Continuing the discussion from Recent Boardgames (Your Last Played Game Volume 2) (Part 1) - #10026 by RogerBW.
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The Thread is Dead! Long Live the Thread!
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Say hello to the new thread
Just the same as the old thread
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Well, I played obscure game you’ve never heard of, and it leaves all this modern stuff in the dust. A mere £500 for the basic set, and then you can get the expansions on eBay of course, but it’ll certainly help if you have a spare gymnasium to set up the miniatures… My group gets though a game in a mere 16 hours, First to take a bio break gets backstabbed!
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Had a game night while my wife was away which gave me the opportunity to pull out a game that she’s not fond of, Mission Red Planet. Simple, chaotic (but not too chaotic) area control. I did absolutely terrible, spreading myself way too thin. One friend dominated Phobos and used that to great effect on Mars, but ultimately lost to another who used his knowledge of the discovery cards to get himself lots of unexpected points at the end. Really glad to have this one around!
Then we played another mean game, Tournament at Avalon. I played the Elf Queen, who I had heard sucks, and guess what! It’s very true! It’s basically not a power - it confers you no advantage, just makes the trick slightly different but with no real consequence. Only reason I didn’t come in last was I kept getting dealt high cards, and another player kept getting dealt low cards.
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Inis - 4 players. They manage to get a good grasp of the game that we are all one step from winning. One manage to breakthrough
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BattleCon - 4 players. It seems that the board game concepts and terms aren’t that intuitive.
El Grande - LONG LIVE THE KING!!!
Harmonies - playing it with people in the library and it served its purpose as an “everyone” game.
Tash Kalar - 3 player melee.
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Compile Main 1—my brain hurts. In a good way. As I suspected, it’s Riftforce meets Air, Land & Sea, but with three places for card effects: the top box is always in effect if it’s in play, middle box happens when it’s played (or flipped face-up or uncovered), bottom box is in effect only if it’s at the top of its lane stack. Which means a lot of stuff to keep track of on the table, and a fair bit of specialised terminology too—though not as annoying as Radlands.
Early days but I’m looking forward to playing again—though not straight away!
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Played Dead Reckoning with my husband for my birthday. It’s a fun merchant/pirate/exploration type game using the card crafting system of Mystic Vale. I really like it and think I’m pretty good at it, but my husband still wins like 70-80% of the time. Today he won 138-122.
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