The Board Games thread

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…

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.

I saw the SUSD review of that the other day, they were very keen on it.

I haven't seen the SUSD video but the fact that it exists means that the game is now sold out everywhere.

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.