Feudum’s a first time design and it shows. From what I’ve seen it shares one of its biggest cool ideas with John Company. Over time the various players will gain control of various Guilds that form markets for resources. The point-generating actions that guilds perform will either pull goods from or give goods to other guilds. That’s enough to make a pretty interesting game on its own, but it looks like the designer wasn’t willing to hack away at bits of the game that don’t work.
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Today I learned Azul.
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Best board game experience I’ve ever had.
I’m actually playing this right now!
we played back in january and again just yesterday.
I think we may have broken it. By doing a thing I don’t wanna spoil, but simply put we’ve been winning, a lot.
Just wait…
Dun dun dunnnnn (/15 characters)
Katie and I got that a couple months ago as well, but haven’t gotten around to starting because she’s dealing with medical issues that make it so she can’t sit for long periods of time. But definitely excited to start it once we get a chance.
Recently bought Welcome to the Dungeon which is a fun little short game of chicken. The game has four different typical RPG classes, each with six pieces equipment. You take turns of drawing monster cards from a deck, then put them face down in a dungeon pile, or discard that card and removing a piece of equipment from the hero. Players may choose to quit the round before drawing a card. The last player to remain in the game has to take the hero into the dungeon. If they can defeat all the monsters they get a victory point. If they don’t you take a wound. You are knocked out of the game if you get two wounds. Last player standing or the first to two victory points wins.
We also played the first round of Pandemic Legacy. Thankfully we managed to win but it is already quite the stressful situation with managing outbreaks.
Yesterday I played two games. The first was another round of Flamme Rouge which I reviewed earlier. Still pretty decent and this time I won.
After that we played a game of Blood Rage, a game of warring Viking tribes which features miniatures, card drafting, death mechanics and other stuff I like. It was a lot of fun.
I tactically avoided most battles I didn’t want to be involved in and was basically crushing the game, but a stupid decision on my part cost me the game. In the second age I had an upgrade that let me repeatedly pillage villages. Instead of continuing this and farming the section of the board that directly gives me victory points (plus I had an upgrade on my leader that gave me permanent stat upgrades for pillaging) and complete a quest, I decided to march to a different region of the board and have my warriors die in Ragnarök for a slight increase in points on the round, though the last round was still remaining. This gave the only other player with still remaining actions the ability to kill all my warriors. I still got a bunch of points for a different quest, but I could have just kep that quest for the third round and completely dominated the game. In the end I lost to that same player by five points, score was 98-93. All the other players were under 66 points as two of them quarreled early in the second round and took each other out, and the last player didn’t start aiming for victory points and focused on stats upgrades first.
Edit: Oh yeah, and with regard to a post earlier in the year, I introduced King of Tokyo to my niece and nephew and they like it a lot, asking me to play it with them whenever I am at their place.
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I introduced the family to Deep Sea Adventure, Kingdomino, and Azul. Good times!
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Love: The 7th Continent, Kingdom Builder, Tigris & Euphrates, 5x Mottainai: Wutai Mountain (new expansion), Isle of Skye: Journeyman (new expansion), Keyflower
Like: Locomotive Werks (new), 3x Cities, Feudum (new), Gloomhaven
Neutral: Scythe
Locomotive Werks is an interesting game - it’s not hard to optimize your income every turn, but it won’t steer you to victory by itself. This is somewhat true in Power Grid, but especially true in Locomotive Werks.
Feudum is wild - I might like it a lot if it pays off the promise of the first game.
We played games after work on Thursday, and one of the new people was really excited to play their new copy of Scythe. I offered to sit in and teach, but I would have rather been in the game of Settlers of Catan on the other side of the room. Playing Scythe with new players looked like I was running up the scoreboard even though I was just trying to drive the game to a conclusion after 2 hours.
Mottainai: Wutai Mountain is a good expansion. Isle of Skye: Journeyman is a surprisingly good expansion.
I also wound up with a second copy of Pax Porfiraina, even though I got rid of my first copy in 2016. I think my preferences have changed enough to earn a second evaluation.
At PAX West, we should try to plan on playing
John Company
Quartermaster General (no Scotts allowed)
Multiple Tigris & Euphrates games
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Y does nobody want to play modded QMG?
Also, is YY, the hex T&E going to be out by then?
Y&Y is coming in July for people who preordered it. I have not preordered it, though.
Can I preorder it?
Do I want Circus Flohcati?
Probably because you’re still banned from any form of QMG.
So you liked Wutai Mountain? We played the print-and-play edition, and I dunno, we found it clunky and bloaty. Did they change it for the full release?
I’m not aware of any major changes from the print-and-play. Our 3p games felt very similar to three player base game Mottainai, with additional situational powers. The rules around drawing and playing Om cards were not hard to implement from the perspective of a group that regularly plays Innovation + Echoes + Figures, but I would not introduce new players with the expansion.
@no_fun_girl commented that it felt very Innovation-esque, actually. I haven’t played Innovation with expansions much, so it was a new level of Chudyk for me.