I still don’t own it, but i love medium euro games and I think i could enjoy it.
But why do so many people talk about it like a masterpiece? Is it because of its smooth mechanics and fast individual turns?
PS: I will often play it in 2p, sometimes 3p
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Scheint als ob Juliana da echt Gefallen an Battle Line gefunden hat – sie spielt es sogar gegen sich selbst, wenn ich Grad keine Zeit habe. Shared on Google+ by Georg Bauer: Well, that is something new for me: my wife playing a game left-vs-right hand. I created a monster! (Ok, a cute and fun […]
Well, that is something new for me: my wife playing a game left-vs-right hand. I created a monster! (Ok, a cute and fun one 😉 ). Battle Line really grabbed her, the last days were packed with plays of it, up to 11 games some days – and hadn't I said “no”, probably even more. […]
One thing to keep in mind: they have horizontal (adding to gemerl game play) and vertical (adding new story by adding curses) expansions. I only went for the vertical ones, as those will provide play outside the allredy known, while horizpntal (weather, devourer) only add uf you throw them in from the start or replay curses, which I don’t relly see myself doing.
Yep, 2+2 is on my list of stuff to buy at Essen. Really looking forward to this, as we have one group where this would be perfect.
1775 is great – by far my favorite team game, it plays so super smooth! Another great one from Academy Games is Mare Nostrum: Empires, again, a super smooth playing game with lots of great moments and stories playimg out.
For me it was Polis: Fight for the Hegemony – I know, not a real war game, but that one made me look for more games on the border of euro and war games, stuff like Wir sind das Volk or the COIN series, CDGs and stuff like that. Games where grognards usually complain that they are not war games 😉 – sooner than later that drew me deeper into war game territory with stuff like Paths of Glory, Washington’s War, Twilight struggle. Then solo gaming got me closer to other publishers, since some of them have great solo variants, so now I have stuff around like Comancheria, War Fighter, Churchill, Pericles, but also things like Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear (with the solo expansion) and Night of Man. And COIN. These games always feel like they were built for me.
Military wins happen only when the right science is up for grabs and even then it often needs help by either military wonders or double-turn wonders to grab juicy fat military cards. More often than not a military win means your opponent didn’t pay attention or was too greedy. Science wins on the other hand are happening quite often, as that is a good way to go when you notice a runaway leader problem early enough. But again, without the help of double-turn wonders or the mausoleum allmost impossible.
Well, there us one answer for any eve online lover, because it also is called spreadsheets in space, and that is Space Empires 4x. The base game is allready a cool beast with teching up your civ and building your fleet and killing your neighbours, all …
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Only played once so far, but ut feels really i teresting to me. Maybe because I don’t have memory games in my collection outside this title. And I would never have expected such a title to have solid solo rules. It is very puzzly, so …
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Something more in the feel of Friday: The Lost Expedition. It is not a deck builder, but you still have hand management with a nuce survival theme on top. I quite like it as an experience, and it just feels great with the nice big cards with large art pieces. Gives a Tim&Struppi vibe (no idea how it is named in english, I mean that belgian comic series about that advemturer, his little dog and Captain Haddock).
If Onitama is on your list of favorites, take a look at The Duke. It is an abstract, but the different pieces give it quite a bit pasted on theme. And it plays differently from other abstracts, as the random tile pull and the tile flipping (and the tot…
The thing is, after you really dive into it, you start to notice how super cutthroat it is. It turns into a really nasty game of denying your opponent needed ressources and setting up chains to grab what you need and things like that. After 80 plays we…
My favourite for up to 8 is 7 Wonders (you need an expansion to go beyond 7, though), because the game length mostly stays the same. We played quite a bit out of it in our game group. For lighter stuff nothing can beat Codenames for me (we play the pic…
One I really like is Viva Java: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game. Dumb name, neat yahtzee like game where you have to invest into opening rerolls and other manipulating powers first, then later sacrifice them for points. And I like the theme quite a bit….
That is another one of my favourite dice games, especially solo. Quick play and neat system, for me the so far best tiny epics.
I really like that one, even better than the bigger Pandemic. Just plays quick, easy to setup and tear down, and the colorful dice just look and feel great.
Most impressive is an oldie I played for the 1st-16th time, 6 of them on one evening, and that is Battle Line. I eyed the GMT edition quite a bit, but the art felt a bit flat. And the original Schottentotten just looked too goofy. Then I found this nice medieaval retheme, and I really like the art, so I got that one. So far we only play the base game, as my wife doesn’t understand english, but we are havong a blast with it and it went to the top of our list immediately.
The next one was Triplock which I just received. Really nice solo memory game with puzzle szenarios that slowly get more complicated. Really cool idea for some quick solo where you play something really different from many other games. The game system really stands out for me from my collection.
I own Rise of Rome and Origins. Both are great solo games. Origins is smaller, cheaper and faster, where the solo mode is more like given situations that you try to break – if you find the key to win one, it won’t be too special later on. The higher scenarios try to change that with some randomness in selections of units, and of course you can always mix things up yourself. But it always feels more like those “checkmate in 5” puzzles. But due to its fast setup and play it still is my favourite of the two boxes. RoR delivers much more epic play with the titans and is a much deeper experience, not just a quick skirmish. Play time is longer and strategy deeper, a ton of fun, but for me the longer play time keeps it from hitting the table as often as I would like. The already mentioned army of one expansion is great for RoR, as you get some more titan stuff.
For me, Origins is the best place to start, since you get the core fighting experience at a lower price point. Next would be RoR because titans are awesome.
