We still play Yahtzee and Scrabble.
I like playing Aggravation when there’s 4 players.
I’d also be up for something medium to heavy (would that include Earth?), let’s see if any other Dopers chime in. I’d note to them that you don’t have to be a paying member to play games, just someone who’s signed up for an account.
They just moved Viticulture Essential to beta, so that might also be on the table.
This week I played Ahau (twice), Ark Nova, Lions of Lydia, Whirling Witchcraft, and Zombicide: Invader.
I’ve been playing a fair amount f Earth physically recently, but I could be convinced to play.
Viticulture wouldn’t be my first choice, but I’d play.(looks like I played 7 games on BGA 2 years ago)
(I meant it when I said I’d play most medium to heavy games)
I do not have a premium account (I was going to volunteer to get it among my college friends but 2 others volunteered)
Brian
It would be fun to have more Dopers, so let’s give it a little time to bake. And I do have a premium account, and will befriend you shortly.
Russian Rails is on our list to learn, I think we’ll take some passes at it in the next couple of weeks to see how it goes.
Got Dune: Imperium over the weekend, and am very impressed with it. It’s a hybrid deck-building/worker placement game. You have a hand of cards, and two workers. To place a worker, you have to play a card from your hand that matches the symbol on the space you want to send the worker. After both workers are placed, you reveal your hand and use it to buy new cards for your deck. Most cards have two effects, one if played as payment for a worker move, and one if played as part of the “buy” phase of the turn.
It’s also a gorgeous game, whose aesthetic is copied from the most recent movie. The iconography is clear and easy to interpret, making the rules easy to pick up. And it feels like Dune: you have to balance your reputation with various factions like the Fremen and the Spacing Guild, choose which battles to participate in, and which to stay out of to retain your military forces, and a deck of “Intrigue” cards that throw a lot of curves into the game, especially in the late game.
Dune Imperium is great! After you have played it a bunch I would highly recommend the Rise of Ix expansion.
Yeah, I got both expansions, but haven’t played them yet.
I haven’t seen any interest in board game arena, but I’ll reiterate, if anyone’s interested, I can host something asynchronous.
Meanwhile, we’ve been on something of a boardgame bender lately… This isn’t even a complete list, but it’s the more interesting games. All of these were live plays, not online.
Sea Salt & Paper
Architects of the West Kingdom
Caper: Europe
Distilled
The Quest for El Dorado
Whitehall Mystery
Brian Boru: High King of Ireland
Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy
Ierusalem: Anno Domini: 1 play, 0 locations, 0 players
Merchants Cove
Thunder Road: Vendetta
I never played Everdell but I recently got Everdell Farshore and it is a lot of fun and looks beautiful on the table.
I played the new Terraforming Mars dice game yesterday. I was doing good for most of the game but I fell to second place on the endgame points.
We had some time left afterwards, so we played a round of Scout. I ended up in second place again. But the other two players swapped first and third place.
So I may not play good but at least I play consistent.
How about Ark Nova? We’ve been playing it a lot lately.
I’m still playing a lot of the original Terraforming Mars (plus the Venus, Prelude, and Colonies expansions), and just today I recognized a source picture of one of the cards while surfing Wikipedia: Solar Power.
I can’t figure out if I should be proud or annoyed that my brain was trained over however many hours to catch that. The previous time it happened, it was a good thing, though, because I like the architecture: Mars University (Actually University of Leeds.)
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I recently added the Turmoil expansion, which I really like, but it’s tipped the game length over the line from, “Regular game night selection,” to “schedule an afternoon specifically to play Terraforming Mars.”
I am going on a cruise with seven sea days (no port, all on the ship) and it was recommended I bring a game or two to play with the other three I am traveling with. Apart from a deck of cards, any recommendations for that? (Needs to be reasonably compact to pack for travel)
(If this is a hijack and should be another thread tell me and will do that.)
yes, I’d be up for an asynch Ark Nova
Brian
A few recent games we played that we enjoyed:
Forest Shuffle
Evacuation
Raising Robots
Off the top of my head:
One of the current small-format Ticket to Ride games (London, New York)
Quirkle (travel edition)
Mastermind
I know people who play “Ark Mars”. You get four people and you set up a game of Ark Nova and Terraforming Mars next to each other on the table. And then the people going back and forth between the two games taking turns at each. That’s the way to kill an afternoon.
Some small box card games I like and which don’t take up a lot of table space: The Butterfly Garden, Fidelitas, Flip City, Merchants of Muziris.