Hopefully burning out quicker than a teenager shouting numbers for attention, its the Shuggy Duggy edition of the Board Games General!Previous Thread: >>98086179Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8*A BIT STALE* survey results: https://pastebin.com/scAkFdTvTQ:Speaking of burnout, what game ended an era for you?Maybe it killed a genre you previously enjoyed.Had you walk out of the hobby for a year or two.Murdered a once functioning game group.
>>98106986SHUG general goes hard.>>98106986>Speaking of burnout, what game ended an era for you?when 7 wonders got old. it was the first of many and I'd even played it back to back 3 times in one game night. the next to fall was Roll for the Galaxy which I still bring out but no longer fully enjoy. Castles of Burgundy, Arctic Scavengers, my shelves are full of games that no longer pop for me.>Murdered a once functioning game group.As my meetup group died from leadership burnout and local Library politics I became a safe haven for a select group of gamers hand picked from the masses. We had weekly board games and weekly D&D at my house. I also played in two other outside D&D games. Covid came and everyone in that core board game group moved online and all the tertiary D&D players dropped until we had to combine groups to continue the campaigns. I played, in person, with the same 3 guys all through Covid but the board game and D&D scene has never been the same. My old group still plays bga online every Tuesday without me, nobody plays D&D and my board game group is two guys every other Sunday. I have neither the time nor the energy to try to find such wonderful people again that I would invite into my house and game with multiple times a week.
>>98106986>Speaking of burnout, what game ended an era for you?x-wingsigh
About to get my copy of root tomorrow how are the "expansions"?Superficial or do they actually add new mechanics/playstyle to the mix?
>>98107298grim
>>98107313Trust me anon you haven't seen how grim things can get can't believe people actually pledge money to these thing,some folk have no shame or company around the house!!!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studioatmidnight/cartoon-crushes-vol-10-stl-pin-up-files
>>98107475dire
>>98107298Eh I think the more expansions you add the worse the game gets.It's not a very good game anyways honestly.
>>98106986>burnoutThere's only one game I've ever burned out on, and that's Quartermaster General WW2. No other games come remotely close in the number of plays we had, so I wouldn't say I've felt a general kind of burnout at all for over 10 years. Feels good to own more than 5 games I s'pose.
Everdell is better than Wings.
>>98107704wings 1931 aka battleship or wings 1996 monopoly with planes? because why would you even compare everdell to either.
I couldn't help myself I'm a sucker for sheep,too bad the kickstarter hasn't actually started yet?
>>98107773Did you at least try it on TTS first?
>>98107779I doubt it can run it my desktop is still running Windows ME
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>>98107880Racket Dice probably good as fuck.
>>98107906I don't personally give a fuck about racket sports but if calkins is selling a bluffing game I'm buying
Why did I buy barbarossa? I can't play this with anyone in my group. :(
>>98107766I am retarded ESL, I meant Wingspan. It just named "Wings" in my language. I will crawl back in my hole, sorry.
>>98107298Each expansion adds more factions and that is just more stuff to learn, and the game is only tolerable when every player knows how every faction in play wins and how to stop that.Second expansion i think adds Advanced Setup and the alternate central deck, both excellent upgrades that give players more choices but they don't really fix the game.Hirelings are whatever. New maps can be fun but also imbalanced or add wacky rules that someone will forget and that accidentally hands the win to a third party.
>>98108107>he didn't buy two copies, one normal the other with historical photographsmy condolences anon.
>>98108107Why indeed
>>98107773played this on TTS todaydon't think i'll back. it's tight enough, but it feels like it will get samey quickly. the big death knell for me is that it's completely open information. i need some limited communication and information in my co-ops
>>98107880wait they're printing it anyways? my prayers have been answered
>>98106986>what game ended an era for you?For me, 2nd ed D&D. It killed off AD&D.
Okay, I don't give a shit about shug, but I'm having fun.
>>98108679I do appreciate your work but the joke kinda got old once shugshill anon broke down last thread
>>98108689Eh, better than just sitting on my ass doing nothing. Even if it's just crappy photo editing. >>98106986Also, love seeing the black exile still making an appearance here and there.
>>98108755Uhhhhhh I hadn't noticed
>>98108107Got any source for that image anon,for "research" purposes of course.....
>>98109083Negative
>>98109119>Not "SHUUG"Get with the times old man
>>98108361The other Root decks (Exiles and Partisans/Squires and Disciples) aren't included in any expansion boxes. They're sold on their own.
Whats your preferred way of making maps for twilight imperium? We've played through all the pre-made ones and I'm not sure I like milty drafting, as it doesn't take into the overall map, just each slice
>>98109995so far RAW has been alright, but i only play like once a year. If I played more I might think about slice/Milty draft, specifically with premade slices from like the tournaments or something as I don't trust the random slice algorithm to generate fun ones, even if they're guaranteed to be "balanced".
Rodney's getting older...
>>98108187awww no come on out lil fella
My local store does not have a single game that came out within the past 5 years. I'm not asking for the latest Kickstarter slop, but come on.
>>98110520they're doing you a favor
Almost a perfect fit, the chips are like a mm too small so a bit of paper hangs over the side. But if I trim it with the knife, it won't be a perfect circle, so I'll just leave it and hope it's not too noticeable once in resin.
>>98110396y-you t-t-too anon
>>98110870why not glue on cardboard and pop out the whole chit? I've mod podged cheap ass cardboard tokens that were layer separating after one play and it worked great.
>>98106986W40k 5th edition - suddenly things became less crunchy and the lore started being brighter for me, the factions grew weird and the rules smooth. A fall from grace I tell ye.nWoD: Things were looking good with just Mortals out (Se7en and stylish horror seemed to be the main genre) and then it started to crumble quickly. Werewolves were ok, Vamps were more disconnected but ok, Prometheans were great... but everything else was somehow too tight, restrictive and had way too much "specific style"DnD 4e: you no longer had the freedom to build and play whatever you wanted with the d20 System in its thousands of forms, it was suddenly combat focused and gridded and the theming was somehow boiled deep into it. The hobby never recovered.Twilight Imperium 4: The greatness of having a toolbox you can spend years developing to fit the tastes of a single group of maniacs was destroyed by a hipster-friendly, girlfriend-friendly, smooth "experience". Nothing since then had the combo of pure insane awesome fun and raw insane mechanics. I almost cried playing TI4, a man growing old and watching another pillar of greatness die.
>>98110396He's growing this kind of thin that looks worryingly similar to cancer patients imoJon from johngetsgames grew a bit thicker in contrast, but the only thing that look makes me worry is that he's soon gonna become a 18xx only channel
>>98110955I was worried that the cardboard would absorb the epoxy and warp. Maybe if I spray a lot of sealant on them first.
>>98110994the existance of TI4 does not stop you from playing TI3, you know? also, what do you see in 3 that doesn't exist in 4 and that you can't port with a bit of homebrew?
>>98111028I cry for the people who play TI4 and think it is a great game.There are many subtle things that make a big difference, I even homebrewed things from TI2 and TI4 into my TI3 so I am not saying there are no good ideas (TI4 has one great idea with the racial characters bringing in special abilities, although it needs a lot of balancing).For starters - the limited access to when and how many Space Docks you can build. The inability to transport PDS. The missing Transfers (try playing against a guy who plans ahead and manages to do like 3 or 4 Transfers during his game VS a guy who knows nothing and uses 1 Transfer when it randomly looks like a good idea...)I played TI4 three times and never want to play it again unless it is the only option that day. It is not a bad game.But compared to TI3... whoah no comparison, I even play the purest version possible (no homebrew) once every few years and it is still amazing. So this is not about homebrew and the TONS of stuff we added in my group. As I said, the subtle things missing or adjusted is what makes it strange to play TI4. Several layers of awesome strangeness missing just to make it shorter and simpler.
>>98111024you want solid cardboard like cereal box or those sheets that come between paper towel mega packs at costco
>>98111091this happened to Fluxx
>Mfw when I still havem't gotten Circadians:CO and HIS to the table after like 4 yearsWhat's her name, anon
>>98111091transfer actions are a waste of action economy though, right? or am i misremembering or misunderstanding the rules? its just reshuffling and locking down your fleets. why would you waste your turns doing 3 or 4 of them when with "proper planning" you should do 0? i now kinda wanna play against you just to understand what your group is cooking in the war room.also why would you transport PDS, they're Planetary defence systems, not Space defence systems. keep them on the planet, dummy. but even then, there's now two factions that do transport PDS, if you're a freak whos into that.
>>98111257Transfers are how I keep my core territory churning. Send fleet of heavy ships out to free fleet supply slots in the system, build in the system (and sometimes bring transports to load fresh units). One action, one marker (the second comes from supply so only a problem for late game of long games). It's not something I use on the borders where the situation is usually hot (needs more movement and systems should be kept unactivated so that I can react quickly).
>>98111257PDS transfer capability is great. I can now build a carrier fleet and load it with GF and PDS and MECs and just drop it on a valuable planet. Usually it's a good idea to fight with mostly ships on one side of your territory (so that fleet supply is full and your big fleets engaged in battles that make sense) and have a cold war on the other side (where you and your opponent just move PDS and other non-ship assets around). That way, I have a hot and cold war and the hot war has most of my ships in places where space battles actually do happen (instead of just being scary parked on the cold border for most of the game).
>>98110520Do they have any generation 2 pokemon cards?https://www.ebay.com/itm/157861470508
>>98108412nta but what's TTS?
>>98112869Table Top Simulator on steam. it's a virtual game table for which people have made many assets with which you can play board game titles.
>>98112869https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3429335723
>>98112869about $7.50 on sale to play every single board game ever made
>>98112985>play board gameI have 217 hours in table top simulator and at least 120 of them are from sitting in an empty lobby. I'm doing it right now.
>>98113051Just join some public lobby that has people in it already?
>>98113097Not keen on EDH.
>>98113105Join something else then, autist sama.
>>98113051That's a shame. what game?
>>98113113Everything else is password protected, full, a casino game run by a bot, someone playtesting their OC, or DUNC.>>98113126I have Battle Blocks: Sengoku loaded but I've never played it before. If you want to play something else I'm open to suggestions.
>>98113145>Everything else is password protectedI guess people found it more convenient to get some matchmaking through discord server, maybe join some with enough people to be able to filter "those kinds" of people out.
>>98113145Have you tried the TTS thread on /vm/?
>>98113161>I have 120 hours sitting in an empty lobby.Yes.>>>/vm/2513190
>>98110520>>98110537When stores stop trying to stock new items that's usually a precursor to liquidation.
>>98113178>/vm/>people who unironically insist Monopoly is the GOATyeah, no
>>98113233I don't think you understand how your flgs actually works
>>98113178Damn, /vm/ played Duck Dealer? That's awesome, best I've ever done was managing to convince my friends to play Food Chain Magnate once (they liked the theme, hated the game).
>>98113264I watched my own LGS stop getting new stuff in, then their board game section shrank from three aisles to one to just an endcap full of clearance shit. Now they just do TCGs and retro video games.
>>98113250>implying it isn't
Favorite 4p games for casuals?
>>98113051If you want more regular games with complete strangers, you're gonna have to bite the bullet and join the two TTS discords, games go up every 5 minutes there.
>>98113385Settlers of Catan or Wingspan
>>98113233My lgs owner admitted that Magic whales keep the place alive, I guess I can understand not feeling the need to get new games but the only thing I've bought from them was a $10 Allplay card game.
>>98113298>Now they just do TCGs and retro video games.which was my point. they're not liquidating they're just focusing on what's profitable.
>>98113390wingspan. catan is literally a bad game. wingspan gets hate for being a normie tier karen game that banks on being pretty but all in all it's not an awful euro.
Shitty little cardboard VP tokens, soon to be shitty cardboard VP tokens in resin.
give me a light to medium-light game with stock market as the main mechanic. I tried stockpiled on tts and it felt like it's missing something that would bring it from an alright game to a good game. Sure there's some bluffing that could be used, but for the most part you just sell whatever lead player sell. There's never really need to sell your stock outside of that.Only played the base game because I want to see if it's something I want to purchase and bring to game night. The expansion are pretty much impossible to get reasonably.
>Want to try out Galactic Cruise>Friends refuse to learn any worker placement that isn't stone age, lords of waterdeep, fromage, and flamecraft>they even refuse to learn istanbul
>>98114672Galactic Cruise is pretty fun, I learned it from first principles on BGA playing without reading the rules. It is definitely more complicated than any of those other games you mentioned.
>>98112985>about $7.50 on sale to play 60% of every single board/card/ttrpg game ever madeftfy, and 60 percent of ~175000 is still a shitload of board games you can play. It all depends if the game isn't "only 20 people have heard of this game" or something similar, though there's still a decent chunk of super niche titles
>>98114672>Want to try out galactic cruise on bga>Literally fall asleep during the tutorial>Multiple timesTo be fair it is not the only game this happened, but still. I felt it is very representative of a lot of things I don't particularly enjoy in modern euros. Every mechanic that got me a bit excited was immediately followed by some smoothing it out or making it less confrontative. Now, I am very resistent to slop and do like some puzzly no interactive games now and then, but this seemed like such a boring design. Now it might play great for all I know, but I still wonder how it is so popular
>>98114502not exactly stonks-themed but you might go for Q.E. Quantitative Easingyou could always just do actual paper-trading
>>98114502That new knizia rerelease, gold rush? Gold country? Seems to fit, at least superficially.Mombasa is pretty cool but is more into mid-heavy.
>>98113051oh i only play with irl friends
>>98114721>Now it might play great for all I know,I have friends who like it and I've played it more times than I would like to. You just repeat your todo list over and over again. There are very few actual decisions to be made. Which company goals to race for is a decision. Which cockpits to take is a decision. And occasionally a choice between alternative ways to get a thing you need is a decision. If reputation is a guest bonus the choice between alternatives comes a bit more frequently. Every other choice is a non-decision and there's a long downtime between your turns.If you want a heads down efficiency puzzle just play Project L or something. You could do 6 games of it in the time it would take to play Galactic Cruise, and that's a conservative estimate.
>>98110994>nWoDI liked what they did with Hunters: The Vigil, just annoyed that most of the fun conspiracies were more of a late campaign kind of thing most of the time.
>>98114502
>>98114502I've been looking for a similar game lately and I'll second Gold Country (not yet released) and Acquire. i'm sure you know this but most stock games fall into the heavier category.
>>98114502any of the iron Rails series, like Iberian Gauge, Irish Gauge, and so on.
>>98114502Chicago1875 is supposed to be 18xx without the trains, e.g. only the stock market.>>98115049>>98114502I feel that way about stockpile and Acquire, there is just something missing from each that would make them great instead of good.
>>98115704>>98114502Third'ed. I think it's a shame only the very heavy 18xx let you do interesting stock shenanigans, like selling trains for 1 dollar to your other company, then dumping the now defunct company on someone else. There's a lot of finance world shenanigans just waiting to be gamified. I think people are afraid of doing so because business is extraordinarily dry, fake and gay in the real world - but it surely could make for a fun boardgame.
>>98114502technically Black Friday is a stock market game and it's fun, but you don't control the companies directly, don't get dividends, and the only stock-like thing the stocks do is change in value very rapidly up and down, while gold (the only other tradeable asset) only goes up.
>>98106986Hey guysLooking for a mostly solo board game with optional multiplayer. It's going to be my birthday in a couple of days and I'm looking for one with lots of replay value. Currently, I saw the Bullet board game which replicates shmup as a puzzle board game.. I like Star Wars so that Outer Rim looks appealing.. And I saw Cyberpunk 2077 Gangs of Night City as well. I cannot decide for the life of me. But if you can name anything else other than the ones I've found I'd love to hear it.
>>98116483Bullet is about to get a deluxe super edition or something because they're releasing new characters, I would check if that's out first yet or when it's releasing. I love it personally. Lots of fan characters too.
>>98116483SPIRIT ISLANDPlRlTlSLAND
>>98116505big box edition are goated. lucky me my friends have several pieces so I can get all without duplicating. could you explain the solo play?
>>98116483Depending on how much finickiness and complexity you can handle, Mage Knight could be right up your alley. Another anon already said Spirit Island.
>>98116525Solo is you vs a boss character. I think there's also score attack, and then a fanmade Bullet Rush mode. I recommend Bullet Star if you're mainly doing solo and have to choose between them.If you have TTS, I would just try it here.https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2196601364
>>98116483Not a solo gamer at all, but if you are a trekkie in any way, Star Trek Captains chair is extremely good. Mind that it is suprisingly heavy and a pretty long game solitaire (around 2h) and even moreso 1v1
>>98116525Also, you might want to get the deluxe tokens or get some coin case holders, or even apply resin/mod podge to the regular tokens. The regular Bullets are just little cardboard tokens. I assume that the big box version hopefully comes with the nicer wooden tokens, but I only have the base game.
>>98116505>Bullet is about to get a deluxe super editionI can't find anything about it>>98116516>SPIRIT ISLANDhow fun is it with only base game? I might be able to get an expansion on top of it but just one.. It also seems intimidating to learn is it retard friendly? I consider myself a casual gamer but I'm more than willing to learn the game if it's really that fun/>>98116582>Depending on how much finickiness and complexity you can handle,I'll grind away if it's worth it.. >Mage KnightI can't find any copies to buy it from>>98116645>Not a solo gamer at all, but if you are a trekkie in any way, I don't like any of the newer shit IMHO.. I definitely love TNG, and the original series for sure.>Star Trek Captains chair I heard nothing but good things about it
>>98116664I've seen it announced somewhere I'm pretty sure, it was around the time Orange+ and the fan characters were announced. Poke around here, maybe there's an announcement.https://gamefound.com/en/projects/level-99-games/bullet-galaxy
