Be Excellent To Each Other

I would probably win a lot more at NetRunner if I did not showboat into traps.

One for Mali: https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/n ... mainframe/

Tempting. I will ask about it at Netrunner Club on Monday.

Played 'Sheriff of Nottingham' last night. One of my bugbears with that game has always been the scoring at the end (I'm yet to download the app). Someone in my group suggested we use the money supply to count up the points, and this worked really well. I still came third out of five though.

Also played 'Istanbul', a deceptively simple resource-buying-and-selling-resources game with a nice twist on the '5 Tribes' dropping people across the board mechanism, and 'Cockroach poker', a quick bluffing game. We didn't have the time to play 'Secret Hitler'.

I love netrunner club. It is beer. Them a train. Then netrunner. And beer. Then maccyDs. Then a train.

Did you smash the sinister megaglobal corporation too?

Yeah. Sort if. Lost my first game as Corp due to 3 agendas bring next to each other. Won when I was a runner as I was super aggressive and then lost as a runner because "nobody would keep the points in an unguarded pile". Oops.

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Nope.

Stupid phone text.

do card games live here?
I got exploding kittens nsfw edition for valentines day 2 nil to me versus wife. should be more funner with more people too.

I kickstarted it and took it to the cottage. We played it for a while before getting utterly engrossed by the Great Dalmuti.

Come to cottage, play it with Craster.
He loves the nope cards.

I LOVE THE NOPE CARDS

actually the shuffle cards are best.

Had a fun afternoon playing various games with my group yesterday. Initial thoughts on each (links are to Boardgamegeek):

-Skull & Roses. Simple gambling game with agonising decisions. Definitely a good filler with simple rules and a lot of stress for the players. I folded far too often.

-Samuri Spirit. Co-op game. We're all samuaris saving a village from evil ninjas. If you get two wounds you transmogrify to your power animal (I went for the bear, obviously) for extra strength. Great opportunities for co-operation and sharing of powers to those who need them, but despite our best efforts the village was still overrun by the bad people. Oh well.

-Secret Hitler. Variant of the 'Resistance' mechanic with a president choosing a chancellor and the players voting on that combination. If approved, the pres draws three policy cards, discards one, and hands the other two to the chancellor to decide which to enact. Policies are either 'liberal' or 'fascist' - you need 6 liberal ones for freedom to triumph. One player is Hitler but he doesn't know who his fellow fascists are. He can also seize power and win. I didn't fall asleep, but everybody wrongly thought I was Adolph. Must speak up more.

-Spyfall. I like this. Everyone's in the same location with a particular role, expect for the spy. For instance, the location is 'beach' and my role is 'lifeguard'. Each player asks questions and answers in character trying to work out who is the spy. The spy has to work out where everyone is. Rounds are timed to 8 minutes. This could work at Cottage or on the board, with suitable amendments.

-Formula D. Roll-and-move racing game. Change gears for to go faster (ie, use larger dice) but be careful you don't damage your wheels, engine, suspension, or gears as you take damage around the track. Within seven people it was surprisingly fun and tense.

That sounds fun and simple enough to play, plus it sounds as if it will also give the quieter players among us the chance to play if everyone has questions asked of them if we played at the cottage, etc.

A corner haas been turned! Criminally I dragged out two wins, albeit down to the wire. And then lost a third. But! Ended up 2 for 1! Hurrah!

Was quietly pleased to hear the 'Ford's board game café feature on the 18:30 comedy on Radio 4 this evening.

Was due to start 'Pandemic:legacy' this evening with my board game pards but have just dropped out due to sickness. Oh, the irony.

Hadn't won a single game since then. Until last night where I scooped a win using a new (for me) character. I really like my runner game at the moment, even if someone was telling me I was using the wrong cards.

My Corp game isn't great right now, I am struggling to score out agendas and have a hand full of them. I will look into this.

I now own Colt Express. Yay!

Yay!

I really enjoyed playing this but 'The Lady' seems to be a bit OP compared with the rest of the characters - and you almost need to plan to deal with her separately from everyone else

You shoot Mr Dave

Is that the one you can't attack unless she's on her own?

She did seem a bit OP when we played at the cottage, but I think we played the rules slightly wrong about punching people. Can always just take her out of the deck if you're playing with 5 or fewer.

You cant attack her unless she is the only person you can attack , so punch and it just needs to be you and her / shoot and if you can shoot anyone else then you need to shoot them and not her.

I played twice a few weeks ago and the person playing the Lady won both games - one was close but I think thats because we all realized 'she' was the person to beat so tried hard to target her.

We started 'Pandemic:Legacy' last night. Lost the first game due to a poorly-timed epidemic card but won the second. Defacing the board and tearing up cards for the first time felt odd at first but we'll get used to it. When you eradicate a disease, you get to name it. So we called the blue cubes 'Thematic Irony' and wrote this on the spot.

Don't want to say too much because of spoilers etc.

We then relaxed with shooty-shooty fun in 'Colt Express', with the stagecoach expansion.

Easy victory at 'Pandemic:legacy' last night. We romped home, although we now fear that the game will punish us next time. We also realised we'd made a mistake in the rules in the first game but don't think it's going to seriously affect how we play.

Then played 'Quadropolis'. It's a city building game with an interesting grid mechanic for getting your tiles that offers lots of possibilities to screw people over.

Ended with 'Dixit' which I'm still not sure about but I won so that's ok.

Sounds good. A colleague of MrsA's has bought her 'Powergrid', ( or as I like to call it 'Kraftwerkindustrie'. Looking forward to playing that.

Dixit- looks like articulate?

Yes, I think it's because I don't have enough shared experiences with the people I play with to know how to pitch a description or guess theirs.

'Powergrid' is excellent.

Younger generation dream team represent.


Is it ok with 2? Is it quick to learn? Does it really take 2 hours?

I've only played once, with four people. It did take 2 hours or so but the time flew by. I think we then spent the next hour or so dissecting exactly which decisions people made when which caused the eventual outcome.

Netrunner tonight.

I will have the final week of playing my corporation "push their hand size down to slow their play and kill them" set* before it'll all get shuffled away for some time. The runner set, too.



*cybernetics division with self destruct chips and punitive counterstrikes. Not ideal but hum ti tum.

*leela with turntable. I know I know

3 wins in 3 games! I might retire undefeated now.

[citation needed]

We should have a World Championships.

I am surprised we have not already.

Speaking of competitions, the board game café are holding a Pandemic tournament soon.

Crikey, those are some prizes

Netrunner lulz: http://www.semicoop.com/comic/an-emergency/

Netrunner night! Sane decks as before. Same uncool cards. New Tyrell Corp t shirt.

T shirt got some rep.

Ended up 1-3 and missing preferred train home. Now in the spoons with a load of Nasty Leeds fans.

The 1 was a fucking ace win though.

Nail-biting photo finish at the end of the latest episode of 'Pandemic: Legacy' last night. We were just able to beat the game before we ran out of blue cubes.
We then played 'Star Realms'. It's 'Dominion'....IN SPACE! Quite easy to learn and playing in teams was fun.
Ended with 'Suburbia': a charming city-building game I like but I lost badly due to not generating enough income early on.

http://kotaku.com/crowdfunded-dark-soul ... 1771884239

£80?! That's too much

A friend is vaguely and tangentially involved with this game, which seems like it might be a good laugh. It's a bit Cards Against Humanity, but with a little more freedom and variety, I think. And less obvious filth.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/55 ... =discovery

Another fun round of 'Pandemic: Legacy'. Just finished June and won on the first game (you get two shots at each month). Still enjoying the surprises and innovations that the game is bringing in as well as agonising tactical choices. Yeah, we really needed a dispatcher last time round, but the ['new character' - Spoiler umpire] was so dam helpful and oh god why are the yellows suddenly spawning everywhere.

Also played 'Good Cop; Bad Cop' - stud poker like game of hidden and revealed identities. Probably a little too over-reliant on special power cards but might be better with more than four.

Tried a couple of co-op variants of 'Star Realms' ('Dominion IN SPACE') but both felt unbalanced in their mechanics.

Depends what's in the box, I guess. I paid £70 for Imperial Assault, which comes with 30 something lovely 28mm scale miniatures and lots of board tiles. AND SO MANY CARDS. And, y'know, Star wars.

Umm..

£30 for netrunner core set
2× expansions @ £20 each
8 data packs at £10 each.

Oh.

I'm not sure it does. £80 (or £70) is too much of anyone's money. Those 28mm minis cost about 1p each to make

Worst offender for this is Portal, IMO. £60! I see it's already £33 on Amazon (Imperial Assault is down to £60), which isn't surprising because there's nothing much in the box at all.

The turret mini is lovely, though.

Pricing high for the first month and gouging the early adopters seems to be a pretty common board game tactic.