Battlestar Galactica, Gosu, Lords of Waterdeep
I got BSG to the table! Everybody start applauding! I did have some help, someone wanted to play, and I really played up the "playable in one and a half hours" part. We did finally get five, and we got into space! I...kinda love the short variant. The game still is reasonably difficult, the intrigue is still there, and it still feels like Battlestar. We had an interesting game, in which one of the Cylons just kinda...forgot he was a Cylon, but the humans still lost because we got slammed with damage at the end of the second jump, and there was a boarding party just walzing up. Even with some serious deck stacking, we couldn't pull it off, and the lone revealed Cylon was able to take up to task. But I enjoyed it, although it might have been better if the two new players didn't pull Cylon. And all it took was lending a game of mine to someone whose last name I don't know! That can't end badly, right?
Then moved to a new location and played Gosu, with all expansion cards, and I just could not keep up. I started with a strong play, but my opponent killed it, and it was downhill from there. I just couldn't handle his card engine, and he kept killing my guys every chance he got. The new tribes do play pretty well, lot of interesting synergies, but most require very specific cards. The dragon clan I don't like, because to really use their specials, you have to do some ridiculously impossible things. Come on, make those dragon tokens easier to get, fellas.
Then played Lords of Waterdeep, which is a pretty alright worker placement. You slowly build up teams of adventurers and send them out of quests, as well as build buildings and play some intrigue cards. It's kinda random, but fairly well balanced besides...nobody can really jump ahead, and they can slowed down if you need them to. I don't know, I like it better than Finca.
I got BSG to the table! Everybody start applauding! I did have some help, someone wanted to play, and I really played up the "playable in one and a half hours" part. We did finally get five, and we got into space! I...kinda love the short variant. The game still is reasonably difficult, the intrigue is still there, and it still feels like Battlestar. We had an interesting game, in which one of the Cylons just kinda...forgot he was a Cylon, but the humans still lost because we got slammed with damage at the end of the second jump, and there was a boarding party just walzing up. Even with some serious deck stacking, we couldn't pull it off, and the lone revealed Cylon was able to take up to task. But I enjoyed it, although it might have been better if the two new players didn't pull Cylon. And all it took was lending a game of mine to someone whose last name I don't know! That can't end badly, right?
Then moved to a new location and played Gosu, with all expansion cards, and I just could not keep up. I started with a strong play, but my opponent killed it, and it was downhill from there. I just couldn't handle his card engine, and he kept killing my guys every chance he got. The new tribes do play pretty well, lot of interesting synergies, but most require very specific cards. The dragon clan I don't like, because to really use their specials, you have to do some ridiculously impossible things. Come on, make those dragon tokens easier to get, fellas.
Then played Lords of Waterdeep, which is a pretty alright worker placement. You slowly build up teams of adventurers and send them out of quests, as well as build buildings and play some intrigue cards. It's kinda random, but fairly well balanced besides...nobody can really jump ahead, and they can slowed down if you need them to. I don't know, I like it better than Finca.
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