What Board Game Are You Currently Playing?

[IAmBatman]

Two games of Descent 2.0, one of Ascension, and two of Dominion: Dark Ages last night. Fun, fun.

[Jim]

We played Legacy: The Testament of Duke De Crecy last night. It was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. (After all, how good can a game about having kids and marrying them be? )

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Two games of Descent 2.0, one of Ascension, and two of Dominion: Dark Ages last night. Fun, fun.

Still haven't had a chance to try Descent of either version yet. Nor Ascension. They sound really good, but just haven't had the opportunity...yet

[IAmBatman]

Ascension is a lot like a simplified version of Dominion. I'm finally starting to really figure out the strategy on that one.

Descent 2.0 is more like a simplified (can't believe I'm calling it simplified ) version of DnD Heroscape.

[Dad_Scaper]

Ascension has so much more gotcha than Dominion. I like Ascension a lot, and will only play Dominion with a non-gamer or at the firm request of the other guy.

[IAmBatman]

Hmm, my buddy only has the base set, no expansions, but I haven't found too much in the way of attacking other players. There's destroying constructs and occasionally taking cards from their hands, but that's about it from the base set. Might be more in the expansions, though, but from what I've played it's not more significant than the attack cards in Dominion.

I do like Dominion a lot more as a deck builder. (Though Legendary is probably my favorite in that category).

[Dad_Scaper]

Well, as you say you can do stuff directly to them. But more importantly, you can mess with the center row to your opponent's disadvantage.

[dok]

I played Hanabi with a visiting friend and his fiancee a few days ago. First co-op game I've really enjoyed.

[Hahma]

Had a buddy over tonight and taught him Sergeant's Miniatures Game. We played a nighttime scenario for Operation Tonga where the British Red Devil paratroopers dropped at night during D-Day to split the German 7th and 15h armies (I believe that's right), to take some bridges and stall German reinforcements.

I built a 6 soldier British squad to let my buddy play and I took the 7 soldier German squad. The British had better soldiers, so my extra German soldier didn't help as he won 54 VP's to my 29 VP's. He had bonus VP's for surviving soldiers, while my bonus VP's would come from captured British soldiers. I had one captured at one point but his squadmate came and rescued him and then the ex-captured soldier killed my soldier that took him prisoner. I could have killed that soldier instead of capturing him during close combat, but opted for the capture to try to get more VP's as I knew I was behind. I had hoped to move them far enough away to avoid him getting rescued, but it didn't work out.

Fun game nonetheless and my buddy enjoyed it.

[chas]

That's one of the most famous para operations of WWII, and yet I never knew its name. Thanks! You can always learn something new. Sounds like fun.

Yes, deciding what to do with prisoners in minis games is always tricky. I actually have a WWII Atrocity Table which says which nations are allowed to be nasty as a matter of course, depending on their 'historical doctrine.'

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by chas

That's one of the most famous para operations of WWII, and yet I never knew its name. Thanks! You can always learn something new. Sounds like fun.

Yes, deciding what to do with prisoners in minis games is always tricky. I actually have a WWII Atrocity Table which says which nations are allowed to be nasty as a matter of course, depending on their 'historical doctrine.'

I hadn't known either before getting that scenario book for the Red Devils kickstarter. Aside from the paras, they had some pretty precise gliders too that helped take Pegasus bride. Landed between a river and a canal and got the drop on the Germans.

As far as prisoners go in this particular game, is that when you are in close combat with an enemy soldier (base to base) you are considered "Fighting" and that is resolved at the end of that particular phase (3 phases per game turn). There's no dice in this game, it's all card driven, with cards having multiple functions. Each soldier has a fight value of 2-4, and that's how many cards you draw for that fight. The player with initiative gets to play 1 card and then the other player and back and forth etc. There are 4 damage results you can draw, Zip (miss), Pin (soldier is pinned and all stats are halved), Wound (flip their soldier card over with adjusted stats, only 2 wounds before being dead), and Kill (auto kill). When playing a Kill result in close combat, the player that played it has the option of either killing that soldier, or taking him prisoner. Each soldier is worth VP's (from 2 to 11 or higher but don't have any higher). So when you kill a soldier, you get their soldier card and count their VP's toward your total at the end. Captured soldiers are worth double their VP's at the end, and I had a special bonus on my Orders Card that gave me an additional 7 VP's per captured soldier. I was behind in scoring and the game was winding down and I was running low on soldiers, so I went for the capture when I played a Kill card and hoped to be able to stay away from the other enemy soldier that was left, as he could move into contact and free his squadmate. Unfortunately he was able to play a card that let him move a couple times and that was it.

[NecroBlade]

Heroscape x5 today for our monthly tournament. Went 4-1 for first place, had a great time as always.

After the tournament, played Neuroshima Hex on the iPad. 3-player game, came in second. Only played this one a handful, but it's always fun. Each turn is like a little puzzle, and each faction has its own wonderful flavor.

Then Small World on the iPad. 3 players again, this time I won. Pretty close score of 86-77-68. Flying Skeletons are awesome early.

Last but not least, Adventure Time: Card Wars. Very simple, but very fun 2-player game.