Mini-zombies are just broken.

Combat in general in MC sucks. Has any mod fixed that yet?

As a current GTNH player, I’d say that’s a tough task. I’m curious to see where it leads and if it establishes itself as a good alternative.

Is it one if those packs that just does not want to be played? Or are the other tiers skipped?

I’m generally falling out of love with expansions. It makes sense in games where it expands the game, so another player can join (i.e. Exploding kittens/imploding kittens) but other than that I’d rather buy a new game than expand one I already know.

I need to stop reading this thread. Every week I want to buy a different game. Earth looks beautiful!

I’m still seriously in love with Cascadia. It has so much replayability due to the changing scoring mechanic.

It was just too slow of a game for the occasion. We’ve all had a couple of beers and explaining the game to one of the four, while reminding the other 3 how to play and also having played a very active/loud game before, was just a bit of a buzzkill. I realized that when the others had a hard time following what was happening and who’s turn it was and so on. Just a bad pick for the night I guess.

Tow classics in our round of 5 players on Saturday night:

5-minute Dungeon: Utter chaos. But extremely cathartic with 5 lads who just watched their favorite football club lose 4:0.

Ticket to Ride: Europe: A classic. We’ve played it before with 4 out of the 5 players attending and had a lot of fun. But it was completely the wrong game for the occasion this time. I guess reading the room/group is an important part of picking the right game.

Playing cockroach poker with some close friends must be really fun for shits and giggle

Can confirm: Many giggles are to be had. It usually comes down to who ever has to take the first card being the prime target afterwards. But I could not imagine playing it with a less close nit group or even strangers.

I’ll post here if I had the chance to play Skull with the lads and let y’all know how it went.

This might just be my german way of saying zhings. The pack is just regrowth and I am playing it parallel to GT:NH as in “at the same time”. Sorry for the confusion

Still playing GT:NH off and on but I also started an old classic of mine in parallel: Regrowth.

The ingredients are one thing but EV? Thats deep into midgame

I love games that you can “play as an appetizer” on a night that includes a “main course”-game afterwards. That’s the role I would see for Sushi Go.

Skull I would take to a different kind of meetup. The bluffing stuff does not go down well with my partner, but I have a group of friends I play with every couple of month. We’ve played cockroach poker during the last two meetups, which is the same slot I would see Skull in.

I love to read this thread. New inspiration week after week.

Sushi Go looks and sounds like fun. I might have to pick that one up at some point. I’m trying not to buy too many games at the moment.

Judging by the comments in this thread its seems to be pretty polarizing. That fits pretty well with how my friend loved it when we played it. But I think he played the physical copy before, so maybe he had good memories of playing it.

What do you like about it? I liked the concept when my friend told me about it, otherwise I would not have tried it, but the reality of it was just me randomly dying and having to restart while my friend got insanely powerful.

I played the steam version once with a mate who was into it. It’s horrible. Time-consuming mess, bad design in so many instances. If you can: Avoid it.

Sorry to be so harsh about a game you like, but it brings out horrible memories.

It took me half a year to get to MV (with a full time job and an active social life). Be aware of what you are getting into.

I went for a huge open floor factory hall with a second layer for fuel pipes underneath. Not sure if it is really necessary to think about layouts in advance.

Try it out. It IS the ultimate expert pack in my opinion and if you have played nomifactory before you know enough about gregtech to get started, although I have to say the two versions of GT differ a lot and I like the one from GTNH better.

Just play GT:NH for half a year and no pack will ever seem tedious to you again.

Out of the three I only played the original E2:E, I liked it, but stopped playing at late midgame/early endgame (I set up some automation for extended craftings pedestal thing and then stopped). Expert packs all seem to get tedious at some point. But so do kitchen sink packs.

I guess I’m saying: Just play a new pack. There are soooooo many packs to play out there.

I was on vacation with my partner last week and we packed the card game version of Café International

The board game version is from 1989 and I was extremely nostalgic about the game, as it was one that I used to play a lot when I visited my grandparents back when I was a young kid.

After playing two round of it we realized: This is and OLD game, and it shows. Even the card game version from 2001 shows it’s age in both the ridiculous artwork as well as the game mechanics like drawing/discarding cards for minutes without any change to the board state.

We chose to leave it in the hotel lobby. Maybe it will bring joy to someone there, it brought no joy to us other than a short flash of nostalgia, so we decided we’ll never play it again.

First 4 player round of Viticulture. A bit to complex for my friends to enjoy it first try, but they want me to bring it again next time we meet.

We tend to play most things only once since everybody is so eager to show off their latest catch. I guess I contributed to that by bringing Cascadia last time and Viticulture this time.

Maybe I should stop that …

Similar, but I’ve only ever heard the term stir-fry used in combination with a wok over EXTREME heat.