Board Games

Got in the Feast for Odin expansion, The Norwegians, so punched it all out and going to give it a try at boardgame night tonight. Fucker's going to take up twilight-imperium level play space in one more expansion. Caverna Forgotten Races expansion is shipping in the US this week too, so it seems we're hitting that magical "one to two months where all this shit from last year's essen gets dumped into the USA at once" time again.

Norwegians is a pretty thorough expansion. Some autists on the boardgamegeek forums are pounding their fists on their computer desks and insisting it's a second edition, not an expansion, and they feel very angry about that for some reason.

Anyone done any research or trial and error on what kind of lights / light bulbs to put over a gaming table?

Replacing kitchen lights soon and i wanna get something that is good for board gaming, hate the glare we get from current lights. If anyone has a setup they are happy with Id love to hear about it

Thanks

I'm about to work on an experiment with our gaming club space with some Philips lightstrips myself - working on the frame with a friend to hang an array of strips over the play area. From our limited testing they seem really high light output with minimal glare.

Back from Boardgame night, we decided to take a week off from Feast for Odin expansion (Which is pretty great, but kind of shoddily put together, and the player-specific huts are ultimately underwhelming) to try the Caverna Races Expansion now that it's arrived. Really enjoyed it. It's a welcome disruption to the dynamic of the base game (Wherein your game plan is largely decided by your seating order on the first turn), by introducing new pressures in the form of racial bonuses/disadvantages. Having some of the races outright not care about half the board lifted some of the general tension on actions, but intensified it on key actions for the half of the board they did care about. The new buildings were swell, enabling some truly stupid boardstates (Why hello there, 30 Sheep being watched over by 15 doggos in a single square field). It'll be neat to see how different combinations of races and the buildings they add/subtract to the board will change play dynamics. The buildings they take away are almost as important of a change as the actual racials/new-buildings themselves.

Played a high-tempo race in the Trolls, tonight. They start with easy-to-make 4 power weapons, but their weapon strength caps out at 10 and their dudes cost 3 food each to feed, so it encourages a low-worker-count gameplay style, where you can guarantee early access to the raiding actions you need. One of the troll racial buildings basically gets you a free family growth, in the form of a goblin, that always goes last, preserving your weapon-wielding trolls ability to place early, while still being able to scoop up non-expedition squares late with your goblin. That is a tortured sentence. The +1 Reward per Expedition really transforms the base-board 3wood+1Expedition spot into a solid later pick, and is hilarious with the last column "Expedition 1, Expedition 1" space late in the game.

The designers really got into the "overhanging" tiles the Office strategies used in the base game, adding the mechanic to multiple races.

Really solid time, and looking forward to playing again next Friday. Shit's really starting to take Arkham-Horror-esque set-up time to get on the table though, with all the building modifications and shit the races do.

Got to play race for the galaxy frontiers. Decent game if you like the card game or even roll for the galaxy.

Any thoughts on ? I dig one of the artists webcomic and he's been shilling this for a couple weeks.

I lost due to a really bad tile pull, was fun though and felt fair.

I don't think they've made that warhammer card game for at least 5-6 years.

the 40k version they've also stopped in the last year (ffg lost the warhammer license) i just sold my collection for around $400.

Is Too Many Bones really worth $130? That seems excessive.

I hate Race/Roll for the galaxy because it's solitaire. I don't even know why there are other players there at all. For...role selection? The games have the depth of a puddle. In before someone goes "there is interaction, it's just so subtle you can't enjoy it."

I went nuts on the miniature market clearance sale and got deck boxes for $1 and a shitton of other stuff spending my way to $100 to get free shipping.