>>98432643
>Listen To My Story.
I don't care, shit art = shit game, not gonna play anyway.

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>>98432668
Zamn, anon really despises FF-X for some arbitrary reason.

>>98432643
>Do you appreciate outside IPs being used as crossovers in your board games?
Genuinely will stop me from buying a product, I despise it.
>What about board game specific crossovers?
I suppose that seems more tolerable but also a net negative to a game. I have no problems with in-universe coherence between boardgames, like how lvl99 did it with the battlecon cast reappearing in other games, eg. Argent. I suppose that's not a crossover by definition, though

>>98432643
>Do you appreciate outside IPs being used as crossovers in your board games?
I don't really care either way. Most of them are not good and are really just fan service. Some of them are pretty good. I like Slay the Spire the board game much more than the video game. There are more times when the IP based game is worse than the original (ie Fellowship vs. OG Pandemic).

>What about board game specific crossovers?
I also don't care but those are 100% fan service and I've never seen any add to a game.

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>>98432643
Dune 2019 upside down on my bed.

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>>98432920
>Box, its lid spread
>Worn edges, his sign of plays
>my copy, sold unpunched

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>>98432949
Oh, this is how you communicate, isn't it? By metaphor!
>Picard, his shelved games in shrink
I unders- wait, are you calling me a homosexual?

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>>98433214
>>98432949
Thanks for reminding me to go buy Captain's Chair, assholes.

>>98433214
Imagine having a language that has like 50 boardgame specific terms alone to call someone a faggot

>>98432920
>pomf!

>>98433464
I just assumed that was already the case

>>98433510
In metaphoric form, there must be. Else there wouldn't be a translation.

>>98432920
Are you going to fuck it?

>>98433508
>>98434243
no, only cuddles

>>98432643
Any board games featuring FAT DOG WIVES?

>>98426899
Cargo Noir

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>>98432920
he kinda cute tho?

I will reiterate that I kinda wanted to hate fromage because it was sold as oh so entry level friendly and cozy euro but it's actually pretty damn good and plays in less than an hour. Honestly an excellent design

>>98434582
>fromage
>simultaneous worker-placement
what the fuck

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what haave I done

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You guys hyped Tag Team up, so i went to the Asmodee Premier Night they were hosting yesterday here in *random third world country*. Actually, the game was way more interesting than I expected, by looking at the mechanics I didn't think you would have as much control of the flow and strategy as you actually have.

They gave me some stickers, I bought a copy. So I put them on the back of the box, because they're not going anywhere else.

>>98435237
Well done migo!
It is a game I never play just the once in an evening. I think one time a buddy and I sped run through 20 some games in one night. We just couldn't get enough, sometimes it was 5 straight games of one particular matchup we found engaging.

I'm fairly new to the hobby and I'm deep down the heavy euros atm. Cause of that, I'm looking to buy The Great Zimbabwe but it's sold out everywere. How is it anons? Does Splotter games get reprints from time to time? Or Im fucked?

>>98435928
TGZ has had 4 print runs. I'm sure it will get a 5th but I would not hold your breath. PnP it if you can stomach arts and crafts.

>post 400+ game collection
>all NYOP
they're just flexing, right?

>>98436382
or they're downsizing and they don't know what they gort

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>>98435928
>How is it anons?
One of my favorite games of all time. Has not gotten close to stale after 42 plays.
If you live in eastern time zone, I could teach it to you online one evening. Splotter fans made a site dedicated to playing their more popular games.
https://www.onlineboardgamers.com/

I'm considering becoming a babysitter once I have enough money to retire. What are some board games you can play with young children? Already looking at Magical Athlete.

>>98436566
If they arent destructive monsters: Ice Cool is a hoot.

>>98436566 anon they put the ages on the boxes

>>98434582
Agreed.
>oh so entry level friendly and cozy
News to me. I picked it up cause it sounds like a relatively deep strategic worker placement with lots of different strategies one can pursue.
Especially fond of:
>You gotta balance how long workers are busy or you'll have dead turns
>As long as everyone more or less knows what they're doing, turns are snappy and satisfying
>Every quarter panel has distinct strategies which any player can disrupt theoretically, but with all the moving parts, everyone has to make concessions somewhere
>Can make things more wild with custom buildings (everyone gets 4, take 1, pass rest to next player, repeat till everyone has 4)
>Somehow there's a solitaire in here too

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I've been sitting her laughing at this for a solid minute

>>98436641
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiQpG5zP_2g

>>98436566
adopt, you'll have a group sooner

>magic kingdom great publisher for v. young co-ops
>my first stone age
>my first carcassone
>memory get some good tile set memory not cards
>themed go fish and old maid
>labrynth
>Orchard
>other Haba games
>sleeping queens

>>98436382
when covid hit I got 90% of my bucket list from a FOMO bro, most of which hadn't been opened and the prices were very fair. he was up to 2800+ games. don't question it, just give him your money and then tell us where he lives.

>>98436759
If I was married I would, but alas I am not cut out to be a single father at this point in my life.

>>98436566
Depends on the age, of course. 3-4 years is already vastly different than 5-6 etc.

this month I will actually play a game instead of shitposting on /tg/

>>98437034
I got drunk yesterday and bought earthborne rangers, 2 expansions, 2 mini expansions and a core set doubler for it.

What am I in for?

>>98437159
idk I don't play games but it looks gay

>>98436641
Huh
Interesting

>>98437159
A game you have not researched properly, yet decided to spend +150 on

>>98437159
A future north american eco-utopia that is conspicuously absent of any white people.

>>98437174

I cannot find good lcgs in stock and tg recs are trash. Always sakura arms or gosu. Also looking for high interaction card games that evoke the mtg commander experience, like 4 souls or doomtown.

>>98437159
A decently interesting setting is about the best thing I can say about it. Otherwise it's tedious, imbalanced, and half-baked. AHLCG is a far better use or your time and money.

>>98437475

I proxied all of AHLCG revised core set, dunwich legacy, path to carcosa, forgotten age and chaoter 1 starter decks. Played a bunch of it but want something different. Sadly there are no multiplayer versus lcgs or card based games with high interaction.

Why does EBR have such high praise and reviews? Should I sell it?

>>98437411
When I was introduced to MtG Commander, I thought of it as an inferior Vampire the Eternal Struggle, so there is that.
Tbh if you want an MtG feel, just play MtG. I have proxied a battle box, so that I can offer a fairly balanced game to other people, that's a good compromise IMO.(And premodern rules for that, or maybe I am just old.)

Also, you may like Etherstone.

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>>98437159
A lot of sleeving.
This is one spooky post as my buddy and I had finished a session of it few hours beforehand last night.
The swamp is a brutal mistress. We had last left off on this bridge. And it wrecked us. We are trying to get to the Biological Outpost to the North. My bro went a bit ham on tests for the first few turns, all red eagle triggers that reduced the bridge to one strut token. Meanwhile I was stuck in a big pile of muck and could not contribute to traversal.
When we are finally set up for a big turn and he one shots the Location with a successful six progress Traversal, it's challenge card... triggers bridge collapse and sends us plummeting to Cypress Citadel. A significant set back. Furthermore, I took some injuries from challenge trigger nonsense. The new locations high presence made reversal dangerous, and sure enough I fail a traversal, take injury #3 and the day ends. We were livid and immediately started Day 11. We came to hate the swamp and opted to teach Tumbletown instead for a different mission. Thank God we ran into a pilot and convinced him to fly us straight to town. Rest of the session was much more productive, and next time we will see if we can blitz it all the way back to the Outpost in a single day and avoid having the mission timer expire.
I'm not buying any expansion stuff until we finish this campaign. Either we will replay the Valley with new characters + the mini capaigns, or dive into Legacy of the Ancestors.
Good luck with all your crap, I think you went overboard, but if you come to love the system, that is a lot of goodies.
You can return the card doubler though. You really don't need it.

>>98437411
>Also looking for high interaction card games that evoke the mtg commander experience, like 4 souls or doomtown.
How did you not come across Legend of the 5 Rings and buy some geezers collection.

Bday is approaching and I've wanted a heavy board game for a while. How's the elder scrolls? I've seen it getting a lot of praise by normie youtubers

>>98437675
What do you want out of your heavy board game? Cooperative? Free for all? Team vs team? And whats your budget?

>>98437665
L5R is 2 player only, no? Plus, I don't know anything about the lore and IP. Could just proxy it if I find high res pics.

>>98437636
I oughta do a battlebox but I'm just tired of the classic fantasy theme and mtg mechanics such as the stack. While the stack is fucking awesome, if you don't have a judge-level understanding of all the rules minutia, it's very hard to know how to play the stack well. My buddy does, and playing mtg with him always leaves me with the impression that I either can't do anything, or everything I do gets fucked by the time my next turn comes, or I get fucked by the mana curve. The latter can be mitigated by the battlebox, but still.

>>98437643
That sounds like a nice story anon. My drunk ass would've bought the entire thing but moments on the path and spire in bloom valley were lnly available for backorder.

How replayable would you say EBR is?

>>98437688
I'd like it to be playable solo and in 2-3 player co-op. Budget is not an issue since I'm getting whichever game we choose with some money from other dudes from the group

>>98437701
Nta and I haven't played it but I don't think there's all that much deckbuilding in EBR from what I've heard and read.

>>98437701
>How replayable would you say EBR is?
Having now played a bit over a third of the Valley campaign: highly. The character Background / Specialization card pools are radically different for starters. I would be excited to see how a Shaper/Traveller deck handles problems compared to my current Concilliator/Forager.

As for replaying the main campaign, even with just our current starting decks, there is a ton that we would do differently. Who we would have helped, failed missions we would try to accomplish on a second go around, regions we would focus on or try to get to earlier, deck customization options we wouldn't ignore this time.
Add in the mini region expansions and I don't see how it would feel samey, other than having the story already spoiled for us.

>>98437488
>Why does EBR have such high praise and reviews?
Like with most overrated games, my guess is it's rated highly by people who don't actually play all that much and don't have a broad frame of reference. Part of it is probably the hippy dippy pretense it has though.

>Should I sell it?
If you're not hurting for cash, just play it. Take it from me though, if it starts getting tedious, it will not get better, and you will not see anything that engages you in any way beyond that point. Just read the scenario book and give it away or sell it.

>>98437701
>L5R is 2 player only, no? Plus, I don't know anything about the lore and IP. Could just proxy it if I find high res pics.
Multiplayer rules have existed for decades at this point.
Decide on an edition (I came into it through Emperor edition and liked it well enough) amd proxy some decks. For the edition in particular, each clan has 4 orthodox themes to build around, plus your unorthodox or blended archtypes. Lore/IP knowledge is irrelevant. You like how Crane Clan looks, and the idea of dishonouring your opponents to shame them to literal game loss or dueling their best guys to snipe them appeals? Then go with Crane for a bit. Cavalry mongol hordes outmaneuvering blockers and having nasty retinues of high powered followers sound better? Cool grab them purple Unicorn clan dudes. Etc.

>>98437701
If you want some simpler mechanics than the stack, want a good 4-5 players game and want to get away from a generic fantasy theme, then you should really have a look at VtES.

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There's so many red flags about this yet the primordial monkey brain wants this right now

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>>98437956
Oh boy surely this cannot disappoint.

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How was your July, anons?
I am pleased as punch.

>>98435129
>what haave I done
Buy an untested, easily broken game; and also a pretty great game for somebody that is getting bored of the original GWT.

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>>98436641
>It's real

>>98432678
Tbh, when that one Squenix guy announced that it was some sort of weird soul-migration transdimensional sequel to FFVII, it made me yuck-face.

I think that was the exact moment I lost the last fuck I could have given about the fate of Squenix.

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>>98438044
Very nice month anon, I still gotta print Mottainai (and Glory to Rome), such excellent games.

Pretty happy about my month, playing Pax H+ 6 times feels so great, once people get over the seemingly confusing terms and concepts, screwing each other to setup your wincon becomes so satisfying.
Also finally tried Curious Cargo, and it broke my brain, I'm usually pretty good at those kinds of games but this one really took me by surprise, I ought to play it more, and I wonder how Pipeline is in comparison to it.

>>98437763
Nta but might I ask you to shill the game to me? Never really looked it but I kept hearing it's quite good
Plus I just randomly found the base game + the complete imperial cycle (whatevermany cards that is) for €70, I assume that's a good offer?

>>98436641
Kai Jensen said this was coming at ConsimWorld this year and loved the initial design, new piece prototypes, and art treatment. I know O'Toole gets a lot of hate on here but his rework on Age of Steam made the game much better.

>>98437956
Looks quite SHUGGY

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>>98438044
I did not play much in the second half of the month.

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>>98437956
Kinda getting sick of videogame to board game conversions but also I am somewhat tempted by some of them. And at least they come with a readymade soundtrack you can put on while playing.

>>98438044
I think this july is the first month in like 5 years I have played FUCKALL and I have underestimated the part that regular game nights play in my mental wellbeing, as zoomeresque as that sounds

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>>98438397
>>98437763
I'd be interested as well

>>98437956
its just a 2p duel where you change the rules, looks a bit like That Time You Killed Me but with only one board and pushable rule tiles. Looks interesting but i'll wait for more info.

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>>98438321
>Pretty happy about my month, playing Pax H+ 6 times feels so great, once people get over the seemingly confusing terms and concepts, screwing each other to setup your wincon becomes so satisfying.
Very jealous. Love me some Pax H+ and it hasn't gotten any love in a while.

>>98438657
>Oh yeah that reminds me, let's check out the creator's track record
>Kickstarter (why doesn't Kickstarter list projects in release order or at least with dates?)
>Rolling Deep & Eureka (currently in the stretch goal dev and then manufacture queue)
>Arribada & Seagrass (Manufacturing nearly complete)
>Gold Country and Totally Human (starting shipping)
>Azure and Moytura (finishing shipping)
>Gazebo and Gingham (all the rest from here are done shipping)
>SILOS, EGO, ORBIT
>Iliad and Ichor
>Bebop, Shuffled and Swing, and Cat Blues: The Big Gig
>Cascadero & Cascadito
>Spectral & an expansion pack for Trailblazers
>Zoo Vadis and Gussy Gorillas
>Trailblazers
>Criminal Capers Collection
>Downtown, Escar-GO, and Matchbox (not launched yet)
>Baba is You & Party House (not launched yet)
The wild part is.. I have never heard of any of these board games except the Cuphead one (Rolling Deep) and that was once as "it exists."

>>98438814
from that list i've heard of Zoo Vadis and Trailblazers, so eh, maybe theres hope the new project wont be complete ass

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>>98438814
Wait, you are not familiar with Reiner Knizia?

>>98438824
Nope. I am what you call "a secondary trying to become a primary."

>>98438832
Ok cool cool, first time for everything.
He's one of the hobby's mst legendary designers, most famous for his slew of bangers in the 90s and early 2000s.
He gets contracted all over to pump out games, which means plenty don't reach the quality of his greatest hits, but when his stuff sings, it roars.

>>98438837
Duly noted and thank you. Learning stuff like this is very intriguing cause it gives me rabbit holes to dive down.
Board games in my household (and larger area) have always been super casual with the most complex being Monopoly and commonplace choices being Sorry and Trouble and the like.
In my house when I was young, I was always the one looking into new board games, but I never knew sites like BGG existed.
I got super into a card game called Killer Bunnies for a while, then kinda dropped off board games entirely cause there's nobody I know in my area for regular game nights.
Another favorite when I was young was Magic Hill. That one got donated to my high school theater teacher a while back and has likely been destroyed since cause it's too complex for casual board game day in a high school classroom. :^)
Nowadays, I've been trying to get back into board gaming and been pushing myself to reach out where possible, but damn man there ain't shit in my area. Even fucking Facebook has barely anything.

>>98437956
Waiting on the rulebook pdf.

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Games with this aesthetic?

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>friend bought Clank Legacy
>but we can only play one day of the week, if one of the group doesn't have a 9-5 schedule that day
What was he thinking, we're going to play this like once a month. He has a lot of disposable income though, maybe I can push him to buy a game we can actually play.

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Still waiting on the rule differences/rulebook for Kinoko Kombat...

Favorite 1v1 games?

>>98438864
See if your local game store hosts board game nights. If they don't, ask if you can run a Meetup there (usually they say yes if they have a cafe or something they can sell overpriced food from). Sometimes you gotta start something yourself.

>>98438932
>local game store
Don't got one lol

>>98438959
Ouch. Find a cafe or something and ask if you can use/rent a room/corner.

>>98438961
Don't go-
No wait, yeah, there's an ice cream parlor.
Maybe. One other issue is I have only 1 friend, lol.

>>98438928
Santorini, Hive, Ra , Dale of Merchants, Schotten Totten

>>98438976
Just find a spot that can accommodate an influx of people (even a library), then make some flyers/FB group/Meetup/Aftergame group (Aftergame is focused specifically on boardgames, Meetup has gone full jew). Good luck.

>>98439004
Thank you, I shall try and apply myself.

>>98438976
I'll give you the same advice I give everyone because it was successful for years in my area (only stopped because of COVID and I didn't feel like starting it up again).
1. Find a close dying mall with some kind of food court setup
2. Set a date and time for all comers to board game meet up
3. Advertise on Facebook and get permission to put of flyers at gas stations
4. Bring your. Have a few for head to head and more for larger player counts
5. Don't plan on playing anything yourself. You might, but your role should mainly be for teaching games
6. Count on low initial turnout.
7. Advise people going to buy a drink or some food from the food court (this is important. Mall owners might not like you stinking up the joint with nerd funk, however, it's a much bigger bitch to kick out paying customers than non-paying ones. Especially in a dying mall).
8 make it a weekly meetup spot. Do it during weekdays when kids are in school. This keeps your typical attendees at adult level and is much easier to get the non 9-5 M-F crowd coming. Those people have a hard time finding shit to do socially, so they are more likely to bite the bait.

I did this and after six months it was a self sustaining creature. Had to stop going when I got a normal human work schedule, but the setup lasted around 8 years until COVID smashed it and nobody picked it back up.

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>>98438928
Summoner Wars and Twilight Struggle have yet to lose their magic 15 years and 10 years on respectively. Wild that I am still mostly 1v1ing with the same guy for SW since we both first got into it.
For games that technically go higher in player count but that I prefer at 1v1: Pax Renaissance and Innovation are my jam. Chaotic swinging board states and finding surprising ways to stick a spanner in the works of whatever my friend has got going are great.
Lastly, Sakura Arms. Ever since Ashes came out, I have become increasingly appreciative of very tight constraints.
7 card deck and 3 card Ultimate card pool leaves very little forgiveness in deck brewing, while also encouraging spending rounds withholding info on what you brought to the table (and vice versa sussing out what combos the other dude is packing). The character design is also quite varied and offers a satisfying freedom to come up with your own synergies despite the deck size limitations.

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>>98439057
Uwe NOOO

>>98438837
>most famous for his slew of bangers in the 90s and early 2000s.
Bit of an understatement. Knizia’s last decent game was Quest for El Dorado and that was nearly a decade ago.
Everything else he’s made that’s worth playing was made before 2005.

>>98439196
You're in the right place, friend! Can I interest you in acclaimed board game Earthborne Rangers?

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>>98439211
>Everything else he’s made that’s worth playing was made before 2005.
What the heck did I do to catch such strays?

>>98439225
Babylonia will be forgotten when the T&E reprint drops

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>>98432643
>A player... a fox... a trump... a suit... a take... a trick!
>Welcome to the epic
Truly, it was the most mental oddyssey in order to see what you did there.
Try harder next time OP.

>>98439029
this but meetup. it costs less than a new game to start a meetup. the most difficult part is finding a good place to play. unfortunately I've found a lot of "public" spaces actually cost money or take an exorbitant amount of political maneuvering (libraries). Game or hobby stores are another option.

>>98438864
post area. also check meetup as stated starting your own is cheaper than buying a game, but it's likely there is already something going on.

>>98438814
>the creator
You mean the publisher? Cause that's just a list of games put out by Bitewing, only one of which (Rolling Deep) has the same designer (Peter C. Hayward).

>>98438891
santorini

>>98439434
Yes.

>>98436795
it's easier to make a boardgamer your wife than to make your wife a boardgamer. source: my life is uno tier at home

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>>98439288

I used to play AH lcg with the gf and loved it as a game to play every thursday. Then we got to edge of the earth and got super bored of the story to the point that we never finished it. It was quite a bummer since we got cool accessories and all that stuff. Any other game that treats story like the best campaigns from AH? Doesn't need to be a card game

>>98437710
Get Mage Knight or Spirit Island instead. Oh and Assault on Doomrock if you can find a copy.

>>98439854
Seconding doomrock and Spirit Island.

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Because of certain people, perfectly good games need to have color blind indicators.

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Spent like 2 hours just reading ROOT in Tabletop Sim.
'Dis game looks fun.

>>98438909
Anon, when you asked
>are there changes?
and they responded without volunteer the changes
you should have know that
>what are the changes?
was a dead question.
If they were going to tell you, they would have told you.

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>>98440173
>Dis game looks fun.
'TIS!

>>98438893
>What was he thinking, we're going to play this like once a month.
Once a month is good enough to get through the campaign within the year. Me, I got a copy for my birthday in March and managed to get it played... 3 times.

In a just world, the victory points from consumption in Race for the Galaxy would be tracked by splaying cards face down beneath the consuming card.

>>98440297
What do you think that is, some sort of Innovation?

>>98440320
I can't say "tuck" because consumption victory points are open information.

>>98440389
Half the time you tuck, the splay reveals what you added anyway.
Now scoring / returning from hand or scoring from top of deck, those are enigmas.

>>98440157
As a non colorblind person, i love colorblind indicators. Give me more ways to refer to the same thing.

>>98440173
Make sure you play with the sexy meeple mod.

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>>98440644
This.

>>98440157
Yeah the art for the terrain is also an overreach
The hexes should be two soild colored trapezoids or a solid colored hexagon
With a hollow circle centered in the hex with an inner diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of the disks
Where segments of the circle are colored to show which disk the hex accepts
You fucking retard
Next you'll ask for Wingspan without birds

I'm an Agricola > Caverna guy
But today I discovered that I liked Caverna more with the Forgotten Folk expansion to the point I think it is a must to play them together.
But still, Agricola > Caverna

>>98440644
The hwat

>>98440186
They could just be slow to answer, they did take a while to respond to the thread in the first place.

>>98438814
a surprisingly high number of these are bangers. bitewing is alright in my books

>>98438814
Technically, they're organized, it's just dumb.
>Newest project first, except for unreleased ones which sit at the bottom

>>98441570
Like 14 or 15 of them are Knizias so no surprise.

Is cinquillo a lane battler?

After playing multiple Terraforming Mars games (including daft), I think it is overrated. It has the wingspan problem where some cards are just vastly superior than others, (like card draw actions) and you snowball the other players. The more I play it the more predictable the outcome is after the first 20 minutes. Not worth the long play time.

>>98438928
Mindbug and Pagan fate of Roanoke

>>98438928
Not 2p only but what I like most for 2p:
>Lighter:
Castle Combo, Toy Battle, Battle for Cardia, Lost Cities
>Medium-ish:
War Chest
>Heavy:
War of the Ring, Pax Ren, Mage Wars

God there are so many great 2p games, hard to pick just a few

>>98442151
Ah fugg I forgot Captains Chair completely. Also Sea salt and paper

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>>98432643
I want to get into Board Games to play with my family.
Please recommend your favs that I should get. Any and all.

Btw, is the Stardew Valley Board Game worth buying? Would it be good as a family game?

>>98442199
El grande is really easy to teach and really fun with 4+ players (best with 5)

what's the game that mitigates the psychological impact of losing the best? one that makes a novel player go yeah i lost but i had fun lol

>>98442410
Genuinely the one you enjoy playing the most. Sure there are games that are more directly competitive vs ones where both do their thing until time/turns run out and a winner is declated, but I think the crux is enjoying the play. We can get into the whole thing of archievement vs striving play which is fascinating but a bit too much for that question

>>98442410
O think it depends on the player's mentality. I handle getting crushed in pax ren just fine but I always played competitive and hard vidyas. Meanwhile I feel my lifeforce leaving me while I lose at mps slop because I feel like I wasted 2-3 hours of my life

>>98442410
You sandbag and let them win occasionally and don’t blow them out if you are winning. Don’t play games with early player elimination and maybe play co op games where you don’t lose but you have degrees of victory.

>>98442199
What playercount(s) would you typically have?

>>98442199
Roll for the Galaxy
Great Western Trail
Castles of Burgundy
Terraforming Mars
Century Spice Road (not Golem)
ask before you buy and don't get one-guyed, there are a lot of factors in getting a good game for your family (to date I am forced to play Uno and can't get them excited for Century, Horrified or even Innovation)

>>98442410
we have so much fun playing Terraforming Mars with wacked out community sourced corporations that we don't even really care as long as we do our best in our solitaire column. I do like a good euro that even when you get donked you can say "well that was a hell of a game". Unconcious Minds comes to mind as a late experience of this.

>>98442004
plants are also powerful as is focusing into steel or titanium. still you need to get the cards, I've constantly gone hard into steel and then not seen a steel building card for 10 generations. but you're not wrong, that's the game. maybe I'm biased because our resident card-drawer never does very good in the actual end game. point salad ameritrash rng but god I love it so much for some reason.

>>98441176
>I'm an Agricola > Caverna guy
here's where you're wrong

>But still, Agricola > Caverna
also here

>>98443058
>Century Spice Road (not Golem)
These are different?

Looking at chudyk-esque games I came across Import/Export. Thoughts on it? Also unrelated to chudyk but still all unique cards is vale of eternity. Thoughts on that too?

>>98443088
Don't make me get out trump again anon

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>>98443117
only in components. the pastel crystals are disgusting in look and feel, the spice cubes are kino.

>>98442410
If you lose a negotiation game it's because people don't like you.

>>98443211
if you play a negotiation game you get what you fucking deserve

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13657/mu-torere
>4.0
FUCK the Maori

>>98443211
Negotiation games are rough to introduce to introverts because if you're not willing to put yourself out there and try to get some deals going you're going to fall behind.

>>98443237
>last post was 16 years ago
>ranked 29k
Why do you even bother dredging up this crap?
And if you want to Fuck the Maori, just run against the Polynesian bot in Imperium Horizons.

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What are your 3 favorite 2-player games that aren't co-op?

>>98442710
>I feel my lifeforce leaving me while I lose at mps slop
Further evidence that Yahtzee is inferior to Pasha.

>>98443674
Air, Land, & Sea
Leaders
Thalara: The Last Artifacts

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These are probably the biggest hype games of recent years. Which of them, if any, are here to stay and which will be forgotten in the not too distant future?

>>98443782
I have seen a lot more people play Andromeda's Edge lately. It sucks.
I have not seen anyone play Arcs or Galactic Cruise recently. Good riddance.
I have never played nor seen anyone play The Old King's Crown.
I expect SETI to be evergreen.

>>98443782
Arcs is getting more stuff, an extension to the campaign and a new way to set up the short game, plus an alternative court deck for the short game. I expect it to last a few years, like Root did
Seti was a disappointment to me and my group, but it did get an expansion so who knows, maybe CGE can make it good.

>>98443782
I would blindly assume Arcs and OKC are gonna make it. Purely because I hate them both and I'm pretty sure they're gonna get milked Root style.

But seriously, aside from the art what do people see in old king's crown?

>>98443782
Arcs is the better game but people still play SETI a lot more. I probably see it at our meetups maybe once every two months. I never see Andromeda's Edge or Galactic Cruise. We had one group that raved about Ol' King's Crown, finally got it after hyping it unplayed, played it a couple times, then it hasn't been back.

>>98443674
Battlecon, Tag Team, and Compile.

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Cosmic Encounter

>>98443674
>Imperial Struggle
My favorite. The problem is it is almost 0% luck and thus my win rate is almost 100%.

>Labyrinth
Like Imperial Struggle, it's kind of a divergence from Twilight Struggle, except in the opposite direction. More luck with dice rolls out the ass, more asymmetry.

After buying these two I no longer have any wish to play TS ever again. TS is a very swingy, frustrating game that has the pretense of being serious. IS is an actually serious game, and Labyrinth makes no such pretense and is just more fun.

>Quartermaster General: East Front
Last year I reported that after a couple of dozen games it becomes harder and harder to win as Germany. Since then I had another good dozen games in and Made Germany Great Again. And so the game remains a stellar mid-weight affair.

>>98444006
Idk, I found to have won/lost two of my 5 games due to what trade goods came up. It's a tight game.
That said, what's your goto ministers for England? I've somewhat struggled with them and a few seemed more or less nobrainers

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Well well, this August should prove interesting. A close friend of mine is on extended Paternity leave and I am on Summer Break. We are committing to a deep dive on Summoner Wars.
The plan is to play 32 matches, and a player cannot pick a faction they've previously piloted. By the end, both us will have played all the base faction decks. I'll be logging plays on a spreadsheet so we can keep track of it all. Should be fun.

>>98444099
You shouldn't take it that I'm an expert on the game. I only play within my group, my brother and one other guy. It's just that skill difference in the game is pretty decisive.

>I found to have won/lost two of my 5 games due to what trade goods came up.
I don't think there was one game that was decided by demand alone, or even significantly. I generally play in a way where I leave myself options to be able to win any type of good. Not just leave India to the brits and cry about spice coming up 3 times in a row or whatever.

Every time the guy who loses was just strangled out of Europe or like two other continents over the course of the game. My games tend to have me being either on equal points or even behind for the first few turns, and turn 4/5 is a massive swing when all my advantages turn into and inevitable win. In 20 matches I haven't played the game through Turn 6.

>goto ministers for England?
Mostly event driven. But Edmond Halley (the ship guy) is extremely strong just in general, and Jonathan Swift is good defensively in Europe. I underestimated him before, but having the option to unflag using minor diplomatic actions can save you a lot of headache.
>lul I took baltic trade using the last major action
shenanigans are immediately off the table.

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>>98442227
Really???
Can it work with 3+ players?
>>98443002
3 (including me)
>>98443058
Thank you anon. I'll checkout all of those games.
Great Western Trail looks particularly like the best of family games man. Thanks for the recommendations.

Also on a side note anons...Would 1 of these gaming tables be a good idea to better blond with my family, or is it too extra?
I do want to better sit the mood if possible.

>>98444414
*bond
*set

>>98444371
>I generally play in a way where I leave myself options to be able to win any type of good. Not just leave India to the brits and cry about spice coming up 3 times in a row or whatever.
Very fair, I just found that our games came to that state naturally. Not by a LOT ofc but by that sweet overpresence of 2. You know the scenario; England tries to catch up in sugar cane, gets it to a tie and suddenly the initiative drastically shifts and eg. France forces a reaction by taking baltic trade, or the majority in the 3 VP area.
I really like the game and talking about it makes me want to replay it because it so so pleasingly tight. I find it interesting you barely got to counting vps, I think only one of our games ended before that. It's a great game, but I ultimately sold it, the long heavy 2p game slot is just too competitive.

>>98444414
Don't go all in on a new hobby anon. I know it's fun and you are enthusiastic but just buy a handful of games and try to play them. Go from there. Been having a 3-8 player group for more than 10 years now and I still do not see the need for gaming tables. They're cool and all but just get a big ikea kitchen table for 20% the price and 90% of the functionality one might even argue that the recess in the middle is worse than playing on a flat surface

>>98444414
Ideally el grande is a 5p game, with fewer players there is simply less interactions

>>98444553
OTOH if you fall out of gaming now you've just got a dining table with a secret compartment for hiding your valuables.

>>98444564
The issue with fewer players is the card selection falls apart.

>>98444565
I mean, fine, do it if you have the disposable income. Just saying that if you HAVE to spend thousands of dollars, buy boardgames with it. Recessed tables are purely unnecessary luxury.

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Oh my

>>98444997
Wait, does An Infamous Traffic now look like THAT?!

>>98444997
Fidget spinners

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If the sw2 online community could stop spamming polar dwarves into my vanguards, that would be appreciated.
I am so fucking tired of shifting walls, ramparts, and snowmen

>>98443807
Old King's Crown is only getting its legs now that it's getting a 2nd print run.
>>98443782
Arcs is popular enough to be in a B*N now, so it's going to stick around a while.
SETI has been on the shelves for a while.
OKC is still kind of up and coming, but I high high hopes for it being another ROOT. The gorgeous art is a fantastic selling point, even if it does look quite complicated (cause it is, way more than ROOT lol).

>>98444414
Ra is arguably the best 3p game out there. Cosmic frog and Libertalia are also really good.

>>98444414
Don't get Terraforming Mars.
The price to quality ratio is abysmal shit.
Get Earth instead.

>>98445252
Spinners, Nutsacks, and Johnny3balls.

>>98445406
>OKC is still kind of up and coming, but I high high hopes for it being another ROOT
Hopefully not in the sense of it getting a billion expansions cause I don't think it needs it, but maybe starting with Annulet they just do more games in this setting and artstyle. Honestly there's a few games on the horizon that make me think the next big trend in board games is gonna be spin-offs and shared settings.

>>98435129
okay so El Paso is fucking garbage. It removes stuff but doesn't add anything new. The cards are small and the FUCKING DISCS are PRINTED PICS of real discs on cardboard. They went as cheap as possible, even the score pad is in black and white not color. Just garbage.

The play is dogshit too, it's no less complex than GWT it's just that workers are cards and go in your deck and come out. I was hoping for something more streamlined to get the family involved and get that GWT feel, but it's really just mediocre.

New Zealand is a mind fuck, you can see every idea they had in every game and expansion come out. Our first play was 104, 109, 114 and we each did radically different things. The biggest difference is the swap cards are difficult to come by and you really don't cycle your deck many times. The bonus cards that you buy for gold nuggets add something but I'm not sure it's as much as it seems at first. It's good though, if I had to pick one GWT, NZ would be it- not because I like it better but because I'm not going to get as tired of it as I can the others. At least I don't think I will.

>>98444414
Do get Terraforming Mars.
The price to fun ratio is absolutely it.
Get Prelude too.

>>98445492
Agreed on the expansions. I meant "that one kinda big board game with the cute/cool art style that is more complex than you initially expected, but are willing to learn that ends up in almost every board gaming circle."
The art style is so good, that I wouldn't mind straight reskins of other games in its style.

>>98439029
Taking your games to a mall food court, and encouraging them to eat food, is absolutely going to destroy your games

>>98442199
Listen to me, I have the best taste in games, everyone says so

Since you're focusing on 2 and 3 player games...

2p:
Battleline
Targi
Watergate
Santorini

3p:
Quest for El Dorado
Troyes
Hansa Teutonica (best at 4-5, but still good at 3, and good to have one game that scales up to 5 well)
Brass Lancashire or Birmingham
Through the Desert
Ra
For Sale
High Society
Codenames/Duet

>>98446107
I forgot about...
Innovation (I only player it at 2, but many like it at 3)
Tigris and Euphrates or Yellow and Yangtze

>>98443674
War of the Ring
Paths of Glory
Summoner Wars

>>98444525
The reason demand and VP tiles never play too much of a role in my games is probably two-fold. One, they are rarely lopsided towards one side to begin with. And two is part of the reason some people find the game boring to begin with. Every action has a very explicit value, and an opportunity cost associated with it (not taking some other action with a likewise clear point value). So if I wasn't taking care of furs in NA this round and let the brits run away with it, I was securing some other position, giving myself advantages elsewhere.

The interesting part to me is that despite everything in the game having this clear point value in the immediate sense, there is a second layer which is much harder to assess. Just because you consistently take actions which have more immediate "points" (whether it's 3 VP in this scoring phase, or simply getting 6 more action points via high-value investments or events) doesn't directly translate to a victory.

Simple example, if you get a bunch of extra ships for cheap, you're technically far ahead in APs spent, but you still have to actually leverage those ships into a proper advantage in order for it to actually matter.

This is why my tendency is to play from behind. Less immediate point scoring, focusing on the long-term. But it's a balance since you don't want to outright lose before those get built up.

>you barely got to counting vps
Well, VPs are counted every turn and there is an instant win condition at 0/30 VPs. It's probably 50-50 outright wins in my games versus concession by the side that is clearly going to lose next turn.

>>98438891
Lowlands is about building a wall to keep the water away (and there's sheep).

>>98443988
>pic unrelated
Being wallet sized isn't a virtue if the game isn't good. So is it good?

>>98442410
Civilization New Dawn. Synergizing your action row is the whole fun of the game to the point you can forget if you're winning or losing easily
>>98443782
Arcs is SHIT and I don't like it
>Ohhhhj nooooo abloobloo you don't have the three Lara bingles card so you can't fucking move of do anything I guess for yet another turn.Oooooohhhj you didn't draw the make troops card so you can't do a basic fucking action sorry champ!! All you can do is dumb shit you don't want to do!!
It's worse than Catan in that regard. Card drafting and dudes on map games do NOT mix.

Arcs is SHIT

SHIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT

>>98447602
Arcs is peak slop, and as such it will have the best longevity out of all of these. Wehrle created a masterpiece of illusion for brainlets who think they're being strategic at playing Snakes & Ladders.

>>98447349
It's mediocre.
I can't think of a "light negotiation game with tableau building" that I would rather play, at least.
But "light negotiation game" is a crowded niche. In a world without Lifeboats I might call it good.

>>98440157
Don't be racist against white people, anon.

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Watching anons have a meltie over Arcs never gets old.

>>98447863
silence, wehrlefaggot

>>98447602
I genuinely thought arcs was deeper and I just hadn't fully understood it, so many people seem to enjoy it. At this point I am more interesting in finding what makes wehrlefags like stuff like arcs. I wonder if it is a very ameritrashy attitude; not caring about winning and just enjoying doing... stuff. I might be wrong of course.

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>>98447947

>>98446056
things that absolutely happen

>>98446107
battleline belongs in the bin
targi is bland
santorini is a joke
el dorado is good
brass are too complex
for sale is a normie game
codenames is a party game

I believe Ra is good from other anons but I wouldn't trust the rest with your shit ass taste. you probably like splendor.

>>98443674
Radlands
Lost Cities
Duel For Middle Earth
Netrunner

>>98443782
Unironically none of them lol, they are all fat people slop

>>98448171
>battleline belongs in the bin
Smart anon knows everything with the stink of wargaming slop from GMT and their ilk belongs in a garbage can

>>98447602
>Card drafting and dudes on map games do NOT mix.
Is that not in an abstract way what Pax is?

>>98444414
go to joann fabrics (or walmart fabrics)
find neoprene
buy a yard and a half
cut to kitchen table size
thank me later

>>98448404
>buy a yard and a half
>cut to kitchen table size
How you cut something down to make it bigger this ain't the fucking GTA barbershop.

>>98448079
>what makes wehrlefags like stuff like arcs
It's the lootbox-esque opening of new booster packs after each match.

>>98438397
>>98438462
It's a solid tcg, it has way less batshit combos than any of the other ones and the diversity of legit wincons mean you're going to keep seeing new and interesting decks that aren't blue lockdown tier frustrating to play against. The fluff and story progression was way better than magic back in the day, if that matters to you. If you can get people to buy into a dead and buried game, go for it.
>>98448266
Silence, Wherlefag, the midwits are talking.

>>98448504
Uh, would you please show me where in my box the loot boxes are?
I must have missed the hidden compartments.

>>98448597
retard

>>98448619
Anon that isn't helping. I poured out all the pieces but there isnt anything left. No packs, no extra content, nothing.

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>>98448628
Anon, there are no booster packs because I ATE ALL THE GARDS WHILE YOU WEREN'T LOOKING URRRRRRRRRR UR UR UR UR UR

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>preorder for tag team arthurian set costs 10$ more than the base games retail price
I get it is also standalone, but it has 4 fewer fighters. The fuck is this???

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>>98448688
And they said the sand people would integrate after 4 generations had gone by!
They always break my dice open looking for marrow, any anons have ideas what to do?
Spraying them with water just makes'em scatter and it leaves the house a mess.

>>98448597
Either he meant getting a new action card hand is like opening a booster pack, or in the campaign game you're supposed to have no idea what the fates do and what tools they get, so you should be surprised when Admiral in act II gets the Even More Corrupt Fleet cards and now has to kill outlaws instead of just eating the Blight mushrooms. wow who woulda thunk that the writing on the tarot sized Fate Description card would describe the fate.

>>98448779
>Either he meant getting a new action card hand is like opening a booster pack
That is an idiotic comparison to make. I am going to give that anon benefit of the doubt.

>>98448791
>That is an idiotic comparison to make.
that's why in that very same post i have a whole second comparison that might be closer to what anon meant, or might be even more idiotic, idk.

>>98448518
Goddamn anon you are making it hard for me not to throw €70 into a game that I likely will not convince anyone to get into.
I suppose there's the browser variant I can try

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>>98448831
nta but L5r is a fun fucking time.
I never had more than one or two friends to play with, but I went out and bought packs / singles to be able to build every archtype for my favourite clans, and tinker with deckbuilding for each one.
Which wound up being most of the 9, whoops.

>>98448831
>>98448918
Yeah, years after it died in my area I was still building decks and theorycrafting, and building different bot decks to test my own on, etc. If that appeals to you at all 70 seems like a decent price.

>>98432643
>Do you appreciate outside IPs being used as crossovers in your board games?
>What about board game specific crossovers?
>e.g. Prince Elien from Summoner Wars rendered as a promo fighter in Battlecon.

Yes, I love that shit. If there was a TF2 TCG I would spend 100s of dollars on it and drive for an hour to play it. Or at least thirty minutes.

Having individual cards adapted from other stuff probably wouldn't sucker me to the same extent.

>>98448779
>>98448597
>wehrlefags in charge of having introspection or understanding the games they're playing
Let me put this to ya straight. You don't ACTUALLY like the moment to moment gameplay in Arcs because it actually does not have that much going for it strategically or even thematically. You think the best word to describe it is "unique" or "cool".

Why? For the same reason you will say to others that the Blighted Reach is the real game and border on not even recommending the base game. Because you aren't drawn to the actual gameplay. Because what you really care about is that in Blighted Reach you get your own unique little Fate(tm) which contains a bunch of cards. It's a delight to explore the different fates, each one bringing its own surprises, and what's more! The fates function like a storyline, and if you fail at any stage, aw shucks you just can't help but want to do it all over again! And this time, succeed!

Napkin math, this game is designed for you to have a sense of wonderment and discovery of its content for at a bare minimum a couple of dozen games. For the amount of rules load it has, it is absolutely huge.

Put differently, this trash game needs a pseudo-legacy aspect to pull rubes in and keep them interested. It's not actually good, just like Legacy games by and large are not actually good. If it were just the base game it would be pretty much forgotten by now.

I dare any of you little pricks to actually explain how the combat, or the base building, or anything else in the game is more engaging than Eclipse. Don't look at me with that pained little smile that indicates a bleeding anus as your 10 ship fleet is being annihilated in one turn by someone who spent 4 actions to rush over and kill it. Sell me on this being an actually engaging game.

Overall I agree Arcs bad, but Legacies are fine.
And I am excited for Mountain Goats Legacy.

>>98446056
My games are starving
I cannot get them to eat

>>98449740
>And I am excited for Mountain Goats Legacy
A friend set that on the table last Saturday, but we played the new Cascadia instead. It was not on my radar at all but I am amused that it exists.

>>98449766
Maybe regular Mountain Goats (which I enjoy), but the Legacy version isn't out yet. Kickstarted earlier this year.

>>98449784
The box said Mountain Goats Legacy.

>>98449861
>Did it start shipping and I didn't notice?
>July 16:
>An exciting update for this month- games are starting to arrive at some fulfillment centers! This means we'll be delivering quite a bit before our original October estimate
Well, I stand corrected.
Hell yeah.

>>98449740
>Legacies are fine
Which ones?
Nightmare mode: You'd play them after finishing the campaign

Hadn't played Compile Main 2 in a while, and decided to teach it to my Twilight Struggle buddy after we had played a few TS games. He took to it really fast and we both enjoyed. Good little game right there, wish my preorder of Main 1 and the Aux packs was not still in limbo.

>>98448266
Those are not your dudes

>>98449985
That's why he said abstract.

>>98449994
What does this mean? Dudes on a map is you pumping out units you use to bonk others' units. In pax there are units that everyone can use. It's fundamentally different

>>98450033
In pax i put out agents with my own actions, and can immediately use them for oneshots. I can also campaign with them provided I own their asspciated empire. Likewise I raise levies to protect what I've obtained from opposing one shots and their agents.
Sounds pretty dudes-y to me

>>98450048
>Crusade you and suddenly "your" dudes are handing me the kingdom

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>>98450071
God damned pernicious Catholics are at it again!

>>98449654
>let me tell you how you think
hmmm, i think otherwise.

>>98450156
I do too.
But I don't mind watching the hysterics fly, so he is wehrlcome to continue.
Encouraged, actually.

>>98448079
I like the art and graphic design. It would be difficult for me to explain why I enjoyed the gameplay.

>>98450185
>>98448079
One thing that's fun is when you play a low number card and then declare an ambition for less opportunity cost. The difference between 1 and 0 being less than the difference between 7 and 0.

>>98450156
>>98450169
I always welcome a concession, thanks wehrlefellas. Next time be upfront on why you like this pile of shit though.

>>98450196
Oh i don't play Arcs.
I just like watching you and the other anons fly off the handle.

>>98450196
i mean, you conceded when you reduced yourself to insults and falsehoods such as "there's no gameplay in the game". so what else do I need to do but politely shake your hand and move on with my day?
get real, you either never played the game or only played it once, if you think it has "base building", or is in any way shape or form comparable to a 4X. it isn't, and it's not trying to be. it's like asking why apples aren't as citrusy as oranges.

>>98450286
>"there's no gameplay in the game"
Since you're a wehrlefaggot, I'll explain it to ya. If you use quotes around a statement, it implies that statement was actually said or written.

>if you think it has "base building"
It does in fact have the facsimile of base building with cities and ports. Keep in mind it was a character limited post and I may or may not have cut out a few paragraphs in writing it.

I don't get what it is with people playing dumb. Do you not know what Wehrle is trying to put a twist on with this shitpile or something?

Be upfront. Tell me you love it when you get a hand that relegates you to staying in the back seat for an hour and hoping that the back seat doesn't contain an opening for a razor sharp dildo.

>>98450337
>facsimile of base building with cities and ports.
Bro this is on par with the dudes discussing pax as being a dudes on a map game. Apply yourself.

>>98450369
Even worse, he could have used the Warship as an actual example of base building. But chose not to.
Because he hasn't seen it and isn't aware it exists.

>>98450373
Jesus fucking christ you dimwit, "base building" is shorthand for building fucking anything on the map that establishes permanent presence. Fagships are probably the worst part of Arcs.

>>98450337
>it implies that statement was actually said or written.
my man you got dementia, it was only 2 hours ago when you wrote >>98449654
>You don't ACTUALLY like the moment to moment gameplay in Arcs because it actually does not have that much going for it strategically or even thematically

>muh facismile
the cities and starports have different intrinsic function compared to normal 4x game bases. you should be able to understand it from the setup rules alone. and my point was you comparing it to Eclipse, which is dumb.

>muh hand
and there it is, the real reason you dislike Arcs, because you're unable to think beyond the things you see. you get dealt cards, and think you should be able to use them as is, and it never crosses your mind to adapt to the flow of the rest of the match, you never think of copying a suit you don't have access to for one critical action, you never think of passing initiative when you're down to the final cards. you are an unimaginative player with no mind for tactics, opportunism, and thus Wehrle designs slip by you like a pipe cleaning weasel.

>>98450391
>establishes permanent presence
exactly, and that's why Arcs doesn't have "base building" despite having buildings that players build. you're this close to understanding why you're bad at the game, and yet you don't want to meet the game at it's level, because you got your ass handed to you and you didn't want to figure out why.

>>98450395
Do I have to explain to you how quotes work even further, or can you Google it (or ask your favorite slop model)?

>the cities and starports have different intrinsic function
I have a combined question of "What?" and "So?". The core function is largely the same, they expand your general capabilities and army building capabilities. How they actually work is rather different due to the schizophrenic nature of Arcs.

>muh hand
The mathematics of this have been explained to you multiple times. The root fact remains that there is easily a 5x difference in the value of commonly occurring hands, and all of the rest of it is pure cope. I accept that you may be playing with a group you're able to outplay with shit hands, but I'd hope anyone posting here is smart enough to understand it.

>>98449899
In all honesty, I like Main/Aux 2 better than Main/Aux 1.
Main 1 is good, Main 2 is better.
Aux 1 is bad, Aux 2 is good.
In addition, the overall card power of 1 vs 2 is definitely skewed a little bit towards 2.
There are of course highs and lows in both sets, but Main 2 is a "hitting its stride" moment for Compile.

>>98450469
>Aux 1 is bad
First Ive heard Aux 1 is a bad set of Protocols. What gives?
Its the one missing item holding up my preorder. If it's a sure bet to cancel that and receive the rest of my goodies, I may just do that.

>>98450409
>that's why Arcs doesn't have "base building" despite having buildings that players build. you're this close to understanding why you're bad
I would argue you're this close to understanding why the game is bad. Pretty much everything Wehrle did to differentiate this game seriously from other 4x types games are what makes it bad. The only thing he succeeded is in making it swingy, everything else is a shitshow.

>you didn't want to figure out why
I wrote a big ass post on this a couple of months ago. It's been figured out since my first match. Let me go one step further than I did today and read not your thoughts, but Signor Wehlre's.
>I think building your base in one place is STRAIGHT and BORING
>I think spreading it all over the map like my prolapsed anis is QUEER and BRAVE
>I think planning my turns is WHITE CODED
>What happened if we turned this into a POC simulator
>I think straight up combat is too MALE
>I think it should become an analogy for RAPE

>>98450547
oh wow, you forgot to practice the rules you yourself preach. guess i was right in not taking you seriously. :^P

>>98450566
feel free to quote me anytime, fuckhead

>>98450547
As a nonwehrlefag I've partly enjoyed your baiting but it's become too obvious tbqh

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>>98450547
Anon you are hilarious.
This is psychotic and truly deserving of Polands best!

>>98450577
>baiting
I'm dead serious. Arcs enjoyers should be purged from the gene pool. After being given a chance in the purgatory of playing non-Wehrle games.

>>98450575
>>98450461
>Do I have to explain to you how quotes work even further, or can you Google it (or ask your favorite slop model)?
you should explain what quotes are to yourself, my guy.

>>98450605
I said feel free to quote me anytime, fuckhead

>>98450599
>how dare people ennjoy waht i dont enjoy!?! i bet they also dont like things I like!!!
how old are you? you do know you need to be over 18 to post on this site, right? stop throwing a toddler tier tantrum

>I think planning my turns is WHITE CODED
Lol anon was right on the money
This guy just cant into tactics and opportunism. Or he just doesn't like it.
That's all it is. All the pageantry and womanly hysterics spirals out from here.
Which is fine honestly, you can have a preference. But it's funny how ridiculous and hyperbolic he takes his distaste.

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>>98443674
Warline
Summoner Wars
Soulgivers

>>98450627
yeah, it's the most common complaint, and I had it too for a while. what's funny is playing Arcs and getting good at it helped me get good in other games too, because now i have a keener eye for opportunities and shenanigans. Selling my own shares in 1830 to adjust the turn timing so i get first dibs on the higher tier trains, that used to take a lot of math and planning but now i just play it by feel and get it right 90% of the time, and in the other 10% it still fucks up the turn order for someone else at the table. all thanks to Arcs teaching me how to be a rat with a knife in a phone booth.

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>>98450647
>Selling my own shares in 1830 to adjust the turn timing so i get first dibs on the higher tier trains, that used to take a lot of math and planning but now i just play it by feel and get it right 90% of the time, and in the other 10% it still fucks up the turn order for someone else at the table. all thanks to Arcs teaching me how to be a rat with a knife in a phone booth.
Absolutely based. Would squeeze into a phone booth with you any time.

>>98450618
>how old are you?
36, unfortunately

>>98450627
Glad you liked my post. To be a tad more serious though, I wouldn't have such a hateboner for Arcs if people were simply honest about what the game is. It's not strategic. It's 50% luck and 50% the tactics of being able to actually use the hand you're given.

There's a reason I don't rant about Challengers or Tag Team or Toy Battle or many other games. It's the fact that the people who enjoy them don't pretend the game is something it's not.

>>98450669
when's the next unhinged rant on Poker?

>>98450669
challengers is a high skill game. moreso than arcs desu

>>98450669
>It's not strategic.
Which ive never said in my reviews/posts here about it, and the anon who HAS been arguing with you itt keeps poking you through the fact you need to be tactical to succeed at it.
So I dont know where your boogeymen are coming from, but they aint been here.
I would never even call it 4x adjacent. From my very first action I can waltz over and punch you in the schnozz. No build up, no tension, no tech tree advancement before I could engage in shenanigans. I revel in that. Fuck the hour plus long tension and cajoling for position. We are here for the brawl, Arcs delivers that to me as soon as I want it.

>>98450630
>Warline
>Soulgivers

Wanna tell me about those?

>>98450669
Well that is a genuinely understandable position tbqh
Just don't mistake all wehrlefags for the loud ones proclaiming his games as the crowning archievement of luck, opportunity, narrative and strategy I fall into the same trap sometimes

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So is Arcs good, or what?

>>98450696
Why would anyone rant about poker? It's been figured out for half a century.

>>98450698
I legitimately don't have any ground to disagree.

>>98450699
>Which ive never said in my reviews/posts here about it
Good on you. Again, I can understand people enjoying this kind of game. I hate the pretense.

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>>98450727
Dude we are a bit busy holding hands and singing kumbaya after our group freak out. Come back later.

>>98450497
"Bad" is pretty subjective of course, I suppose "not well-designed" is a better phrasing.
>Art & Themes
Obviously good. Apathy does a fantastic job of implying the cards are dedicated to just not caring. Love is a cross between "having compassion for your 'opponent'" and "being fixated upon them." Hate is symbolically just AM lol.
>Apathy
Apathy has a single mechanic and I am not convinced it does it well after having used and faced it a few times. Namely, flipping card face-down. 1 card builds value off face-down cards, the others flip in various ways, decent utility and the only outlier (meh) is 2, which forces all middle commands in this line to be ignored, BUT the card self-flips when covered.
>Love
I will have to adjust my rating up a bit because I just spent 5m researching how "opponent's cards" work (you can play them on your side so long as it's the line with their Protocol), but this is the big good outlier here. It's the only one in set 1 that has card theft and gives you fuckloads of reliable draw gimmicks, often at the cost of sustaining your opponent (but less than you're gaining). Mechanically interesting while being useful without being too much.
>Hate
Hate also has a single mechanic that I feel isn't done well, but not because it's kind of weak and more because it's kind of oppressive. Self-describes as a mutual destruction type of Protocol, but it's really more just "get rid of your opponent's board at the cost of some of your cards, but also has a reliable draw engine card, so it's not too bad at all."
If we play ban draft format (1 2 2 1 same as draft) with set 1, Hate is always banned lol.

Overall, 4/6, all 3 have great themes, but only Love is balanced enough. Definitely a "only if ya really like the game" kind of buy. I don't mind cause I really like everything else. Excited for Main 3.

>>98450745
Much appreciated review and analysis, dude. I suppose I will continue my vigil.
What's another 14 months, anyway?

>>98450772
I mean if ya wanna speed it up, you could cancel the Aux 1 part and just buy Aux 1 off of Amazon (subject to country restrictions of course).
Which reminds me, I gotta try 4-P Compile at some point.
>Each player aims a single Protocol at each other player, forming a big square with an X in the middle on the table (can be crimped in on smaller tables)
>Rapidly turns into pure chaos

>>98450803
>Which reminds me, I gotta try 4-P Compile at some point.
>>Each player aims a single Protocol at each other player, forming a big square with an X in the middle on the table (can be crimped in on smaller tables)
>>Rapidly turns into pure chaos
What. The. Fuck.
I want to do this.

>>98450840
Yeah, most everything can be easily lawyered on the spot from what I've heard.
>Effects that specify (do X to your opponent) only apply to the opponent in that line
>But it can apply to any card that opponent has if it doesn't restrict the line requirement
>Effects that can target any card (Delete 1 card for example) can target any opponent
>The Control card (if you use it) goes to whomever has highest in 2 lines, with the catch that if 2 people have highest, it goes to whomever between them has higher in their shared line (cause it is possible for 2 people to have 2 line dominance), works like normal, you may move anyone's Protocols

I despise heavy strategy games and love tactics. If I can't fuck over an opponent based on the options which just came up this turn because it would hamper my strategy the game is badly designed
Simple as

>>98450803
Yu-Gi-Oh! Cross Duel mentioned

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>through the desert but with yaks instead of camels
Just please for the love of god make the game actually fit inside the box this time.

>daughter asked if we could finally try "secret card" Sea Salt & Paper (we've been playing open hands so she gets a sense of what dad is doing, when / what to block / steal, we count points together).
>first couple of rounds I absolute rock her world, build a ten point lead
>she is getting discouraged, but still keeping her chin up
>catches up, scores are 35 to 32, advantage to me
>she pulls it off with a Last Chance call and destroys that final round
>the biggest shit eating grin on her face
Now we just got to get her reading proficiency up and it is on to Pax Ren!
The only downside is now she won't play Ice Cool with me anymore as it is "too hard". She just needs to stop insta-flicking before she's even lined up her shot. Kids these days, no patience!