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The Board Game Thread!

I recently picked up the Beyond the Black expansion for Tiny Epic Galaxies and it really adds to the game in a good way. Love the more obviously referential meeple ships (....sheeple?) And the circular unexplored space cards are cute.

I recently ordered a copy of Betrayal at House on the Hill, waiting for that to arrive.
 
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Played Quest for El Dorado for the first time with friends (4P) and that was a lot of fun. And I’m not just saying that because I had some excellent beginner‘s luck and won. All the different ways you can configure the map look like a great way to extend replayability of something that’s essentially a fancy “move through the board to the end” game.

We were on the Serpentine board setup. I think hitting a lot of mines early really helped me out. Managed to use the transmitter I think (that lets you get anything from the shop) twice by using a don’t-exile token from a mine, got some great cards early that way. Didn’t manage my deck very well, only managed to weed out a few of the early low power cards, but some lucky draws came my way anyway.
 
SpoonyBard said:
I recently ordered a copy of Betrayal at House on the Hill, waiting for that to arrive.
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A bit late, but this finally came, along with the Omens of the Deep expansion for Elder Sign! Feel pretty good about my collection.

Now if only I had a consistent enough circle of folks IRL to play them. Haha.
 
I did manage to play a few games of Betrayal over the holidays with some of my cousins, who all enjoyed it and might look to get their own copy now. I also found a solo game ruleset on BGG, but it's for the second edition. Should work with just a couple tweaks for third I think. Might be worth trying out.

I also got a loan of an airbrush from a buddy and started on painting the minis, since the third edition figures come unpainted. For now I just have them primed in black, and I've used the airbrush to add light grey highlights (I think this is called Zenithal Priming? I'm new to all this board game/miniature painting terminology), and frankly I think they look pretty cool like this, but I'll try adding color to them too.
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Games Played from 19 Jan through 19 May 2023​

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Board Game: Nusfjord
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Board Game: Port Royal
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My plays so far for this year. My friends were super psyched about Dune: Imperium. It's a good game, but it's definitely Ameritrash (super powerful cards randomly drawn from a face-down deck), and I am a Eurogamer through and through.

Nusfjord is a game I like a lot, maybe a lesser Uwe Rosenberg game, but still really fun. Port Royal is a masterpiece. Bloody Inn is fun but kind of unbalanced. Fantasy Realms is dead simple and fun but not too brilliant. The Crew is brilliant, but also very minimal and abstract, and it's not quite my style. Hansa Teutonica is an older style Euro. Doesn't set the world on fire, but a very balanced and well-made game, and I look forward to playing it more.
 
My mother in law bought us the Wingspan Asia expansion as a surprise gift! Which was extra surprising as I had no idea it existed, apparenly it just game out last November. Haven't played yet but very excited for all these new gameplay options:

Wingspan Asia is several different things: A stand-alone game for 1 player or 2 players (Duet mode that can be used with any bird/bonus cards), a card expansion to the original Wingspan (any bird/bonus cards across any Wingspan game or expansion can be combined), and a 6-7 player expansion via the new Flock mode (for which the player components from the core game are necessary).
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So Everdell is pretty fun! Reminds me a little bit of a lot of games (worker placement in general), with a cute theming of its own and a really pretty table presence.
 
I played that once and bought it, but haven't taken my own copy out of the wrapping. I almost did! I was close, just last weekend in fact! But then my friends and I decided to just catch up instead (it had been since pre-pandemic that we'd seen each other). But next time! Probably!
 
So, Marvel DAGGER is out! I playtested that one and had a lot of fun with it, but it seems to be kinda unknown? Anyway if you like Marvel characters and cooperative dice chuckers against the event-deck clock, check it out. It's fun! Same designer as Twilight Imperium 4E, also (Dane Beltrami). I especially like how it has two versions of each hero, each with different abilities. You start as one, and if they get defeated, you switch to the other (get defeated again and you're out, with the game ending soon after, like a lot of FFG's coops do).
 
FYI. You can paste in your BGG logged plays with these steps.

BGG -> Click on your username -> Logged Plays -> Enter a date range and select "Thumbnails" -> Go -> Select with your mouse and copy -> Paste into Talking-Time
 
If you like Terraforming Mars and dislike AI art and assets well uh bad news I guess.

Granted this reads more like 'we cannot feasibly screen all assets from our contracted artists for the use of AI so we're allowing it' rather than 'eff yeah AI is the future screw you artistic professionals' but even so, disappointing.
 
They've tried it already. The false positive rate is a problem.
 
I introduced about half of my Thursday DND group to the wonders of Betrayal at House on the Hill (a la Betrayal at Baldur's Gate) as well as Lords of Waterdeep. We weren't able to finish Waterdeep (we played at a local Geekery tavern and they shut down at 9 on Sundays), but the group was most charmed by that one, so we'll pick it up again.
 
Lords of Waterdeep is one of my wife's favorite games. Secretly, it's just Caylus wearing a wizard robe. Caylus doesn't have Intrigue cards, though.
 
Waterdeep has been our go-to worker placement game for over a decade. If we can't decide what to play or things are running late, out comes Waterdeep. It's great. Expansion is good stuff too; modular, and adds different flavors to the mix.
 
I’ve never played the cardboard version, but this convo did remind me that I’ve got it on iPad, and have never played it. Now’s the time!

Hmm, this has two in-app expansions, Undermountain and Skullport. They’re only $2 each, so will probably pick those up after tutorials are done.
 
The expansions are 100% worth that price, but probably best to play through the base game a couple times before trying them. Well, before trying the Skullport module anyway. The Underdark module is More Stuff, without the New Mechanics of Skullport.

The app is very good, though sometimes a liiiittle clunky in the way it wants to be sure every player sees every thing other players do. Which I can't really knock it for, because a lot of apps sorta leave you guessing or having to check yourself, but it can take a little bit and sometimes a fair amount of passing the tablet around in multiplayer games to get it all done.
 
Hey, if anyone Bay Area-local wants to try out X-Wing (or just say hi), I'm running a doubles event (two players with roughly half a list paired together on each side) on May 4 at Games of Berkeley. There will be pre-made lists there specifically for newcomers, so you don't need to own anything. I will be there from noon to 5! The event is free, no table fee.

They're also holding a separate Star Wars: Unlimited draft event, though that costs $20 for entry. There are about a dozen tickets left.
 
I've never played Caylus before but if it's anything like Waterdeep, it's on my pick-up list.

I want to introduce them to Wyrmspan and Scythe, two of my favorite games. Oddly enough, I've never played Wingspan though I totally intend to. Maybe I should introduce them in that order, since dragons apparently complicate bird watching.
 
I think board gaming will be all right; it's a bigger field now than it was in 2008 or so, and a lot of studios will likely get sold off, and someone will want that distribution network. But I think Asmodee as it exists now (and probably many of the studios under it that aren't superstars or don't have big licenses) are in for a very rough time.
 
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