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Old August 27th, 2011, 12:12 PM
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A side not for those of you who have played Quarriors, does the 1st player seem to have a huge advantage in most games, especially with culling?
What I have found in probably over 40 plays, is that the player to cull first has a distinct advantage. It's not as much about going first as it is getting that lucky 2 assistant activation roll where you will most likely have at least one survive. Once 1-2 players have had a chance to cull they start pulling away. In a couple of 3 player games 2 of the players got to cull fairly early and kept building the lead while I was stuck. I could buy expensive stuff but I always had so many dice and nothing ever survived. A negative about the game is that once you start winning, you can continue to do so fairly easily. It's hard to come back when your opponent has a more refined dice pool than you. You (the one without a cull), can keep having the horrible starting pool of 6 dice.
I've only played 6 or so times but in just about all of those games who ever started culling / winning first kind of jumped ahead and never looked back.

One "rule" I was thinking of implementing is, you can only cull if you are not ahead in points. Thoughts?
In a game of this length, I don't see it as a big problem. The fact that the person that is winning, usually wins is not a big deal to me. I don't see too many games going more than 30 min, so if you lose, play again. It will make the comebacks that much more exciting. This game is a dice rolling game, not a euro or hardcore strategy game, so roll with it
I have heard many things about this game and it interests me. I'm not sure if I have the need to buy it though.
It's a good game to open or close a game night, but not one to base a night around.
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Old August 27th, 2011, 04:10 PM
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Re: What Board Game Are You Currently Playing?

Just wrapped up 3 player Dixit with both kids, and the little sister beat KidScaper and myself. Which is a big for a game, when that can happen and everyone's still having fun.

I misplaced the rules but I *think* I remembered the 3p variant correctly: the storyteller puts in his one card, each other player puts in two, and the hand size is seven instead of six. So the pool of cards is five every turn.

It was fun, playing with the kids, but 4p is a better game.

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Old August 27th, 2011, 04:20 PM
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We've been doing Summoner Wars and Heroica mostly. Had some great tight SuW games with my son. I love how those games usually work out as close as they do.
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Old August 27th, 2011, 05:28 PM
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Two games of Summoner Wars last night. I eeked out two close victories.

The more I play it, the more I realize how much depth and fun the game is to play. And now that there are 14 factions, plus expansions and mercenaries, the game has loads of replay value.

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Old August 27th, 2011, 05:58 PM
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I also got in a couple games of Summoner Wars last night after not having played it for a long time. I agree with those of you that say this game just gets better the more you play it and get to try out the different factions.

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Old August 27th, 2011, 07:33 PM
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Re: What Board Game Are You Currently Playing?

My brother came over today and I taught him a couple of games. I'll keep it short and sweet...

2x Battleball
He was victorious against me with the Iron Wolves and then against my girlfriend as the Black Hearts.

2x Dominion
I was victorious in both games with the scores 34, 33, 28 and then 41, 36, 31.

1x Ascension
My girlfriend took the victory with the scores as 70, 61, 58.

1x Citadels
My brother took the win with the scores as 30, 21, 18.

Tomorrow's going to be a definite game day at our house waiting for the tropical storms to pass. To any scapers in the area and our neighbors in the New England states, stay safe...

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Old August 27th, 2011, 08:09 PM
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Re: What Board Game Are You Currently Playing?

Just finished a game of Diplomacy. I hadn't played it face-to-face for about 20 years. Ended up in a shared 3-way victory too.

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Old August 27th, 2011, 11:34 PM
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Got in another game of C3G Superscape. Just barely squeaked this one out against my nephew. Lots of fun!

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Old August 27th, 2011, 11:44 PM
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One more game day on the island before we all batten down for the hurricane.

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Old August 28th, 2011, 12:49 AM
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Re: What Board Game Are You Currently Playing?

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Ascencion - Beat the 6 year old.

Dragon Dice - The Coral Elves beat the Amazons.

Omen - Beat the 6 year old!

Catacombs - The hydra won with 3 HP left.

7 Wonders - Won with a battle heavy area.

In a Pickle - Yeah more non-gamers...

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Old August 28th, 2011, 01:18 AM
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Finally got to play, and finish, a game of Twilight Imperium today. It was a long game but the time flew buy and it was a load of fun. I look forward to playing it again soon so I can really solidify the rules in my brain. Defianately one of my favourites.

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Old August 28th, 2011, 11:22 AM
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Re: What Board Game Are You Currently Playing?

Yesterday, we played a few games. Notre Dame was the first. It is a decent little game and I enjoyed it. Next was I'm the Boss! I really enjoy this game and had fun, but there were a player or two who just didn't enjoy it. This wasn't their style of game.

The big end to the evening was a six-player game of Dune. It ran long, but had some great moments and came down to a fantastic final few turns.
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