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On September 30 2012 00:54 Jalle wrote:Show nested quote +On September 29 2012 23:10 msl wrote:On September 29 2012 23:00 Jalle wrote:On September 29 2012 14:10 Critter wrote:
I'm curious what TL would suggest for cooperative, or at least non-directly competitive boardgames. My housemates and I are all getting more into board games, but one of my friends gets really frustrated when losing games like Game of Thrones or Munchkin. He doesn't like the direct opposition and so doesn't enjoy the games.
Personally, I'd rather steer us towards games that are still competitive, but you don't directly "fuck with" the other players. I'm thinking games like Puerto Rico and Agricola (haven't played, just going by the reviews) and would love other suggestions in that category.
Also, if there are any strait up cooperative games that are simply amazing, I'd love to hear about those as well. Pandemic is quite good. Cooperate and save the world from deadly diseases before time runs out. Also quite good: Arkham Horror. Work together to save the world from the Elder Gods! Never actually played it myself. We tried playing Arkham Horror together with all the expansions one time. However, the setup time was literally a Lovecraftian horror, so we figured "fuck that" and played Smallworld instead :D. But yeah, everyone says it's a classic so it's probably highly recommended..
The game has a stunning atmosphere if you read the lore on the cards and your character.
Yea the setup can by annoying but if the game is well packed and if you prepared it for the x-time it gets pretty fast. :D
Talking about smallworld anybody played the new expansion realms?
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On September 30 2012 01:29 Fler wrote:Show nested quote +On September 30 2012 00:54 Jalle wrote:On September 29 2012 23:10 msl wrote:On September 29 2012 23:00 Jalle wrote:On September 29 2012 14:10 Critter wrote:
I'm curious what TL would suggest for cooperative, or at least non-directly competitive boardgames. My housemates and I are all getting more into board games, but one of my friends gets really frustrated when losing games like Game of Thrones or Munchkin. He doesn't like the direct opposition and so doesn't enjoy the games.
Personally, I'd rather steer us towards games that are still competitive, but you don't directly "fuck with" the other players. I'm thinking games like Puerto Rico and Agricola (haven't played, just going by the reviews) and would love other suggestions in that category.
Also, if there are any strait up cooperative games that are simply amazing, I'd love to hear about those as well. Pandemic is quite good. Cooperate and save the world from deadly diseases before time runs out. Also quite good: Arkham Horror. Work together to save the world from the Elder Gods! Never actually played it myself. We tried playing Arkham Horror together with all the expansions one time. However, the setup time was literally a Lovecraftian horror, so we figured "fuck that" and played Smallworld instead :D. But yeah, everyone says it's a classic so it's probably highly recommended.. The game has a stunning atmosphere if you read the lore on the cards and your character. Yea the setup can by annoying but if the game is well packed and if you prepared it for the x-time it gets pretty fast. :D Talking about smallworld anybody played the new expansion realms?
Took em out of a gaming bar last time I was at a convention to take a peek. Didnt play with them, but the overall feeling was that the races was stronger than the standard set. MY gaming club got the extra race packages, and they fit in well with the standard box.
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On September 29 2012 14:10 Critter wrote:
I'm curious what TL would suggest for cooperative, or at least non-directly competitive boardgames. My housemates and I are all getting more into board games, but one of my friends gets really frustrated when losing games like Game of Thrones or Munchkin. He doesn't like the direct opposition and so doesn't enjoy the games.
Personally, I'd rather steer us towards games that are still competitive, but you don't directly "fuck with" the other players. I'm thinking games like Puerto Rico and Agricola (haven't played, just going by the reviews) and would love other suggestions in that category.
Also, if there are any strait up cooperative games that are simply amazing, I'd love to hear about those as well.
Shadows over Camelot and Battlestar Galactica are GREAT GAMES for that kind of people, they are cooperative but also invovlve some compettion (traitor ) aspects , but either way You win or lose as a team. Great game for people who hate attacking others and exploiting their weaknesess.
Arkham horror is another great game, but in this there is no traitor aspect, instead players play toghter vs a game. However i would advice You to try BattleStar galactica is a great challaneging game with lots of fun, that people otherwise hating boradgames came to love.
Pandemic and Ghost Stories are kinda similiar to Arham horror in a sense that is "players vs game" kind of play, they are simpler in designe though ( not necessarly in a difficulty as Ghost Stories is kinda difficult to win).
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Played 7 Wonders for the first time yesterday (my cousin is big on board games so we always play them when we have a family gathering pretty much once every 3 months or so). Screwed myself by not investing in enough tech in the first round. 
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On September 29 2012 14:10 Critter wrote:
I'm curious what TL would suggest for cooperative, or at least non-directly competitive boardgames. My housemates and I are all getting more into board games, but one of my friends gets really frustrated when losing games like Game of Thrones or Munchkin. He doesn't like the direct opposition and so doesn't enjoy the games.
Personally, I'd rather steer us towards games that are still competitive, but you don't directly "fuck with" the other players. I'm thinking games like Puerto Rico and Agricola (haven't played, just going by the reviews) and would love other suggestions in that category.
Also, if there are any strait up cooperative games that are simply amazing, I'd love to hear about those as well.
I'm going with Arkham as well.
You're playing all together against the game and it's incredible hard. Sometimes the game just outright fucks you and you have no chance. It's hard (pretty much) every single time and obviously you can adjust how hard you want it to be by adding expansions and stuff but it's really funny in general. I'd say when I play it with my friends we're lose more often than winning and at least half the wins we get feel lucky :p
I'm usually the kind of guy who likes to play some kind of koop rather than free for all kind of games as well. For me it's no matter what kind of koop as in whether it's 2v2v2 or 3v3 or 6vgame as long as it's competitive / challenging and it really is.
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On September 30 2012 04:20 Tiegrr wrote:Played 7 Wonders for the first time yesterday (my cousin is big on board games so we always play them when we have a family gathering pretty much once every 3 months or so). Screwed myself by not investing in enough tech in the first round.
Tech is not a must to win in 7 wonders, but it is one of those things you need to keep an eye of for so no one gets an insane amount. I win a majority of my 7 wonders games, and I seldom go into tech.
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Thanks for all the suggestions, give me a lot to look over at work tonight. Pandemic seems like a sure thing, and I think I'd love Shadows Over Camelot/BSG (though I'd have to sell my friend on them).
I'm curious what the differences are between Arkham Horror and Elder Signs (which we saw on Tabletop). Elder Signs is one that my roommate was interested in, and what little I've read about them they seem quite similar, so I'm just curious what how they differ.
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On October 01 2012 10:38 Critter wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions, give me a lot to look over at work tonight. Pandemic seems like a sure thing, and I think I'd love Shadows Over Camelot/BSG (though I'd have to sell my friend on them).
I'm curious what the differences are between Arkham Horror and Elder Signs (which we saw on Tabletop). Elder Signs is one that my roommate was interested in, and what little I've read about them they seem quite similar, so I'm just curious what how they differ.
Both of them are co-op games based on lovecrafts books. The main difference is that Arkham is more "epic" the box is bigger (more content) you play on the streets of a whole city. Signs take place in a museum the main mechanic is still there dices. Signs have a lower difficulty nevertheless the game can really fuck you up sometimes also the playtime is shorter. I'm waiting if there will be any expansion coming up in Essen.
Signs is a smaller version of Arkham with some different mechanics but the feeling after you play it is the same fantastic!
If you are loooking after some reviews check out http://boardgamegeek.com
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I am looking for a good board game 2+ players. (so i can play with my gf).
We love Dominion and 7 wonders and are looking to find a new cool game. Any suggestions?
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I've been watching Tabletop over the past weeks whenever a new episode was released and bought a few games that were featured there so far (Small World, Dixit and Pandemic)
Since I (after a quick look) haven't found a mention of it here so far, you should really check out this webseries
The first episode is about Small World and has Wil Wheaton (host), Day9, Grant Imahara and Jenna Busch as players
+ Show Spoiler +
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I love Tabletop, fantastic show, and is a large factor in what got my housemates more into boardgames. I really enjoy a lot of the stuff Geek and Sundry does.
We recently got Pandemic and Red Dragon Inn 2 (that one was a birthday present) and have enjoyed both quite a bit. I also bought Arkham Horror ($32 on Think Geek as opposed to $60 at the local game shop... I'll pay slightly extra for local games but that mark up is rediculous), at TL's suggestion and it just arrived today. Hopefully we'll be able to play it tomorrow for the first time.
I've heard that first time AH players should start with Azathoth as the god they are trying to beat, and that there is some sort of outside rule guide that's supposed to be vastly superior to the in box one. Are either of these true? Any other advice for a group that has no one who has played AH before?
I'm still trying to convince one of my housemates to give BSG a try as I would greatly prefer that setting to Shadows Over Camelot, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to convince him.
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I would say D&D. Nothing beats the first time you don't notice your talking like your character.
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SC:BW is the freaking best, most challenging boardgame i´ve ever played!
Can´t believe it´s not on the initial list. I mean, we´re a starcraft forum! :p
But other than that i completely agree with the OP.
Also have to play Munchkin again, so much fun.
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On October 13 2012 13:51 Kazahk wrote:
I would say D&D. Nothing beats the first time you don't notice your talking like your character.
While I love D&D (our group is currently running through the Pathfinder campaign "Kingmaker") I've never considered it a board game =P
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I'm a huge board game geek, and I especially love the various Risk variants, Catan games, and Axis&Allies series. However, I've been curious if any Risk afficionados out there have had a chance to try out the new StarCraft Risk, and could talk about how it's unique, what version of risk it's most similar to, would you reccommend it or is it worth buying, etc.?
I own Risk 2210AD (5 rounds, earth, moon, and underwater continents, commanders and cards, d6 and d8 dice), LOTR Risk (leaders granting +1, cards, towers that give defenders edge, ring to mordor depth of strategy for game time limit and win scenarios of capture vs delivery to mount mordor), Risk GodStorm (mythology theme, god commanders such as Loki, Zues, Ares, etc with different abilities, dead units go to underworld and actions there affect the land of the living), SW orig trilogy Risk (3 factions: empire rebels and hutts, each with different win-objectives, death star, light vs dark force meter, cards, ships ((d8 and d6, +1, rerolls)), d6 and d8), SW Clone wars Risk (2 factions: separatists vs republic, basic risk but with ships ((d8 and d6, +1, rerolls)) and cards, with the addition of an interesting element: "Intiate order 66", where the longer the game goes on, the more likely seperatists win, as when the initiate 66, you roll a d8 for every territory, and those places that roll high enough, odds increase as game goes on, the reps units switch to separatist units, but the emperor is placed down and the republic must kill emperor to win, separatists must annihilate rebels) and Classic Risk, to name a few that I'm familiar with.
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Lol fighting over monopoly games? Fuck yea!  game almost has as much post game BM as Starcraft  love the shit , other than that there were few others i wouldnt be able to name now
Table top view pc game and an actual table top obviously have a lot in common.
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Risk and TvT matches aren't long enough, so now...
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/vrKlU.jpg)
Why not combine them?
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I've been into Risk forever, haven;t played a lot due to it not being casually friendly and long and causes fights lol. But I never lost a game.
Recently got into settlers and won my first 2 games lol. Such a fun game to be drinking and such.
I forgot how fun board games are. I need to go buy 3-4 and get friends and start drinking and having a baord game night.
Also not sure if it counts as a board game per say, but its absolutely amazing to play and drink, and a high skill cap, and very accessible. That game is:
Crokinole
Crokinole ( /ˈkroʊkɨnoʊl/ KROH-ki-nohl) is an action board game similar in various ways to pitchnut, carrom, marbles, and shove ha'penny, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size. Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to have their discs land in the higher-scoring regions of the board, while also attempting to knock away opposing discs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crokinole
Only Downside is the board will run you 150$. You can make your own and buy the peices, or find a used one for 20-50$ at a yard sale though. Definitly try it out if you havent!!!
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Settlers of Catan: Drunkards and Wenches. Look up a set of drinking rules or invent them in house, depending on any expansion you might have.
Crokinole should definitely count as a board game. Making a circular surface is the only tough part of building your own board. Jigsaw, drill and an old lazy susan. eZpZ.
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On October 13 2012 14:36 Samba wrote:SC:BW is the freaking best, most challenging boardgame i´ve ever played! Can´t believe it´s not on the initial list. I mean, we´re a starcraft forum! :p But other than that i completely agree with the OP. Also have to play Munchkin again, so much fun.
SC challenging? I have had people accidentally win at it (other players pointed out possible moves to the GF of one of our regulars that was playing for the 2nd time or so). You can also get f*cked up hard by retarded moves of your opponents.
Try Twilight Imperium for something a lot more complex than SC
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