Yes, I’m up for a game
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OK, here’s the game invite. I picked a symmetrical map with fixed start positions. Please let me know if you’d prefer an asymmetric map or whatever.
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I’ve been pretty quiet on here lately. It feels like our little exchange here has shrunk and we tend to have the same people playing the same games. Most invite links go unclicked. Is it just me?
I’ve done some cycles of Harvest, Habitats, and Carson City with just public invites. Sometimes you get a really slow player but generally it works out.
Harvest gets much better with some cycles, and especially against fiercer competitors. I’m impressed with how much game is in the small scope.
Habitats is really good on BGA. In real life, it’s a good game with fiddly setup, fiddly round tracking, and fiddly scoring. Put it on BGA and all that’s left is the good game!
Carson City has a bit of Tigris & Euphrates’s problem. The opening game is too open and undirected. You have to wait a few moves for the game state to emerge - then once you have something to react to, it gets interesting. And if you don’t anticipate/react immediately, you’ve already lost. It’s a tough one to take ahold of, in Splotter style. I find I’m reluctant to start a game for these reasons, but once I’m in it I’m super engaged.
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I am always up for a game but have shrunk away from games I don’t know as i fear I am not a great competitor, and therefore dont want to be seen as a poor games buddy - and I seem to have a bit of a block in learning from BGA. This is probably as I play from my phone in moments snatched from work etc
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There’s a fairly narrow range of games I’m willing to invest time in. Even then, I think about starting games I really like and just don’t, because I’m tired after work. Games I’m not really excited about don’t make the cut.
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Kind of agree, as our recent head-to-heads of The Wolves and Architects of the West Kingdom show. Some games that I want to play just do not seem to have many (or any) interested parties here. Some games I don’t feel confident learning through BGA, so I sometimes balk at some invites, though I can’t deny I have greatly enjoyed some games I only played on here for the first time (such as Yokohama, GWT, Troyes, Gest of Robin Hood, and others).
That said, I’m almost always up for playing something. For the first time in a long while, I’m not in any BGA games.
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Oh man, Architects was good. I almost like it best at 2 now - the zero sum on catching workers makes it more strategic. In the 4-5p games, generally whoever polices loses, as they skip turns to keep the momentum in check while other people just progress along. I think that is an intended metagame and a feature, not a bug - everyone playing chicken. But I had a little better time in the structured environment for this system.
Personally, I’m also strapped at work now with limited remaining mental bandwidth. I don’t want to serve up our old, frequently played ones and not up for learning a new one, which leaves the games I know and you all don’t - which just inverts the problem.
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Let’s try this - I think we’ve played these but not recently.
Play Orléans for free with me: Play Orléans online from your browser
Play Dewan for free with me: Play Dewan online from your browser
Play Thurn and Taxis for free with me: Play Thurn and Taxis online from your browser
Play The Vale of Eternity for free with me: Play The Vale of Eternity online from your browser
Play Terra Nova for free with me: Play Terra Nova online from your browser
(I enjoy this quite well - dumbed down Terra Mystica but forces hyperfocus on player order and land grabs)
Play The White Castle for free with me: Play The White Castle online from your browser
See what sticks?
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@RogerBW what’s your BGA user for the dnup game?
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RogerBW there too.
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@lalunaverde choosing your start tile is a non-decision that has no bearing on the game on a fixed-start symmetrical 3-player map.
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Anyone interested in a bigger boi - maybe Revive, Barrage, or Carnegie - next week? Some time to read up?
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