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What Board Game Are You Currently Playing?

Huang, which I just received. I played a "3 Player" Solitaire to learn the game, and the next day a real 3 Player with live opponents. Oddly enough, since only five of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals are in the game as player factions ("Dynasties"), all three of us got to play our real life corresponding animals--Rabbit, Tiger, and Rat! Cool. One of the guys had played Tigris and Euphrates, one of the two older versions of the game by Reiner Knizia--the other being Yellow & Yangtze. This new game has slightly different rules, like the others do from each other. The other two of us were newbies to the system. All three designs are highly rated on BGG, Huang being the highest at 8.1.

There are four optional rules, one being the Five Player expansion. So next I'll try a solitaire with the Rogue Bandits and the Royal Palace (which I made up out of cardboard, not having the one piece needed). Later on I'll try 18 Kingdoms, which uses the reverse side of the board, which is different, and is incompatible with the Bandits module!
 
Elven Lord said:
I would be playing Risk: Europe, but finding people to play with is proving a challenge. Although the local game store has a board game day, I am usually busy on Saturdays. If it rains, I'll probs go this weekend.

I like what I've read about the game because it looks like it's risk but with more, you know, actual strategy instead of just a bit of maneuvering and a lot of chance.
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After seeing your post I looked Risk Europe up. I had somehow missed it when it first came out. I agree if looks fantastic. Ended up ordering a copy for myself. Really excited to get to play it, hopefully sooner than later. Thanks for sharing.
 
Yodaking said:
Elven Lord said:
I would be playing Risk: Europe, but finding people to play with is proving a challenge. Although the local game store has a board game day, I am usually busy on Saturdays. If it rains, I'll probs go this weekend.

I like what I've read about the game because it looks like it's risk but with more, you know, actual strategy instead of just a bit of maneuvering and a lot of chance.
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After seeing your post I looked Risk Europe up. I had somehow missed it when it first came out. I agree if looks fantastic. Ended up ordering a copy for myself. Really excited to get to play it, hopefully sooner than later. Thanks for sharing.
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Honestly, I might have to look up whether its out in a digital format. Getting people to come sit down and play is...challenging.
 
Empire's End, Viticulture, Battle of the Bands, Monfilgiore and Flamme Rouge.
 
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Comic Hunter (new to me; lots of fun) and the fifth adventure in a campaign of The Adventures of Robin Hood.
 
Purplebeard said:
Mystery Mansion with my kid. Terrific old school MB game. Someday I'm going to get around to building custom rooms for it.

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My brother and I played that one until the corners of the rooms were coming apart, lol.

Wow, what a blast from the past!
 
On Monday my buddy came over with a handful of games. We played So, You've Been Eaten. In addition, we played a couple of VHS box games he DIYed for his trailer camper and family. First, Santorini (I wasn't aware it was a game before the recent KS version with big white plastic buildings0 and Can't Stop, a game I've always wanted to try. Though we played new Heroscape the previous weekend, I believe he felt a bit overwhelmed with the new powers and abilities and wasn't keen on a revisit.
 
Made it to a game day with actual humans last weeked:

Scout
Dice Miner
Maccao
Ark Nova
Cascadia
Lords of Vegas

...was a good day. :)
 
Honestly, not much beats game days with actual humans! Something we could probably all use more of :)
 
Played the Star Wars deck builder with my wife the other day. It was our first time playing it. I played the Rebellion and murdered her. She did not like that so much, but I’m sure we’ll play again.

Also played the Back to the Future Funko cooperative game. Twice. If you want a cooperative that is nearly impossible to beat, you’re mental, but this game might be for you. I hated it for that reason. IP and theming wise it is on point.
 
Had an annual team building day at work yesterday and this year we did a game time theme. So I brought Hive and a couple Gipf games TZAAR and LINGK. Two guys ordered Hive during our game and one picked up TZAAR afterwards. So successful day. I really enjoy TZAAR though I've only played it about a dozen times so I'm sure I've just scratched the surface but getting others interested is hopeful.
 
japes said:
Had an annual team building day at work yesterday and this year we did a game time theme. So I brought Hive and a couple Gipf games TZAAR and LINGK. Two guys ordered Hive during our game and one picked up TZAAR afterwards. So successful day. I really enjoy TZAAR though I've only played it about a dozen times so I'm sure I've just scratched the surface but getting others interested is hopeful.
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Hive is great! Hadn’t heard of the other two. Thanks!
 
Just finished a solitaire proxy play through of the new 13 Heroscape scenarios in Battle For The Wellspring and the AOA Master Set. Rather than long blow by blow session reports, I've provided some initial observations on each map and battle, a list of what you'll need if you don't have those boxes yet but can use the older Scape components, and a quick summary of how the first games went for each one. You can see these commentaries here:

Renegade's AOA Scenarios

Someone had to start this thread. So I have, although I haven't played any of them yet. I hope those who have will comment here soon. The new Renegade scenarios follow the format of the old master sets in supplying one new scenario map with usually at least one Basic and one Master scenario...
www.heroscapers.com

Note that the new Renegade edition of the rules, the Scenario Booklets for both boxes, and the official cards for the AOA characters are all available online. So you can play these games without purchasing anything new, or read over these posts while you are waiting for your new orders to arrive.

The Original Post on this thread mentions which five individual posts include my accounts of these first plays, on this larger general discussion thread of the new scenarios.
 
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