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There is a point each time that I start to tire of it, as you have to repeat your way through each scenario 3-4 times (with better information each time) in order to finish the story, but in a couple of incidents we've fudged some dice rolls and such in order to succeed and not have to repeat something yet again. As long as she's okay with me doing that (she is), then I'm good. As scenarios go, the original Asylum is still the best, but the other two were both fun as well. I've heard that the next one about ancient Egypt (Under the Mask) is particularly good, and I should be getting that soon. There's been some bitching on TOS about "proper" 2p rules not being included, but we love it as it is by controlling 2 characters each, which works fine.
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Did a Winston Draft with some Innistrad MtG packs. My son ended up with a really top heavy 3-color deck, but made it work. I left some obvious plays out there to see if he found them. He did and was able to come back and win. This seems like sandbagging now in hindsight, but I was more interested in him seeing the plays than the actual game. We kept the decks together so we can try again.
We made it through April (4-0 now) in PANDEMIC LEGACY. This was a squeaker. Spoilered discussion below, do NOT read this if you haven't played PANDEMIC LEGACY.
Good game of SURVIVE. It was really tough to get rescued--I think I had the most with 5. Game ended with a tie at 16 points--tough out there for a swimmer.
PICTOMANIA rounded out the weekend. I was again not in the best of moods, and was getting really frustrated with the other players showing their cards, saying, "I'm not telling you what animal I am drawing," or drawing early and stuff. I should have recused my self, just wasn't into this one.
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We followed up with another four-player game of Argent. We used the "beginners setup" in the rulebook, which is actually really light on research, so spells were pretty rare. The guy who got the most spells won pretty decisively, though having the most influence probably helped him too. The strength of influence is considerable, as I've not see the influence leader lose yet. I'm kind of thinking of it as "most money" in Power Grid, not the actual victory condition but one that will push you over in any close game.
Also I think having a lot of spells with a variety of abilities is a big deal. That allows you to accomplish a lot more with fewer actions, though mana flow might be an issue.
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Last night we played two games of Pandemic Legacy. The last one was our first game in September, and it was dire.
We then followed it up with a game of Samurai, which I also got in a math trade. I have played my copy twice now, and it's playing much better for me now than it did in like 2010, or whenever I last played it. It definitely has the feel of a "classical" kind of game, something that's been in existence for many years. I also think this is probably one of the nicest reprints I've seen in a while. The black pieces aren't quite as fetching, but everything else looks terrific. I like it a lot more than the reprints of Tigris & Euphrates and the upcoming one of Ra.
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Then I proceeded to decimate him at Theseus using the Hunters faction which we both feel is probably overpowered.
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What he left out was that we both knew that I would beat his ass so badly at Mortal Kombat X, that we didn't even need to play it.
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Let me tell you, anyone who is still all "OH BOO HOO HOO THE GAME CAN'T BE PLAYED FOREVER AND WANTS ME TO HARM MY PRECIOUS THIIIIIINGS" is denying themselves a huge fun time. We had a blast. I would happily buy another copy and play through it AGAIN, even knowing what's coming. They did a great job with this.
You can see a spoiler-riffic look at our final board state here: SPOILERS
The group that did it: me, my wife, my pal Matt, and his wife, are going to try Robinson Crusoe next (which Matt and I like). We're going to play the base game and if the wives go for it, then do the Voyages of the Beagle campaign. I plan to order Seafall as soon as preorders open at Plaid Hat (Rob says that's the channel that puts the most money in his pocket) but that may be a tough sell to my wife.
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The combat was take it or leave it. I don't think it's bad but it's not good and doesn't live up to the rest of the game. We only had like 4 battles the entire game though, which felt good.
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Millennium Blades which is going to take some repeated plays to learn effectively, because right now it feels like you can be shut out of finding good combos for the tournament phase just due to reasons.
Isle of Skye with three new players, who all seemed to grasp the rules well enough. The trading phase maybe bumps the complexity higher than a similar game like (base) Carcassonne or Cacao, but that's what I like about it. That and the randomized scoring options each game. I was pursuing a rectangle strategy but had cut off my roads, and the player who won had nicely cornered the market in end-game scoring tiles.
Shadowrun: Crossfire with four of us who had all played the game at least a couple of times. We won this one, got a couple of breaks on crossfire effects not landing as hard as they could have, but also we ran well as a team and had resources to spare. Two of us have 5pt upgrades and ~20 karma now so at some point we'll either have to get others to build characters or halt our progress and just play the game.
Zombicide solo testing out a downloaded mission. I'm skeptical when missions offer the ability to shut down empty spawn points because in this one mission, two of the four active spawns could be shut down in turn one on the empty board. I would have to tweak this one to get a challenging game out of it, but I like the toolbox the game provides.
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Legomancer wrote: Pandemic Legacy - we finished Season One. We did...poorly.
Let me tell you, anyone who is still all "OH BOO HOO HOO THE GAME CAN'T BE PLAYED FOREVER AND WANTS ME TO HARM MY PRECIOUS THIIIIIINGS" is denying themselves a huge fun time. We had a blast. I would happily buy another copy and play through it AGAIN, even knowing what's coming.
You really can't replay it with your copy? Honest question.
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Gary Sax wrote: Hmmmm, I have the first Theseus expansion but not hunters... sounds rough.
Their "signature move" is that their cards almost entirely allow you to break movement rules. So, if I land on a space, I can then move a different guy to any space. That second guy doesn't get to do anything, but I ended up creating these loops that allowed me to control my normal movement better, which got me the extra turn space and greater onslaught more often, as well as triggering lesser onslaughts more often.
I think he had 13 life and 15 data and I won with 20 data and 20 life.
He was playing Greys.
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