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>>97883436
TQ
>I've been meaning to get the steam port of Dune Imperium, but keep putting it off. I fucking love that game to the point I put up with the barely okay solo mode, just to mess around with the systems more. If I do get that digital edition I'm absolutely going to become a sweat online. I don't even care if I lose a lot, I just want to play it more.

>analysis paralysis in games with short, simple turns. Taking a while to make a move in War of the ring, Root, Pax Pamir, Agricola is fine. Taking a while to make a move in Ra, Settlers of Catan, El Grande drives me up the wall. You know the difference.

>I just backed that Brass campaign but not for Pittsburg. I want that reprint of Lanceshire that has the wooden tiles and dual-layer player boards. I'm a sucker for anything that replaces cardboard components with either plastic, metal or wood so that's right up my alley. Might pick up a retail copy of Puerto rico special edition, if they moved away from using Ai slop "art". I prefer the workers being wooden cylinders over fiddly minis. Also looking forward to getting the War for Arrakis desert war expansion and those deluxe hardcover revised manuals. I can't believe I backed that fucking project almost two years ago.

>>97883436
>which games would you really like to play with /bgg/ anons? (online or irl)
I played The Oracle of Delphi today with /vm/ and I already want to play it again.
>what are some behaviors by other players that really grind your gears?
https://youtu.be/ytUUQhKdzL0?t=3115
>which 2026 releases are you really excited for?
>imagine knowing what games are coming out

>>97883436
>which games would you really like to play with /bgg/ anons? (online or irl)

Why do we still not have a /bgg/ register of people sharing their BGA and Tabletopia info to play together? Wouldn't be too hard. Share your handle and the games you wanna play and then people can just contact each other. Right?

>>97883436
>which games would you really like to play with /bgg/ anons? (online or irl)
None. I don't want to play board games with people anymore. I like solo board games and puzzles. I'm trending towards puzzles more and more.
>what are some behaviors by other players that really grind your gears?
I dislike being around people that can't control their emotions. The person with type one bipolar disorder should not be the most well behaved person at your table.
>which 2026 releases are you really excited for?
In all honesty none. I'm a husk of a human being but I have found the games I like playing and I'm done searching for more.

I would play Axis and Allies with bgg, the anniversary edition. They hate that game but I know I would have fun. It'll take 12 fucking days to finish but still...

I played Santiago the other day and it was great. I could stand to do that with you guys.

>>97883436
>which games would you really like to play with /bgg/ anons? (online or irl)
I'd be happy to play pretty much anything with any of you as long as you're not retarded. I feel sorry for the poor anons with no friends that like board games and are forced to play tedious solo modes. If any of you are in Los Angeles County hey it could happen

>what are some behaviors by other players that really grind your gears?
Being on your phone. We're here to play if you don't want to be actively paying attention fuck off. I don't have the issue with my friends but have come across it from strangers.

>which 2026 releases are you really excited for?
Grimcoven...its already out but I didn't back and am now seeing reviews. Looks like a very fun boss battler with Bloodborne vibes.

>>97883902
>Axis & Allies
>They hate that game
You tell me, I tried playing this irl and after the first turn has passed, everyone is on their phone or they get off their chairs to do something else while they wait before we start resolving the battle phases. I wished there's a way to speed up the purchasing and decision making phase without relying a timer of some sorts. I could do a house rule just to simplify and speed them up. Nowadays, its hard to find players who are willing to do a second play through.

Do you guys consider a game good if it's mechanically sound, interesting for a few plays, but then you never play it again, sell it, and never regret it? I feel like it's so easy to make a mechanically sound game these days, just by riffing on tried and true formulas, that a "good" game is probably not only not worth buying, but not even worth playing.

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>>97883436
Root expansion worth it seems kinda expensive if buying after getting the base game,I paid around 37$ for it but seems like each X-pack is around 38$?

What's in them in terms of new maps, heard it had swamp/mountains any ones with villages?

Birds & Lizards seem really cool

>>97884380
Hey I'm just north of LA county in Rosamond, do you want to get togeyher and play Kemet sometime?

>>97884554
Togeyher? Sounds gey

>>97884547
>riverfolk
Otters, Lizards, new Vagabonds
>underworld
Moles, Terrorist Birds, mountain and lake maps
>marauders
Badgers, OP Rats, hirelings
>exiles and partisans deck
Universally agreed to be an improvement on the base deck. New xpac that hasn't come out yet will also have a new deck that might also be good I dunno.

for the challenge completed celebration haul i think i'll fall for the root meme, is root worth it if you already own ironwood?

>>97884561
Sounds like you have the ghey on the mind. I bet you jork it to trap hentai.

>>97884512
Boardgames generally are in a much more polished state when they come out, Idk if playtesting has become the norm (I don't believe so) or if it's as you say, iterating on each other. Modern bgs are missing the edges and roughness of the 90s german games, but that is only a bad thing in the sub 1% case where said german game turned out to be unique and good, lightning captured in a bottle. Nowadays you can just take any old hobby game off the shelf and be relatively sure it won't be broken, the rules are coherent and understandable and it'll be decent if rather same-y. This leads to a higher but unstatisfying standard. Like eg. Lopianos "Autobahn", which is a perfectly fine game and I had no interest in it anymore after 3 games. Not because it got boring or started showing its cracks, just because there are more better games out there I'd rather play. "Playable" isn't good enough anymore, and that is great. We like to bemoan the changes but forget how absolutely shit the majority of boardgames was just 20 years ago. Relatively, that hasn't changed much, but now we (rightfully) hunger for great games and dismiss "just good" ones. But I'm rambling again, tl;dr is that the rule of "only 5% of boardgames coming out are worth playing" hasn't changed, but the overall standard sure has. I'd much rather play generic euroslop than a broken, incoherent mess.

>>97884512
A somewhat trite analogy is that a movie ticket costs $15 for around 2 hours of entertainment so $60 for a 4 player board game that lasts 2 hours is a fair price even if you only play it once. I value replayability in games so I don't fully agree with that, but I don't think it's far off either.

>>97884926
Nah, I think that's fair to calculate in engagement time. Lots of 30 euro videogames have no more than 20h in them, and that's if you play the whole thing. Boardgames offer very good value for money but by their nature as non ephemeral, there is a certain expectation that's hard to fulfil I guess. Buying a game for 60, playing it just 5 times with 4 and reselling it cheaply at 30 is a VERY good rate tbqh

>>97883526
>Settlers of Catan
playing this unironically
using the full name
this is why I'll never want to game with /bgg/

>>97885877
What a non-issue to give a fuck about. I doubt anyone would want to play with you anyway.

>>97885877
Not even Sanguinatus does that.

>>97885877
>Filtered by bellcurve dice rolls
Here's how to win 100% of the time
Place settlement on red numbers
Get corresponding trade hub
Works 60% of the time

>>97884512
What are the better than "good" games, that are replayable, and came out in the last 5-ish years?

>>97884835
>I'd much rather play generic euroslop than a broken, incoherent mess
But if there was a chance the messy game had a unique and interesting new mechanism?

>>97883436
>>which games would you really like to play with /bgg/ anons? (online or irl)
War Room. I want to see how many of /bgg/ elite shit-talkers can stomach a 9-12 hour game with planning and negotiation.

>>what are some behaviors by other players that really grind your gears?
Suggesting and hyping a game for game night only to get everyone there and they do a teach where they glanced at the rules for 5 minutes or haven't played for 5 years and don't remember the rules.

>>which 2026 releases are you really excited for?
World Order and the Railways of the Lost Atlas expansion.

>>97886377
How many of these games would you be willing to test, exactly? There are good games with unique mechanisms as well.

>>97886426
>War Room. I want to see how many of /bgg/ elite shit-talkers can stomach a 9-12 hour game with planning and negotiation.
I would. My last board game session was pretty much exactly 12 hours, I'd do more but responsibilities and shit sadface.

Shill me on the game. The
>secret orders
thing in the description immediately makes it sound like Diplomacy, which is a bad sign.

Hey, Root anons. How old are you? I'm trying to figure out what demographic is playing this game.

>>97884512
I think a good game is something that if someone brings it out, you're always down to play it. Could be a week from now or 5 years from now.

I think good games are mostly subjective and are group dependent, though. I love Race for the Galaxy and will play it with anyone, new to experienced. I also love Hegemony but will only play it with certain types of players and only if we have a day to dedicate to it.

>>97884512
I mean you're kind of pointing out why I've tired of this hobby. The games are good. They're okay. They're mechanically sound. They endlessly rehash tried and true formulas. They're disposable. You enjoy opening it. You enjoy sharing it. You play it less than a dozen times and if you're lucky you can sell it. I never have. I gave all mine away. Nobody wants to pay for this cardboard here. I mean it's not that it's such a bad thing in general. I don't get to re-gift theater experiences to my nephews. The value is better than something like AAA video games, so it's hard to complain too much, right? In some sense we're a slower version of the app market. There was a boom cycle when you had things like Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies. Then there was the decade of crap and eventually people find the experiences worth having in the dumpster fire after the great enshittification. The short way of putting it is that I'm not okay with okay or good anymore. I know exactly what I want out of my games now. I do think the hobby is more about consuming the next new thing than it is about any real shared loved of rules or games. I do think the hobby is really wasteful. It's peak capitalism. I think we'll see a crash and then a new design movement at some point. Hopefully it will be a big DIY movement.

>>97886458
>Diplomacy, which is a bad sign.
Diplomacy is everyone vs everyone. So there's more of a focus on subterfuge, even among players you're loosely aligned. War Room is team based so you can (and should if you want to win) talk through your plans, who goes first, etc. The only similarity is that you're writing them down and executing in the order you wrote.

I think War Room is closer to Axis & Allies with more focus on operations and better combat resolution.

>>97886523
I'm going to be having three 12 years old try it for the 1st time tonight, they're my cousins, I'm 57 so here's hoping they love it

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1669770794/root-board-game-upgrade-3d-printed

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>>97884547
Is root now a 200$ game , including all of the expansions?

>>97883436
>>which 2026 releases are you really excited for?
I thought I would be for Brass P but it just doesn't look that interesting. Might be good but nothing really new.
Otherwise I'm slightly interested about:
>World order (Hegemony was good)
>Pax Porf. new edition
>Principles (no idea but looks like a historically flavored doam)
>Dark Pact (Lehmanns mix of race and res)
>Casus Belli (Wallace hopefully improving some of his previous designs)
>Hanami (great game but hate how it now looks, white text on light pink??)
>SHUG (looks freaky, I'll probably dislike it)
>The Idles (mini Netruner? Not even close)

I remember Away Team: The Voyages of the Pandora was shilled here by some anon quite some time ago. I was also deceived into thinking Champions of Rokugan was a reprint of Battle for Rokugan and that Grendel was about the Beowulf saga and not some comic about ny.
Like every year, I like the ideas and potential of some games but when they actually come out, most are just run of the trash to ok-ish games.

>>97886715
>12 year olds
>root
I hope you're shitting me.

>>97886427
>There are good games with unique mechanisms as well.
yes but the presented idea was generic euro vs a broken game. I would rather not play any of these but if I had to choose I would probably go for a broken one. Probably a more memorable experience even if the game is trash - assuming this is not a reoccurring deal.

What's the difference between Sudoku and a board game? What's stopping me from putting 81 number (or other symbol) tokens in a cardboard box? 9 sets of 1-9. Then including a "campaign" book with the number locations and clues. Take turns playing. The solo mode is just you playing. Tell me how this isn't a board game? It's a better one than 99% of what's on the market too.

>>97886730
>shug

that art style is magnificient! i hope the gameplay holds up

>>97886775
>What's stopping me
your laziness

>>97886367
That's a good question
I have some games post 2020, but several are re-releases (Kemet Blood and Sand, Pax Ren 2e), and some are just genres I didn't have (Sniper Elite), so not prepared to say those qualify as great.

>>97886775
>What's the difference between Sudoku and a board game?
Choices. Number puzzles like Sudoku don't really have any. You're trying to work out the one correct solution. If you can't make a meaningful choice it isn't a game but an activity.

>>97886908
I will add that all you have to do to turn a puzzle into a game is to make it a contest to solve it first.

>>97886735
Qrd?

What's wrong with showing children more games besides Sorry & Monopoly?

>>97886905
If we go farther back, I'd say Babylonia is very good, possibly great
Barrage is also great, although I'd say a step below brass, and cranios business model has really hurt the games perception and marketplace penetration
Undaunted Normandy and North Africa were both very compelling, but I lost interest in the franchise after that, didn't need to keep rehashing what I already had

>>97886931
Exposing young impressionable children to wehrleslop will turn their brains to mush and lead them down the road of degeneracy. Show them some Rosenberg and they will toughen up and grow big and strong, some Knizia to strengthen their spirit and unlock their mathematical potential.

>>97886758
>assuming this is not a reoccurring deal
Is why I asked how many you would be willing to test. There are certain types of broken which can be somewhat fun, but mostly you'll be getting frustrated over incomplete rulebooks and not enjoying any wins you get because the game was unbalanced and other shit like this.

>>97886905
Memorable games from the last couple of years (not necessarily good but still pretty popular, still played): Dune Imperium, Ark nova, Cascadia, Oath, Bullet, Heat, Revive, BotC, Hegemony, sky team, Stationfall, Arcs,..

>>97886970
All true but again if the choice was binary just between the two I would go with the broken game. How many times? Probably not a lot. I would probably just more to another hobby if those were the only choices all the time.

>>97886615
>>97886615
>Diplomacy is everyone vs everyone.
That's true, but in the one game we played, after several turns people consolidated into blocs and the game was still slow as fuck.

If War Room has more mechanics and more interesting maneuvers I guess it's better by default, but Diplomacy and GoT (which is much better than Diplomacy) have me sceptical about hidden orders as a mechanic. It just takes so fucking long, especially when you start mindgaming each other.

>Axis & Allies
Haven't played.

>>97887029
You can replace "euroslop" with "amerislop" or "gookslop" if that floats your boat more.

>>97886826
You got me.
>>97886908
I considered this point seriously but we would be leaving out the possibility that players just make incorrect choices because of human error. There are a lot of board games that have one correct solution but that doesn't stop players from playing poorly. Then you have games like Candyland, Snakes & Ladders, War, and various dice games that involve little choice. These are still considered to be board games even if they're poor ones. Sudoku would seem to involve a lot more choice in how you go about solving the board state. The fact that there is one solution doesn't mean that every player takes the same path. There are different techniques to solving. It also raises questions about puzzle-like games. There are many Chess positions where there is a single best move. On what turn does Chess cease being a game and only exist as a puzzle? Is a board game merely a collection of rules with some tokens and sometimes a board? Or is it something more meaningful than that? I suppose the whole category could be boiled down to, "It's a board game because we say it is." The Crew comes to mind. It's not even a board game, it's clearly a card game, but we include in the category as part of the hobby. Yet gives Sudoku number tokens and an actual board and some of us would argue it's not even a game much less a board game.

>>97886775
you can't really "solve" most board games like you'd solve a puzzle since if you think you have a solution the opponents can always stand in your way and your solution no longer is one. maybe for simple games like connect 4 this doesnt apply because the number of options is so limited, but in a game like Heat which is much more random and variable than Sudoku/Connect 4, the "best option" for every decision (from gear card draft to turn by turn options) is not just the statistically better overall, but one that can take advantage of what other players are doing as well, and calculating all the possible statistics and probabilities for them takes so much time it's practically impossible until we get like a 10^10x better quantum computer than what laboratories can manage so far.

>>97887194
You can still solve games with uncertainty
You won't always win, but you will give yourself the best chance to win
This is how limit Texas holdem was "solved" in 1v1 play by bots

>>97887225
>in 1v1 play
so yeah low variability is solvable, exactly what i said just rephrased a little. brilliant discussion, we're really having a conversation here, where information is flowing back and forth. that last sentence was sarcasm btw

>>97886523
27.
And I don't find the woodland critters sexy, in case that matters.

>>97887239
You sound like a woman
Can I suck on your clit?

>>97886367
I'll bite. Just from what I own and without expansions:
>Castle combo
>Toy battle
>La famiglia
>Hegemony
>Knarr
>GoA II
>Pax Ren 2e (I'll count this as its own game)
>Mie Fiori
>So clover
>Civolution

>>97887376
>La famiglia
>GoA II
Shill me these two. I was looking for a 2v2 game. La famiglia looks like a tablehog and that it could drag too long but I love the idea of what it can offer.
GoAII is unavailable but when it comes back, with the slim box, I'll be sure to try to get. Are there any downsides in your opinion? Good at 2v2?

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anyone has CoH?
I've played it a few times on TSS and really liked it, and I'm getting a pretty big set, but those house miniatures don't really appeal to me—they take up too much space and are bigger than the hexes. But everyone says it's a must-have. What do you think?

>>97887438
not him and i am bad at shilling, but La Famiglia is one of the best games I've ever played. Every match is tense, every action is tense, every victory you need to fight for, on the surface you think you can calculate everything and it's just another war game with eurogame elements (worker placement action blocking, money management), but then it throws all kinds of variability at you (Influence actions that you can do instead of normal actions for higher cost but it fucks up the action selection order for opponents, Order tokens which you place facedown on the map and are both how you get more resources and soldiers than the action board allows AND attack into oppoennt territory, and Finesse combat which is the pinnacle of bluffing minigames) and at that point you realize that you should stop thinking and play by feel, but also dont stop thinking and have a plan, but also also hide the plan and pretend your plan is something else entirely but dont sell it too hard or they'll catch you bluffing, it's a mess and i love it.

as for table space, it's not that much of a hog, comparable to approx. 1.3 Catans or 0.4 TI4s, all fits on one family-size kitchen table and you dont even need to move the salt shaker.

>>97887539
How can the miniatures designed for the game not fit into the game hexes? Are you orienting them the right way around?

>>97887326
I don't either ~Winks~

>>97887560
Great. How long does it play? How's the cooperation between the player?

>>97887603
I will admit that the custom swimsuit meeples anon made a couple threads ago are nice looking but no more than that.

>>97887624
About 3~3.5 hours if the players think for too long and the game goes to final round, sometimes early wins can push it down to like 2:40 territory. The cooperation on one hand feels implied, you're from different families and not allowed to share spaces or troops, and only one of you needs to control 2 areas of the 3 area regions to score control (so you and friend controlling one area each doesnt count as your team controlling the region), but at the same time you share the victory conditions (control 6 regions split between the team, or 5 regions by one player of the team so the other can turn into a car bomb goblin) and decide how to divvy up the power tiles (controlling regions gives your team powerups but if you control three regions and your friend none, you can give all the power to the friend if you choose to) and can send each other money (at the cost of a 100% tax on wire transfers, so pay 2 coin friend receives 1, but it's still a better deal than sacrificing your limited number of order tokens for 1 coin each), so i dunno, there's something to the game i don't know the words for, but it's a good something..

>>97887339
Yes, baby. You can suck on it all night.

>>97887438
I'm not as extremely high on la famiglia as >>97887560 because it does have its flaws, but it is a very good and unique game. The worker placement part is extremely tight and you are constantly choked for money, and how it interacts with the map play is absolutely brilliant. It does tend to go long, which for me is the biggest problem, but only because you WILL want to keep planning and planning and reacting. Most of our games clocked at 3 1/2 h and I didn't see much reduction once we got the hang of the games flow as you only then start to REALLY plan. Additionally, the families aren't that balanced. I'd say yellow and especially blue are better than red/green. But that is a minor quibble compared to how awesome the game is. There also is an expansion in the works from what I've seen.

>>97887647
Of course not ~WINKS~

>>97884547
a lot of it depends on your playercount. Riverfolk adds two good factions for high playercounts and the ability to run a second vagabond, which is pretty much essential if you're aiming to play with 6 players. Marauders adds two militant factions that give you more variety at low playercounts, and hirelings which do the same. Underworld adds two maps, landmarks which can add a bit to the game but not much, and two factions (one insanely strong and one middling but fun)

>>97884512
Depends on what you're aiming for. A lot of people are whores for variety but I prefer to keep a small, very replayable collection.

>>97888410
>second vagabond
there is no end to the depths of depravity of Root players

>>97888430
it's a mess but that's going to happen with a 6+ player game anyways, two vagabonds keeps the board from getting too crowded

>>97884615
If you only play 2 player stick to ironwood since root is pretty weak there, if you can get a group of 4 together root is a good time, especially if the table has good chemistry.

>>97887438
Forgot about GoA II. It's cool in a similar but very different way; in la famiglia, every turn climaxes in the action resolution phase, correctly guessing opponents plans and successfully counteracting/preventing them is so great, and GoA turns that up to 11 and into a magic trick. You don't talk, you look at the board, see what you and your opponent might do, and you wordlessly coordinate. It's magic when it works, which it doesn't always. I've seen it also fall relatively flat BUT it's also far quicker. The biggest problem is that expanding the roster of heros is really expensive because fuck wolffdesigna

>>97888460
what i really like about root is that it lends itself very well to light roleplay. you have all these different factions that have so much character, that also translates into how they are played and it just makes it easier for people to engage in lighthearted banter that correspends with what is happening on the board.

stuff like this can really immerse yourself in the game and make it much more fun

>>97888442
>6+
>+
no end to the depravity

>>97888430
>vagabond

Qrd, never touched root, what's so bad about them?

>>97888597
>>97888597
What's that old shitpost about the vagabond not being a sexual deviant and that's it's greatest sin?

>>97888597
Worst faction design in all of board gaming relative to the overall quality of the game. Pure annoyance to other players, takes zero skill, and the way to victory makes less than no sense.

>>97887539
>house miniatures
They are alright since they are immersive gameplay wise. Storing your squads while hiding info against your opponent makes this fun. But you can just 3d print or DIY them for a cheaper solution. I should try getting the base game with the OKW expansion before commiting to a pledge of that size.

>>97886583
you know no one's forcing you to buy more games, right?
you're placing a whole lot of your own baggage on the hobby

>>97886583
>. I do think the hobby is more about consuming the next new thing than it is about any real shared loved of rules or games. I do think the hobby is really wasteful. It's peak capitalism
I find this angle strange. I actually think the opposite, that even faggots that exploit consumer biases and trends like CMON or Monolith actually at their core want to make good games. There isn't really much money in hobby boardgaming, and yet so many people are very passionate about it, from publisher to designer to consumer. The vast majority of designers aren't even in it full time. I don't want to pretend there isn't any talmudic influences casti g their shadows over the hobby, but I don't think it's anywhere near peak consumerism/capitalism

>>97888638
The real reason nobody likes the Vagabond has nothing to do with their tendency to win. It’s because the Vagabond is a nonconformist. Worse, the Vagabond is a sexual deviant, at least if we go by the definition offered by French poet, novelist, and critic Rémy de Gourmont, who noted that “Chastity is the most unnatural of sexual perversions.” Where every single other faction in Root is preoccupied with issues of reproduction — how to paint the map with their stuff instead of the other guy’s stuff — the Vagabond will never generate a second Vagabond pawn. The Vagabond is unfettered by the expectations that have been drilled into the rest of us. They seize no territory, leave as freely as they arrive, and walk into the deepest forests where nobody else may tread. And what’s the most pressing expectation of them all? Parenthood.

Okay, maybe it’s really because the Vagabond always wins.

Thoughts on Space Alert?

>>97888781
Thank you. I guess I didn't make myself clear. I don't buy many board games anymore. I spent the last five years giving mine away to friends and family members.
>>97889028
It's a 9.76 Billion dollar industry. That doesn't mean there aren't a lot of smaller businesses mind you.
https://www.businessresearchinsights.com/market-reports/tabletop-gaming-market-124282

>>97886583
Left Wing Meme.jpg

>>97889476
As far as I know that includes miniature games (aka GW) AND roleplaying games AND collectible card games AND the millionth iteration of catan/monopoly. The hobby boardgaming I spoke of are the types of games we are talking about, which I would wager make up only a minuscle part of the ~10 billion.i might be wrong but I am relative sure I am not

Buddy brought over Jisogi and we got to try it out. It was pretty fun. Gonna get my wife a copy because she really liked it. Anyone else played it?

>>97888534
Wait until you see what goes in under the table.

>>97885877
There's much better games out there but it's playable. Get that stick out of your butt.

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>Sentinels of the Multiverse was just bought by the people who made the digital game
>They're hinting that they're going to license out the tabletop version

Well that makes me happy.

>>97886523
29. And I do find the characters sexy, in case that matters.

>>97889028
I can't afford boardgames anymore when everything is 120+ buckets, counting expansions. And I haven't been able to afford anything in years. YEARS.

>>97889495
i don't get it

>>97889658
Stop taking trips to Europe and you'll be able to afford more hobbies.

let's be honest. there is NO WAY that anyone understands how to play Root. i refuse to believe it. i bought the base game and most of the expansions and i'm really regretting it. i think i give up.

also i think board gaming is peak consumerism. people just buy buy buy so they can talk about their "collection". for example, i just bought Root and all the expansions (since i was writing this post i bought the rest of the expansions i didn't already have) and i have NO INTENTION of playing any of them. board gaming is an evil succubus of a hobby. same thing with reading and going on walks (i bought all the Patagonia hiking gear). this is not my fault.

>>97889709
cool story, bro

>>97889716
BOARD GAMING IS PURE EVIL AND YOU'RE LAUGHING ABOUT IT

>>97889726
I don't know whether to post the suicide hotline or the gambling hotline for you

Is it just me or is the frog faction in root a Jewish faction?
>diaspora
>fucks with the deck
>trick people into helping you
>trick people into "hurting" you

>>97889695
I've never been to Europe. I barely get around in my own state. Everyone I know is struggling. Everyone without exception. I really can't justify buying a boardgame right now. I think the last one I got, Yawning Portal, I haven't even played once yet and that was over two years ago. It sounded fun but when I looked at the actual rules, eh. I'll probably never table it.

Remember when we used to argue about tabling games? Good times. We didn't know it but those were good times. I miss them. I've gotten pretty good recs over the years from/bgg/ and I won't forget that, ever.

>>97889709
Actually playing the game usually will dissolve all rule questions, no cap. Just try it with one willing friend. You'll figure it out. If I can, anyone can, I assure you because I'm the biggest brainlet ITT.

>>97889637
I've backed the 1.5 reprint; didn't know about it during its first run, but it looks absolutely comfy.

>>97889709
it's a game where you have to play it to make sense of it; it's very complicated on paper but starts to feel natural very fast

>>97889750
>>97889799
i'd play it but board gaming is peak consumerism

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>>97889813
>i'd play it but board gaming is peak consumerism
6/10 attempt, but this will never be history-worthy /bgg/ shitposting material.

>>97889823
Kek. I don't disagree with him but he's not 100% correct in his assessment.

>>97889709
I just had one question for you since I'm planning to get the digital version first

How's the day/night cycle when there's no visual indicator of that maybe they should have included some kind of compass?

>>97889744
Damn sorry. I misread you. It's an actual American tragedy that you can't purchase family board games on SNAP

>rootfags completely powerless to identify bait
I'm starting to think it's true, no-one in here is actually smart enough to play Root

>>97889925
I assume the people responding read the first sentence and not the second bit that makes the bait extremely obvious

>cant make it through an entire shitpost but somehow learned to play root just by reading the rulebook
I dunno, man. I just don't see it.

>16 soviet influence in West Germany
>to 10 American influence
Are we retarded?

>>97889906
Haha. You're so funny.

>>97886730
>Lehmanns mix of race and res
It's just a dominion rip off lol

>>97889793
>it looks absolutely comfy
That's it. It's not revolutionary, but it's fun, plays quick, and really nails the theme. We played the Japanese version, so I'll be curious to see how well it translates.

I want to make a board game with huge beasts making women die from orgasming so much on their knotty, veiny cocks.

What game am I looking for? KD? Should I just make it myself? With the way current romantasy is going I could probably make a killing off weird porn addicted zoomer girls.

>>97889476
And hasbro raping the corpse of mtg is almost 2 billions of that

>>97884554
If you don't mind driving to me we can set up a game night. Familiar with Kemet and have a friend who got the deluxe version who would love to play too. Luckily I'm very far north in LA County. Sylmar area which doesn't seem too far from you. Send me a DM on Discord. Username is smoogums#5316.

>>97890523
Hey that's not too bad of a drive. Gimme a bit to pull up discord and see what I can do.

>>97889637
i didn't really like jisogi

>>97889744
>I can't effort new boardgames
>But I didn't play the last game I bought 2 years ago anyway
>Haha remember when we actually talked about playing games
What is this incoherent rambling.
Doesn't seem like boardgaming or /bgg/ is the cause, genuinely sounds like a major depression

>>97890539
Serial killers in training. You guys saw it here first.

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>>97890659
Oh it is. I went from playing everything Friday to Sunday, sometimes Monday for decades. Then 3 critical things happened and my group fell completely apart. We had JUST started getting into board games and it was going amazingly. We probably played 90% of everything mentioned here regularly. Losing that was tough. My group lives ameritrash but we had started getting into euros too. I got probably 9 years of ameritrash with two of those being euros and then kaput, nothing. I really miss it and I can't justify buying anything anymore and I was the main purchaser for BG (at first.) I'm depressed, yeah.

>>97890686
>I went from playing everything Friday to Sunday, sometimes Monday for decades
>We had JUST started getting into board games
>got probably 9 years of ameritrash with two of those being euros

Anon you aren't being coherent. Anyway, what happened?

>>97890624
Why not? Just curious.

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>>97890814
It reads like demoralization posting. I dont know if its the same anon or a coincidence but it's been going for a few threads now. Each post will tell a winding yarn of how they loved board games and used to spend a bunch of money, but now can't bring themselves to even look at them.
It's very strange. I come here to escape the endless psyops on /pol/ not to see more (other than basic bitch shilling)

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>>97890914
yeah it's the same on /out/, you have regular demoralisation posts that dont offer any kind of solution, just some random shit how life used to be better, especially if you are a man, and everything is shit now and there is no point in anything anymore. the thread isn't even outdoors related and usually gets taken down rather quickly by jans/mods but they reappear almost every single day.

just report and move on. this is some psy op bullshit and i am not interested in it

>>97888430
Two vagabonds actually split the winrate of one single vagabond and leave shards of that winrate on the floor, so it's better than one vagabond.
Zero is better than two tho, but so far only one (official) map is large enough for six non-vb factions.

>>97888597
In a game about armies of individually weak replaceable units and escalating logistical nightmares, the Vagabond is a one meeple army whose logistics start off easy and get easier the longer the game goes on. Plus the ability to hide in the inaccesdible parts of the map makes him a hard to interact with faction. However, he is limited by the Item system, so in theory two Vagabonds or one VB and one Lord of the Hundreds (the only other faction that gives a shit about items beyond crafting them for VP) could make the Vagabond lategame less explosive, but I haven't played enough Root to confirm this because the rest of the game bores me.

>>97889272
It's funny how CGE have made two games in the same setting about a real time scramble phase and the a turn based resolution phase, and it's interesting how both these games are really fucking good.

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Guys is there a better feeling that being in Late War as Russia, drawing War games at >6VP, losing it on headline to Missile Envy (no other 4 Ops card in hand), they play it for Ops, you Salt Negotiations it back next Turn, and fight fucking tooth and nail through Summit, ABM treaty, and Reformer to drag Defcon back to 2 and finish off the dirt American dogs with a nice game of chess?

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Any anons into the Leader game series? I recently bought TAL and played 3 campaigns so far. While I enjoy the gameplay immensely I really dislike the thematic. Some ppl on BGG say that it is by far the best Leader game though, I personally would gel with the thematic of Eagle/Fulcrum Leader way more but heard that those are pretty barebones/lack the tactical depth of TAL.

>>97890914
I'd agree if there was someone gained anything by demoralization, and I'm not prepared to go full schizo as to see a web-wide conspiracy to drive the mood down.

For what it's worth, I never had much money and I did have my episodes of "man I don't feel like boardgames give me much joy anymore" but those only ever lasted a month or two.
As a further aside, I do not get why boardgaming is considered an expensive hobby. I've complained about price hikes before, and I believe rightfully so, but the hobby is comperatively dirt cheap. Even as a poorfag, you buy, play, and if the game isn't great or stellar you sell it for 50% off. You've likely had a collective 10-20h of entertainment for like €40 which is not a bad rate at all, and it scales up to infinity when you actually like the game.

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Genuine question to you anons who actually back bigbox kickstarters: do you find the huge fucking boxes annoying?
I sold Black rose wars despite the game being good because I already hated how cumbersome the base box was. 2 stories of plastic inlays you gotta keep around the already pretty sprawling game, and suddenly the game is a feast for odin level tablehog. Nothing specific about BRW, I just found this xboxhueg box system cumbersome beyond the point of tolerable and wonder how the hell people can tolerate it when there's multiple ones, pic related

>>97891373
The biggest box I have from crowd funding is deluxe Ra. It is much smaller than what you are asking about but it is annoyingly large. When I pack games for game night it takes over half of my bag space. With a smaller box I would pack it regularly and it would see much more play.

>>97890814
We played games every weekend for a little more than couple of decades. The last 9 years of it we were getting into board games. Two of those nine years were getting into euros. Then the calamitous events occurred. Sorry for being unclear.
>>97890914
I want you guys to play board games from sundown to sunup. I do not mean to demoralize any of you.

>>97890922
>>97891128
Again, my bad. I do not want to demoralize you. I was just venting. You guys are possibly the only ones who would understand.

I've never sold a board game. Not much call for them where I live and I couldn't possibly part with any of them. I paid I think close to $100 for Tyrants of the Underdark because I thought it was going OOP. I could never part with it, even if I never play it again.

Again, sorry for the negative tone.

>>97891500
Ah I see, I didn't see the difference between "games" and "boardgames" at first
>>97891517
Eh, don't apologize. I want to be sympathetic but it's hard not knowing what actually happened. I take it you live somewhere were bg prices compared to average income are insane? Because I really don't think it's an expensive hobby compared to most sports hobbies and activities.

>>97886730
cool list, some interesting picks

>>97886995
it's hard to judge replayability of games just from the last 5 years. Also a lot of them keep rolling out constant expansions that keep it fresh and in the zeitgeist.

>>97891373
>bigbox kickstarters
I don't buy giant box games or big tablehog games. I might like the game but it's just something that bothers me on some primal level idkw.

>>97891558
It's not super expensive factoring in time spent vs money spent. Yeah, it's literally you're paying pennies per hour for entertainment vs other forms of entertainment, yes. That's if you get to actually play. I can watch movies and play vidya solo. I could play BGs solo but it really loses the element I enjoy most about BGs when I play that way: social activity. I really love to see the look in my opponents eyes when I pull off something brilliant during gameplay and turn a losing situation into a winning hand. I'm not even that competitive but it just gives me a charge unlike anything else. I'm sure many of you here know what I'm talking about. I don't care if I win or lose (mostly), just playing with my friends and family is the fun part to me. I really, really miss it. I would play online if I weren't so technologically inept. I can barely turn on my laptop. My nephew loaded some boardgame simulator onto my steam app and I don't even know how to use it or I would be there learning new games instead of here aggravating you guys.

>>97884554
>>97890523
don't eat the brownies

>>97890874
i didn't like that you could spend resources on taking the initiative in turn order and someone could just steal it from you immediately with one of the RNG cards
i'm not a huge Galactic Cruise fan, but that game feels like a better developed execution of a very similar concept

>>97891629
Well you manage to navigate and use an imageboard that is essentially unchanged since 2003 and would utterly confuse a good portion of zoomers, so you can't be entirely inept. If you just find it too much work to learn to use something, that's fine.
I'd recommend boardgamearena.com, but I get the sense that digital is not actually a real option for you.

Also, what actually happened.

Finally got Valley of the Kings after an anon or two kept shilling it. I'll report back.

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>>97883436
>which 2026 releases are you really excited for?
i checked some of these >>97886730 and a list to see what else is reported for 2026 and a lot of it is just reprints/covers/sequels (Blood rage, Brass, Nippon, Twilight struggle, Flintlock, Hanami, Snowdonia, ICE, Wine&cheese, Container, Lets go to France, Agricola, Trismegistus,.... )
Also some new Videogame ip themed games (Cod, Tomb raider, clash of clans, hearts of iron, vampire survivors, terraria..)

Why do you play board games anons? I mean there's a lot of hobbies out there. I'll volunteer my own reason. I don't do it for fun. It's pure escapism.

>>97891373
It's been a while since I've backed anything big, hut in general, the thing that pisses me off is things having lots of modules or general expansion content and no way to store it in one box that makes sense. I have Eclipse which is a huge box, and 4 expansion races for it, but everything fits neatly into the same box (with a lfited lid), which is perfectly fine with me.

>>97891834
I tried buying some for my brother but ever since he's gotten married he's become more of an major asshole literally saying I can't buy anything for his adaptation kids because his new wife considers anyone besides him not really "part of their family" & not worth interacting with

His exact words were " you were told not to buy the kids Jenga/Yazee because it encouraged gambling it's sinful!"

>>97891867
> it encouraged gambling it's sinful!
Where are you from? Are you american?

>>97891820
is that image real?

>>97891867
>adaptation kids
Did you mean adopted?

>>97891759
One of our steadfast players moved away (he was a great player and a prime motivator-he still is), one player went blind and I had a bad stroke. By the time we could get back together again as a group, it had completely fell apart. This all happened in the space of less than two years. We had been playing games together for over two decades, close to three. I really miss it.

Boardgamearena, you say? I'll check that out today. I'm sure I've been there but I didn't have a PC at that time. I had forgotten about it.

>>97891883
>>97891893

From California & nope she already had two kids ages 5 & 7 with an actual baby from my brother this past year,they "converted" from catholic to something else I'm not entirely sure what they're called? I think it's Jehovah Witness maybe they attend church even after the service is over & spend literally all day/evening at the house of strangers?

>>97891909
Sounds like JW, yeah.

>>97891867
>jenga
>gambling
lol, lmao. my condolences to your bro who walked into a delayed trigger antipersonnel mine that is his wife.
>>97891909
>she's a JW
yeowch.
on a completely unrelated topic, what are some games where i can lead a country-wide cult of people while getting away with child abuse because they need 3 witnesses before they're allowed to tell about it to me or the "elders" i appoint, and they're also not allowed to talk to the cops because the cops are not part of our cult? and where one of the cult activities is using an older member to teach new members to stop thinking while they're out recruiting more members?
https://youtu.be/EWeHB4qM1Hg
https://youtu.be/TsvJMlg_SaM
https://youtu.be/6F58ZJt_qYU

>>97891908
>I had a bad stroke
Are you Last Night on Earth boomer?

>>97891909
Lol your brother sounds like a pathetic cuck.

>>97891936
Yes. I also quit wearing cargo shorts because of you guys. I only wear basketball shorts now so thanks for that little update to my wardrobe.

>>97890968
what's the other?
care to expound on that?

>>97891908
Man that does sound harsh. One of these things you might be able to compensate, but all 3?
I suppose that's life, but I already felt the "it's not as it used to be" blues when kids and moving 30 min - 1h away happened to a few of us, can't imagine how it must feel losing a +20 years old group. No wonder you sound depressed.

>>97892021
Yeah, I'll tighten that shit up. I don't want to shit up tg more than it is already. I just really, really love board games. I've gotten quite a few recs from this thread over the years and they all went over pretty well. Wish I had listened to you guys about Scythe though.

>>97892005
Galaxy Trucker is the other. In both you have a real time phase (in Space Alert players react to new info about the enemies, plan ship management, and play cards on their action programming boards, in Galaxy Trucker you build a space ship out of squares with one hand only and some Pipe Puzzle style restrictions on whereyou can attach new modules) with hidden/limited information (cards played face down and threats unknown at mission start, modules start face down in the middle pile) and after the time limit on the phase is over (though in GT the time limit is more like a guaranteed grace period, and the actual end is when one player declares they're done and starts the final countdown) play proceeds to a turn based resolution (programmed actions vs autoplay enemies in Space Alert, a convoy of ships vs the random hazards of the Space Event Deck in Galaxy Trucker)
I like both and they're both radically different games but its still funny how they can be boiled down to a similar core concept.

As for why are they in the same universe, just look at the Sitting Duck and all the galaxy trucker modules, it's nearly 1 to 1 design, with the purple donut stack laser cannons, green energy and shield modules, ways of dealing with internal threats, and the fact that damaged crew modules are just detached, sealed, and jettisonned (though on the Sitting Duck it has less favorable endings for the crew than on a pipe truck). Or they could just be reusing assets because lazy design team, who knows.

>>97891834
>It's pure escapism.
Well there you go, that's 90% of the reason for 90% of the people.

But why board games instead of something else is marginally more interesting. I spent a decade playing vidya with friends, shit like L4D, LoL, DotA2, BF3, but eventually I grew out of all of that. They still do, I just stopped playing online completely. It just gets too grindy all consuming.

Board games, on the other hand, is something that serves as a structured, limited, occasional thing. It's both more laid back and more exciting, and I have really come to appreciate the fact that it's a bit of a cornerstone in my friend group. Play a game, talk some shit, play some more, see you next week. I feel sorry for the sad sacks who don't get to experience this.

>>97891834
to avoid small talk at functions
politics and social media has made everyone crazy
but i can't just be a hermit

>>97891974
Nah you are too mentally stable to be that guy.

>>97891834
>I don't do it for fun. It's pure escapism.
I can't even fathom that reasoning. What escapism is there to be had in boardgaming?

To answer the question: mostly, I like the challenge boardgames (and learning them) provide, I like the company and banter. It has become our mid30s dads replacement for going out tbqh.
I have also just now found out why I don't enjoy very light games as much as I think I should, they provide less mental challenge than I like. So thanks for making me realize that I guess

>>97891834
Escapism, specifically from electronics because its an indoor family friendly hobby that doesn't involve staring at a screen. Beyond that, I enjoy how it makes you think.

>>97891974
Seconding >>97892115
That guy was genuinely far down the autism spectrum, you seem too well-adjusted to keep posting "nth for Last night on earth is the best survival horror game"

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>>97892115
I am that guy, sorry to bust your bubble. LnoE is the greatest horror survival game ever made.

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>>97892137
I assure you that is me. You guys made fun of my cargo shorts every chance you got. I had quite a few pics from those threads of yore but I don't have that device anymore.

>>97892141
Then the only explanation is that the stroke had a positive impact on your brain's function.

>>97892181
No. I was pissed off back then because you guys are such incessant faggots.

Anyone played Rumble Nation? Noticed it's back in stock and was wanting to give it a try. Heard some hype about it

>>97891834
I work with software a lot professionally, so it's nice to just play something that is not electronic. I'm going to sound like a massive boomer but sometimes I feel like offloading mechanic resolutions to the computer turns off part of my brain and dulls the experience.

>>97892438
It absolutely does. Manual for life. Electronics for jobs.

>>97891752
>
i didn't like that you could spend resources on taking the initiative in turn order and someone could just steal it from you immediately with one of the RNG cards
That's something I also noticed halfway through my first game and informed play from then on. If you really >need to go first, it becomes a tight balance between tipping your hand too soon and giving someone time to play a card after you(though they usually have to pair it with the appropriate action), or losing your chance and seeing someone else claim the first player token through the board action. I'm not sure that's a terrible thing, though.