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SeabassDebeste 07/21/20 9:03:13 AM #302:	Naye745 posted... i did like hansa teutonica but it didnt grab me the one time i played it (and it was a little slower than i'd have wanted, we played with five and had some pretty ap-prone folks involved) the best time to play your second game of hansa teutonica is right after the first game! i really think this game would be up your alley in particular since you tend to like elegant designs with fewish rules/mechanics but huge decision-space. cyko posted... I don't have time for detailed write ups, but maybe I will some day. Here are my Top 30 favorite board games - running down your list that didn't appear on mine: 1. Eclipse - want to play, but it will be a long time before I do, if I ever can. Already gonna struggle getting more plays on my near-new copy of Root. 3. Star Wars Epic Duels w/ custom decks - I played an old copy of someone's at a meetup a few years back. It was... okay? Maybe the custom decks change things up? I do think that a lightish team game is a winning formula. 7. Puerto Rico - only played once, but as the granddaddy of role selection I have a lot of appreciation for it. I don't know that I'd ever get it due to the use of obvious slave colonists, but I'd definitely play it again in the right setting (which is very crowded to be fair - so many mid/heavy-euros to play...) 8. Russian Railroads - would love to play this, but doubt I could buy it before I tried it out, and I'm not sure where I'd get to try it out... 9. Race For the Galaxy - played it once and thought it was really neat - more fun than Roll. Might be one worth taking a flyer on as a 2p game, though I'd like to get a few more reps before committing the shelf space to it. 17. Millennium Blades - played this once and kind of found it overwhelming and not that fun. Love the theme and concept though. 18. Voyages of Marco Polo - want to play, but to be fair, nothing sticks out enough about it for me to consider buying it as a another midweight euro. 20. Fuse - never even heard of this one! It sounds awesome. Do you find that its player count and its weight are counteractive at all? It sounds like a party game, but seems to work best at 4? 21. Anachrony - have two plays of this, so it would now rank somewhere - probably not super-high, as I don't necessarily regard it as better than other games in its genre - but I do like the asymmetric powers and the two-tiered worker system. I haven't experienced a ton of its breadth; I did not take a single research action in the two games I played. 22. Castles of Mad King Ludwig - Played this once and it seems like an awesome light/middleweight euro. Only question is if it is 23. Star Wars: the Queen's Gambit - Heard this is really neat; almost certain I'll never play it, though. Know almost nothing about it, and isn't it out of print? 25. New Frontiers - Know nothing about it other than it's some recent hotness, so in the "like to try" column. 27. Agricola: All Creatures Great & Small 29. 7 Wonders Duel - I have actually played 7WD! I don't know that it can merit a spot in my shelf unless I'm sure I can get it to the table many more times. Watergate is my only 2P game aside from Codenames Duet at the moment. With ACG&S, is it different enough from the base game to be worth a buy? I don't own Agricola and might consider getting it, but it seems a little heavy to be playing 2P. Is ACG&S faster to set up, easier to get played, and just as good at 2P? 30. Shadows Over Camelot - Avalon was my first favorite game, and doing research, it seemed like SOC was a logical next step. It never really wound up happening, and most of what I read about its design seems a bit... clunky? Help! --- yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:942390224] in my top 32 ... [t:78403474]...</cite> <quote>Naye745 posted...</cite> <quote>i did like hansa teutonica but it didnt grab me the one time i played it (and it was a little slower than i'd have wanted, we played with five and had some pretty ap-prone folks involved) </quote> the best time to play your second game of hansa teutonica is right after the first game! i really think this game would be up your alley in particular since you tend to like elegant designs with fewish rules/mechanics but huge decision-space. cyko posted...</cite> <quote>I don't have time for detailed write ups, but maybe I will some day. Here are my Top 30 favorite board games - </quote> running down your list that didn't appear on mine: 1. Eclipse - want to play, but it will be a long time before I do, if I ever can. Already gonna struggle getting more plays on my near-new copy of Root. 3. Star Wars Epic Duels w/ custom decks - I played an old copy of someone's at a meetup a few years back. It was... okay? Maybe the custom decks change things up? I do think that a lightish team game is a winning formula. 7. Puerto Rico - only played once, but as the granddaddy of role selection I have a lot of appreciation for it. I don't know that I'd ever get it due to the use of obvious slave colonists, but I'd definitely play it again in the right setting (which is very crowded to be fair - so many mid/heavy-euros to play...) 8. Russian Railroads - would love to play this, but doubt I could buy it before I tried it out, and I'm not sure where I'd get to try it out... 9. Race For the Galaxy - played it once and thought it was really neat - more fun than Roll. Might be one worth taking a flyer on as a 2p game, though I'd like to get a few more reps before committing the shelf space to it. 17. Millennium Blades - played this once and kind of found it overwhelming and not that fun. Love the theme and concept though. 18. Voyages of Marco Polo - want to play, but to be fair, nothing sticks out enough about it for me to consider buying it as a another midweight euro. 20. Fuse - never even heard of this one! It sounds awesome. Do you find that its player count and its weight are counteractive at all? It sounds like a party game, but seems to work best at 4? 21. Anachrony - have two plays of this, so it would now rank somewhere - probably not super-high, as I don't necessarily regard it as better than other games in its genre - but I do like the asymmetric powers and the two-tiered worker system. I haven't experienced a ton of its breadth; I did not take a single research action in the two games I played. 22. Castles of Mad King Ludwig - Played this once and it seems like an awesome light/middleweight euro. Only question is if it is 23. Star Wars: the Queen's Gambit - Heard this is really neat; almost certain I'll never play it, though. Know almost nothing about it, and isn't it out of print? 25. New Frontiers - Know nothing about it other than it's some recent hotness, so in the "like to try" column. 27. Agricola: All Creatures Great & Small 29. 7 Wonders Duel - I have actually played 7WD! I don't know that it can merit a spot in my shelf unless I'm sure I can get it to the table many more times. Watergate is my only 2P game aside from Codenames Duet at the moment. With ACG&S, is it different enough from the base game to be worth a buy? I don't own Agricola and might consider getting it, but it seems a little heavy to be playing 2P. Is ACG&S faster to set up, easier to get played, and just as good at 2P? 30. Shadows Over Camelot - Avalon was my first favorite game, and doing research, it seemed like SOC was a logical next step. It never really wound up happening, and most of what I read about its design seems a bit... clunky? Help! --- yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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