Boardgames

Been in the north GA mountains playing board games with some of my closest friends. For the last several years we rent a cabin for at least weekend each year. It’s my last one before moving and it’s been a blast. Still have through Monday.

[Edit for games play list:]

• Seas of strife
• Nippon
• So Clover
• Knarr
• Wyrmspan
• Aqua
• Just One
• Supply Lines of the American Revolution
• Table tennis
• Zombicide
• Straw

I finally received my copies of two Splotter Spellen titles that a friend of mine was holding onto. Beest and D’raf. The original seller wasn’t shipping them outside of the EU, so my friend in Spain received them and brought them back.

Also happy that the DIY box style matches my edition is of Bus.

Once I get my preordered rerelease of Ur: 1830 BC, I’ll have every title I’d been interested in, bringing the total to 15.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10807345

Played Space Hulk's second mission last night as the genestealers. Ton of fun. Compared to the first mission, the board setup was absolutely massive.

In this mission the marines won by either locking down all the genestealer entry points or killing all the genestealers. The genestealers won by killing all the marines. Genestealers didn't have infinite reserves, and lost 1/3 of their blip tokens from the initial pool.

I had early luck as the marine with the assault cannon used a lot of ammo to blow open doors, and then after his reload shoot at a few blips of genestealers before rolling an improbable triple same number, which ressulted in the assault cannon's ammo cooking off and killing the marine.

I tried to leverage this by bringing all my genestealers in on this side of the board. I sent some groups preparing to ambush the thunder hammer and storm shield welding sergeant, and other groups to take out the lone normal terminator.

I paid for my early luck as the lone terminator rolled hit after hit with no jams, completely destroying lines of genestealers. The sergeant moved into the hallway where genestealer laid in wait on both sides and used multiple high numbers of command points to take initiative, destroying clusters of genestealers, then turn around to face a line of attackers. While not ideal, the genestealers had numbers on their side, by the sergeant smashed alien after alien, with none landing a hit on him. That was game.

Fun mission. I wish we'd had time to swap sides, but next play will be mission 3. I have the genestealers in my possession and plan to paint them as fast as I am able.

Last year I made a physical board game that ties in to my group’s pathfinder campaign, and with how well it went I’ve made a digital version of it and released it under the Paizo Community Use Policy.

Its set in Thuvia and centres around the Sun Orchid Elixir Sale.

The game consists of eight rounds with two main phases, and is a mix of strategic worker placement/resource management and card based bidding/bluffing.

The game supports up to six players, but also includes rules for playing solo.

It is fully free to play, and you can find it here: https://vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Sun_Orchid_Elixir_Sale

(Although mechanically complete, there are some cards that are missing flavour text right now. This might get updated in future versions, I invite your suggestions)

(This was originally a physical board game, and some design elements still reflect that. I am considering redoing the main game board from scratch, if you see anything else that might need redesigning now that the format has changed to digital, I invite your suggestions)

I got my father-in-law for the family secret Santa this year. He's super into Marvel/comics and I was thinking of getting him a marvel/superhero themed board game he can play with the family. Google returned a bunch of different options for Marvel themed games, but I can't tell which are good or bad.

What games would you recommend for gifting?

I've been working on a minimalist deck of cards inspired by dice pips and hexadecimal digits. The assets are available for commercial or noncommercial use (I should probably write a proper LICENSE.TXT about this) since, like, they're just some quick scribbles I did with GIMP and ImageMagick as a proof of concept anyway. Would love your thoughts on this! Can you think of any games that would work better with high contrast cards? Maybe a use for having sixteen ranks instead of thirteen/fourteen?

What have you been playing? new games, old games. any thoughts?

on another site we had a thread that was simply to discuss what you've played recently and any general thoughts on those games. Thought I might kick it off here.

Finally got the Wingspan Nesting Box. It fits all the current expansions and has room for the future. I swear it must clock in at like 20lbs.

Still a little annoyed that all the Wingspan stuff that holds sleeved cards won't fit the mote or less widely available and "standard" sleeves (Wingspan cards are not the same size as many other games) but thats not really anything a little 3D printing can't fix.