Board Game thread

[DFF]

Some friends of mine played Dead of Winter at the weekend - it looked very good. One note though, missions seem to come in length descriptors (e.g. 'short', 'medium' and 'long'). They did a 'medium' one and it took well over 2 hours.

We then played Battlestar Galactica. I know it is quite old, but it was my first time playing and thought it was very good. The traitor mechanic allows for a massive amount of paranoia and adds quite a lot of (good) stress to the game.

We're not a million miles away from International Table Top Day (April 11th). Anyone got anything going off?

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I played Dead of Winter for the first time last night - a "short" mission which took pretty much 2 hours with three players. Loved it though. Great game, mostly because it's one of the most un-zombie zombie games I've played or read about (I don't like zombie games). It's all about the survivors, making tough decisions and balancing working for the good of the group with completing your own personal secret agendas.

Some of the decisions we had to make last night:

Kill a helpless survivor who was infected OR treat him and risk outbreak in the camp (we killed him).

After finding a horse, deciding whether to keep it to ride around on, but have to feed it each time, OR kill it for food (we killed it).

Rescue an injured helicopter pilot OR leave her to die and take her supplies instead (he left her to die, the swine).

We went through a tiny percentage of the decisions deck of cards and most of them didn't trigger either, so the storytelling scope is HUGE.

[DFF]

I played Dead of Winter for the first time last night - a "short" mission which took pretty much 2 hours with three players. Loved it though. Great game, mostly because it's one of the most un-zombie zombie games I've played or read about (I don't like zombie games). It's all about the survivors, making tough decisions and balancing working for the good of the group with completing your own personal secret agendas.

Some of the decisions we had to make last night:

Kill a helpless survivor who was infected OR treat him and risk outbreak in the camp (we killed him).

After finding a horse, deciding whether to keep it to ride around on, but have to feed it each time, OR kill it for food (we killed it).

Rescue an injured helicopter pilot OR leave her to die and take her supplies instead (he left her to die, the swine).

We went through a tiny percentage of the decisions deck of cards and most of them didn't trigger either, so the storytelling scope is HUGE.

Yeah, I liked how - for the most part - you could replace the zombies with something else and it'd all still work.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

It's what I'd call an "event" game - something that feels like a special treat when you set it up to play. Like Twilight Struggle for example.

[Benjamin]

Oh man, I played Battlestar Gallactica one time. Hated it. I already don't think co-op games were for me, but this one took fucking forever at that.

We then played Tokaido, and that is so fun. Might be my favorite board game right now.

[Toe]

I just bought Dead Of Winter as well. Excited to play it.

Anyone play Galaxy Trucker? I did this weekend, and thought it was awesome. Watching a meteor hit someone's ship in the perfect spot that made it fall apart was hilarious.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I've got Galaxy Trucker. We've played it a number of times. It's fun but probably needs an expansion or two to stay fresh when plays hit double figures.

[Maxx]

Thanks to expansions, I've got Smash Up up to 20 factions, the possibilities are now endless! I've still yet to be able to wrangle a group together to play Betrayal at House on the Hill though

[TEOL]

Twilight Struggle anyone?

It's brilliant. You can play it online somewhere too. I'll try and remember where and we should get some EWB games set up as I know a few of us like it.

http://twistrug.jjt.io/#/ and http://www.wargameroom.com/ are the two main options I believe. Love TS, would definitely throw down with some EWBers.

And you bastard, I really want Dead of Winter but I left it until after Wheaton did it and it's like doubled in price when it's available at all Tempted to run it on EWB if I get the chance.

[Meacon Keaton]

Thanks to expansions, I've got Smash Up up to 20 factions, the possibilities are now endless! I've still yet to be able to wrangle a group together to play Betrayal at House on the Hill though

I wanna play Betrayal.

[Maxx]

Come visit! Or make TEOL run the game on here again but actually do it this time.

[TEOL]

I might actually do that!

[Maxx]

Count me in!

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

Me too!

[RPS]

So I bought Diplomacy and I've got a tentative date set up for next month to play it with a group. How much time should I give myself to understand the rules? This seems extremmmmmmmmmmmmmmely complex.

[Meacon Keaton]

I played it a few years ago and I don't remember it being all that difficult. It was a blast, though, and took three or four hours if I'm remembering right. A whole lot of fun, though.

[stokeriño]

Provided you've not completely set your heart on keeping all of these friends, everything will be super.

[Nick Adams]

Just played the Firefly board game this past Saturday. Once you learn all the rules, it plays fast, but before then, it is so slow.

[Meacon Keaton]

Was it fun? I love the show, and I love board games, yet I've not tried it out yet. It keeps getting brought up every game night I have though as the next potential purchase.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Apparently a couple of the expansions really add to it too. One makes the Reavers a bigger presence in the game and another adds a new chunk of the board with new missions and so on.

I've never played it or even seen it set up so I don't really know much about it.