first for Root sucks dogshit

>>96672161
>- What's your current top 5 best games of all time?
Terra Mystica
Dominion
Between Two Cities
Through the Desert
Renature
>- What's a game you irrationally dislike?
Wingspan
>- What's the light game you play the most?
Coloretto
>Bonus question:
>- What is your favorite deckbuilding game?
Dominion

Root is okay. Its fandom is fucking obnoxious, though.

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>>96672204
>Between Two Cities
Do I really need 5 players to enjoy it?

>>96671863
depression

>>96672161
>- What's your current top 5 best games of all time?
Santorini, Hive, Carcassonne, Stockpile, Avalon
>- What's a game you irrationally dislike?
Splendor
>- What's the light game you play the most?
Liar's Dice

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New Stonemaier game announced. Superhero themed game 'Origin Story'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WsL8-zieOc

>>96665782
too gaudy

>>96658220
It's an sterile theme in a medium with no audio but if the game actually makes you listen to music in order to play it, then I don't see the issue because that would actually be a musical game.

>>96669826
I can see what you mean. I think fun should be somewhat fair as well, instead of just arbitrary. I dont know.

Is Root an auction game?

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20 strong

Redpill me on Wonderland's War, guys. Is it really that good? Best game based on alice in wonderland?

>>96672218
That's most fandoms

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Anyone have any recommendations for lighter games, ideally that play 5p and scale well at lower player counts? Preferably not too cutthroat-y either (like TTD, Samurai or Hansa Teutonica can get).

Games I enjoyed lately
> Las Vegas Royale
> Ethnos
> Ra
> Seas of Strife

Considering culling
> Camel Up
> Dice Town
> Stockpile (fell flat for some reason)
> Wingspan/Cascadia

Considering getting
> Valletta (though it seems disliked)
> Magical Athlete
> Hot Streak
> Sagrada
> Winner's Circle
> Isle of Skye
> Carcassone
> Kingsburg
> TM: Ares Expedition

Previously owned
> Quacks
> The Quest for El Dorado
> Innovation
> RFTG
> Res Arcana
> Space Base
> Libertalia

I think I'll pass on Brian Boru and Renature. I'm also considering Calimala, but I think I'd cull Hansa Teutonica then as I don't see both being played too often (HT is already difficult enough to table).

>>96672353
Do you actually murder people at the table in direct conflict games? Do you feel the need to play one of these Mediterranean trading games while you're on a boat? Or Bus on a bus? I think this this theme autism is getting out of hand
>>96672515
>is wonderlands war that good
Who said it was good? It's just pure rng and if you're a theme autist like other anon, you'll barely even take notice of the theme in wonderlands war

>>96672515
I liked it, but after playing it 3 times never really had the interest to revisit it. Tbf I only borrowed the game and wouldn't have had the chance to do so anyway. It's got a bunch of cute ideas that work pretty well together. That said, I found the bag building - which is the main mechanic - to be a bit...wanting. your bag evolves at a very slow pace and didn't synergize as much as I wanted to. Combat, though fun, can become a bit tedious as it can run a bit long. Still nothing compared to eg Forbidden stars' combat, but still enough to kinda disengage when you aren't involved. I just pondered for myself why I did enjoy the tea party phase (the planning and bag construction) much more than combat resolution and came to the conclusion that the latter has nit that many interesting decisions to be had yet takes longer. Imagine playing a similar game to cucks of quedlinburg every time combat happens, so like 5 times/round. There's some progression ofc but all in all the first turn doesn't feel that significantly different from the last.

If you can get it for €40 or equivalent, try it. Wouldn't recommend it for more. Ultimately I wish that someone had trimmed off the fat and made the combat more interesting; it's one of these things that in actuality is pretty simple offers few decisions yet feels very convoluted and rules dense. 6/10, would happily play but never suggest

>>96672882
If anything, the makers of these games with sterile themes are the autistic ones. You have all these abstract cubes which are supposedly music in their heads. What is the point of that?
>musical game
>no music
And I'm the crazy one? Give me a break.

>>96672803
Sagrada sucks but absolutely get Carcassonne. It's a classic.

Is Dune: Imperium: Uprising the best game of the 2020s?

>>96673187
>games with sterile themes a
Ok but why are you focusing specifically on the music theme for such games?

>>96672161
>What's your current top 5 best games of all time?
-Dune. I love the cutthroat nature of the game, the limited options, the hidden information and the brutal way you can get ganked. Also it is the only game where reading the source material can be used to solve rule disputes/edge case situations.
-Flamme Rouge. I like bikes and I like how this game just flows, working together slightly and often unintentionally and then sprinting out in the pack like a madman.
-Incan Gold. I've never felt that kind of pressure in a game befor or since, you just feel the stress build up as each card is played and it is delightful.
-Home worlds. Fucking simple premise, you get ships you fly out and you destroy planets but it has a brutal depth to it.
-Land vs Sea. I just think it's neat. Simple on basic mode with random extra things to add complexity for those who want it in advanced mode. I played it against four old ladies who didn't know how board games worked and they were delighted to beat me at it(four versus one in a one vs one game it wasn't exactly fair but they were delighted and I treasure the memory).

>What's a game you irrationally dislike?
I've played some duds that suddenly turned amazing with the right people, I'd say the only game I've played that absolutely never hit any high points was Adrenaline because I really wanted to enjoy it. Other than that Air, Land and Sea I used to like but then I hid an engagement ring for my cunt of an ex inside it and had to give the game away after our break-up because looking at the box made me want to self harm. That probably qualifies.

>What's the light game you play the most?
Right now? Rumble Nation. 15 minutes, done.

>Bonus question:
>- What is your favorite deckbuilding game?
Flame Rouge. Destroying your cards and having to make those difficult choices is often painful and beautiful.
Although I would like a game called something like "DIY "where you have to build a deck in your backyard using dice rolls.

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>>96673380
>Incan Gold.
That's the same game as Diamant, right?

>>96673187
The point of boardgames is to play them, not to stare at the drawings and ponder at their meaning. Those who fixate on theme are autistic
>>96673415
Yes, same game

>>96673338
What do you mean?
>>96673495
>The point of boardgames is to play them
No shit.
> not to stare at the drawings and ponder at their meaning
Good thing no one does that.
>Those who fixate on theme are autistic
It's the exact opposite. Autists will never understand art. They only think of systems, like robots.

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I think uncle Phil missed with this one. Do you think I will like the Bios series if I found Greenland meh? Are they really more simulation than game? Which ones do you consider good and which bad?

>2266 games concurrent Shotten Totten games
How does Reynold Schnitzel fool people into playing his shitty poker variants?

>>96673752
Based. Reiner is a chad.

>>96672229
No, I actually think it's better with fewer players so you can watch what everyone is doing.

>>96673415
Who is this Getrude looking lass?

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>>96673941
She's a character in the latest edition of Diamant.

Star Realms has always been my favorite. Shards of Infinity is cool too. I just bought the Digital version of Dune Imperium on the Steam sale and reading the manual now.

>>96672161
>What's your current top 5 best games of all time?
War of the Ring
Sakura Arms
Ra
Argent the Consortium
EU:PoP
>What's a game you irrationally dislike?
Twilight Imperium. Largely because of the people I played it with one time that turned every single fucking action into a UN debate
>What's the light game you play the most?
Hanamikoji with my mom
>What is your favorite deckbuilding game?
Quest for El Dorado

>>96674000
Everybody has so much ass

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>>96674026
>Argent the Consortium
>Sakura Arms
Yesterday I asked a chatbot for game recs and it gave me these. I freaked out a bit because I know people here like them.

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>>96674000
kek

>>96674071
They’re both excellent and Argent at least has some popularity on gulag, so I get why an AI would identify it out of a hat. I assume it got to Sakura Arms off of BattleCON but it’s still surprising. Outside of Japan very few people discuss it unless you’re here.

>>96672803
Magical Athlete isn't worth the price they're asking, just PnP it.

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>>96674335
>Magical Athlete isn't worth the price they're asking,
Really? Not worth $29?
> just PnP it.
do you happen to know where to find the files?

>>96672275
What is the appeal of trick taking games?

>>96672803
Carcassonne is still one of my favorites after over 30 plays. I'm partial to the big box, you get two of the best expansions included and some fun small module expansions, Flying Machines and Gold fields are good.

>- What's your current top 5 best games of all time?
Twilight Struggle, Ra, Agricola, Inis, Dominion.
>- What's a game you irrationally dislike?
Harmonies, Flip 7, Scythe. There are others.
>- What's the light game you play the most?
Skull King in multiplayer. Aerion solo.
>Bonus question:
>- What is your favorite deckbuilding game?
Dominion.

>>96672803
Carcassonne South Seas is better than regular Carcassonne, even with the good expansions. That said, South Seas does not have any expansions and the base game has a million if you're looking for variety.

For me, the Carcassonne expansions just bloat the game. They turn a game of tactical elegance into a point salad slop. I can't comment on South Seas, Gunters & Gatherers (caveman version) or The Mist (coop where you fight ghosts).

>>96674538
What did Flip 7 do to you?

>>96674714
It stole the idea of another designer and profited off it. Underserved success.

Did they ever re-issue/scan the old 1977 Kenner board game Destroy The Death Star?

>>96672161
>What is your favorite deckbuilding game?
Dune(1979) used to be my favorite area control game, but I guess it's my favorite deckbuilder too. Oh, wait, the cards come from a market, I guess it's my favorite Pax game now.
>>96673576
I dislike Neanderthal, I think all the Bios games are much better. Genesis has the same kind of punishing cube gambling but the rest of the game is more engaging, the Faunas and Origins have some Phil 'tisms but enough solid euro stuff and fuckery to be satisfying.

>>96674394
>do you happen to know where to find the files?
Tabletop Simulator

>>96674706
In South Seas features pay out resources instead of points and you spend those resources to buy points from a market. You have to make decisions about getting resources efficiently or at opportune times and when the market is crummy you can get into standoffs over who is forced to budge. You also only have 4 meeples to juggle so you have to be very deliberate about which features you are committing to. You can also try to deny your opponents resources they're short on if they over commited to other things.

Old King's Crown might be very, very good

>>96674394
dude it's snakes and ladders but with wacky random characters, you could easily make it yourself from scratch

>>96674394
>>96674967
counterpoint: you get a lot of cute meeples that increase the table presence

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What should I get, the new Oath expansion, or the reprint of Container? I can only afford one.

>>96675065
Container, definitely

>>96674942
What makes it good?

>>96675206
lots of fun optimizing for how to build out your faction with its asymmetric in conjunction with bidding for kingdom cards. there are some very powerful combos, but you need to commit and spend cards to set them up.
then there's a really rich simultaneous reveal phase where there's a lot of potential for mind gaming. all the two player matches i've played have been super tense and closely contested despite the wide variety of powerful effects that can be deployed and interact

>>96675034
means nothing to me, it's still snakes and ladders but with wacky random characters

>>96674668
>South Seas does not have any expansions
technically it has the one mini-expansion, same as most of the spin-offs

>>96675548
I'm not German so that doesn't count.

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Father, I crave violence

>>96672161
>Best 5 games of all time
Cutthroat Caverns, HexPlore It, Hoplomachus, Mages Wars Arena, and Battle Chess
>What game do you irrationally dislike
Cave Troll
>Light Game you play the most
Dungeon Ball
>Favorite Deck Builder
Hand of Fate Ordeal. Probably one of the most overlooked board game of all time.

>>96674416
Most are dull as hell. Perhaps the only ones I played that were fun were Lexio and Custom Heroes.

Lexio is played using fat ass mahjong tiles and you are playing poker hands. Custom Heroes is much more of a straight forward trick taking game, but the cards are all in sleeves like Mystic Vale and you will be modifying them as you play, about three rounds in half the cards are not like the original cards at all.

>>96674071
All 3 are L99 games..... suspicious....

>>96675794
It was me. I tell chatGPT to recommend me L99 games on a regular basis. All board gamers love L99 games

My gaming group of around 5 players that I saw almost weekly just fell apart. It sucks. I don't know what to do now to meet people to game. Board game cafes and try to get to know people?

>>96675763
>Hand of Fate Ordeals
Honestly sad about that one. It didn't sell for shit and the publisher folded and the developer of the original video games basically stopped making games and are on a skeleton crew.

Ordeals is, without question, the best adventure deck-building game ever made. You feel like you are running around a world interacting with shit, your character grows in ways that make sense, and there is a good sense of progression with good resource management. Banging game. The video games were good too, damn good that got good reviews and are well liked, but they didn't sell for shit either.

It's no wonder the publishers and developers stepped away because it's very much a case of "I got no clue what players want apparently".

>>96672161
>What's your current top 5 best games of all time?
Hansa Teutonica, Age of Steam, Codenames Duet, Kemet, Power Grid

>What's a game you irrationally dislike?
I'd like to think any game I dislike, I dislike for some reason, making it rational. I guess the best answer I can give are iterations that don't really need to exist, stuff like Maracaibo and the new GWT games, all in a pretty short period of time.

>What's the light game you play the most?
I don't know if it's "light", but probably base small box Innovation.

>What is your favorite deckbuilding game?
Eh, probably Quest for El Dorado, although the production has made it hard to follow. First they go from small cards to bigger cards, and then the u.s. And European versions still have different sized cards, and different expansions available. Get it together, Knizia.

>>96672229
11 people have voted... that's maybe 2 groups of people rating it.

>>96672445
Yes, but so is every other game.

>>96675794
Yea, really weird. I think the matrix is onto me.

>>96672803
Chicago Express is best at 4, but works at 3 and 5. It's too opaque to really be seen as cut throat, and if you like Ra, this ties a simpler auction phase with a lot of nuance around the 3 actions.

Getting rid of HT is just crazy talk

>>96676013
>Getting rid of HT is just crazy talk
This. This is a Hansa Teutonica board.

>>96672803
Modern art?

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Date with a MILF. What should I play? Any recs? Looking for some fun and easy games for two.

>>96676128
Twister

>>96676128
Can't help you there
Just got married, I'm 24, she's 22
Although we were both virgins, and I don't have any other comparison, I can't imagine an older woman being any better than this

>>96676234
I'm jealous

>>96675841
Yeah, it should have been a bigger deal than what it was. Honestly though locking the Endless Mode behind the Special Edition kickstarter bullshit was a dick move, so, fuck em for that.

It sits in my stack of games that are great, but nobody will know because they will just never play them.

>>96676189
kek
>>96676234
>Just got married
congratulations anon

>>96676128
Arcs

>>96676128
Bitches love patchwork

>>96674942
Too bad it has more troons flocking to it than all of Leder's games combined

How good is Crescent Moon, does it belong in a shelf beside Three Kingdoms Redux and La Famiglia, or is it totally mogged? It is certainly less aesthetically appealing, but I vaguely recall it getting mentions here.

>>96674942
Idk, I checked it out when it was on k*kestarter because I loved the art so much. Seemed like a pretty anemic design to me, very dependent on random elements. Seemed like the exact type of game that immediately is forgotten after it comes out. Seeing how it's in the hotness I might've been wrong, or was there some drama about it?

>>96675671
Wanna give a quick review of CF for the uninitiated?

>>96675827
There is a board gaming facebook group in your area.

>>96676855
Will check it out. Thank you

>>96676794
Crescent Moon is peak. It literally shares a shelf with 3KR and La Famiglia for me. The enmeshed board states and aligned incentives make for such excellent negotiation.
For me, I don't have much desire to deal with the messy rules of Dune (1979(2019)) because of how much I enjoy Crescent Moon
Do always play the long game though, and follow the Designer's Cut rules on BGG (changes are minor and easy to implement)

>>96676905
Based, anon. Exactly what I hoped to hear.

>>96676806
the only randomness:
>most of the starting hand and the deck order
I think this is pretty acceptable in any game with cards
>Kingdom Cards that come out
you have to bid for these. even when you win one, another player can outbid the card you have holding it in the next round an take it over
>shuffling
you pretty much want to avoid this whenever possible, because attrition lowers your hand size. so the randomness can be considered a consequence of poor play - there are ways you can get recursion and order your deck or cycle discards back into your hand
>hidden info, simultaneous reveals
I don't actually consider this random, because it's player decisions. Maybe at 4 players this feels random, but at 2 the information is so trackable that I can either read right or read wrong, and always feel like I have agency
overall I think it's quite low on randomness relative to many games

Is Tabletop Simulator ripping the best way to get PnP files?

>>96672204
Between two cities should be played with the proper rules representing St Louis (where Stonemaier games is from) and East St Louis (somehow a bigger shit hole than St Louis). You play to try and get the lowest score, factories in the middle of houses, no parks, and a landmark that is a dump.

>>96676934
Sometimes you'll find PnP files on the gulag or on reddit, but yes I'd say tts is the best way, although it is slower

>>96676128
Damn I met that chick at a convention, is that the milf you are going on a date with?

What's up with CMON?

>>96677496
going belly-up it looks like

>>96677496
C’mon, guys, get it together!

cool mini or not :)

>>96677529
crazy. I would have thought that they'd had made billions on zombicide

>>96677496
Those fucks better fulfill my War for Arrakis pledge

I've just about had it with these game designers and their made-up Hollywood names. Kane Klenko? Vlaada Chivatli?!? Rochambeau Jabroni!??! Give me a break, doesn't anyone named Bob Wilson make games anymore? Preferably with a nice insert and no minis?

>>96678442
You had your chance to love Mark Herman.
You squandered it.
Now heres Ananda Gupta filling in with some sick beats.

>>96677717
They fucked up on multiple fronts.
1. IP bloat. When you deal with IPs, you guys send a slice to the IP holder cutting into profits.
2. Kickstarter exclusive content with high mini counts. Making molds is time consuming and costly affairs, so having a lot of small print run molds they never touch again eats profits.
3. Not getting to a near completed state in one project before starting another one. Hell, a lot of the time they weren't even in the basic design phase seriously of one project before starting another.
4. Bizarrely, they were fucking up releasing reskinned content. Marvel United and DC United should functionally be the same game with different flavors, yet the reskinned project is taking LONGER to complete than the original project.
5. Using funding from new projects to fund the completion of older projects. This shit is a death spiral.

>>96676840
NTA but it's total shit. Hardest my group ever bounced off a game, and they hate euros and prefer games with combat. Eating the planet is boring and the combat is trash. Never trust games that coast off their art.

I have no idea how Feast of Hemlock Vale managed to be good when every other expansion around it (Edge of the Earth, Scarlet Keys, Drowned City) is so fucking bad.

>>96678278
They will. It’s next on the ship, the rest after is a toss up

>>96676840
Troon designer and loved by Mark pigney

Ez pass

>>96675827
What happened?

>>96676840
somehow they took ameritrash design and made it boring as shit

What are the chances of the new Container reprint hitting retail? I don't wanna be part of the whole kickstarter shit.

>>96678774
100%

>>96678774
0% you’ll miss the bets content too

I didn't get a response last time so I'll ask again: which is better between Terra Mystica and Age of Innovation

>>96678572
>Here's ya boi Non breaking Space, everybody put ya hands in the air

>>96679149
i disliked both and the space one (gaea project or whatever the name was), but maybe i'm just not cut out to games where i need to pull out the excel spreadsheet and work 20 minutes on calculating possible paths before I take my setup turn

>>96679149
Age of Innovation is better. They're very similar, but the modularity of Age of Innovation means there isn't a defined metagame build for each faction since your starting bonuses are always different

>>96679149
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/145874/breath

>>96676840
It's fun, but the combat could be better. It's basically varied dice rolls with mitigation that costs resources. The best way to play it is 2v2 or 3v3 teams so you can team up on someone and raid their vault while they're in the outer dimensions.

>>96678851
What content? Metal ships? Lol

>>96679717
Not him but I'm really debating the metal ships. I really like the fat Ra meeple, big hunking pieces are fun.

>>96679789
The ra meeple isn't metal, though
Just whittle your own ships out of wood

>>96678606
Sounds exactly like Mythic...

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I marched last night. I'll play it again tonight and tell you guys what I think of it.

>>96680020
>the ants are supposed to stand up
Oh.
The one time I tried this we laid them down and they never fit.
That makes sense.

>>96678696
Oh really? That'd be great, got a source?

>>96678278
Is that the Borderlands reimplementation?

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>When you spot a designer you recognize in a thread for a weird game

>>96679149
I like TM more for its comfy atmosphere, but AoI is regarded as the better of the two. The TM series does attract people that play the fuck out of the games and tryhard them until there's a clear faction tier list and the 1-3 best build orders per faction are determined. AoI does away with that via race/power draft at the start. Even as someone who enjoys the series but isn't THAT into maximizing everything I don't see the need for that, but ymmv. For what it's worth, Gaia Project and it's research board are the best iteration of the TM formula for me

>>96672161
>What's your current top 5 best games of all time?
Hansa Teutonica, El Grande, Innovation, Brass: Lancashire, Carcassonne.
>What's a game you irrationally dislike?
Quest for El Dorado. On paper it has a lot of things I enjoy and I did like it the first few plays but for reasons I dont understand I find it incredibly boring now. Now that I think of it I should probably just cull it.
>What's the light game you play the most?
Las Vegas and No Thanks! Have been making the rounds lately.

>What is your favorite deckbuilding game?
Dominion. I feel that many deckbuilders suffer from having random restricted markets, making the game too tactical, whereasin Dominion the whole set of cards is open information and available from the start.

>>96679934
comfy. I might do that for ships in Aegean Sea for fun

>>96676840
As ameritrashy as it gets, but I fucking hated it. Chaos reigns supreme and I don't really know why people (including anons on /bgg/) like it so much, it seems to me like the general vibe would be much better suited to a realtime ffa videogame

>>96676840
I found the theme to be such a cliche, I mean two mile high frogs eating an asteroid has been done to death at this stage in board gaming that we really need to retire it and come up with something more original.

I didn't mind the game myself otherwise, only fuck up we made was I put all the wrecked tiles on one corner of the board because I had them sorted poorly so the game went on way longer than it should have.
I like the turn order selection mechanic(a deck of cards so you never know who will move next), the pushing people into space and space prison and the point scoring at the end based on what you are and how much you stole from other people's stomachs wasn't too complicated.

>>96681258
I feel the same way about El dorado but it kinda was like that from the first game on.

Cosmic Frog is more fun with the chit bluffing system from the expansion and releasing it with dice was a mistake

Why is Scythe the only board game about mechs?

>>96676840
Boring ass game, but I generally don't care for ameritrashy games, with some exceptions
>>96681381
What other games have "two mile high frogs eating an asteroid"? Cant think of any.... rather weird thing to have gripes about too

>>96681536
>rather weird thing to have gripes about too
At least the gameplay is good.

>>96681536
>What other games have "two mile high frogs eating an asteroid"? Cant think of any....
just admit you've never played a board game before

>>96681536
Anon was being facetious.
Just a bit weird way because the rest of his post seems genuine

>>96681569
It's called trolling, unc

>>96681529
Because anon never finished his homebrew.

>>96680170
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/mordred/posts/4499271
For Dune: Desert War, the Mass Production Copies (MPCs) arrived, been thoroughly checked, and approved. The project is in final assembly and preparing for shipping. It will be the next project in line to leave our warehouse.

>>96681529
AEGIS
GIGARobo
there's others as well

>>96681748
Sweet, thanks.
>>96682024
Is Gigarobo actually good? I watched a playthrough of it after seeing a copy at my LCS. Honestly it looked sort of obnoxious with how many "counters" happen whenever you get hit, it was like "okay now I get to draw this card which lets me do THIS" which gives me the feeling of constant "Well if you get to hit me, I get to do THIS" like little kids playing.

>>96680020
Yes, please do

Yeah, I’m going to need some Voidfall expansion news pretty soon. The wait for this is excruciating.

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>>96682388

>>96682417
What’s this shite

>>96674416
they get shoehorned into other games to make midwits feel smarter

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>>96681569
It's to draw people into my realm of madness!
Also I like the game but don't enjoy teaching it and also want to play the expansion sooner rather than later.

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this is kind of dumb question with probably not real answer.
Just found out that cmon made a scooby doo board game, but I noticed that the pose of the sculpts, are the exact same to the common sculpts of the scooby doo heroclix.

do you think is that once you get the license, you get send some pngs, and they have this pose, so the people working on this just made the 3d model based on the first picture they found in the files?

>>96683023
Naaah they likely simply sold the plastic molds.

>>96683023
the models on the left are clearly much higher quality

>>96683023
huh, weird

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Does it hold up, lads? I heard good things about it, but it never seemed like it had much staying power. Now decision space did a deep dive on it and I'm kind of intrigued

>>96681542
>A-atleast the gameplay is good
"No!" Etc etc...

>>96676934
>>96677059
Hey anon, can you tell me more about this? I havent used tts in a long time and have been thinking about making a Lords of Vegas PnP. I'd buy the game new or used but its hard to get in Europe. I see that there is a tts mod for it, how would one proceed to get the files on tts?

>>96683477
NTA but I used to do this quite a lot. What I do is I make sure I unsubscribe from the entire workshop for all TTS games (perhaps you will want to make a collection beforehand to backup your subscribed items. Then, in your pc (assuming you use winblows) go into Documents > My Games > Tabletop SImulator > Mods and delete every folder or files in every folder. These are local files for subscribed items you had. Then, go into steam and subscribe to lords of vegas, boot the game and load the lords of vegas mod up. If the mod has assets placed in containers, make sure you take everything out so they can download and get loaded on your local storage. After you're done, go back into Documents > My Games > Tabletop SImulator > Mods and it will now be populated by only lords of vegas assets. 3D models are a little harder to rip but I've managed to do so in the past, you can google it. Other assets are a breeze. You can simply find them in those folders. Happy pirating anon.

>>96683477
why lords of vegas of all things...
just load up the mod, then right click on each thing and then click on custom and copy the link for the image, but do this for basically everything
another, possibly easier way to do this is to just go to the mod folder in steamapps/common/Tabletop Simulator

>>96683507
>>96683508
Many thanks, I'll try it out.
>why lords of vegas of all things
I hear its a good game and want to play it.

>>96683526
>good game
no it isn't

>>96683526
If you just want a game where you chuck dice randomly and nothing else might aswell pnp Spots, much faster to do and doesn't have bullshit scoring

>>96681505
Isn't it basically the same? You flip one chit rather than rolling a die? Never used it nor read the rules carefully, but I thought it worked like that.

>>96683120
They are higher quality, they are not the same mold, just the same pose

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>>96683023
there must be some go-to, classic scooby doo picture they are using. In this picture you can see Daphne and Fred are doing the same pose as the minis

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>>96684318
and shaggy in other products do the vegeta pointing as well.
so they would be the "iconic" pose

best scooby doo game?

>>96679983
Pretty much every single crowdfunding based entity that starts using profits from a new project to fund the completion of a previous project is jumping the fuck off a cliff.
You CAN perform that move and get away with it, however, the new project has to be some low investment, high yield product that the company can make for next to nothing and is basically fleshed out. A good example of this was Chip Theory Games needing some more capital during a financial crunch, so they put 20 Strong on crowdfunding. That's a handful of dice and some cards with each other title just being a deck of cards. That's how you shore up funds for a previous game without risk. You absolutely do NOT make ANOTHER huge game that you haven't even started designing with a fuckload of mini and component bloat. Tabletop RPGs were getting pretty notorious about doing this shit until Kickstarter started enforcing the whole "deliver previous campaign before funding another campaign" rule that caused a lot of folks to jump over to Gamefound. Somehow Pinnacle gets to ignore this rule though.

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>>96684498
guess it depends what you like.
there is a reskin of betray in mistery mansion
also a horrified style game. also snake and ladders, depends of what you want

>>96683507
>What I do is I make sure I unsubscribe from the entire workshop for all TTS games
That's wholly inefficient. Simply right click on the assets to get the links to them

>>96672161

>- What's your current top 5 best games of all time?
Terra Mystica / Age of Innovation
Voidfall
Arcs
Dune (original)
Hansa Teutonica

> - What's a game you irrationally dislike?
Spirit Island

> - What's the light game you play the most?
Harmonies

> Bonus question:
> - What is your favorite deckbuilding game?
Slay the Spire

>>96679149
If you're playing IRL, it's Age of Innovation. It's a lot more forgiving and has many more viable builds and plays with a given setup/faction, with some cool combo tension. It doesn't have the tightness of the original, and after 100 games the games tend to feel a bit more same-y than 100 games of TM. So unless you're totally into playing it online all the time, AoI is the best choice.

A few examples to provide bit more detail in case you want it

- In TM, the "get 2 vps for each dwelling" favour is hotly contested, more often than not it's game-defining to be the one person who misses out. In AoI, not only are there 4 of each favour, they're all kinda useful - there's no "one obvious pick". Sure some are better than others but they also have random positioning in terms of the cults they're associated with, so depending on track rewards (and innovations) there's just a lot more variability.
- In TM it's 2W5C1P to upgrade digs. Some factions should do it, but most should not, and it's quite a noobtrap. In AoI it's 1W5C1P and it's way more viable.
- AoI has a favour that gives you two little purple "annexes" that count as a power and a hex for towning purposes. Getting cut off and having two sad hexes can be game-ending in TM, but you've got a path to a key with AoI.
- TM has 10 steps on the cult tracks with a key to get from 9 to 10. AoI has 12 steps on the cult tracks with a key to get from 7 to 8. The top tends to be much more competitive as most players will only make it past 7 on their third track in the final rounds, if at all.

>>96684676
Have fun doing this for 500 cars!

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>>96684676
and what do you do here? also lmao @ clicking a million times and downloading every single file for every single card if there's a game with shitloads of assets.

>>96684764
>>96684751
add to cards together and it'll give you the link to the deck. Can also use a TTS mod saving third party software to fetch all the links if there are too many

>>96684808
>TTS mod saving third party software
What are you, subhuman? You can write a shell script to do that.

>>96684829
Be my guest

How would you rate these games factoring in longevity and accessibility, enabling both non-board gamers and experienced ones to have a good time?

> Magical Athlete
> Hot Streak
> Winner's Circle
> Ave Ceasar

>>96684988
None of them have longevity, all of these style of racing games are a gimmick that's hilariously enjoyable for a couple of play but then quickly becomes stale. See also:
>Camel Up
>Ready Set Bet
>Long Shot
>Long Shot the dice game

>>96685038

I already owned Ready Set Bet and I'm about to cull Camel Up though, as I dislike the part where people wait until someone pulls the trigger by selecting "move camel" action, thus revealing information to others. Seems like it's the worst action in the game, and by the time it's your turn again it's likely that everyone else profited of your action much more than you have.

I'm just looking for some game that I can whip out with newcomers but also as pseudo-filler for the experienced players. Something Ethnos-like.

This >>96672803 is my lighter weight games collection, with Dice Town and Camel Up being actively culled.

>>96683566
the player you're fighting or raiding ordered the chips and is allowed to bluff/double bluff about which is which

>>96672803
I can't weigh in on Ares Expedition but I like The Dice Game more than the original Terraforming Mars.

Hansa Teutonica big box or basic edition? I'm finally listening to Hansachads and getting this one

>>96685515
>but I like The Dice Game more than the original Terraforming Mars.
really? that's interesting. any particular reason?

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Speaking of deck building. I want to start playing Great Western Trail. I have it but I haven't gotten it out yet and after watching the rules a few times since I bought it I looked into all the versions and some "general tips".
The problem is whenever I look up tips for board games, it seems like there's always a strategy that has a higher performance than others and just as I'm about to play it's almost like a stab in my heart, almost like the game is "solved".
I know, it's self inflicted, but I have a question:
Do New Zealand or Argentina do more to alleviate the "best" GWT strategy? Apparently the best thing to do in 2nd edition is to build buildings. I'm sure the deckbuilding part is still important though but I thought I was in for a ride of delivering hundreds and hundreds of cattle all through America.

tl;dr: For Great Western Trail, do Argentina or New Zealand alleviate the problems of a "best" strategy that the original seems to have?

>>96685986
No reason not to get the big box, it's in print and the expansion maps are good.
I think even the box size is basically the same.

Speaking of smaller boxes, what thinnest games (when vertically stored) offer the most depth? Brass retail is thin, splotter games like fcm is thin, the mac gerdts games like navegador and imperial are thin. I need more thin games.

>>96686000
The cadence of the game is smoother and I like the milestones and awards more.

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This game is better than Chinatown.
My group (family) isn't good for hyper competitive "I'm going to screw this player over" type games but this one really does the trick.
It's so blatant because it's the theme of the game. Lots and lots of "Why would I do that? You're winning. Screw that I'll let this deal fall through. Ok do it. Ok I will." Even the dynamic of men and women comes into play. We had this out for Easter and my aunts and female cousins were like, "I'll take 9 million and you each get 1 million, ok? Ok, 1, 2, 3 deal." and the men erupt, "What the hell was that? Why did you agree to that?" Whereas with the men it's more like, "You NEED my color for this deal so I want the lion's share."

It's just the best and I love it.

>>96686084

>Power Grid
>Beyond The Sun
>Lords of Waterdeep (everything fits in Scoundrels of Skullport box)
>Samurai
>Through The Desert (Allplay edition)
>Ginkgopolis
>Brian Boru: High King of Ireland

>>96674416
For people chasing some high when their grandparents taught them Euchre at age 9.
For people not dispelled with the illusion of "simply always playing the best and obvious thing" that those kinds of card games have.
>Play Euchre
>Guy leads the Ace of Trump suit
>Don't have Trump suit
>"Gee, should I dump my 9 of hearts or my ace of Clubs????"

>>96685319
That would just make the whole fight longer but not that interesting, to be honest.
It also gets old quite fast.

>>96674538
So Agricola still does it for you, huh?
As someone who has never played it myself, do you really think it's better than all of the games like it? Caverna, Lowlands, and what have you?

>>96686098
>1994

>>96686128
I have power grid and samurai (although it's the ffg version, which isn't that thin).
Might replace TTD with the all play version, just to get the thinner box, and night map

>>96686044
>the best thing to do in 2nd edition is to build buildings
that's news to me, I think cowboys strat still works pretty nicely (but it's no longer basically the only good strat like in the first edition), and specializing in train guys can yield good results too
>New Zealand
I liked some of the mechanics added in this version, like how the boats work or the new cards to add to your deck, but overall it was bloated, they added way too much
>Argentina
I think train guys are a bit more useful in this version but other than that i didn't see other big differences, i like the obstacles being replaced by farmers though
If I had to pick between NZ or Argentina I'd go for Argentina
But base 2nd edition game is still best... but forget about the expansion, it's shit

>>96686213
No, seriously. I give the same raised eyebrow to people playing 80's wargames but I'm the Boss feels like it could have come out recently.
Pure negotiation with a hand of cards to strongarm. The only thing I can criticize is that the cards really really help so the first 2 turns are everyone passing to draw up to the hand limit of 15 and then if you blow a shitton of cards you need to pass to draw 3 cards a few turns. But you can still be in deals when it's not your turn because they need your color (hopefully the table didn't decide to rape you of your main board and leave you with nothing).

>>96686319
I see, I see.
TY. That makes me feel better.

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>>96675671
paint your shit ass

>>96680020
when tho

>>96676234
Congrats bro

>>96676234
>Just got married,
>were both virgins
You didn't consummate your marriage?

>>96675827
unironically meetup

>>96686451
you don't read so good huh

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when you got the reference but couldn't find the image because you named it something stupid

>>96686319
First edition is better, if for no other reason than the 3 workers being white men, which is far more believable. Women weren't constructing buildings and black men weren't operating trains.

>>96686414
Five years my wife and friends have harassed me about that
I have resisted the call

>>96686904
Pay a wargamer to paint them for you but give them all the same color scheme

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Thoughts on this game?

>>96683200
Depends on the flavor you want.
Do you really like the Sim City aesthetic? Suburbia.
Do you like the rooms and their adjacency shenanigans and shapes? Castles
Sometimes I'm feeling more modern and city-buildy but I think Castles is the better game, it's also easier to see what another player wants to set the price higher on that room.

>>96687027
God I want to invade and occupy her regions

>>96686714
plus it's not wild west if you're not raping and pillaging indian villages.

>>96687182
But no drilling her for oil?
Are you even trying to liberate, here?

>>96686044
I have 6 plays of GWT1e, 40 of GWT2e, 2 of Argentina and 5 of New Zealand, so you can kind of figure out which one I prefer lol, you reminded me of this video I watched a year ago that talked about this exact thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAmFqGnzgIA

I know most people say builder is "the best" but honestly, it all depends on the starting situation on the board, which hazards are on play, workers, station master tiles, and what do players do along the game, and I say most options are viable to win, but in OG GWT you kind of have to specialize in order to get the most of it, it's really hard to pivot or to do a "balanced" worker strategy, you'll always end up trying to maximize your hired worker of choice, or at most have 2 of them pretty high up to do strong actions.

Argentina gives you more side bonuses to help you work out these weaknesses and even lets you quit the trail earlier to be able to rush more efficiently versus a player maximizing actions.

New Zealand is kind of a combination of the 2, shearing is a great way to separate cow use but i think it adds a little too much, and it's a bit too lenient by giving you extra cards that don't take up space in your deck and so on. For this I prefer original GWT, it's tighter and more punishing.

>>96687253
>For this I prefer original GWT, it's tighter and more punishing.
This guy knows. I modified my GWT1 to have orange cows and a fifth player. I prefer playing with rails to the North and nobody in our group does the META tourney strategy we play straight like we're trying to win.

>>96687387
I hope you also house rule that the RttN 1e tile that lets you build for free is the 2e version where it's a build as if you had exactly 2 workers instead, cuz that tile is fucking STRONG otherwise.

But yeah the expansion is fantastic, both 1e and 2e. Add just about enough to be able to support your strategy in other ways without it being necessary to focus on it. Only criticism I can give it is that they make the "bottom 3" aux actions even more useless. Though I have to say that last time I decided to try trashing my cards and did quite well, my best score yet even, but it was just the perfect setup to try and thin my deck, 9 out of 10 times I'd keep unlocking money/card/branchlet aux actions first.

>>96687027
never understood where it becomes a game
to extend the unpleasant overtaxed metaphor thing you pile a bunch of black pieces into the right spot and roll dice for the rest of the night

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>>96687531

>>96682436
anons continuing the unfunny of confusing Voidfall (space war where the vast stretches of the void empire have fallen to corruption) with Stationfall (a space station is falling towards earth, quick do your secret objectives and try to stop everyone else)

>>96683200
i like it, kinda wish the spinoff (blueprints of M.K.L.) was on tabletop sim so i could see if it's also good or just a stupider version of the game

>>96684498
Tragedy Looper, it even has a Mastermind that goes "and I would've gotten away with it too if it wasnt for you meddling time traveling kids!"

>>96684751
sometimes cards are packed into a deck file that's got 50~100 cards in one image, separating them to prepare for print might be a hassle tho

>>96686714
agree
>>96687217
kys

>>96686044
I don't give a shit about New Zealand or Argentina. OG is the best.

>>96686084
Horizons of Spirit Island maybe

>>96687778
If you didnt pick the 'coming for that booty' mini, youve already lost

Here's my semiregularly session report noone asked for!

>Cryo
Was a bit apprehensive, I really disliked Dwellings of Eldervale and this shares a good part of the fundament. Turns out removing the godawful combat would have been enough to make the game better. Cryo is a neat and short wp game (~1h) that still manages to have a midweight crunch in it. Very nice. Overall I wish it was a little tighter, didn't really feel like we got into each others way, sabotaging pods seems like a bad idea 90% of time. Plus to my great disappointment the tempo aspect doesn't seem as pronounced. Or rather, playing tempo moves seems like pretty bad strategy. But I enjoyed it a good deal, if the setup was a bit less annoying for the games weight I could see it making it to the table often. As is I can recommend it as a light-mid worker placement game.

>Diamant
Always fun, always a riot. I keep noticing how cumbersome the continue/go home cards can be sometimes and how going through the motions takes up a good portion of the game. Don't really know how to change that, though.

>Shackleton base
I wanted to do a slop or not about it but I'm not confident I have a good enough take, there's a lot I'm not sure about. Ultimately, I decided to sell it, though. It's one of the candidates that are perfectly fine but aren't enough for he hypercompetitive shelf spot that is 2-4p heavy euro. Interaction mostly is incidental and I wish the map play/picking dudes up from the crater was more fought over and relevant, as is it's merely a nice bonus. Some corporations are much more fun than others and getting the right combination is crucial, but a good bunch of them are bland recipe fulfillment stations. Maybe there's something there and the obvious expansion with more corporations spices it up enough (although it won't fit in the base box) but I'm not keep on finding out.

>>96687684
>>96687500
>>96687387
>>96687253
Idk lads, 2e might be graphical downgrades but it does the very important thing of increasing the malus of Kansas and gives you the RttN draw 2 discard 2 tiles which really smooth out the randomness of the draw.

Not that that'd be enough to buy a new box but the gameplay changes are good.

>>96688126
Well yeah, I'm >>96687500 and >>96687253 and my post are about GWT2e. Amazing how a couple balance changes can really impact a game. I still see high tier players deliver to Kansas at least once even with it

How good is Indonesia? I love FCM, but was only lukewarm on TGZ, part of which was probably the theme, which doesn't appeal to me at all.

I want to get some lightweight not too cutthroat board game to introduce my girlfriend to the hobby, but ideally it can also be played at the higher player count.

Currently have
> Wingspan
> Cascadia
> Pandemic
> Azul
> Saint Petersburg
> Century: Golem Edition
> Schotten Totten

Considering
> Fantastic Factories
> Gizmos
> Sagrada

> I lent >Patchwork to the friend

Previously owned Splendor and Ticket to Ride so I don't think I'll be getting them, and Forest Shuffle might have too much information for people new to the hobby.

>>96688271
>introduce my girlfriend to the hobby,

how about you just don't do that

>>96688256
Oh, I think doing it once in your first loop is still very good as well, but it really stops there. Nice fine tuning, I agree

>>96688271
If you're serious about exploring the hobby, I suggest ditching the gf, she's only going to slow you down.

Of all the games you listed, Schotten Totten is the only one I'd want play, but that's a very light game and the circumstances I'd play it would be when time was limited.

If you want to keep it to 2 players, I'd suggest Targi and Watergate. If you want to go up to 3-5 players, I could recommend other stuff.

>>96688277
She expressed interest though and my ex got into the hobby smoothly.

>>96688352
Well yes, Schotten Totten is also the most tryhardish and confrontational of the bunch. I don't think it's good to have too much direct conflict with people just dipping their toes into the hobby, especially if you don't want to gatekeep the hobby as if it's meant for hardcore nerds only.

I'd like the games that can go up to 4, ideally 5, which is why I'm not looking into things like Sky Team too much, and for things like The White Castle I already have GAH/Lorenzo/CoB to cover that niche.

>>96688266
For me it's up there with FCM. I was also lukewarm on TGZ.

>>96688271
Quit worrying about acquiring lightweight games for other people, it's your hobby not theirs...also your collection feels like you pulled it from a Kotaku article, it's boring AF

>>96688388
Eh, I think when the confrontation is so implicit, people accept it. The issue is when it's not the focus, there's just potential, and someone elects to do something that hurts, then they feel really bothered by it.

Targi and Watergate have direct interaction, but it's so embedded in the games that I've never had anyone get butthurt about being blocked in Targi, or a token removed in Watergate.

for 3-5, I've had really good success with Brass, and when people see that they benefit from using their resources, they tend to like that. Other suggestions would be Through the Dessert, El Grande, Ra, Quest for El Dorado.

>>96688271
> Wingspan
Not this gay shit.

>>96688277
why not?

>>96688388
Confrontation is good. Don't be a pussy.

>>96688271
Get Bullet, bitches love Bullet.

>>96688271
Race For The Galaxy NOW

>>96687500
RttN feels like a tacked on, unnecessary expansion to me
>>96688266
Indonesia is group dependant, more so than the other splotters. It's fun with the right group but be warned that if you play it too often in a short timeframe it'll get stale, because the map features cities that always have the same demands each era, so it will feel samey at some point. haven't checked bgg but there might be some way to randomize that
that's a pretty random reason to be "lukewarm" on tgz though
>>96688271
I would say you already have more than enough games, but yea Sagrada might not be a bad pick
If you want a game that's kind of like Cascadia but better, check out Harmonies
Forest Shuffle sucks, forget about it

>>96688271
Photosynthesis for some sneaky cutthroat.
>Pretty game
>I'm going to put this tree here to screw you

>>96688712
>indonesia
Sorry I meant same production areas, not city demands, been a while since last game

>>96688126
>which really smooth out the randomness of the draw
what that does is make it too easy. I never go in with a pair of anything when those are in play, they're just too fucking powerful. it's supposed to be a deck builder not a deck sorter.

>>96688271
> Wingspan
$50 4 birbs?
> Pandemic
garbage
> Azul
garbage
> Century: Golem Edition
wrong. spice road is so kino and golem is fucking neon faggotry. you almost had one

> Sagrada
no.

>Splendor
I hope you realized it was terrible

>Ticket to Ride
literally the only thing worse you could have is settlers of catan

>>96688352
>Targi
I get targi but it always failed to capture my imagination. Jaipur on the other hand I could play for hours.

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>>96688664
Bullet is kind of amazing but it's stressful af. I would not drop it on a normie.

>>96688674
you mispelled "Roll" friend, or didn't you notice the word "girlfriend" in OPs post.

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>>96688712
>RttN feels like a tacked on, unnecessary expansion to me
I love RttN but I don't disagree.

>>96688712
>Sagrada might not be a bad pick
Sagrada is a bad game. The simple patterns are too simple the complex ones don't really add anything and when you're done it's all just rng. Everyone who pushes this game out seems like they're looking for that one perfect combo of rng so they can have a good game again.

>>96688801
the game with two strategies, damn /bgg/ what happened to you that people can recommend photosynthesis and not get lambasted off the channel?

>>96689074
Bueno

what's RttN?

>>96689093
I don't know em. I never looked it up.
I just look for what might be a good spot.
Then again, I've only played it like 5 times.

>>96677070
Sadly no. She's married.

>>96688664
I thought bitches love Tyranids?

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>>96689164

>>96689064
Roll is a glib facsimile of Race and is arguably even more fucking confusing anyway

What questions would you like to see in the next thread?

>>96689313
How much would you pay for birds?

>>96689298
The cool thing about roll is the cups make obnoxious sounds, everyone can adjust the dice to whatever they want, and no one can decipher what other tableaus do. Quite literally a broken game. At least Race isn't broken, just subpar.

>>96689355
Every time someone mentions Roll for the Galaxy I think they're talking about Space Base.

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>Race for the Galaxy
>Race for the Galaxy
>Race for the Galaxy
>Decide fuck it, I don't have it I'll get it. It's supposed to be THE engine building game, right?
>Pic related
What causes this? Are they uber mega racists or something? What in the fuck are they showing me all this shit that isn't Race for the Galaxy for?

>>96689384
I was going to say RftG's last English print run was 4 years ago but New Frontiers has been out of print even longer than that so who knows.

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>>96689384
>board game race for the galaxy
>board game
There's your issue. There's no game board. It's a card game.

>>96689384
Google trying to protect you from a mediocre game

>>96686146
I think it depends on the play group. we've found it more tense and exciting than just rolling dice. We don't tolerate any indecision though

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>>96689425
This is actually making me mad.
What the fuck is google doing to me?
I'm not some privacy schizo so it should know what the fuck I'm looking for. None of these options are even close. And there it gives you all related content.

>>96689459
Really don't wanna buy the version with the black lady taking up half of the box.

>>96689459
I am some privacy schizo and it showed me what I wanted instead of what it thought it could convince me to buy. Neener neener.

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>>96689468
You wouldn't want to own this crap?

wait
you can win GWT only delivering once?
I need to git gud

what did everyone play this weekend?
>Old King's Crown
>Fantasy Realms
>Arcs
>Medici
>Mexica
>EGO
>Spooktacular
>Magical Athlete

Is Hellboy: The Board Game good? Heard it was a hidden gem.

>>96689517
wut

>>96689313
Red, green, yellow, blue
Who you choosing


Expansion that is necessary/expansions that convoluted the main experience/fav expansion

>>96689521
Just castle combo a bit this weekend. Slow for bgs

>>96689543
wait I completely misread some posts. disregard

>>96689521
some skull king with the sibs (lost)

>>96689521
Nothing. I'm not allowed to have fun right now for some godforsaken reason.

>>96689521
How did you like old kings crown?

>>96689313
Which game do you want a reprint for?

>>96689521
Elden Ring (would love a nightreign looter card game).
YouTube.
Sleeved GWT.

>>96689641
still wrapping my head around it, but I've found it very very compelling so far. planning to play again this week

>>96689521
Three games of Potion explosion. (Managaed to get the second edition really cheap)
I kinda like it.

>>96689521
>old kings crown
how tranny is it?

>>96689521
Grape Escape
Crash Canyon
Trivial Pursuit

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I always wondered why OG Triominos wasn't more popular. Now I know why. The scoring is too fucking tedious for a family game of that size. I'll try the Triominos Conquest and see if it's any better.

>>96689527
It's a fun dungeon crawler with event and scenario decks, with modifiable difficulty levels, that take the role of a DM. I have the KS version and it offers a lot of variety. All scenarios can be replayed with different agents, monsters and bosses. The scenarios themselves are also varied enough to make them feel different from each other. One downside to me is that the event deck has too many cards so if you shuffle in surprise attacks and monsters you're unlikely to encounter them. Also, I think if you like Hellboy you'll like the game but pure ruleswise it's not that deep. It's definitely held up by it's theme. But for me that's good enough as I like seeing my favorite characters on the table from time to time.

>>96689521
Sushi Go Party at a wedding
Cosmic Frog, Incan Gold, and For Sale.

>>96689431
Stop calling my favourite game mediocre or you're gonna make me start schizoposting

I have been advised this would be a good place to ask about Civ style games, my group has been more into faction level games lately than individual characters, and I haven't found anything in a tabletop format that has the level of detail I'm looking for, something with a strong logistics focus, politics, resource management, etc. Like playing L5R, but you play a family in a clan, not a samurai in a family, or every player controls their own Rogue Trader dynasty rather than individual crew members. We tend to change yup genres a lot, so something a little more flexible would be great, if there even is such a thing.

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>>96689384
>>96689459
Don't try to understand the ways of the algorithm, anon. Google doesn't understand it either.

>>96689855
Not enough to jerk off to if that's what you're wondering

>>96689014
You get like 3 of them in a normal game and I think it's a good way to not fucked by randomness the 1-2 times it really matters; eg getting the first black upgrade or getting more money in the first loop

>>96689875
How is Crash Canyon? Worth buying a used copy or are there plans for a reprint?

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>>96691138
Buying used is difficult, a lot won't have the box, and the micromachine vehicles may not all roll the same. But if you can get everything in good shape for under 100, I'd say that's a steal.

>>96690660
you mean tabletop RPGs? we only do board games here so if you want Civ style RPGs you'll need to look in the RPG threads, as the only board game even remotely close to what you say you want that I know is Twilight Imperium and it's not really a roleplaying game and the resource management might be too abstract for you since it's a board game first and space politics second. Still, it can be pretty fun, and an average session can take all day if you don't try to speedrun it and take your time pretending to be merchant cats, sneaky goblins, and whatever else.
or, if you're up to a lot of homebrewing, try Gaslands. Core rules are enough to make a grand prix where each player is their own racing team in one racing league in the post apocalypse. Then on top of that you can homebrew in the logistics (maybe some upgrades or car bases are rarer or nonexistant in the local area unless you go do a side thing over there on this next race), politics (MarsCo officials and local representatives don't see eye to eye on problem X, players have to pick a side or forge their own solution and then explain it to the other side[s]), and whatever else you might think of. But it's homebrewing, at that point might as well just make your own entire system from scratch.
But amybe i'm just stupid and other anons here can help you better than I can

>>96691296
>Buying used is difficult, a lot won't have the box
in general or specifically for whatever game you're talking about?
I've bought (and sold) around 20 used games (from second hand markets) so far across a couple years and never ended up with a boxless game, only once had a game delivered with poorly made packaging (the game's box was loosely put into a box bigger than it with no stuffing or anything so it was all over the place) but every other game was well packaged and almost like new

>>96689690
How did your mom like it?

>>96691296
I had this, but don't remember the gameplay, just that sometimes the trucks would have to go down a hill, so maybe not a pure dexterity game, but more like rolling the dice on physics? Would love to see a second edition.

>>96692520
>well packaged and almost like new
consoomers did this

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>>96686044
I've only played the original/2e GWT to know overall strategies, but generally the the original game is all about acceleration and going fast. You want to make it to the end as fast as possible to start stacking cash for a 2 tile recruit action on your second go round. You usually do this by delivering your first load to Kansas City and taking the point hit for extra money. The random selection of buildings and available workers to recruit generally decide which one you lean into, but Cowboys, Engineers, and Builders are all viable strategies.

The other things you want to focus on are settings up combo building chains where you can move your meeple 1-2 extra building stops on a single move or building on the farthest hazard spaces that yields the discard a jersey cow + 2 gold + 1 certificate action in addition to your building. Racing to get the first permanent ribbon bonus tile on the train track is also pretty clutch, but you need to make sure you aren't going to get punished by someone leapfrogging you to it.

The best players are usually trying to speed run the loop as fast as possible or clog the map with so many buildings to that your opponents are forced to go slower

>Argentina and New Zealand
I've only played them once. Argentina seemed like you needed to enable shortcuts with Caballeros and thresher cattle to go fast. New Zealand seemed like you can deck build harder, but the big rule change is that you're not forced to discard your entire hand at the end, you can stack big duplicates for a secondary draw .

>>96692555
I know. I hate consoomerism
But I'm also kind of grateful they exist because then I can get second-hand goods at a heavily discounted price, most of the time barely even used if at all

All this time I thought Great Western Trail was Western Legends.

>>96692853
This is what theme autism does to you
And to be honest, both games are kind of overrated, but more so WL

>>96692742
Also my experience. I also think base game isn't imbalanced in favor of cowboys as a lot of people pretend. It's merely the most straightforward strong strategy. If the game goes a BIT longer, the 4 train/4 coin/4 movement building absolutely destroys everything else

It's just a really good game. I do wish setup was less fiddly though

>>96692853
I confuse half the tricktaking games in existence with each other, but that's because they feel more like variations on a theme than seperate entities to me. Most are ok, some are bady some are good, almost none are even remotely interesting.

I guess what I want to say is FUCKTRICKTAKERS

>>96689425
>>96689459
>>96690667
Who actually, unironically uses google shopping

>>96693179
Gen W and Gen X

>>96692609
Honestly, that's the best game board of all time

>>96692520
For that specific game

I'm troubled, anons. I found La Famiglia for 70 bucks, but my group is precisely 3 people, I probably wouldn't get to play this more than once a year, if lucky.
I don't want to consoom and just never play it, but I feel this is a great opportunity that I could miss forever. What do?

>>96693562
That deal is too good to pass up. Buy it and make a friend.

>>96693562
What deal? How much does it usually go for?
Where are you from?

i know those are very different games but should i go for arcs or dune imperium uprising next? i am super new to board games, so i dont really have the experience to know what i or my group likes. we played root a bunch of times before and still getting the hang of it, especially with the vagabond having one 2 times now because the other players keep ignoring him.

>>96693766
both of those games take forever

>>96693766
"Super new" doesn't tell us much
Some people who play paradox pc games may be "new" to boardgames, but if they get recommended ticket to ride, they're probably going to be disappointed

>>96693766
With just this given information, I'd say go for Arcs. It's ameritash like Root and so won't be a big departure from what you're currently playing. On top of that, it's very much mechanically different enough to be a worthwhile addition to your collection if you enjoy Root. If you're wanting to try something completely different, than go for Dune Imp. It's much more about gathering and spending resources while also strategically building a solid deck to play more efficiently. You'll be doing a lot more than in Root where each faction has their preset style of play. The conflict is also very much abstracted and moreso just bidding as high as you can for the top prize. They're both enjoyable, and it depends on what your group seems to enjoy more.

>>96693562
>>96693594
Can't believe I have to be the reasonable one here, I'm one of the la famiglia shills and no, you should not buy it if you aren't realistically gonna play it. It's long, but it's not really an event game. Also €70 seems pretty standard to me.

>>96693766
They're both pretty great, and honestly solid medium weight games.

I don't think you could go wrong just getting both, but I think I enjoyed Imperium (Uprising) more than Arcs, if only because Arcs games can honestly just get robbed from you even if you're playing perfect and pivot just right, because someone else got a card and you didn't.

>>96694254
>They're both pretty great,
Bullshit.
>I don't think you could go wrong just getting both,
Bullshit.
>Arcs games can honestly just get robbed from [...] because someone else got a card and you didn't
That happens in Dune Imperium too.

>>96693001
>FUCKTRICKTAKERS
I don't like Arcs either

>>96694239
>says bucks
>euro price
Could be an Australian or a Kiwi where that would be quite a deal.

>>96694561
Nah, that'd be buckeroos

>>96694447
Neither do I
I'd sayFUCKWEHRLE but he probably would see that as an invitation to rape yet another man

>>96690562
A mediocre threat, for a mediocre game

>>96691296
Not filling the board up with water? Rookie mistake

>>96694742
He took that picture from the gulag.

>>96694758
Well someone made a rookie mistake, doesn't matter who

>>96694875
Someone's mom could have told them no.

>>96695086
True, my mom and dad bought me canyon crash, and I think she was the who who read or thought to add water