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Chanur said:

Supported . Always have to back the FoH faithful.

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Thanks a ton man. Hopefully you will enjoy the game.

Seananigans said:

Yeah man I'm kinda going all out lately. Can't help myself, windfall and such.

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Heh. Hopefully you're not retired yet - I've got plenty of windfall but passive income need makes it off limits most of the time.

Seananigans said:

Nah, single and gainfully employed is a solid place to be for shit like this.

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Board game night at Sean's house!

Seananigans said:

Woo woo! Feel free, if you can make it to Tulsa OK!

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I have a brother out there so you may find a stranger at your door one day.

Food chain magnate is pretty good, though it's so slow with 5 players!

faille said:

Food chain magnate is pretty good, though it's so slow with 5 players!

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Hard pass! Too many good board games out there were even when it isn't your turn you are doing stuff.

Pretty sure I went from loving to hating Dead of Winter after playing things like Blood Rage, Cry Havoc, and Masmorra.

I'm overstating how slow it was because the last time I played we had a particular AP prone player who took longer than the other 4 of us combined, before going broke, sacking half his staff and rage quitting around mid game! It's still a flaw of the game and I wish it could flow better but it's still an awesome game and worth checking out.

GF just bought Quelf.


It's a silly game.

Played Pandemic Legacy and cannot grudge it's spot at #1 on Boardgame Geek.

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Scrolled back a bit in the thread. Anyone try Scythe yet? Holy fuck. So well done. Not surprised its at #6 on BGG at all. Worker placement + MECHS.

In the current top 10 on BGG:

• We regularly play Pandemic, Terra Mystica, and Scythe now. Did I mention Scythe has MECHS?
• Puerto Rico is old school classic that still hits the table occasionally. Love that game personally.
• 7 Wonders (the original) still gets played quite often. Great game for a variable number of players.
• Agricola died out for us a while back. It just takes forever ...

I played Scythe a bunch but the game is horribly balanced. The "Russians" are way too good. When playing with people of equal skill unless everyone gangs up on them they run away with it. It's too bad because I enjoy the base mechanics of the game. It hit the sale pile after about 10 plays.

Agricola got straight up replaced. Caverna is just a strictly better version of the game. Haven't played Feast for Odin yet but I have heard it's different enough that it doesn't replace Caverna.

Played the second story for Time Stories this weekend (The Marcy Case) and enjoyed it but wasn't as impressed with it as I was with the first one.

Played Agricola a few times and don't mind it but never super eager to play it.
Looking forward to The Colonists though, which looks similar but way cooler, imo:
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Guurn said:

This week was spent not on gaming but on trying to figure out how to organize Gloomhaven. Holy crap is this box big and full. It really makes me wish that someone had a custom insert for sale already. I'm hoping to get the first games in tonight. I can already tell that the hype seems justified.

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My Gloomhaven just arrived and I can't wait to dive into it.
Debating if its worth it's on threat since there's so much spoilery stuff in legacy / campaign games you can't discuss them too much.
Did you manage to get your first game done?

My friday night boardgame group played Agricola into oblivion. Kind of hard to replay it now after our group sank literal hundreds of hours into it and it hasn't had any real big shake-ups. I still love it for being our group's first "real board game" love, but we've just gotten all the play we could out of it.
Scythe is doing well in the group now, although we have a sort of gentlemen's agreement not to pick the Russians unless we're on a weird 5+ player night. Expansion's nice, I love the new sub-boards, but I personally avoid the expansion races themselves when we do race-drafts or race-bidding, because I loathe their lack of +1 Movement.
Alchemists is our current "go to" game, and the expansion added a ton of new elements to juggle and think about, while opening up more varied paths to victory. Which is impressive to me, since I doubted the expansion could live up to how much we enjoyed the base game (pretty much the only non-Agricola game we've ever *ran through* the provided scoresheets with and had to print new ones).

Terra Mystica is weird. 3 people in the group love it, but one of the regulars absolutely hates it. So it only gets played if that guy doesn't show up, which isn't often. Playing the Yetis is so fun in the expansion, feel so free~.

Once everyone's all pissed off at each other from cube-allocating and end-zone dancing, we tend to bust out Eclipse at the end of the night so we can murder each other with lasers. Last Eclipse expansion was really, really underwhelming though, three factions that sounded interesting, but that were either meh (evolution race) or wildly imbalanced (Time race when they open on free turn 1 dreadnaught to go conquer amazing alien planets for snowballing benefits), or just... not quite there (grey goo race).