Be Excellent To Each Other

If I hadn't been told in no uncertain terms that I'm banned from buying board games until we have a bigger house, I'd be buying Memoir 44.

I'd probably give it a try. The Internet's not short of good writing/podcasts/videos about tabletop games, though. So a mag would need to either have rrrrrrrreally good writing or some other hook.

Curse you shelf space, my old nemesis! We meet again!

Given how sold-out all of the best and most tempting expansions are: Have fun!

if it were available on Apple's Newsstand then yeah.

We've been looking at houses recently and I dismiss houses immediately if they don't have a room sure I can store games and space for a big dining table.

This makes much more sense if you don't misread houses as horses.

Does anyone here have Memoir 44 and play Overlord stuff?

Is it better to buy a second base game or buy the Operation Overlord expansion to get the 'best' Overlord experience (especially with all of the Overlord orientated maps).

I've got all the stuff for Overlord but haven't managed to get it to the table yet so take this with a pinch of salt. The problem is that you want the Overlord expansion in order to get the re-jigged cards that stop people having to mentally translate the original cards at the table. On the other hand, you obviously need a second board in order to play. So the way to go would seem to be the Overlord expansion plus something like Sword Of Stalingrad. But for that much money you could have bought a second base set. But if you bought a second base set you've not got the Overlord decks.

In summary: it's a bugger.

Portal game in development - WANT!

Saw a great comment about that on shut up and sit down. Someone moaned about the presence of cake in the game and said that meme was becoming tiresome. Someone else replied they'd love it if all the marketing material showed cake, the rules mentioned cake but the game came without cake. All letters to the publisher querying this could result in a letter with a five word response...

I got the Grimlet the Batman "Escape from Arkham City" game for his birthday, so I get to play that next week.

Once.

Before I we go back to playing Conquest of Planet Earth.

In other board game news, I get a feeling I'd love Zombieside, but it's so damned expensive. Is it worth the £60, SDG?

Hmmph. Well, I'd characterise it as a cri du coeur rather than a moan, BUT YOU KNOW.

I'd say so, yes. I didn't actually pay for my copy since it was a birthday present but I would buy it for my girlfriends little sister as a birthday present because I think it's worth it.
Lots of replay ability with the set scenarios in the booklet and others available to download online. The hard scenarios are certainly hard as well- we tried one and got slaughtered. So there are lots of opportunities to retry scenarios to do better. Also very easy to pick up if you're teaching it to other people and it's undeniable that when you are backed into a corner dual wielding smg's and you take out multiple zombies to escape, you can't help but feel like a badass

What's conquest of planet earth like? And perhaps repeatedly, any one got any good recommendations for games that work well for two players?

Haha was that you?! If so, you had a great response as well if I remember rightly, pretty sure I up voted the comment
Edit-yes, it was you and yes, your reply to the expected first response to your comment made me laugh. As did the follow up by A.N.Other-"Now the cake is...a die?"

I love the shit out of it.

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Had a fun afternoon in Oxford's board game cafe today. We need to have a BeexMeet there: it's a brilliant place to try new games.
Played two today.

- 'Space Cadets - Dice duel'

We were in two teams, each in a different space ship. Aim was to destroy the other team by inflicting four hits on them. Each player had a different role covering the helm (moving), shields, torpeados, missile guidance, and engineering. Engineering was most important as he had to keep on rolling dice to get the right combinations so over parts of the ship could build weapons, secure defences, move etc. Play happens simultaneously until one team yell 'Fire!' and launch their torpedoes. Any damage is assessed then the frantic rolling and ship building continues. It got surprisingly desperate as we all wanted different rolls to improve our part of the ship!

-'Fire Point'
A co-operative. We're firefighters, trying to put out fires and be heroic by rescuing people in distress. We played the simple rules, and did have to balance saving people againt containing fires (the mechanism works a little like the spread of disease in 'Pandemic'). You have four action points per turn but unused ones can be carried over to your next go which aided tactical planning. We beat the game and saved the required number of people - two others and a cat died during our rescue attempts.

But yes, BeexMeet in Oxford. If ever you are passing through, drop me a line for beer or board games (or both, they just got their licence). Greatest city in the world. Crash space at New Kern Hall.

Duly noted.

You have my sword.

Dice Duel is the shoutiest game in the world. I don't mean this as a negative.

Oh very much so. Even more when you're in a public place. I think one particular yelliing of 'FIRE!' silenced the cafe momentarily.
I certainly kep on getting frustrated when my engineer wouldn't generate the helm moves I needed, whilst the gun crew were getting all the attention.

I'm either blind, stupid, or both. Can someone point out to me how you register on the SUSD site to take part in the discussions under the articles?

You don't register with the site, you login with Disqus. At the top of each comments thread under each article you should see "X Comments" on the left then a D in a speech bubble and "Login" on the right. You can then either create a Disqus account or login using a Google, Facebook or Twitter account. Et voila!

Thanks

Is that the one we played at the cottage with the palm trees?

The cottage doesn't have any palm trees

Yup.

I almost won. Because mali.

That was the incredibly simple game that made no sense at all, wasn't it?

Went back to the board game cafe with a different crowd today. Played two games of 'Makkaresh' and two of Advanced Putin Simulation'Revolution'.

'Makkaresh' was a fun, quick game involving laying down real bits of carpet and charging your opponents rent whenever they move the big, fez-wearing souck owner lands onto your bit of rug. Revenge is sweet as at the end of your go, regardless of whether you paid rent or now, you get to lay down more rugs and can even place them on top of others. Got very back-bitey very quickly.

My pards hadn't played Beex-Game of the Year 2013 'Revolution' before, so I aced the first round then completely buggered up the second. Bah.

To one of us, certainly - I forget who that was, though.

I think it was the person who was making such a hash of explaining the rules.

I'm not sure how many different ways I could say "You move and then you fight".

By adding a smirking ice somewhere into equation

Oh, yeah, there are these tokens too, I didn't tell you about those...

Wrong game.

See, how confusing is that!

Which is the one that you said was really simple, but then confused everyone by leaving out half the rules, and then the game ended quite abruptly when someone left a ton of tokens unguarded and Zeppo just went and took them without a fight, one turn before I was going to do so?

Apparently not Conquest of Planet Earth...

New games this week! Hive pocket, bought for taking on holiday with us next month. Anyone got any other good recommendations for games that travel well and would be suitable for playing on a hotel balcony?

Quantum arrived today, I saw a review of it and thought it looked great but it was sold out, so as soon as it was available again I ordered it. Can't wait to play it, it looks like it scales really well for 2, 3, or 4 players.

Love Letter!


No Thanks! is a nice light little game without much of a footprint, but you need 3 people to play it.

I got Love Letter in the Secret Santa. I really need to dig it out and play it.

I really like Love Letter.

Ok, you've convinced me. I've ordered Love Letter. and The Rivals for Catan. Hovering over Race for the Galaxy.

Was listening to blue peg pink peg today interviewing designers of Dead of Winter. First I'd heard of it I think but now I really really want it!

I've got it on pre-order. I'll have to check that interview out, cheers!

I was on the plaid hat games page last night considering pre ordering it. Think they're doing it for $35 $39.95 +$10 shipping.

In what might be a new record, we lost Forbidden Island in two turns last night. As in: player one's turn, player two's turn, shall we reset the board and go again?

We've also been playing the hell out of Carcassonne lately, largely because it's a nice, gentle game without much confrontation that my wife and daughter both dig.

So I called into a department store to get some photo frames, and saw they had 'King of Tokyo' for sale! Been after it for ages so happily bought it.

It's very good. Did you play at Cott4ge?