The Board Games thread

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Ninchilla

It's me again - the only guy in the thread!

Finished The King's Dilemma this evening, and I have to say, it actually stuck the landing pretty well for us.

Without spoilers: the finale is very different, but in a way we found fascinating, and despite a lot of conniving and coordination in each of the Council(/player) factions, the whole thing turned out nail-bitingly close.

Definitely recommended, especially if you have a regular 5 to play with - though I'd also suggest everyone pick one of the more distinctive/divisive houses; if our campaign had a weakness, it was that a couple of the houses encourage neutrality a lot of the time.

Next week: Oath! Or Nemesis! Or Betrayal! Or…

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Brian Bloodaxe

I bought Compile this morning. It's early days but I think I have a new favourite card game.

If you've played Air Land & Sea or Marvel Snap, it's basically that but, I think, better.

And it's very pretty too.

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Brian Bloodaxe

I've been playing Compile basically every other day since I bought it in October, it's easily my favorite game of last year. It's finally available again so if you have any interest in tightly designed two player card games (it's similar to Air, Land & Sea or Marvel Snap) you should get this.

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big mean bunny

Is there a fairly slight, limited unit table top game thats good for newbies or people who have never played? I've ordered World of Tanks board game for work, but was wondering if there was something else that seems more figures based, as it's for playing with a student who I think would love painting figures and making props etc.

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Ninchilla

Undaunted is pretty good, and not that expensive.

EDIT: Oops, answered before reading the whole post - Undaunted isn't (by default) a miniatures game.

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Brian Bloodaxe

Would Gaslands be of interest? You buy the rulebook then build a race track and mod hot wheels toy cars.

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big mean bunny

Undaunted is pretty good, and not that expensive.

EDIT: Oops, answered before reading the whole post - Undaunted isn't (by default) a miniatures game.

This looks really good though, I might order that regardless as think he would like that's loosely based on real scenarios.

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big mean bunny

Would Gaslands be of interest? You buy the rulebook then build a race track and mod hot wheels toy cars.

Thanks. Will show him the concept of this and see what he thinks!