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.
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.
Undaunted is pretty good, and not that expensive.
EDIT: Oops, answered before reading the whole post - Undaunted isn't (by default) a miniatures game.
Would Gaslands be of interest? You buy the rulebook then build a race track and mod hot wheels toy cars.
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.
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!
Will have a full read through all of this at some stage, but this weekend we have reached the glorious stage where you can play boardgames with our 8 year old and not have the experience revolving around how she will react if she doesn't win!
She has become obsessed with Sushi Go! for example. And then we have been playing another game called Cobra Paw which is bascially Dice based Snap, again been a total blast.
Think tomorrow I am going to chance trying to teach her to play Summoner Wars, which me and my missus both love but haven't played for years.
We played Slay the Spire over Christmas, which is a dauntingly huge box full of cards and boards that takes quite a while to set up, absolutely ages to play and another age to put away.
It's mostly notable for its absolute commitment to the bit: it features everything from the original game. Four characters, three Acts (plus a final Act and boss), hundreds of cards, Ascensions, unlockable cards, even a daily challenge mode. It's also really, really good: it's made a lot of tweaks to suit the board game format, almost every card and monster is different in some way, but it all feels exactly right in play and it's clearly had a huge amount of thought put into it. We played it two-player co-op and our experience with the videogame carried us a long way, I'd imagine it's tougher for newbies.
Next time we find ourselves with a spare day this is definitely hitting the table again - we played as the Ironclad and the Silent for our first game and I really want to see how they've implemented the other, more complex characters. It's a really clever thing and a lot of fun to play.
