Any recommendations, warnings or nice strategies to share?
We played some Castles of Burgundy during the week. The first session I managed to almost fill my entire board and scored almost 250 points in the end. The second session was a bit more of a slog, the board was hard to fill and in the end I scored 208 points. Was still a lot of fun but one thing we keep on noticing, the dies are loaded. Depending on which color you choose, your dies will land more often on certain numbers. Its super odd. This creates a situation where a specific board might be super easy for one player, but super hard for another, depending on the color chosen.
We also played more Ark Nova It still remains my favorite at the moment. After a stomp earlier this week my gf was against playing the game again. However, in the end, I managed to convince her by helping her along a bit with a strategy for the early game. That game turned into a tight race, while she did not win, it was close, only a few points difference. At other session it could be well over 20-30 points apart.
I also tried the sp variant of Ark Nova. I lost miserably and while the game in essence stays the same, you get a lot less actions and need to prioritize a lot. Will give it a go again this week.
What color dice did you notice an issue with? I have this game so I may need to try some experiments.
pretty much all of them have some tendencies. The white one often lands on 6 for instance. But other dice have different preferences. I can try to get some numbers at some point. We just notice because if you roll exactly the same twice in a row and multiple times similar results, it becomes suspicious.
I adore Ark Nova and every time I play I have so much fun, what is the “sp variant” ?
My apologies, its the single player version. I still only have tried it once. I prefer the 2player variant :)
Spirit Island and Carcassonne this week.
Spirit island is still very high on my list of games to get. With how many do you prefer to play it?
Played our first adventure in The Lord of the RIngs - Journeys in Middle Earth, 2 players: Legolas and Aragorn with the recommended roles. We chose the lowest difficulty “Adventure” and finished it succesfully, felt that “Normal” would’ve been doable also.
Oh cool! I wish my gf would be into adventure games! How is it playing with the app? Does that work well?
Maybe try with some property that she really likes? Or get here to like some IP that has adventure games, and when after watching movies / TV Shows, she wants more of that IP, show her the adventure games. 😈
Its a good idea. She only likes Harry Potter and I am not sure if there are any good adventure games in the HP ip. She loves reading herself but not in like a community setting so her mind wonders and she gets bored :D
The app works well enough, used it on PC, I guess on phone it would be a lot harder to see everything and scrolling the map a lot. I find the icoography a bit small compared to the text, I have to see if the text size settings change icons as well.
At one point it mentioned a word I was thinking could be a keyword, but wasn’t highlighted as such, I didn’t find it in the rules in that moment. After the game I realized it was a specific status I got. Something to learn probably.
And it would be cool if flavor texts would be read out loud, not just the intro.
Didn’t get much time to play, just played some Lost Cities with wife.
Had some friends over on Saturday and played a bunch.
Taverns of Tiefenthal is pretty good, although I think noone really had a good grasp of tracking points. We played the base game (module 1) only, looking forward to the advanced modules.
Then we went for a classic round of Betrayal at Baldur’s Gate and got really lucky on the survivor side in terms of both stats and locations. Which is a pretty common thing in this game, I guess.
We ended with a round of Aeon’s End, which started off extremely brutal (the keep was down to 13/30 HP after 3 turns or so), but was fine as we got into the mid and late game.
The Taverns of Tiefenthal modules make the game a much more rounded-out experience. If you are comfortable with the base game I think it’s pretty safe to just throw in the rest all at once, the individual modules are all fairly simple and make sense together. I kinda wish the rulebook was structured as base for first play and then everything else together instead of piecemeal.
