Plays for August: Twilight Inscription - wrapping up our multiple plays from the previous month Nova Roma - we admire the design, but just didn't have fun. It's on the sell pile. Everdell Farshore - we enjoyed it, although it's a bit light for our tastes. I'll probably keep it around to play with the kids when they're a bit older, but not one I'm eager to get back to the table quickly. Rolling Realms - fun filler Arcs - we really enjoyed the base game at 2 players. Our first try at the campaign didn't go so well. We didn't even bother finishing the final act, because it didn't seem like it was going to be fun to play out the way things had gone. The campaign has so much variability that I think it's going to be an uneven experience, sometimes working out and creating cool stories, other times being a little bit boring. I suspect part of us not enjoying it was a first play issue, and I also suspect it would be better at 3 or 4. The campaign adds a TON of extra rules and complexity over the base game, and I'm not sure it's adds enough fun for all that to be worth it (especially at 2 players). A lot of the extra stuff, while technically working at 2 players, felt very out of place at that player count. Best of the month - Arcs base game
Seems as though correlation isn't causation and yellow is not as unbalanced in all plays of "It's a wonderful world" as it has seemed in some of mine. Best play of the month for me was Terraforming Mars. Was unable to get a multiplayer game due to a busy month, but was finally able to give it some solo play. After setup it's a pretty quick game when you really know what you're doing. Very happy that I didn't ruin the game of Barcelona with my slow play.
As a US resident - sadly, there are many reasons to put orange tips on all gun facsimiles - up to and including foam guns used in board games.
O yeah, that's a major difference between our two realities.
Plays for August:
Twilight Inscription - wrapping up our multiple plays from the previous month
Nova Roma - we admire the design, but just didn't have fun. It's on the sell pile.
Everdell Farshore - we enjoyed it, although it's a bit light for our tastes. I'll probably keep it around to play with the kids when they're a bit older, but not one I'm eager to get back to the table quickly.
Rolling Realms - fun filler
Arcs - we really enjoyed the base game at 2 players. Our first try at the campaign didn't go so well. We didn't even bother finishing the final act, because it didn't seem like it was going to be fun to play out the way things had gone. The campaign has so much variability that I think it's going to be an uneven experience, sometimes working out and creating cool stories, other times being a little bit boring. I suspect part of us not enjoying it was a first play issue, and I also suspect it would be better at 3 or 4. The campaign adds a TON of extra rules and complexity over the base game, and I'm not sure it's adds enough fun for all that to be worth it (especially at 2 players). A lot of the extra stuff, while technically working at 2 players, felt very out of place at that player count.
Best of the month - Arcs base game
Cool! Arcs sounds awesome! I have been interested in Farshore for some time. Wonder if I would like it.
Great video guys, but it would be nice with some timestamps 🙂👍
Seems as though correlation isn't causation and yellow is not as unbalanced in all plays of "It's a wonderful world" as it has seemed in some of mine.
Best play of the month for me was Terraforming Mars. Was unable to get a multiplayer game due to a busy month, but was finally able to give it some solo play. After setup it's a pretty quick game when you really know what you're doing. Very happy that I didn't ruin the game of Barcelona with my slow play.
Didn't ruin it at all!
You don’t need to build in teotihuacan… once I won by just doing all masks
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