What BOARD GAME(s) have you been playing?

Trying a new thing on my blog, On the Table , where I talk about what I've been playing.

Covered this week: Smash Up, 3012, Mysterium, Zaubercocktail, Arkadia, San Juan, Cockroach Poker, Mission: Red Planet.

yeah I had an opportunity to replay Smash Up yesterday and decided not to. It's ok.

Legomancer wrote: Trying a new thing on my blog, On the Table , where I talk about what I've been playing.

Covered this week: Smash Up, 3012, Mysterium, Zaubercocktail, Arkadia, San Juan, Cockroach Poker, Mission: Red Planet.

Like your new format, Dave. I, for one, appreciate the photos a lot. You should add a "Gray Matters" section where a mutual friend and yourself talk about how a certain other mutual friend complains about bad games, or better yet, co-ops.

I think I want Arkadia based on the toys alone. Never even heard of it.

Legomancer wrote: Trying a new thing on my blog, On the Table , where I talk about what I've been playing.

Covered this week: Smash Up, 3012, Mysterium, Zaubercocktail, Arkadia, San Juan, Cockroach Poker, Mission: Red Planet.

Please let us know here or in a blog post whenever one of these goes up, I enjoyed it.

Legomancer wrote: Trying a new thing on my blog, On the Table , where I talk about what I've been playing.

Covered this week: Smash Up, 3012, Mysterium, Zaubercocktail, Arkadia, San Juan, Cockroach Poker, Mission: Red Planet.

I should have suggested playing Mission: Red Planet last time I was up at Fat: Thursday. It's my 2nd favorite Area Control game after Struggle of Booze.

Bring it to Trashfest.

I totally get that Chaos in the Old World is a really good game. I just cannot wrap my head around it. Every time I play it, I feel like I'm utterly incapable of doing anything that would lead to me winning.

Of course, it doesn't help when the dice hate me. In the game I'm playing now, I just watched the Khorne player wipe out four of my cultists in one turn with a single figure rolling two dice. He wound up rolling a total of five hits. Then he did something similar two turns later.

Chaz wrote: Of course, it doesn't help when the dice hate me. In the game I'm playing now, I just watched the Khorne player wipe out four of my cultists in one turn with a single figure rolling two dice. He wound up rolling a total of five hits. Then he did something similar two turns later.

Nah, the dice simply love him... but you just happened to get in the way this time.

Chaz wrote: I totally get that Chaos in the Old World is a really good game. I just cannot wrap my head around it. Every time I play it, I feel like I'm utterly incapable of doing anything that would lead to me winning.

I have the same problem. I have played Chaos in the Old World a half dozen times now, and only came close to winning once. The rest of the time, I struggle with a sense of disconnect between setting and mechanics that makes every move seem counter-intuitive. It seems well-designed, but I just don't get it.

I'm with you. I'm not a fan of Chaos. I love the ~idea~ of it but it's just so fucking chromey that I can't really grasp how to play it effectively. Just not me cup'o'tea.

I played Chaos one time. It was around 11PM one Gen Con night after playing two Heroscape tournaments (10 hours) during the day. It was all of our first time and the game plus rules explanation took 3 hours. It was miserable. I haven't played it since, but I can see that it could be a good game. Because of this I refuse to learn new complicated games on Con nights. It's just painful. Codenames was great, and learning new prototypes is pretty much the only time you can do it, so I do it, but new stuff hot off the floor that people don't even know the rules for? Ugh. Pass.

Not that I've played it for a few weeks, but I put up a review of Dead of Winter over on BGG.

More Tragedy Looper and Pandemic for me lately. Girlfriend still loves both. Got her mom to try Pandemic too, and I guess she's asking to play it again. For Tragedy Looper we'll be doing the 7th scenario next, and she'll probably try her hand at being the Mastermind. I first tested her with Hanabi, but she's liked just about every game I've put in front of her, save for Impulse. I don't think I really cared for it either though!