly shame himself and repent of his sins. >GOING ANALOG: Take us back into the head of young Jamey Stegmaier. Why did you write some of these things to begin with? What were you trying to achieve in letting the world know that you're drawn to women’s cleavage, for example?>Stegmaier: This sounds terrible to say now because I look back, and I'm like, this was not funny. This was never funny. But I thought at times I was being funny. I think a lot of it is poor attempts at juvenile humor.>And I think maybe part of it is the people who read my blog back then seemed to enjoy those types of posts. And so it kind of fed itself to a certain extent. Inexcusable but I think a lot of it stemmed from that.https://www.goinganalogshow.com/article/98/our-interview-with-jamey-stegmaier-his-failings-his-regrets-his-path-forwardSee the attached pic anons? He is an ally now. (Just disregard the fact that this post has also been deleted...)
>>96507923I hate rich people so much
>>96507923When a black game developer speaks, I shut up, I sit down, and I begin to learn.
>>96505038I don't know why I always confuse him with Harding, maybe its the green and this box or that they're both a bit weird
>>96507923damn Jamie "NiggerHater2000" Stonemeir used to be a different man
>>96508036Are there any good board games made by black game developers? I know I'm courting troll/bait answers here, but I've known some awesome blerds in my time so there's got to be some examples out there.
>>96508127wtf is a developer
>>96508053Jamie Stormfront is a weird man. I think there's a reason he spends so much time on wine.
>>96508127Only one I can think of is Allen Dickerson. It's not like anyone includes a headshot next to their name in the rulebook. That only leads to ego. I only know about him because of an interview. If you want to hear him talk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXKslKHl9vE&t=0s
>>96506358Yes, if you like dice euros it feels like a modern classic. Probably my favorite of the T-series games.
>>96508184Excuse me, designer.>>96508245He looks like an older version and speaks exactly like a cool blerd I went to high school with. It's so uncanny I wonder if they're related.
>>96508184board games are made exclusively on computers these days, grandpa
>>96508127DC Forever
>>96508665what's this? i like the 4th image
>>96508665are these tarot cards?
>>96506558Is being wehrle approved good or bad?
>>96508681it's the highest compliment in board games
>>96508681have you tried root?
do themes even matter in a euro? it's all the same shit. "make the most points by optimizing resources".
>>96508674>>96508675Looks like Dixit to me. Card guessing party game.
>>96501181Targi. Love it but can only stand one play a month of it. Any anon here with experience on the expansion?
>>96508731I dunno. Do you prefer the art on American money or the art on Canadian money? It's all money right?
>>96508674>>96508675>>96508756It's primarily dixit, but I am also sure I can detect an implication of loss in there
why does Brass: Birmingham have mixed reviews on steam? i'm guessing bugs? i wonder if it was ever fixed
>>96508944There's 555 reviews. Did you read them?
>>96508731sometimes the resources are used in different ways, so to help differentiate at a glance they are tied thematically to different thingsdon't forget to count resources of opportunity (not cubes you push around, but space to push them, worker placement spaces if any, auctions if any, first-come-first-serve limited building space that you should claim unless you have a very very good plan, and so on) where the theme gets a chance to shine even more.on the other hand a similar argument can be made for ameritrash games, theme doesn't matter, War of the Ring or Axis & Allies, in both you're just rolling dice. oh, sometimes you do draw cards from a deck, like in Battlestar Galactica, but you could replace that with dice (or replace dice with cards) and have approximately no real change beyond small percentage chances that only eurogamer nerds care about.
>>96506358No it's complete crap. Do not buy it.
>>96508731I think Euros with no interaction should just not be made, simple as that. I think low interaction Euros can benefit from some themeing (Voidfall) but really they're just games that the theme doesn't matter at all.
>>96509005i read a few of them
>>96509041>on the other hand a similar argument can be made for ameritrash gamesno, it can't. the whole point in ameritrash is le theme. the gameplay serves the theme.
>Waited an entire month for an OOP game to ship>seller just goes and refunds me after constant baiting updates of "oh I'll ship it"
>>96509157at least you got a refund. consider yourself lucky.
>>96509157what game?
>>96508184Developers are like kind of like editors in books. They exist to make an already existing game better. They polish and optimize the game's systems. They add things they might think work better.example: John Briegerhttps://briegercreative.com/projects/tabriz.html
>>96509173Second edition of potion explosion. I just want more stuff to play with my mom.
Speaking of OOP, I remember playing Serenissima 2ed and really enjoying it. The game is now oop and not easy to get (at least here). The game is about Mediterranean sea where you have these ships that have spaces for crew or resources. You take over coastal cities that produce resources and gain points but you can also fight others to sink their ships or take their cities. The game has a nice ark where you start very euro with trading resources then it becomes like a cold war where there are some fights on the edges and you position fully powered ships on the edge to deter others to fight you then at the end everyone goes all in trying to get one more city for the final scoring. Are there any other game with this style? An ameritrash(?) game where the fight is like a finale and not just constant fight but something that builds up throughout the game? I thought Scythe was gonna be similar from description but it's far from it.
>>96509207>potion explosionare you from EU?
>>96509241America. First edition is cardboard shit with an awful insert, third edition is mega-cheap plastic with a lousy insert. Second is far and away the best, best dispenser and best box insert.
>>96509094Tell me about your bad experience with it.
what is the best detective game?
>>96509278Are you looking for deduction games or something else?
Any good use for mini dice?
>>96509256oh, there's a bunch of stores with 2ed. here but they're eu based so shipping would probably be too expensive...>>96509232>An ameritrash(?) game where the fight is like a finale and not just constant fight but something that builds up throughout the game?Seconding. I'm interested in slowly escalating conflict game that's not a wargame
>>96509338travel version of panda royale?
>>96509320I'm looking for games where you solve crimes based on clues and where you feel like a detective. Not sure if that's enough info.
hi anyone knows where i can get a pdf with arkham horror cards to print & play??
>>96509357Maybe not. Know of any?
>>96509405KronologicTragedy Looper is good but if you want noir? it's not that. >feel like a detectiveAlcoholism and tobacco? That's up to you and your host
>>96508272They're all related to each other, dontcha know
>>96509465https://www.tabletopfinder.eu/en/boardgame/313/potion-explosionhttps://www.crowdfinder.be/product/4671-potion-explosion-2nd-edition
>>96506888The rich and the good, 7 empires>>96506888She asked for a nice game
>>96509523Thanks! But you know what, Walmart of all places had a single copy left. I think I'll try that first, see how it goes.
>>96509278>>96509405>Gumshoe (1985)>Awkward Guests: The Walton Case>The Case of Alexander Morrison>Kronologic: Paris 1920
I'm fucking hyped for Lands Of Evershade.
realistically, how far are we from being able to play any board game with AI companions who all have zany personalities?
>>96509622Schizophrenia is already a thing.
>>96509622You can ask your preferred model about board games. They're often woefully undertrained on this hobby and give wrong information constantly. If you want to do the job of training them yourself, good luck. If you think there's a commercial interest in training the bots to play board games, I doubt it.
>>96509622Unironically, for what purpose.I fail to see how this would be better than videogames with which it directly competes
>>96508731Of course. My group doesn't like euros very much, and they are totally cold on euros that aren't at least halfway thematic.>hansa teutonicaGreat game, people play it better than me when we actually get it on the table, but it is impossible to pull it out anymore. Nothing about it is thematic besides the fact that your merchants are building "trade routes" (by planting their ass in a town permanently for some reason).>power gridExpand your grid, build better power plants, make money. Not a lot of the individual mechanics make sense, but at least the core is there.
>>96508731Best games are a fusion of ameritrash 'theme informs mechanics' and euro mechanical solidity. Alchemists, which I will not stop shilling, is a pretty good example of a euro elevated by theme
>>96509670video games damage your eyes and psyche
>>96509835truke
>>96509202NTA but I've seen those credits before in games and wondered what that meant. Thanks for the info anon.>>96509278I want to suggest Chronicles of Crime but the writing is so hit and miss that I can't give it a full recommendation. Still, when it does work it's cool.Outside of one case Noir is even worse despite what the Gulag would have you believe. Haven't tried the other entries, but I don't have high hopes for them.
Don't know why this doesn't have good ratings on the gulag. I already like it more than Mottainai.
>>96509338Eating.Or replacement tokens in a game I guess.>>96509278Haven't played them myself but there's also Detective: A Modern Crime Game and the Sherlock Holmes Detective Agency games.
Chad, ship the Ra reprint kickstarter goods already you lazy faggot
>>96509481all you need to make Tragedy Looper a noir game is the Spanish version.
>>96509610Me too anonbut its not playable for like another 6 months minimum
>>96505010WTF is a meeple?
>>96510375funny lil guys who single handedly keep the German economy afloat.
Is Agricola still the best Uwe? Are any expansions/ card sets recommend?
>>96510414Nusfjord
>>96510375>meepleA lawsuit waiting to happen >>96509965I come to hate the splaying mechanism in his games. The cards keep sliding all over and I keep aligning them to be symmetrical... If only the cards were good quality.
>>96505010>- Favorite Eurogame?Azul>- Favorite Ameritrash game?OGRE>- Do you think the distinction matters these days?Yes>- Bonus question: Is there a designer you admire?Arnold Hendrick, but for his videogame career
>>96510441are you sure?
>>96510414That would be Bohnanza.
>>96509278Here Lies
>>96510414Le Havre and Oranienburg Kanal actually
>>96510414Kinda yes but AffO is pretty great as well
>>96509965I would argue that the crowdfunding campaign didn't do it much good. Too many chuds jumping on the chudykchad-train and leaving disappointed because they didn't know what to expect
>>96511097>Too many chuds jumping on the chudykchad-train and leaving disappointed because they didn't know what to expectwydm
>>96505565About the same as the other factions but you have to meta game a lot more than the other factions. You have to be willing to take a loan and have an IMF intervention in order to get the other players to not take advantage of you. The IMF loans are the nuclear option that should be avoided by everyone but they hurt non-government players much more than government so you should hold your finger over the button.
>Favorite Eurogame?Yokohama. Maybe Obsession.>Favorite Ameritrash game?Eldritch Horror>Do you think the distinction matters these days?No in so much as you prefer one over the other then you would want to know before you say you're willing to play or buy.>Bonus question: Is there a designer you admire?No but I do like Histogame. They've never done a bad game.
>>96507923>>96506236The combination of these two posts is art. They explain everything I need to know about why Jamie's games are so incredibly dull. He is nothing but a tiresome golden retriever echoing the predominant opinion of whatever group he happens to be in. The frictionless quivering slime jowled, Jamie Stegmaier.Keep on trucking, anontachi.>>96508757The expansion shores up balance and doesn't add too much complexity to kill the pace. Not sure if the Africa poster counts North Africa though or surely he'd have posted Kemet, Ankh, RA or any other Egyptian themed game. Yugioh. >>96509750Anon, do your players really not understand how warehouses, stables, inns, logistics offices and shops work? HT is obviously and coherently thematic. >>96511076Is your pretty great contingent on having the expansion? It didn't survive the 3rd play in my old group before my pal sold it. Wide as the ocean and deep as a puddle was what I heard. I was away when they tabled it though so I have no real opinion.
