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darkmorgado wrote:Get one big box and one small one. Two big boxes at once I find far too annoying.
If I get Arkham Horror and 2 expanaions, what expansions should Get first? Heard good stuff about dunwich.
Also: what other 1p friendly boardngames are there?
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stephenb wrote:I'm also wondering this, I find myself really wanting it after the Gillen article.
Anyone played Risk legacy in this thread and is it as good as everyone seems to say? Quite fancy picking it up as three of my mates would be available for the fifteen games.
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Cuisine! - a competitive card game based on cookery that is also a cookbookIt borrows some elements from Fluxx such as evolving rules.
Base game contents:
100 recipe goal cards
60 Ingredient - herb and spice cards (4x 15 card replica decks)
60 Ingredient - vegetable cards (4x 15 card replica decks)
60 Ingredient - meat cards (4x 15 card replica decks)
60 Ingredient - condiment cards (4x 15 card replica decks)
60 Ingredient - grain cards (4x 15 card replica decks)
40 Equipment cards (4x 10 card replica decks)
60 Interference - Ability Cards (4x 15 card replica decks)
40 Interference - Counter cards (4x 10 card replica decks)
20 Rule cards
A game board/mat to place decks on and provide clear fields for played cards, discard piles, draw piles and decks to be placed on.
Rules
Game prep and starting state
At the beginning of the game, all card decks utilising replica decks are combined depending on the amount of players (2 players means you combine 2 decks of interference - ability cards, 3 players you mean you combine 3 for example).
Interference - Ability and Interference - Ability decks are then combined, and all the decks are shuffled before being placed in their spaces on the play board.
Each player draws 3 recipe cards and chooses which one to put into play. They then place that card in their Goal field. The remaining 2 cards are then placed in their discard pile.
Players then draw a hand of 7 cards amongst the various play decks. They can draw cards in any combination of numbers as long as they include cards from 3 different decks (5 herbs and spices, 1 meat and 1 veg is fine. Six vegetables and one equipment card is not).
Turn order progresses clockwise, starting from the player that has the highest point score on their chosen Recipe card.
Play structure
Turn phases
Start phase: At the start of a player's turn, if they have a Rule card in their hand they can discard two cards from their hand and instantly play the first card on top of the rule deck, or discard three and choose to draw a rule card and decide to implement it or not). Rule cards can introduce new game mechanics and win conditions such as limiting or expanding the draw phases of a player's turn, making a recipe card's points total a victory condition, banning certain cuisine or ingredients from play, among others.
Draw phase: Players then draw a card (or cards, according to rules in play). They can then play one card before ending their turn.
Ingredient and equipment cards are placed in the Recipe field.
Alternatively, they can play an Interference - Ability card. This can give players advantages over each other by forcing rival players to discard cards, swap hands or discard/change their in-play or in-hand ingredient, equipment or goal cards.
After they have drawn and played cards according to the rules in play, their turn then ends and passes to the next player.
On another player's turn
If a player plays an Interference - Ability card, players may be able to counter its effects if they have an Interference - Counter card in their possession. In order to play a counter card, follow the activation conditions listed in the card text. This can be anything from discarding a card from your hand to having a minimum amount of Permanents in play.
The game is designed to be expansion friendly to both additional game mechanics and new ingredient, equipment, goal and interference cards. Expansions would be themed around different types of cuisine (i.e Mamma Mia would be based around Italian cuisine, Hot Cuisine would be based around spicy food, etc). Major expansions could include additional decks such as Method cards that can be paired with equipment (such as grinding pepper, or using an oven to grill, bake or roast) which can change the play mechanics.
It is also ddesigned to be variant-friendly - for example, tokens could be used to denote ingredient measurements and multiple base games can then be combined, recipes cards have categories which can be used for 3 course meal (players must make a starter, main and dessert to win), recipe variants (i.e, seafood recipes only) or Cuisine variants (Italian only). In addition, a point system could be used for a variant, granting each recipe a point score on successful completion followed by a player returning all their hand, played and discarded cards to the relevant decks and shuffling them before resetting themselves to start of game status. Or, of course, people could do best of three, first to five, or first to a total over successive games (or even to deduct points for unused played ingredients in a recipe or hand at the end of the game). Every recipe card has an optional point value on the card to allow for gameplay flexibility.
All recipe cards would be based on genuine recipes and methods which can be applied to real-life cooking outside of the game. This can be used in possible digital translations, where every game won adds the recipe you completed to an in-app cookbook
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X201 wrote:Based on my searching and quick reading a few reviews? No.
Is it wrong that I bought Kill Doctor Lucky as a present for someone, and kept it for myself?
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LB, you really are a massive geek.
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LeoliansBro wrote:I bought this last year and after getting it in the post, unpacking everything and learning how to play it I realised that there is no one to give me a game. My flatmate used to be into board games and GW but now he seems to have lost interest all together.
Warhammer Invasion. Nifty little Living Card Game based around defending your capital (aren't they all). Very good flavour, plays out in half an hour average, totally finje as a game out of the box without needing to spend £trillions on booster packs, and all in all a happy little palate cleanser of a game.
darkmorgado wrote:I'm in the same boat. I wonder if all 15 games need to be played by the same 3-5 people.stephenb wrote:I'm also wondering this, I find myself really wanting it after the Gillen article.
Anyone played Risk legacy in this thread and is it as good as everyone seems to say? Quite fancy picking it up as three of my mates would be available for the fifteen games.
The world is going mad. Me? I'm doing fine.
darkmorgado wrote:Level 7 got mauled on BGG, but I really like it. The rules are an obtuse bastard though. Netrunner is fantastic; so nuanced.
Grabbed Net Runner and Level 7 from the local board game store.
Level 7 looks particularly awesome.
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LeoliansBro wrote:Although Catan 6 player is still good, I found it to be too slow. The wait between your turns can last an awful long time, especially if you have nothing you want to/can trade.
So, lots of gaming over the Christmas hols. In no particular order:
Catan 5/6 player expansion. Really different to the 4 player in a number of ways. Firstly, an extra resource tile means availability is averaged out, and so it's now very unlikely that a single resource will be scarce, and very difficult to corner the market accordingly. That said, with more people comes the possibility that one player can be crushed by the weight of opposition, and so individually players are a lot more vulnerable to being locked out of the game. Very good though, feels like a more mature realising of the island, a Heath Ledger to the 4 player version's Jack Nicholson.
repairmanjack wrote:Cheers for the advance warning on Level 7! Is the BGG response generally indicative of what most people think, or a minority? I often find some of the stuff they love to be horrible and vice versa, frequently enough to approach their views with caution.darkmorgado wrote:Level 7 got mauled on BGG, but I really like it. The rules are an obtuse bastard though. Netrunner is fantastic; so nuanced.
Grabbed Net Runner and Level 7 from the local board game store.
Level 7 looks particularly awesome.
Twilight Struggle appears to be stranded with Royal Mail, but I have a shiny new Eclipse to keep me company.
My pal is jonesing for more Lords of Waterdeep, too.
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andytheadequate wrote:Don't forget the addtional rule for 5/6 player where you get a chance to build every turn. Can speed things up considerably.LeoliansBro wrote:Although Catan 6 player is still good, I found it to be too slow. The wait between your turns can last an awful long time, especially if you have nothing you want to/can trade.
So, lots of gaming over the Christmas hols. In no particular order:
Catan 5/6 player expansion. Really different to the 4 player in a number of ways. Firstly, an extra resource tile means availability is averaged out, and so it's now very unlikely that a single resource will be scarce, and very difficult to corner the market accordingly. That said, with more people comes the possibility that one player can be crushed by the weight of opposition, and so individually players are a lot more vulnerable to being locked out of the game. Very good though, feels like a more mature realising of the island, a Heath Ledger to the 4 player version's Jack Nicholson.
Playing Ticket to Ride or Carcasonne, for example, is a much quicker experience.
LB, you really are a massive geek.
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come at the king, you best not miss
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