The Gnat Posted August 14, 2017 Author Share Posted August 14, 2017 18 hours ago, incognito_man said: Anyone play secret Hitler? Had some fun with that about a month ago. I liked it compared to a lot of hidden traitor games. I do like Deception: Murder in Hong Kong the best in that type of game currently. I got to play Mysterium last Friday, that game is a lot of fun to play and looks very pretty. We didn't play it the full way as we weren't able to do some of the end game stuff (and voting), but to me that appears like it would have just bogged down the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skywindO2 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 21 minutes ago, The Gnat said: I do like Deception: Murder in Hong Kong the best in that type of game currently. I got to play Mysterium last Friday, that game is a lot of fun to play and looks very pretty. We didn't play it the full way as we weren't able to do some of the end game stuff (and voting), but to me that appears like it would have just bogged down the game. Love both of those games. Mysterium has been a go-to in our group for a while since it's easy to play and discuss other things. We aren't able to get together often enough so it's an great game to play while catching up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted August 15, 2017 Author Share Posted August 15, 2017 Forgot to say that I also got to play Codenames: Pictures as well. First, let me say that I think Codenames is an overrated game that is built as a party killing game not a party game. It is just people sitting around going "hmmm....", "maybe....", "no....", "hmmm.......". I know that a lot of people like the game, I think that you shouldn't bother wasting your time with a game like that. But I did play Codenames: Pictures. We needed an easy game to play that everyone knew, so instead of pulling the base game off the shelf i asked that Pictures got pulled off. Pictures is better. Instead of it being a single word, there are pictures and each card with a picture is a picture of two things. Because of this, it makes it into a better clue giving game, and the combinations are just weird. I wouldn't really pull it off the shelf that often, but I'd be willing to play it again as it plays better than the original game by a long long ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted August 16, 2017 Author Share Posted August 16, 2017 Played a couple new games last night: Firefly Legendary - I'm not a fan of Marvel Legendary, I feel like the game has a very slow burn and doesn't feel that much like a comic book. Firefly does a much better job of keeping the game moving, keeping the pressure on, and it generally feels like you are playing an episode of Firefly. Each character you can play (there are nine), each have talents and flaws that really make them feel like their characters. It seems like it would probably play best with a full compliment of five players, but with four it was still a ton of fun. The Lost Expedition - I was curious about the game, but I thought that it might only be an okay game. However, after playing it once, I want to buy it. You are out exploring, looking for a lost Mayan city, and each player has a hand of cards that create your route for the day and the evening when you walk. During the day each player plays two cards from their hand of four, and you take turns playing 2 of those cards each (for four players), these cards go in numerical order, and then you have to try and figure out how to get past each challenge or positive thing that can happen on those cards, you generally have a choice of a few things to do, but they cost resources. In the evening, you do the same thing, but it's in the order that the cards are played, not sorted into numerical order. It's a very tough game as things can damage your guys, and it's totally cooperative. However, you can't show your hand to anyone, so that no one person and quarterback the game. Then when you're figuring out how to get past each card, that's where you talk through and plan things. It is a really nice balance. I'd highly recommend this game, it can be played solo, and two players esily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted August 17, 2017 Author Share Posted August 17, 2017 Started playing through Pandemic Legacy Season 1 again, first time we did it, it was four people, and yellow was Coda (bad disease), this time it's just my wife and myself and Black is Coda. Spoilers for the game, but what happened in the first three games for us for those who want to see. SPOILERS January (1st) - Super fast game, won quite handily. We went with the researcher and generalist, and we really were able to rock it out. We had maybe four epidemics happen, and just barely got black over yellow and red. Black had 10 cubes in play, yellow had 9, and red had 8. February (1st) - Got nailed on the set-up, had two black cities with three on them, it snowballed pretty quickly but we were close to winning. Still played with researcher and generalist. February (2nd) - Just snuck out a win. We were able to quarantine a little on the second to last turn which saved us. We had everything we needed to win and set-up on my turn, but we needed to survive three cards with one city we knew was coming up that would have and outbreak, I was just able to get there and quarantine it with my fifth action as the generalist. I think we'll move to the quarantine specialist for March as we can make the Generalist and Quarantine Specialist co-workers which would give them the same ability as the researcher has right now, and we need to Quarantine more before it gets really bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fretgod99 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 @The Gnat, we can do spoiler tags now! In case that becomes relevant later ... [.spoiler]Like this (but without the periods!)[./spoiler] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fretgod99 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 3 hours ago, The Gnat said: Got nailed on the set-up, had two black cities with three on them Ouch ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted August 18, 2017 Author Share Posted August 18, 2017 20 hours ago, fretgod99 said: On 8/17/2017 at 8:12 AM, The Gnat said: Got nailed on the set-up, had two black cities with three on them Ouch ... Yeah, was brutal, still almost won. Playing with two players goes so much faster than four players in terms of getting diseases cured. I don't think we've ever gotten to more than three (possibly just hit the fourth in one game) epidemics. So we still have a lot of deck left which is nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted August 21, 2017 Author Share Posted August 21, 2017 I have the base prototype of my board game idea printed off, I need a last piece or two to get it together to test out, but I'm planning on testing it out next Thursday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted August 23, 2017 Author Share Posted August 23, 2017 Played Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle (first book) last night. Was a fun game, not super hard for the first game, but I was prepared for that to be a teaching game. I'm excited to play more rounds of it. We played three player, my wife, myself, and brother-in-law with Harry, Ron, and Hermoine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theJ Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 3 hours ago, The Gnat said: Played Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle (first book) last night. Was a fun game, not super hard for the first game, but I was prepared for that to be a teaching game. I'm excited to play more rounds of it. We played three player, my wife, myself, and brother-in-law with Harry, Ron, and Hermoine. Too lazy to see if this has been asked/answered already - would that be a good two player game? My wife is a huge harry potter fan and likes board games. I was thinking it would be a nice christmas gift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fretgod99 Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 4 hours ago, theJ said: 7 hours ago, The Gnat said: Played Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle (first book) last night. Was a fun game, not super hard for the first game, but I was prepared for that to be a teaching game. I'm excited to play more rounds of it. We played three player, my wife, myself, and brother-in-law with Harry, Ron, and Hermoine. Too lazy to see if this has been asked/answered already - would that be a good two player game? My wife is a huge harry potter fan and likes board games. I was thinking it would be a nice christmas gift. It's a fantastic two player game. My wife and I love it. As Gnat noted, the first game is basically a walk-through. And honestly, the first ~3 books are pretty much on tutorial mode. It picks up after that, especially getting into 6 & 7. 7 is where the real replay value is. My wife and I have started playing around with different ways to make the game a little more difficult because once you start to figure out a few combinations it streamlines the game. Still fun though. It has a bit of a reputation of being extreme one way or another; either you pretty decently handle everything it throws at you, or the combinations of enemies/cards available turns into the game crushing you. But some of the most exciting games are the ones that, for the first 20-30 minutes, look like you're going to get curb-stomped but you find a way to power through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ty21 Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 I've been thinking about buying Yugioh cards and getting back into playing for the first time since 5th grade but I have no friends so I'll have to develop a second personality for myself to play with or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ty21 Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 I wish I had someone to play with lol. My cousin has an entire wall of his house lined with board games because he's obsessed with them so maybe I'll just have to ask him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 Played a game of Ticket to Ride over this weekend with my family. If you haven't played it, it's a good light weight game that anyone can pick up. There's some luck involved, but fits into the weight of game that Catan is, but is better. We had the oddest score line I've ever seen. My dad won with 140 points, I came in 2nd with 116 and my wife and mother tied in 3rd with 115, my brother came in last with 38. It isn't like he's a bad player at this game, in fact he's very good, but just by the luck of it, he was going for some of the same train lines that my mother and I were, and then my father and I were so he just had is board cut down so he couldn't do a big point route that cost him at the end. It was funny because before tallying up the routes that people had completed at the end of the game, my brother and dad were tied in last place. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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