Any suggestions, warnings or memorable sessions?
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For us the dust is settling after moving and yesterday we played some good old Dominion 2ed with Intrigue 2ed. I use Randominion to create the market of cards and simply wanted that at least 50% of the cards are from intrigue. We hd a very close first game with steward (chapel light) and it came down to a single point difference. The other game was a slaughter with Replace, Mill and Nobles all in the game so curses were flying left and right. We exhausted all curses quickly
We played Cartographers this week as we babbled on for a bit too long without any thought as to what we’d play.
We played it previously as a group about 2 years ago, so it was nice to revisit it finally. A simple flip-and-write game with some element of interfering with other players (namely the player to your left). A nice fun puzzle to share with the other players!
Watch out the monster cards have different directions. So not only interaction to one side.
Ooo I didn’t know this! One of the few times I wasn’t being a rules goblin, so I gave myself over fully to the owner! We only had one Goblin card come up anyway, so nothing too drastic.
Thank you!
A couple of plays of Red Cathedral. We tried the advanced side of the boards for the first time. Definitely the way to go. Minimal extra rules and adds some interesting decisions. I lost both games, I think I tend to stay too committed to early decisions that are not working out instead of adjusting my strategy.
We tried the new Valley expansion for Renature. It’s just a new 2-sided board with a few mushroom tokens but it shakes up the game dramatically! The mushroom tokens let you change a green area into brown and hence join brown areas together which are then considered the same area for scoring purposes. I love how this lets you raise the stakes and manipulate the board state. The new board is double-sided and the two sides are significantly different too. Gotta be one of the most impactful and yet simple expansions out there, almost like a v2.0. I am losing at this one too but loving every minute of it :)
Right now I have Nautilion on the table. Simple solo (or 2p coop) fun. I am fairly new to it, still have to try all the included expansions.
Played our 3rd game of Ark Nova, this time it took us “only” 3.5h with 2 players, omg.
Got difficult winning condition cards and starting hand. After the first 2 games had been pretty clear in terms of what to do, I struggled to find my way here. Lost with -7 to 26 or so.
Not sure if I would want to buy it (had it rented from the library), seems too luck based in terms of cards.
Sorry to hear that this is your experience with Ark Nova. I think its very little luck based but strategy heavy and finding ways to get through a lot of cards to find what you need can be crucial. I personally think its the best two player game out there
To be fair I did some stupid mistakes, so not blaming the game here. Finding optimal strategy for various situations is usually something I enjoy
I also have to correct myself, I meant to say I do not think its too much luck-based. Sure, sometimes everything can go wrong but usually there are many avenues to claw your way back in. I even had games were everything aligned, I got all the cards I needed and could aim to get the max conservation points on the green cards, in the end I lost because I did not have enough power-5 actions to play it all. So important lessons were learned :)
This is a common complaint from most new players. It can be tough to work out the right synergies with the cards you’re dealt but it can be done. I’ve got almost 50 games in now and I can always find something to do with the cards I get. And don’t sleep on upgrading your action cards that let you play from the reputation row. Those are game changers.
Finally got Voidfall and played my first game with 2 others. It was one of the best gaming sessions I’ve had in a long time! So many great decisions to make in that game and very satisfying to play. Once you get the icons familiarized it becomes very breezy. What an amazing game and amazing production.
Played “That Time You Killed Me” for the first time.
I was in search of a good time travel game and settled on this. I’ve only played the first scenario so far, I’ll post again once I’ve finished the other three scenarios. So far, it’s been a little lacking in the time travel department and feels like I’m playing chess/checkers on three different boards. It’s still a good game, just not enough time traveling.
Does anyone have other recommendations for a game that uses enough time travel to make Nolan blush?
Temporum has non-stop time travel and alternate history.
On the plus side is; Designer: Donald X. Vaccarino
I have not played it though, and it sounds like it may not hit the sweet spot that Dominion did. Chock full of time travel though!
Interesting to hear. When I played it, I wished the publisher was less reluctant to use words, just combining symbols with a single word would have cleared up the overview by so much. My group(4p) played the tutorial for 3 hours after watching 1h of instruction video and decided we are not going to play this regularly enough to ever get over the required training barrier. Seems you guys are more fit, and it really looks beautiful. Enjoy!
