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I just picked up Homeland: The Board Game from Amazon for $8.50 on Amazon Prime. This is the second time that I've purchased it having traded it away a few years ago in a multiple board game deal for TITAN!. I couldn't pass up the $8.50 shipped. Also, I loved the show and it's a good game.
I have Vinci rather than Small World, but same principle. It’s a damn good game that combines an auction for wildly imbalanced factions with typical dudes on a map multiplayer mayhem. The different abilities keep it fresh between plays.
Small World more depth than many give it credit for, and it has a higher charm value and thematic connection to the older Vinci. It’s too bad these older games get overlooked.
I agree with SaMoKo. Small world is a good game. It's just VINCI with a cuter retheme which makes it appear lighter than it is. I don't play it though, because it gives me AP - it is indeed deeper than it appears.
ubarose wrote: I agree with SaMoKo. Small world is a good game. It's just VINCI with a cuter retheme which makes it appear lighter than it is. I don't play it though, because it gives me AP - it is indeed deeper than it appears.
WRONG! Small World is awful. It just rubs me the wrong way that there’s no way to defend a position. Anything you do is immediately undone. As a wargamer and a software engineer it drives me bats that nothin can be built to STAY FRIKKIN’ FIXED.
I liked Small World and some of my group didn’t because of the abrupt change of race. To them it felt like it was forced and breaks up the civ building aspect.
I disagree. It’s a good family game.
NOW...I got the latest wave of four Exit! Games for the wife for Christmas, which resulted in her side eying me and making rumbles about buying my own gifts. I explained that unless there was a new guitar under the tree, that didn’t happen and I genuinely thought she loved them.
She relented and said that she did and was glad I got them for her...us
They had Mystery Rummy 3 (Jekyll and Hyde) and Innovation used at the used book store, so I bought them for $12 combined. Pretty happy with that pickup, even though I definitely didn't need to buy more games after Christmas.
Small World and Vinci aren’t warhames lol. It’s meant to be aggressive as a means of driving the auction for future abilities. The only way to defend, in this sense, is timing when to decline and pushing the less threatening ability combos through the track as low hanging fruit. Where you decide to start expanding from can also influence your declined race’s fate.
But hey, if you don’t like a game no argument is gonna change your mind! Play what you enjoy
I found something really interesting from Iello of all publishers. Back, way back in the mists of 2013, they put out a game called Titanium Wars. TW is notable for a couple things: it's very pretty, it's name is even more stupid than it sounds, and it's basically Diplomacy: The Card Game.
Rules TL;DR, it's a game of conflict where you are encouraged to take aim freely in order to drag people down, but once points are scored (taking over planets) they can never be taken away. Games can be won in as few as two planets so every fight is huge. It's got a simultaneous market phase and then you just brawl with each other. I'm excited to get it played, because if this thing works I'm going to sing its praises from the rooftops and sell the rest of those cheapo copies for some random amazon seller.
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