Mein zweites Spiel von Churchill. Ich mag das Spiel, auch wenn es Hirnzellen und Zeit frisst. Definitiv eines meiner komplexesten Spiele in meiner Sammlung, aber das historische Thema packt mich jedes Mal. Aber ich brauche da wohl noch einige Spielrunden, um nicht wieder statt der avisierten 90 Minuten des Trainingsszenarios auf 4 Stunden zu kommen […]
Nov
05
2017
05.11.17
My second play of Churchill. I really love the game, but man does it take time. Ok, I had to relearn, as my last play is quite some time in the past, but still – the training scenario took like 4 hours. Fun hours, but wow, this drains me mentally. Great play this time, the […]
Nov
05
2017
Reply: 1 Player guild:: General:: Re: Suggestions for solo customizable game
by TheGargoyle
oduh wrote:Shadowrun: Crossfire or Dragonfireas much as I love SR:CF, there is no pre-game building at all. There is a little customization over time with the stickers, but that is far from what OP talks about. No idea if that changed…
Nov
05
2017
Reply: 1 Player guild:: General:: Re: Suggestions for solo customizable game
by TheGargoyle
For me the following games provide that pre-building itch-scratching:- The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game provides hours and hours of deck building and then running that deck against different scenarios to see how it works out. This…
Nov
05
2017
/u/bboomslang on What have been your "walking out of the theater" moments in board gaming?
Sword&Sorcery. Too much fiddly stuff going on for group play for me – I am usually the game teacher and this started early to turn into my wife pestering me with questions about stuff not yet described. Even my usual “let’s have a test round or two and I describe while stuff happens” didn’t work, as too much is connected with other stuff. Game!e works great solo and probably also when players familiarise with the rules up front, but that never happens at our game nights, so this will go into the solo-only pile. A bit sad, because I can see the good game beneath the pile of stuff, but well, it is as it is. Too many good and great games that work with my groups much better.
Nov
01
2017
In case anyone is wondering if Codenames: Duet can be played with pictures from Codenames: Pictures: yep, works like a charm and we actually enjoy it much more than with words. With words it felt annoyingly difficult, so we tried it with pictures and finally got our first win. For us the pictures are much more open in finding common things, whereas with words we constantly ran into situations with words that we couldn’t get combined in any way.
Codenames: Duett war eines der Mitbringsel von Essen, aber die Wort-Variante hat uns nur frustriert anstatt zu begeistern. Also wird ab jetzt mit den Bildern aus Codenames: Pictures gespielt, das gefällt uns deutlich besser. Und gewonnen haben wir dann auch endlich Mal (nach dem 12. Spiel) Shared on Google+ by Georg Bauer: In case anyone […]
Nov
01
2017
In case anyone is wondering if Codenames: Duet can be played with pictures from Codenames: Pictures: yep, works like a charm and we actually enjoy it much more than with words. With words it felt annoyingly difficult, so we tried it with pictures and finally got our first win. For us the pictures are much more open in finding common things, whereas with words we constantly ran into situations with words that we couldn’t get combined in any way.
In case anyone is wondering if Codenames: Duet can be played with pictures from Codenames: Pictures: yep, works like a charm and we actually enjoy it much more than with words. With words it felt annoyingly difficult, so we tried it with pictures and finally got our first win. For us the pictures are much […]
Nov
01
2017
Reply: Codenames Duet:: General:: Re: Codenames Duet: Pictures?
by TheGargoyle
Well, my wife and I love Codenames: Pictures and never played the word version. So we went into Duett and felt it annoyingly difficult – then also switched to pictures instead of words, but full rukes of Duett and that combination fee…
Nov
01
2017
Reply: 1 Player guild:: General:: Re: Is Airborne in My Pocket or Airborne Commander for me??
by TheGargoyle
Airborne Commander is fun for a while, but replayability is only so-so with it – it is kinda a one-trick-pony where games feel quite similar, only differing by you getting screwed by the random market. You want to have more or less th…
Nov
01
2017
Reply: 1 Player guild:: General:: Re: October shopping
by TheGargoyle
My Spiel 2017 haul is Azul (loved my first play and it just looks so damn good!), Codenames Duet (wife loves it, played 6 times yesterday), Wir sind das Volk!: 2+2 (will have to wait for our semi-regular game group), and Konja (Kickst…
Oct
31
2017
It really looks pretty – Azul might be one of the most good-looking games in my collection. Helps that it plays very nice, too. Light, fluffy, tile-drafting and pattern-building game with just enough bite for serious gaming, but easy enough to grasp for pulling in gamers looking for stuff beyond gateways.
Azul – Frisch Von der Messe, erstes Mal gespielt, bin durchaus angetan und hoffe auf mehr. Sieht auf jeden Fall schon Mal hübsch aus – das Auge spielt ja auch mit. Shared on Google+ by Georg Bauer: It really looks pretty – Azul might be one of the most good-looking games in my collection. Helps […]
Oct
31
2017
It really looks pretty – Azul might be one of the most good-looking games in my collection. Helps that it plays very nice, too. Light, fluffy, tile-drafting and pattern-building game with just enough bite for serious gaming, but easy enough to grasp for pulling in gamers looking for stuff beyond gateways.
It really looks pretty – Azul might be one of the most good-looking games in my collection. Helps that it plays very nice, too. Light, fluffy, tile-drafting and pattern-building game with just enough bite for serious gaming, but easy enough to grasp for pulling in gamers looking for stuff beyond gateways. (View on Google+)