OO Boardgamers, what did you play this weekend?

Chrisoc13 · Post by **Chrisoc13** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 2:32 pm

Zarathud wrote:I will also have Eclipse, Emergence Event (compared to Mage Knight in space) and X-Wing. My brother-in-law has thrown himself into squad building. My copy of Tiny Epic Galaxies arrived yesterday, too!

Tiny epic galaxies is surprisingly fun the one time I have played it. I like it better than tiny epic kingdoms.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 6:59 pm

Tiny Epic Galaxies is surprisingly deep for such a small box game. I'm really impressed with it so far. It's got quite a few elements from Roll for the Galaxy.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:06 pm

Mine still hasn't arrived. Dagnabit.

SpaceLord · Post by **SpaceLord** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:11 pm

hepcat wrote:Saturday was a card and dice day for Seppe and I. We had signed up for a mini Dice Masters tournament at our FLGS and showed up earlier in the day for some other gaming opportunities. To that end, we were able to play:

Epic (2 games) - The first game we played the sealed deck variant (deal 30 cards to each player and off you go). We really enjoyed it, but agreed that the draft variant (two players draw 4 cards at a time and select from those in a specific manner) was better. So that was our second game. Unfortunately, we had someone who begged to join us and who turned out to be a power player/whiner (Him: You guys are ganging up on me! Us: Then don't freakin' play a card that can potentially take out a player in one turn, for christ's sake!), when we just wanted to play casually and have fun. From now on, I'm going to be a bit more selective about who I play with with head to head games.

Anyway, the game was quite fun. Almost every card is ridiculously overpowered...but that's why it's so much fun. There's nothing like having someone throw a 20 point attack at you...only to find that you've got a card that wipes out his entire attack party that you've been hanging onto until now. While I can see that might put off some players, I really enjoyed it for the silliness factor. We had quite a few good laughs over some of the card effects. Since there are over 120 cards (with the kickstarter, that is) and they're all different, we barely saw half of them in our two games. I can't speak to its longevity as it might grow stale after the newness of the cards wears off. But for now, I give it two thumbs up. It's just too bad the rules are really, really badly written. But that's why Boardgamegeek.com is around!

The rules have everything they need, I think. They just don't have examples. I also think that the rules are just enough like M:tG to annoy M:tG players, and just vague and example-free enough to annoy everyone else. It's not in the top 50 bad rulebooks, I think, it's just a bit terse.

That being said, the game is great. I've now played the full game 4 times, and the print-n-play 15 times or so. Looking forward to more!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 12:47 pm

Looks like I'll get a chance to play a few games of Doomtown: Reloaded tomorrow night. Finally.

I keep buying the card expansions for this game, but I rarely get a chance to play it.

Chrisoc13 · Post by **Chrisoc13** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:02 pm

hepcat wrote:Tiny Epic Galaxies is surprisingly deep for such a small box game. I'm really impressed with it so far. It's got quite a few elements from Roll for the Galaxy.

Yeah I've played it twice now and I really have enjoyed it. The second time I used the weapons expansion which I'm not sold on. But the base game itself really is a good little game.

Roll is better... But for a tiny package this is great. Really happy I backed it.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:28 pm

I was introduced to Elder Sign at Gencon a few years back by Hepcat. We played it in a hotel lobby, I think it was the Courtyard. But I digress. I was immediately taken by the game, because it used pretty much the mechanic for Risk Express but expanded on it. Picked up a copy myself, played it quite a bit, even more once it hit the iPad. But on the drive home from Gencon, I kept thinking to myself, "You know, Elder Sign really needs a retheme to Star Trek. Use TOS, instead of players you are starships, you have unexplored planets that you go to, and you flip them over and you face the Squire of Gothos or Khan or the Horta or whatever. Have the Doom Track be diplomatic relations with the Klingons. Monsters would be Klingons and Romulans and Andorians and etc." I still think this could be a great game, if I would actually sit down and design it.

And that brings me to Star Trek: Five Year Mission. It's a Star Trek dice game, and you work to solve missions by rolling the dice, and you have individual crew members with individual skills that you can use to manipulate the dice. Instead of planets to explore, you have alerts to add...Blue (huh?) Yellow and Red. You have a card representing the Enterprise, with damage spots on it. You have a pool of dice (maximum of 5) in colors blue, yellow and red. On your turn, you draw a card from one of the decks, forcing any cards below it to move down one space. If you ever get a 4th card in a column, you remove it and it goes into the "bad things" pile. If you get 5 bad things before you get X number of good things done, you lose. Some cards when you flip them will have immediate effects, like making you pull another card, or damaging the crew member or the Enterprise.

You refresh your pool of dice from the shared pool, and roll them. The missions have you match colors and numbers to resolve them. You don't have to resolve the entire card at once, you can play your dice all over the missions and other crew members on their turns can add their dice to the missions to complete them. You can also play red dice to repair the Enterprise. When a mission is resolved, either keep it for an effect to be used later, or score points from it, or it goes into a discard pile. If you get X number of points (variable based on how hard you want it to be) you win. If the Enterprise takes 5 points of damage, or if you get 5 failed missions, you lose.

Oh, forgot to mention, the ships and character cards are double sided so you can go TOS or TNG, and they have separate decks of alert cards for whatever series you want to play in.

So, is this Star Trek Elder Sign? Nope, not by a long shot. It's not a bad game. But really, there's no tension in game. At no time did we ever feel pressure they way you get in Elder Sign. We played to the median VP condition, 14 VPs and at least one of each card in the pile. It's a much simpler, much faster game than Elder Sign; including learning the rules we got in a 3 player game in about an hour and a half. I think it's a good filler game. But it is not my dream Elder Sign Star Trek game.

Maybe after Zenda is finished...

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:33 pm

Thanks, I was looking at this last Saturday at the Dice Dojo and was this close to buying it. One of the store owners wanted me to take a copy home and try it as he wanted someone to review it for him, but I felt kind of awkward just grabbing a game off the shelf and taking it home without paying for it.

Looks like I should forget about this one. You just saved me 40 bucks.

...that I will then sink into Dice Masters...or Doomtown...or Attack Wing...

...ah hell.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:37 pm

Chrisoc13 wrote:
hepcat wrote:Tiny Epic Galaxies is surprisingly deep for such a small box game. I'm really impressed with it so far. It's got quite a few elements from Roll for the Galaxy.
Yeah I've played it twice now and I really have enjoyed it. The second time I used the weapons expansion which I'm not sold on. But the base game itself really is a good little game.

Roll is better... But for a tiny package this is great. Really happy I backed it.

The solo mechanics are really quite fun too. I played a bit last night over a beer...or three...and had a blast.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:55 pm

hepcat wrote:Thanks, I was looking at this last Saturday at the Dice Dojo and was this close to buying it. One of the store owners wanted me to take a copy home and try it as he wanted someone to review it for him, but I felt kind of awkward just grabbing a game off the shelf and taking it home without paying for it.

Looks like I should forget about this one. You just saved me 40 bucks.

...that I will then sink into Dice Masters...or Doomtown...or Attack Wing...

...ah hell.

I'll bring it to OctoCon. Like I said, it's a filler, nothing more.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 10:21 am

Forgot to mention, I picked up Mage Wars Arena: Battlegrounds Domination earlier this week. It's an absolutely fantastic expansion that brings custom maps built from any number of the 22 included tiles with terrain (lava, spike traps, poison clouds, etc.), as well as multiplayer for 3 to 4 players AND a new game mode called Domination that plays like Steal the Flag.

I cannot wait to try this out. It really looks like it's going to revitalize the game for me!

Zenn7 · Post by **Zenn7** » Sat Sep 26, 2015 11:39 pm

Board game day!

Sorry, I'm horrible at remembering game names.

Played an ancient civilizations game (it's something that's on Kickstarter now, but we played an earlier edition - 2 different folks stopped to ask the owner "That's out??? thought it was just on kickstart still?". Greeks, Egyptions, Romans, Babylonians, Cathanage, Atlantis. Each nation had a special power, and their own unique mythical creature they recruit as super-soldiers. I was Carthanage, had behemeths - the mythical creatures and fortresses got an automatic 6 instead of rolling a d6 - behemeths special - those units had to roll, didn't get the auto 6. And my regular legions got +1 to their combat rolls. Wilped Egypt (technically, you can't take someone's last territory, but I took everything else), and got where I wanted to be to make my end move. But didn't pay enough attention to all the various goods and inadvertantly helped someone else get 1 each of all 12 different goods and build the pyramids and win. Bummer that, but fun game!

Played some odd chariot game - you get chariots with different types of gladiators, go around killing each other. When you are put out, you can take over animals the get thrown in. Tied for second. Kinda fun filler, fairly quick.

Tried Tiny Epic Galaxies - this was a very fun game. Managed to make some good moves and get to 18 pooints, and spent 3 turns trying to get to 21, before someone else did. My last turn though, I got another 5 point colony to pull out a solid 6 point victory at 28 points.

Legendary (Predator) - we played co-op predators - the owner - "It's not very challenging this way, never lost." What happens if we run out the bad guy cards? "That's never happened." What if we run out of the good cards you buy? "That's never happened." So, we're kicking butt, flying along, hit the boss guy we have to kil,he recudes our hand size to 4 cards, and get's gear bumping him from 7 (which I could have killed) to 9 (which I could not kill). We run through, 2 guys die (4 players), and just before my turn - where I would have gotten enough damage to kill the guy - we run out of the bad guy cards (we'd already added the unused mercenaries). The buy cards were down to the last couple as well. 1 turn away from victory!

Played Splendour - I did not have a strategy going in, ended up in last place. Finally started to figure an idea or two out and it was way too late. To be fair though, only the winner really figured it out. Last place 5 pts vs 6-7 for second and third place. Have to say of all the games, this was probably my least favorite. Wasn't bad, just not as much fun as the other games.

Fun day overall as usual.

Moat_Man · Post by **Moat_Man** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 12:01 am

Zenn7 wrote:Played an ancient civilizations game

Mare Nostrum? I have the kickstarter version coming. Looks like a lot of fun.

Zenn7 wrote:Played some odd chariot game - you get chariots with different types of gladiators, go around killing each other. When you are put out, you can take over animals the get thrown in. Tied for second. Kinda fun filler, fairly quick.

Tough one, was it one of these?

Zenn7 · Post by **Zenn7** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 12:37 am

Yes to the first game. They described it as a not to rules loaded/heavy civilization game. I definitely enjoyed that and would not hesitate to play again, but the poor guy I wiped out (he was the Egyptian player) didn't really seem to have a chance. Lots of resources to start with, but no military bonuses. His mythical was a Phoenix - when it died, it went to a special location, where it could be respawned for 1/2 the normal cost of a mythical creature. Helpful, but against my automatic 6 on my behemoth and losing his automatic 6, no where near enough.

Clash of the Gladiators, second page on your list. We significantly botched a few rules, but had fun none the less. Had we played correctly (least-wise based on the things we knew were wrong), think it might have been more interesting from a win/lose stand point, but do not think the game play would have been significantly more or less enjoyable.

Thanks!

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 9:28 am

My buddy Joe came up Saturday afternoon and I gave him some remedial lessons in miniatures painting, and then we got in a game of Tiny Epic Galaxies (loved it) and Tiny Epic Defenders (it was OK. I set it up wrong the first time we played and I added the Dire Foe directly into the turn deck instead of into the horde deck. Talk about stacking the game against us from the very beginning!

I need to give Tiny Epic Kingdoms a whirl now.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 10:16 am

For those that have money to burn, Target is having an (online only?) buy 2 get 1 free board game sale. And they have a surprisingly large number of good board games. I just spent way too much money.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 10:20 am

Well, Doomtown didn't click with my opponent on Friday. A combination of losing his second game, and thinking the game was more like Mage Wars in length resulted in a pretty sour opinion on his part. At its core, it's still a head to head card game, not an empire builder in card form. Hence the 25 to 30 minute game length on the side of the box.

Then we whipped out Dice Masters. I would've loved to have just played that for the rest of the evening, but unfortunately my neighbor showed up because he heard us opening a beer and wormed his way into the evening. At that point, we set aside Dice Masters and played a quick game of Epic.

Then we rounded out the evening with a fantastic game of Tiny Epic Galaxies. I really, really love this one. I look forward to more games of it at Octocon!

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:57 pm

It's hard to not feel like a giant man-child, but this was so much fun playing army with the Bolt Action rules.

My sniper team was attacked by a Panzer IV and after blowing my spotter to bits, he had me pinned behind the destroyed wall. My Sherman rolled in and managed to get a lucky die roll -- boom went the Panzer. We have now finished all the tutorial scenarios and are ready to convert the 2x2 area into a 6x4 board. We have various buildings, roads, fences, hedges and fields. It still plays pretty quick, though I think the rules are heavily tilted toward infantry. Tanks and other armored vehicles are rather squishy...at least, that's been our experience. The wife just shakes her head, but I could have picked much worse ways to have a midlife crisis.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 10:31 am

That looks awesome.

My buy 2 get 1 free haul from Target came in the other day. Played a game of Smash-Up and Wits and Wagers with some friends. And just now finished the walkthrough guide of Mage Knight. Hope to try that out today.

I also got Terra Mystica but haven't had time to read through the rule book yet.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:32 pm

Well hello, Heroscape 2.0.

Picked up a copy of Magic the Gathering: Arena of the Planeswalker on Saturday at my FLGS. For 30 bucks, you get a remarkable amount of figures (34...5 of which are fully painted) and other stuff. This is Heroscape. There's no other way to describe it. Rules are tweaked, you get a hand of cards to play during your turn as well, but it's Heroscape right down to the hex tiles (fully compatible with all your old Heroscape tiles) and the rules. Now, if they'd only add more licenses beyond MtG and give me some more genres to play in, like the old Heroscape used to.

SpaceLord · Post by **SpaceLord** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:05 am

Things I've acquired and played lately:

Codenames: Why wasn't this game designed 30 years ago? Vlaada once again proves he's the best boardgame designer by releasing this insanely fun "party" game. Codenames should be a game show. It's perfect for Tabletop. It should be sold at Wal-Mart. It's that fun, and accessible.

I went ahead and bought Pandemic Legacy. Now I need to figure out which gaming group to play it with. I've heard nothing but positive things.

I've also been playing a lot of Epic, and it's only getting more fun. I've heard it described as the "fun" turns of M:tG: the mid to late game, where each player has reached the resource levels they want out of their deck.

I also picked up Mage Wars: Battleground Domination, which I'm super excited for. MW is one of my favorite games, and this looks to make it even better.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:35 pm

I played Terra Mystica for the first time on Sunday. For all the pieces and ways to get victory points, the designers managed to make it pretty easy to pick up. I got my ass kicked (screw the giants and their shovels!) but I definitely want to play it again now that I have some sense of how things work.

Chaz · Post by **Chaz** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:39 pm

I've got a group at work that's going to go through Pandemic Legacy, and someone else is buying! I'm still thinking about picking up a copy for myself, because apparently it works fine with two, and my wife likes Pandemic already.

baelthazar · Post by **baelthazar** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 8:44 pm

Chaz wrote:I've got a group at work that's going to go through Pandemic Legacy, and someone else is buying! I'm still thinking about picking up a copy for myself, because apparently it works fine with two, and my wife likes Pandemic already.

My wife and I are loving it! I got her to play one game a night, which is really good. By the way, shit gets real extremely quick in this version.

We have been playing 2 player with one character each and having a good time. We may up that to 2 characters each as we get into the groove.

Chrisoc13 · Post by **Chrisoc13** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:41 am

Picked up the new fantasy flight print of Samurai. Played it twice so far and I really enjoy it a lot.

It's all done in fantasy flight quality so components are top notch. The game seems to scale extremely well. I've played it two players so far bit hope to get it out as a for player game soon. With two players it plays incredibly quick, around 15 minutes so far. Perfect quick game with tons of depth.

The game is a tile laying game over Japan. You lay tiles down to surround cities and villages which each are filled with 1, 2, or 3 tokens representing 3 different aspects of Kagan (war, religion, economy). Your goal is to correct the most of the majority of token types. Your tiles have a value number 1-4 and a token as well. When a token is surrounded whoever has the highest total number surrounding it with the proper token indicated on the tile gets to pick up the token. There are also "wild" tokens (the samurai and ships) which count as any token.

Every turn you put down one tile, and draw a tile to your hand. You can lay special "fast" tokens as well each turn (as many as you want) but you are limited in amount so you have to be strategic in terms of when you use them.

Overall I find the game extremely strategic. Every part has strategy. You start by taking turns placing the tokens which is where you can choose your strategy of which areas you want to focus on. Then you choose your starting hand. The only place luck comes in is with what you draw.

Overall I enjoy this game so far. It's quick and light with a lot of room for depth and strategy. Looking forward to many more plays.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:31 pm

It is actually within the realm of possibility (and even a strong possibility) that I will be able to go to the board game meetup tomorrow. This will be my first board game meetup this year.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:32 pm

Take Issie with you. I'm worried about him, what with being locked up with his in laws and all that.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:45 pm

It was in my plans. However, a friend is coming in to town, so I may be a late appearance.

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Fri Oct 16, 2015 1:03 pm

Chrisoc13 wrote:Picked up the new fantasy flight print of Samurai. Played it twice so far and I really enjoy it a lot.

It's all done in fantasy flight quality so components are top notch. The game seems to scale extremely well. I've played it two players so far bit hope to get it out as a for player game soon. With two players it plays incredibly quick, around 15 minutes so far. Perfect quick game with tons of depth.

The game is a tile laying game over Japan. You lay tiles down to surround cities and villages which each are filled with 1, 2, or 3 tokens representing 3 different aspects of Kagan (war, religion, economy). Your goal is to correct the most of the majority of token types. Your tiles have a value number 1-4 and a token as well. When a token is surrounded whoever has the highest total number surrounding it with the proper token indicated on the tile gets to pick up the token. There are also "wild" tokens (the samurai and ships) which count as any token.

Every turn you put down one tile, and draw a tile to your hand. You can lay special "fast" tokens as well each turn (as many as you want) but you are limited in amount so you have to be strategic in terms of when you use them.

Overall I find the game extremely strategic. Every part has strategy. You start by taking turns placing the tokens which is where you can choose your strategy of which areas you want to focus on. Then you choose your starting hand. The only place luck comes in is with what you draw.

Overall I enjoy this game so far. It's quick and light with a lot of room for depth and strategy. Looking forward to many more plays.

I have an older print run (Rio Grande I think) of this one. Great game.
If you haven't played the other two games in the unofficial trilogy you might want to check them out.
Through the Desert and Tigris & Euphrates.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 11:31 am

I pulled Pandemic off the shelf for the first time in years (so dusty!), to see what the 5-year-old would think. He completely loved it. We lost by running out of cards in the player draw pile (three diseases eradicated at that point), but decided to keep playing and "won" shortly thereafter.

Now I'm wondering if he's old enough for Pandemic Legacy...

baelthazar · Post by **baelthazar** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 11:58 am

AWS260 wrote:I pulled Pandemic off the shelf for the first time in years (so dusty!), to see what the 5-year-old would think. He completely loved it. We lost by running out of cards in the player draw pile (three diseases eradicated at that point), but decided to keep playing and "won" shortly thereafter.

Now I'm wondering if he's old enough for Pandemic Legacy...

Not so sure about that. Without spoiling, the game gets much more serious within the first few plays. It isn't exactly complicated (yet, in the future I do not know), but there are more options and special rules to think about that are not in stock Pandemic. That being said, I am sure he would highly enjoy opening new packages, new "files" (like a neat little advent calendar of new stuff) and applying stickers to both the board and the cards.

On the other hand, my wife actually REQUESTED we play it today. So... that is saying something about the game.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 3:49 pm

Played a game of the new, second edition of the Game of Thrones LCG last night. It's fantastic. It's right behind Ashes as my favorite card game of 2015, I must say. The wealth of decisions you are forced to make each turn is deceptively large. Having 3 different types of combat (military, intrigue and power) available each turn makes for some tense moments as you try to figure out how can make your opponent commit to a battle you're not really intending to win so that it might leave them open for a confrontation on another front later that you really do want. It's a bit longer than I expected (took us about 2 hours), but I think we can shave off at least a half hour after more time with the rules.

Two big thumbs up for this one. I might have to order a copy myself so I can do some deck drafting....something I rarely do.

MythicalMino · Post by **MythicalMino** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 11:42 pm

I have now played 4 games of Blood Rage (2 4 - player games and 2 5 - player games), and it just gets better each time I play it. The last game we played we used both the Mystics of Midgard and the Gods of Asgard expansions. The Gods can really change things up.

Awesome game that is easy to teach and so much fun to play.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:23 am

Prosperity
Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn
Epic

ummm... is that really all I played?

Prosperity reminded me quite a bit of Suburbia. I liked it better than Suburbia, but that doesn't mean a whole lot coming from me.

I really liked Ashes. It was my first play and I already have ideas of how to improve the deck I played. The guy I was playing against hadn't played before either. We used decks from the manual, I played Maeoni and he was Coal. I want his spiked armor for my silver snakes.

Epic was cool, but overwhelming. We played random decks and they seemed random. He knew what he was doing but I think he was sandbagging. Fun, but empty experience.

The other thing we played was Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. It isn't really a board game, but it was fun nonetheless. I will say that a laptop with a trackpad is NOT the best way to defuse a bomb.

MythicalMino · Post by **MythicalMino** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 6:00 am

We played Blood Rage throughout the weekend. 5 games total. Three 4 - player games and two 5 - player games. The last two we began using the Mystics and the Gods of Asgard expansions. The expansions really add to the game without adding much complexity.

What can I say about Blood Rage? This game lives up to the hype, in my opinion. And it gets better the more we play it. Last night's game, the scoring was very tight until the 3rd Age (between all 4 players). Then two players broke away from the pack.

There really is not anything about the game I could say I dislike. The drafting and the cards, every card is good and it is difficult deciding which card(s) to keep and which ones to pass on. The way the board gets "smaller" as the game goes on. The theme is great. The components are gorgeous. I have already played this more than the vast majority of other games in my collection. And I can't wait to sit down to it again.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 9:52 am

coopasonic wrote:
I really liked Ashes. It was my first play and I already have ideas of how to improve the deck I played. The guy I was playing against hadn't played before either. We used decks from the manual, I played Maeoni and he was Coal. I want his spiked armor for my silver snakes.

I just gets better with every play, at least for me. Coal is a great starter character, while Maeoni is tougher to figure out...at least in my opinion. A lot of her power is conditional, while Coal can just plink away at another player until they're whittled down to nothing.

The starter decks they suggest are really well thought out. I don't think I'll be doing any deck drafting until they start releasing card expansions that aren't so character-centric. Right now it just seems that most cards are geared towards one character specifically.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:27 am

I just watched the Dice Tower review of the upcoming 7 Wonders Duel. It looks like a really cool two player game. I think I know now what my next purchase will be, whenever it actually comes out (supposedly this month?).

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:35 am

Well, I decided to give Fortune and Glory one final chance, adding in the two expansions, to see if that would finally make the game enjoyable.

It didn't.

So I'm seriously thinking of selling this one off. If's hard, though. It's such a cool looking game.

Zenn7 · Post by **Zenn7** » Sat Oct 24, 2015 11:33 pm

Game day today (Halloween next Saturday, so they moved it up a week). 3 new games for me. Somehow, in 16-18 times of going, I've only played maybe 4 games more than once, most of those only twice.

Duel of Ages II - one guy when knew how to play, 4 players total. We played for 2 hours, they won by 1 point (we did not fully grasp scoring or we might have played one more turn and possibly have won). Fun game, think it will be more fun if I ever play again having a better grasp of the full rules/scoring. I started off well though, moved 2 guys in to their areas to do Adventures, success. Hitting one of the other guys in melee, 2 in a row success - 4 pts out of 5! And never accomplished much of anything after that. I'd have +2/+3 over the target, but the challenge card would still give me a fail/miss. Or if I hit, the damage card would be -2 damage. That was kind of frustrating. Though the other side had their fair share of bad luck w/ that too.

Seasons - Again, 1 guy who knew how to play, 4 players. This was very wild/varying and very enjoyable (having won probably didn't hurt my opinion). Had this great card that made everyone else give me +1 crystal with every season change, took 2-3 turns, but got it out very early on. In year 2, I got the other card that did that. Those fueled my victory.

Quarriors - And yet again, 1 guy who new how to play - 3 players (1 guy left for another game, this wasn't his cup of tea). Dominons with dice! Since I like Dominions, this was even cooler cause of the random nature of the dice! Probably my favorite that I played today though I thought all 3 games were great and would happily play any of them again. Won this one too. Got out way ahead to 17 points and took 4-6 rounds to get those last 2. Just could not quite get it earlier.

Once again, I love game day. Helped cheer me up after finding out I need ~$900 worth of car work (bearing in the axle and CV boots - not the same side/axle).

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:09 pm

Early Christmas-presenting Pandemic Legacy to a friend. For him, you see, not for me. Looking forward to helping him deface it.