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The New Board Game Thread (Newcomer Friendly)
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UpperCaseN
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whoo! congrats! looking forward to more announcements
This news is very pleasing. Nice work.
platypotamus
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Yeah, I really suck at that game, I am surprised I still like it.
superrobot
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Ha ha I'm not sure I have the cards now.
I lose to everyone else. AstroLad must be 8-0 up on me. It's like Campaign Manager all over again.
Has anyone played Torres on Yucata yet?
Might beat me. I have no clue what I'm doing. Just trying to settle areas that seem cool. I think I merchanted 3 cards but only got money for 2 because I had a card that didn't also have a ship icon on it? no idea.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
For those who were waiting, Cards Against Humanity is back on sale at Amazon right now.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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Ordered. Thanks for the heads up.
Cosmic Schwung
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Very true. I guess I was just trying to suggest a board game with a 40K setting (okay, actually 30K), besides Space Hulk, that doesn't use roll and move. The no dice bit was just an extraneous bit of information I threw in there.
I also know of Horus Heresy it just does not look appealing to me.
Cosmic Schwung
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I'd thoroughly recommended it to anyone who's a big fan of the setting, but it's a lot of work to set up and it can get to be a bit of a grind. I'm sure there are several similar games that do it better, so I think you need be be someone who is familiar with and enjoys the background to make it worthwhile to play.
Even I beat you! Anyone have any idea what's going on strategically with Alchemist? I just kept making potions and lost.
Ordered it plus the expansion the instant I got the email. Should be a blast among my group.
superrobot
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That's great news. Is that mainly for the North American market? I'm assuming you need to do a different arrangement to get it into European stores, which may not be part of the plan at first. (language issues and rules etc)
You created too many recipes. You had 5 vs. my 2 for the better part of the game. Since you can only recreate your opponent's potions, I didn't have to come up with new stuff and can just keep on making your's. Therefore, you quickly ran out of options and as a result no way to score points.
They can go to about 60 international stores, mostly in Canada.
so you can get them in Europe, Asia and Australia. But these are specialty shops that import games from the US.
International deals would almost have to be a licensing arrangement with a European publisher if there were interest.
superrobot
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Got it. There's a few online places that might end up with it by the sounds of things then.
Will keep my eye on kickstarter too.
Whifflebat
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The second printing of Mage Knight is apparantly out next month. What's the general opinion on this one? Watching play and review vids on BGG, it seems like my cup of tea. If I pick it up, I'd mostly play it 2 player.
Grats Stooge. Can't wait for the kickstarter.
BGG.con registration starts Monday. Planning to make 2012 my first one. Excited!
BattleMonkey
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Where are you printing your products?
It's down to two places.
Panda GM and Luda Fact.
Luda is in Germany, Panda is in China and they have both printed a ton of really big games that everyone has played. I think Panda GM is a little easier to deal with.
They are the guys that did Pandemic, Alien Frontiers, Merchants and Merauders.
They are good at what they do, and they have a US based home office with some really nice guys in it. Luda is less responsive than Panda, they have 1 part time employee in the US, everyone else is German and all their quotes are in Euros.. panda deals with dollars.
So yeah. Probably them.
Has this been mentioned yet? Due out around summer, it's supposedly Talisman in a 40K setting:
This will be mine! Reminds me of the old Timescape expansion for Talisman.
oh wow thanks for the heads up -- i haven't been reading bgg too closely recently so i definitely would have missed out. can't wait
and yeah stooge really exciting stuff!
Silly me for thinking the point of an alchemy game might be to create recipes
You're right, though, of course.Zalasta's a good teacher, even if he's been frustrated at how long it took me to win a single game of Thurn and Taxis.
Is this game basically apples to apples?
It's the asshole version of apple to apples which make sit great.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Stooge, when is the Kickstarter going up?
Good question. April 1 was the day. Hopefully that will still be the case, my distributor wants to take the game to origins first. So we need to hammer that out.
I'm stuck at home ... anyone want to play some live online RFTG (or Dominion)?
I'll play Dominion! I'd be up for trying RFTG as well if you don't mind teaching it, lol.
Photosynthesis
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Yes, talking about Ankh-Morpork. Thanks for the impressions; I take that as a fan of the books, I should enjoy it a lot.
Awesome game, probably my favorite TTR. Map is tight so there's lots of fighting and screwage that will happen. Note that it only plays to 3.
Yep, my favourite too to play with my wife.
Cool. I might jump on it. Seems to be a limited print.
I still really dig it. Next up I might try and get my wife and daughter to play it. Lately we've been playing a lot of Airlines Europe when my daughter is home from school.
I really dig Rattus; it's been overlooked mainly because it plays quick & when it first launched, it "felt" expensive for the amount of game in the box, if that makes sense. But it's a neat, cut-throat area control game with roles, that's easy to teach & playable in a lunchtime if you know the game. Works for me. It's a game I'm happy to push on people because it deserves to be played.
popped in i'm up for some games
I wanna learn dominion, can I join?
dominion.isotropic.org
kinda hard to learn there but the game is pretty simple
1 action
1 buy
cleanup and discard all cards
draw 5 new cards
3 decks or province deck runs out and game ends and you add up points
http://boardgames.about.com/od/Dominion/a/How-to-Play-Dominion.htm
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