Hive frustrates me so much because it seems like everything I want in a board game: 2 player focus, portable, interesting....but I hate insect aesthetics so much, especially from a bird's-eye perspective. So I really cannot play it.
I just finished a game of Pax Pamir. It's pretty good. I played it async on BGA and thank goodness I did. There were turns where I spent at least 20 minutes trying to figure out my move because I had so many options and so many of them were flawed. My game didn't utilize the allegiance switching much at all, though.
SSBM_Guy
"[Freud] started his scientific career by trying to explain the sexuality of a fish. And he failed."