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Re: What BOARD GAME(s) have you been playing?
Gears of War x2
The Great Heartland Hauling Company x9
Polis (solo run to get the rules down)
Apex Therapod x5
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Black Barney wrote: from the movie Alien?? There's a thematic board game around that? Can i has it?
Yes, Barney. It's great. Legendary: Encounters is what it's called.
Predator version is coming this year, apparently.
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aaxiom wrote: The Great Heartland Hauling Company x9
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I guess the "x9" answers this, but how is Heartland Hauling? I've thought about adding that into an order a few times.
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Sadly, I only own 1825 Unit 2 and other units are impossible to find. But hey, at worst I can get some other cube train games (German Railways, Continental Divide, Silverton?) and I know I'll be able to play them.
I also went to a local Netrunner tournament with an Industrial Genomics deck, which is a Jinteki identity that increases trash costs of all cards (installed or not) by the amount of facedown cards in archives. It seems fun, right? Well, it isn't, it's an extremely powerful deck and I flatlined all Runners but one because they ran out of cards. I went undefeated and by a wide margin at that. I didn't expect that at all, I ran it practically untested and thought it was just a funny Tier 3 deck or something.
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I also went to a local Netrunner tournament with an Industrial Genomics deck, which is a Jinteki identity that increases trash costs of all cards (installed or not) by the amount of facedown cards in archives. It seems fun, right? Well, it isn't, it's an extremely powerful deck and I flatlined all Runners but one because they ran out of cards. I went undefeated and by a wide margin at that. I didn't expect that at all, I ran it practically untested and thought it was just a funny Tier 3 deck or something.
I just lost all desire to get into Netrunner.
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Haha, dont' worry, the meta will adapt just like it adapted to all my other weird deckscraniac wrote: I just lost all desire to get into Netrunner.

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It's fun... in a small box with wood bits and cards. Probably one of the better small format games I've encountered, the other being the Space Hulk Death Angel title. If I were to travel, I think this game goes along. It solos pretty well, and it's an interesting challenge with others.
Hope that helps... feel free to ask for further thoughts or clarification.
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charlest wrote: What's up with that Apex Therapod deckbuilder Phil? Does it do anything interesting/different than its peers?
It's a deckbuilder with a few different twists. The aspect of the game I am enjoying is that -- for me -- it drips theme far more than I expected. It's also possible to ramp up the difficulty or ease up on that difficulty very easily. It's also an excellent solitaire title, and when it's not out for a 2p or 3p game, it has the same feel solo -- which I enjoy, actually.
As far as other deckbuilders, I don't think (for me) it's doing the "same things" as others... there are common elements, sure, but there's enough different as well.
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It's a deceptively simple pickup-and-deliver game that is quick (20-30 minutes for me/us) and "thinky". It's not a simulation, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's an interesting title for me and the family, certainly.Legomancer wrote:
aaxiom wrote: The Great Heartland Hauling Company x9
I guess the "x9" answers this, but how is Heartland Hauling? I've thought about adding that into an order a few times.
It's fun... in a small box with wood bits and cards. Probably one of the better small format games I've encountered, the other being the Space Hulk Death Angel title. If I were to travel, I think this game goes along. It solos pretty well, and it's an interesting challenge with others.
Hope that helps... feel free to ask for further thoughts or clarification.
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Star Realms is a quick playing game that had me saying "one more time" more than once. Everything you could want in a deck builder at a price a fifth of what most others cost. Only plays 2 but worth getting.
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Alien Frontiers - we played a couple games of this. last time we played, we had the looong drawn out end game, where people could not do anything, and were struggling to get their last colony or two. not this time. colony constructor and terraforming station were both used from the outset. great game, I may have to pick up one or two of the expansions
X-wing - I've got a Ten Numb/Keyan/Stress Y-wing build I'm thinking of playing in the reddit vassal league coming up. casual game with a guy at game night, I put together a quick Soontir Full + howlrunner miniswarm. PS 10 Ten Numb with a mangler cannon is a decent counter to Soontir, but 5 Tie Fighters is a counter to B-wings and Y-wings. I killed Soontir and an Academy, and had both Bs burned down quickly. Then it was the stressed out y-wing, who cannot turn, and since I took the title to allow him to double stress stuff, he couldn't shoot behind him. This guy vs 4 Ties. Hilariously one of the Ties had the crit that did damage when he bumped....who then immediately bumped my Y and died. also another Tie got aggressive and landed on an asteroid and blew up. Still, slow and lumbering Y-wing is not match for the maneuverability of the Ties.
Lots of damage output, little defense, I might need to swap out the y-wing for someone like Hobbie Klivian, to give it some more maneuverability while keeping the stressbot.
Pandemic Dice game - I liked this, probably more than regular pandemic. working together to trade samples is much easier than giving cards was in the regular game. it doesn't have the clever card thing, where places that have had infections are more likely to show up again.
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Great art, easy to get going with, and matches are pretty fast and engaging. I backed this one because folks here talked up the original version, so thanks for that!
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