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Post by Brave Sir Robin on Jul 3, 2016 23:26:39 GMT
Whilst MTG consumes lots of my life, I have been enjoying muggle games a lot recently too, and wondered what favourites others have.
Powergrid will always be amongst the best for me, along with Citadels and those are the first two I bought that are still in my collection iirc. I still really enjoy Ticket to Ride (the US version) and I think it's a great game to play with people who aren't very experienced with games too. I have recently added Robo-rally, One Night Ultimate Werewolf and Race for the Galaxy to my collection, and I am clean to play more of all of them. The one game I don't own that I'd really love to play more of is 7 Wonders, I remember enjoying it immensely when I played it before.
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Post by Jonny on Jul 4, 2016 17:23:35 GMT
Heh. NOW you're talking my language. I literally cannot fit any more boardgames in the cabinet currently solely used for boardgame storage in my house.
Current favourites:
Eldritch Horror - Take Arkham Horror, make it global, and strip out all the dead-weight mechanics. It's both streamlined and more complex and I really love it, especially with the Mountains of Madness expansion, which does everything a good expansion should.
Eight Minute Empire - Perfect distillation of expansion/conquest game into a short (realistically about 20 minutes) but deeply satisfying play experience. I would describe this as a perfect game, in that it is as good as it is possible for it to be, and absolutely complete within itself
Wiz War - I love running around throwing spells at each other in a dungeon. Fast paced and so wildly unbalanced in all directions that it all balances out. Plus, if all else fails, you can punch a wizard! You can always punch a wizard.
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Post by missnash on Jul 4, 2016 17:33:25 GMT
I'm going to enjoy this feed I think... I love board games but solely end up playing the ones for under 10s... I will be looking into all of these! Brave Sir Robin did you ever play the Buffy board game? I remember having it and not understanding it!
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Post by Brave Sir Robin on Jul 4, 2016 21:48:20 GMT
I never did, I often find board games based on existing IP are not quite as good as originals (though the BSG board game is absolutely brilliant).
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Post by ianh on Jul 5, 2016 9:42:51 GMT
At the moment I'm playing a lot of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, Arkham Horror (clunky I know but we have fun with it), Mysterium, Skull, Ticket to ride Europe (currently waiting for the Brexit variation rules to arrive) and SmallWorld (which I love)... Need to try and get Mice and Mystics to the table too!
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Post by Brave Sir Robin on Jul 5, 2016 10:10:06 GMT
The Holmes game seems interesting - my flat mate has played it a bit. Arkham is great, but feels like so much effort. I have to say I was disappointed with Ticket to Ride Europe, I didn't feel it played nearly as well as the US version. (I've also played the Scandinavian and England maps.) Small World is brilliant. I would like to play more of it.
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Post by Melysllew on Jul 5, 2016 10:40:35 GMT
Carcasonne is one of my favourite board games (I've played with the river and abot expantions). Small World is a good one too, although I've only played it a few times. I also really like Lords of Waterdeep (I have a friend who has the corruption expansion for that which adds a whole new level to the game). A while ago I played Betrayal in the House on the Hill for the first time which was brilliant, but the traitor rules confused me a lot. ANd Pandemic is one I used to love playing, but haven't in ages.
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Post by Jonny on Jul 5, 2016 14:12:43 GMT
A while ago I played Betrayal in the House on the Hill for the first time which was brilliant, but the traitor rules confused me a lot. Yeah, it takes some getting your head around, but is well worth it. What I love about Betrayal is that there are 50 different scenarios, and they clearly set themselves 50 as an arbitrary target before actually starting to make them. So some of the possible scenarios are so clearly phoned in and broken that it becomes hilarious. Also, I have a deep love of games where each card gives some lovely flavour, but fit together in really weird ways. Eg. I was playing the little girl, and got an event card which was "There's an old mirror in this room. Your frightened reflection moves on it's own. You realise it's you from another time. Your reflection writes on the mirror "This will help" and reaches through the mirror. Draw one item". I drew an item card: Handgun! The seven year old girl spent the rest of the game running around gunning things down with the revolver her mirror self had given her. It was ace. Or another example was an event that placed an old wardrobe in a room, and it could be checked, and depending on what you roll, you could find nothing, items or event cards. First player checks: Nothing. Second player checks: Nothing. I check: event card. The event card is: A burning man runs out of the shadows! A flaming human being who had apparently been lurking in the wardrobe, unnoticed by the others who looked inside.
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Post by Brave Sir Robin on Jul 5, 2016 23:33:42 GMT
I like carcassone, haven't played it in years though. Lords of Waterdeep is brilliant Oneiros has it and I've played it with the corruption expansion as well. Such a good game. I think Pandemic is brilliant, but I don't play it much any more because it's so prone to 'quarterbacking'. I wanna try the legacy version though.
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