What BOARD GAME(s) have you been playing?

Played my second game of Twilight Struggle last night. I was the Soviets while the more experienced player was the US. The game ended after the last round and I lost pretty badly, not having scored almost any regions with domination. Great two player game, can't wait to play it again and hopefully not make the dumbass moves that I did before.

Last night was a 3 player game of Nexus Ops, which I lost due to getting ganged up on, but that's okay. I also rolled very poorly, but that's not unusual.

Then we had a 2 player run of my new cooperative design, and it could not have went more perfectly; we won on the absolute last turn of the game. This game will likely see print later this year, but more on that when I've got more to say.

Scott_F wrote: Played my second game of Twilight Struggle last night. I was the Soviets while the more experienced player was the US. The game ended after the last round and I lost pretty badly, not having scored almost any regions with domination. Great two player game, can't wait to play it again and hopefully not make the dumbass moves that I did before.

I'm the one guy on the planet that can't stand those card-driven games. Man, do I despise Twilight Struggle.

Elaborate?
I haven't played many outside of TS...So just wondering.
Outside of TS I've just tinkered with Labyrinth.

VonTush wrote: Elaborate?
I haven't played many outside of TS...So just wondering.
Outside of TS I've just tinkered with Labyrinth.

VT, you gotta try COIN games (not Labyrinth which is not strictly COIN). Andean Abyss, Cuba Libre, A Distant Plain. All great and the Vietnam one out this summer (Fire in the Sky).

They are great solo and brilliant multiplayer

One you'd recommend over the other? Or is the system similar enough between games its just a matter of picking the setting/conflict I like best?

Seems like its a great series, they're Out of Stock all over!

EDIT: I should add I'd likely be doing solitaire first before I could drum up people with enough interest to play.

My personal favourite is Andean Abyss. They all have similar systems.

In Andean Abyss you play the Government when playing solo. In Cuba Libre you play either the Government or Castros band when playing solo and in A Distant Plain you play any faction solo (Taliban, Warlords, US Coalition or Government). The AI is really very good in all of them and takes control of the other three players.

They all have excellent playbooks where they go through a multiplayer game step by step and then a solo game step by step reducing the learning curve somewhat.

The other thing worth mentioning is that every faction has entirely different win conditions. This makes it super interesting IMHO

First time playing Game of Thrones (it was the 2nd edition). I loved it. A great system for conflict. I eked out a win (with the tie-breaker) as House Stark. It was a 4p game, and I can see how with 5 or 6 there would be more need for diplomacy. As it was, we all kind of did our own thing, and were always against each other. Still great, though.

I'm a huge fan of the Storm of Swords expansion that was available for the 1st edition game. It was designed specifically for 4 players, it included ally cards (some provided ongoing bonuses) leader tokens and taking hostages (even executing them).

No matter how you play it AGOT is still a great game.

Played a 3 player game of Heroscape tonight. First time this has hit the table in ages. We did 500 point armies. I was the first out but the next guy wasn't far behind.

Then we did a 4 player round of Epic Spell Wars. It was fun but I was getting tired at that point. Too much alcohol this weekend.