The Syndicate

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 4:48 am we got gloomhaven.... took us like 4 hours to learn/set up/start the first round, but once we got going it's pretty fun but still pretty overwhelming

Good luck. I’m about 40 scenarios in, it’s still good times.

I got Gloomhaven and it could easily become an obsession. It's soooo immersive. But the box weighs more than my 16 month old does.

Spacedaisy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2018 11:43 am

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2017 2:04 pm

Spacedaisy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2017 12:30 amAlso, last time birdwithteeth came to visit we went to Emerald Tavern in Austin and we can never leave without getting a game. This time it was my choice and i went with Above and Below. I really really recommend this game. It is a great blend of worker management and role play. So much fun, especially if you get into using voices and so forth when you read the encounters. I could not speak highly enough of this game.

The sequel, Near and Far, is even better in my opinion. And it is available with an expansion of sorts on Kickstarter right now.

I got Near and Far for Christmas and I LOVE it! We did add a house rule though because we found that if someone just rushes through and throws camps out all over it ends the game too quickly for anyone to play any kind of strategy. It's kind of a good way to lose friends. So now we play it so if you build a camp on the map it ends your turn.

Otherwise a fantastic game!

Interesting house rule. I've seen it that you can't place a camp when you defeat threats, for similar reasons. It's definitely hard to build a strategy (so is Above and Below) because it's hard to trace how others are getting points (or could get them) versus yourself. I always end up way too slow and can't do the storylines further away from the city as fast as others can.

Spacedaisy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2017 12:30 amAlso, last time birdwithteeth came to visit we went to Emerald Tavern in Austin and we can never leave without getting a game. This time it was my choice and i went with Above and Below. I really really recommend this game. It is a great blend of worker management and role play. So much fun, especially if you get into using voices and so forth when you read the encounters. I could not speak highly enough of this game.

The sequel, Near and Far, is even better in my opinion. And it is available with an expansion of sorts on Kickstarter right now.

I have never gone for systems that remove my boxes, even though they are technically a storage nightmare. Instead, I'm going to design a shelf especially for them.

Gloomhaven is the next game to arrive that I'm massively excited for. It looks phenomenal. I can't wait.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I just got Mysterium at the recommendation of a friend. I haven't had an opportunity to play it yet but I look forward to it. It appears to be a sort of combination between Dixit and Clue.

Got it for my nephew at Christmas. It's good, but we haven't won yet.

MovingPictures07 wrote:I played Dixit for the first time a few weeks ago, and it was definitely fun! I'm pretty awful at it though.

How good one is at Dixit is entirely proportional to their brain commonality with the other players.

You can be terrible with one group and great with another.

I just got Dixit this year and its quite fun, except that I discovered thinking of good phrases is amazingly hard!

I'm buying so many board games at the moment that I don't know where I'll store them all. But it's worth it. Unfair, that I linked above, could end up being one of my favourite games ever I think.

motel room wrote:Has anyone played Mysterium? I got it recently and its still in the wrapper but looking forward to playing it, seems cool.

Let me know, it's on my list of possibles.

Another excellent Kickstarter game that I couldn't resist - build your own theme park, take down other people's theme parks.

This one looks very well designed.

It would have to be, like, a Syndicate convention.

I'll just put this here...

http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/3522 ... olf-legacy

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Golden wrote:Power Grid is fun.

I've gone a bit overboard with the tabletop game buying recently but it's so much fun.

It's difficult not to go overboard myself. We haven't been that bad lately, actually, but I'm sure a phase will come again at some point.

It happened when I discovered Kickstarter...

Power Grid is fun.

I've gone a bit overboard with the tabletop game buying recently but it's so much fun.

Having spent a lot of time helping out with the rules of the game Mothership, I really do think it's going to be a great game.

So, basically, I'm pimping/advertising for people who might want to buy it, because I don't want people who might think it is as cool as I do to miss out... pre-orders are going to close in two days. There is no guarantee it will get a retail version, but also in particular the very cool custom dice and silver embossed asteroids will no longer be part of the game or separately purchasable after that point.

You can get pre-orders, and read about the game (in the "Our Story" tab) here:

https://mothership.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders/51535

Ticket to Ride finally goes to New Zealand!!!

(But they should have picked Wellington... grumble grumble.)

http://blog.daysofwonder.com/2016/06/21 ... ils-sails/

Epignosis wrote:I just bought Settlers of Catan for myself for Fathers Day. I also bought my boy some Pokemon cards and played my first game with him. It's basically Magic: The Gathering for kids.

Cool. I enjoy a good game of Catan from time to time.

I've definitely stepped up how much I'm enjoying board games in the last little while. It started with the concept of Legacy gaming which has just made me so much more enthusiatic for board games full stop.

I decided to join Kickstarter and make me first ever pledge because of a board game I liked the look of, called Mothership.



Really looking forward to this one. I think it's going to be awesome.