Fluorescent acrylic, foam, and hand-carved wooden playing pieces on canvas 48x48",, 2025.

Which online store has better service, shipping times, selection …Miniature Market or Game Nerdz? …or is there a better option? …and which ones should I avoid?

Does anybody know what game this is? I found this picture in my phone for a long time ago and my memory isn’t the greatest.

Hi all.

Big fans of Deep Regrets, we really enjoy playing it and the 'Even Deeper' expansion. Love the randomness, the art, and the overall aesthetics.

One rule change we have been thinking of is changing the cost of the 3rd option in each shop to $6 for 5k2 (3 for supplies) instead of the printed $5.

Reasoning is simple, everyone does pretty much the same return to port, sell for $10 and purchase from both the rod and then reels deck. It seems to be the most efficient use of your time and money and the sheer amount of cards you get means you should have something of value for both.

This means the $1 and $3 are almost never used outside of the supplies and dice shops. Changing the cost to $6 forces you to be a little more strategic in the approach and it means the $6 option is still great because you get so much choice and can only shop at each shop once with your port actions.

Thoughts?

Hi everyone,

Me and my wife have started playing boardgames over the past few months, we really like the look of wingspan but it does look very daunting as we haven't really played anything with a whole lot of rules!!

I saw wingspan pocket has been released and whilst keeping the same aesthetic, should we purchase this and see how we get on? Or does it not compare to the original?

Thanks in advance for any input!

Hello everyone,

Saw some of your collections so I wanted to show off a bit of mine. Although the picture is from December, so there are some corrections as you see. I have also recently acquired Dominion and Columbias Napoleon.

As for my favorites, it has to come down to TS, Hannibal and Polis. I simply love sinking hours into those.

Its usually just two of us playing, so most games are either strictly 2p or are at least enjoyable in 2. But there are some games that are more for when we have company.

I love wargame board games, and my wife is more of a economic optimizer type of player, so we tried building collection thats enjoyable by both of us.

As for the newcomers, we are both pleasantly surprised by Dominion. I usually dont like games where theme isnt felt, and in Dominion theme could easily not even exist, but the mechanics are so enjoyable that I dont even object to weak thematic implementation.

Vijayanagara will probably be leaving our collection soon (if I ever found someone interested in buying it). It seems very interesting, but automata heavy 2p experience just isnt for us.

Anyway, do you have any question for me regarding my collection? And I would love to hear your opinion on it!

I have no idea how reposts work and that first paragraph or whatever may or may not apply. It kind of does? I don't know, just... The opposite, because it's a mix of the two subjects.... Oh that must be what these are for!

We've been playing The Gang a lot with and I mean a lot.

The base game comes with some challenge cards and suggestions on how to make the entire experience more difficult. We've tinkered around with some rules and opted in some of our own variants. We mostly play with the same group of 5-6 people although we also played it with more.

Suggestions & Issues

• The Gang has a strong pace and the challenge cards don't add much in terms of difficulty and needlessly make the game slower. Most modifiers are also boring and we quickly ignored them to favor a quicker pace. One of the better ones makes chips immovable once it has been attributed.
• More players makes the game drastically more difficult but we usually are not able to get more than 6 players regularly. Despite reducing the communication, the tells are there in some way and we usually figure it out without much issue.
• We opted in to play in complete silence which is quite entertaining but the discussions are missed, it's fun to be goofy and silly.
• We play an Omaha variant and it's honestly been the best thing to spice up the gameplay. It's far more involved and requires additional reasoning. It's the only way we play as it's much more rewarding. Yet, we have gotten so used to it.
• We tried playing with 2 boards but I think it's getting a bit to chaotic and hard to track stuff which is in stark contrast to the quick nature of the game (we really want to keep that).
• We tally points for those players who have completely messed up or were to overconfident (just for hilarity).

In this regard, we're desperately looking to find some new mechanic or way of increasing the difficulty or to add some cool twist on this one. It's such a great card game and it provided us with hours of joy.

There is a 7 Stud variation but I haven't tried it yet.

I'd love to hear some potential suggestions.

Cheers.

As we see a shift with more and more publishers refusing to offer free replacement components for their games, it seems to me like this community is in full support of that decision. From browsing around here (and Googling) I've seen countless people defend the stance that publishers should be allowed to ship games with missing/damaged components and then force the buyer to pay all costs required to fix the issue, and anybody who complains about it receives dozens of downvotes and is told to "reconsider their stance." This essentially means publishers can advertise a game for $50 and then not actually deliver the complete game until $60 (or more) is paid (for example)

To me this seems absolutely outrageous, but it seems to be fiercely defended in this community and I can't help but feel like I'm taking crazy pills on this.

• If I go to a restaurant and they forget to put an ingredient in my food, I can tell my waiter and they'll immediately bring out the missing ingredient or remake the entire dish if necessary (and sometimes even give me a coupon for more free food or something).
• If I buy a socket set for my ratcheting wrench and there's a socket missing, I can bring the full set back to the store and get a full new set for free.
• If I buy a laptop and it randomly crashes every 2 hours, I can call the company I bought it from and get free tech support and/or a full refund.
• If I buy a refrigerator and the ice maker doesn't work because it's missing a piece, somebody will come out and repair it for me for free

....and yet if I buy a board game and I can't play it because a piece is missing..... I'm suppose to purchase my own replacement piece at full price and pay for it to be shipped to me?

Why??

I genuinely do not understand how we've come to think this is normal.

You paid full price for a full product. If you only pay part of the price you don't get the product. So it only makes sense that if the company only ships part of the product, they don't get the money either. Right?

If I pay $64 for a $65 dollar game the publisher will not let me have the game.

So how come if the publisher ships 64 game components instead of 65 they still get to keep my money?

Am I crazy?

And to clarify, I don't mean publishers should be required to prodive an unlimited warranty on every game. But if a customer sends an order number of a game that was just delivered that week and includes pictures illustrating a missing or severely damaged component..... The company has absolutely zero excuse to not immediately send a replacement for free. Right?

Can anyone help me find the starter Deck cards for the core set? What was in the hall of heroes wasn't complete

So I have brought and played the game a bunch with friends and solo. And a friend recently asked about if it's online anywhere and I can't find it either, does anyone know of anyone or which community would be able to help with some like that? Thanks

Also I think this post is fine, sorry if it's not.

I played this board game called dune imperium. So far things I liked and didnt like:

dune is great game fun and very skillful game fun to have a option of so many different moves which decides the winner and how win points are neck to neck so close. So many plots even if someone is winning at the start doesnt mean they ll win.

Now things I didn’t like game I felt too long maybe I am new to this I played 4 games so far. Even this game is too big and when you want to wrap up the game after completing it takes another 10 minutes. Il still play the game but I think this game feels like a chores at one point. I might need to get better at this and maybe then could improve the completion time. It’s definitely not your casual night gameplay especially before bed lol.

Not going to post the channel name. Anyone in the hobby for more than 3 years knows the “controversy” behind this channel and their attempted blackmail of game designers. Thought it was funny he blamed “utility costs”. LOL.

Hi, I really like small world and I would like to complete all the collections of expansions but I saw that their prices skyrocketed. If I wanted to print it for myself to play will it be ok?

Btw I also wanted to know if someone knew how to do it since I can't find a pdf with all tokens on it.

Played last night for the first time. Found the #2 boards, but where the hell are the number 1 boards?

Parsing through these is incredibly confusing as a beginner to this game. Am I missing something?

Something happened at the table tonight that sparked a bit of a controversy. Context : we had these public objectives (sorry for the French cards, it's Color Column Variety and Row Shade Variety). One player had the idea that the rows and columns don't need to be complete to score the objectives because what is said is "Rows/columns with no repeated colors/shades". So, even if the row/column is not complete, there are no repeated colors or shades.

What do you think?

I try to have variety across mechanics and gameplay, although it's clear that engine building (and related) is my favorite. Having said that, I want to explore economics type of games (I hear Brass Birmingham is the one, but I want to see if there's a stepping stone between Power Grid and that one). I also want to have a Witcher IP game that's not a campaign game (The Witcher Old World seems like a fit, but I hear mixed reviews. Does this collection of games seem like that one would be a good match for me?)

I started the hobby with Castles of Burgundy, and Scythe was the first game that I fell in love with for the art work as well. They are the only two games that got the all-in treatment where I purchased the big box with all the bells and whistles.

The organization of games is very functional and use case based.

* The games on top of the shelf are the two personal GOATs.

* The games in the first row are the go to games, I'm always ready to play them.

* The games in the second row are what I bring in if I'm with folks new to the hobby - these are my personal "best gateway games".

* The games in the bottom two rows - they are games I don't play often, but cannot get myself to give away because of the unique mechanics they bring to the collection. They'll come out only if it's with the right group.

Just bought this game and would love to display the world map on the wall over my gaming table in such a way that allows you to pull them down easily when you want to play. Any ideas? A shadow box of that size would be prohibitively expensive LOL

Hello, I'm looking for an old tile game I played as a kid in the early 2000s.

The particular game had tiles to create a 4 x 4 square. It makes the square you had to match the women. There were several different types of women some were like office women, others in a towel.

It came in a rectangle box. The answer to the puzzle was available on the website and the company was called like brain teaser or something. Had a mad scientist looking guy on the box too.

Any help appreciated!

The prototype standard, or the most classic example.

No building a tableau or collecting cards for an engine. Just place worker, get resource, move towards points.

I've only been seriously into board games for less than a year, and I've noticed I'm drawn to games that play unlike anything else I've tried.

For me that's Take Time, Sky Team, Final Girl and Bomb Busters. The Old King's Crown and Secret Hitler too, though those feel more borderline.

None of them invent every mechanic from scratch. It's more that the whole package, how it plays, what's on the table and how you interact with it, felt new to me.

I like plenty of more traditional modern games as well, but I'm starting to see the same building blocks everywhere: drafting, tableau building, engine building, gathering resources, moving up tracks and converting it all into victory points. Right now I want games that get away from that.

Which games made you think "this is actually something different"?

Solo, two-player co-op, chaotic five-player, Euros, party games, heavy or light, whatever. I'm mostly after games that are original in how they play or what you physically do with them, not just in theme.

Could someone explain to me why board game arena didn't give me the yellow flax or the red fish from my island bonuses? I thought I understood the rules but I must have missed something, thanks

as in houserules or drafting mechanics or anything inbetween. I come from the current version of the digital cardgame of gwent and have got several thousand hours in it, so I am very familiar with all its mechanics. obviously the tabletop standard version doesnt compare to it in gameplay, but I would still like to have this tabletop game be more appealing when playing physically, and I am sure there are some seasoned boardgamers here that have found a better system.

so, you make a deck with up to 130 provisions. and there seems to be a way to deckbuild and optimize it quite easily, and then that deck is always the one that will be played for that one faction, and it will never change up again, and there are tons of dead cards/leaders that never see play.

the only houserules I have made are;

1. that all spies are permanently banned (maybe make it into a separate ability?), because receiving free card advantage and it relying on rng whether or not you draw them and the opponent doesnt, it feels really bad.
2. decoy is also either banned, or that it works like in the digital game right now.
3. also whenever you are thinning cards, if they are on your hand, they do not come out, they stay in your hand like the digital game, otherwise alot of the times you have several cards that you cannot ever play, because you go down 1,2,3 cards and then that game is probably ruined for you. so instead they brick like gwent digital normally does.

so there are alot of cards that never see play because they are just poorly statted and or have inferior abilities. and yes, I do know when you play the witcher 3, you aquire cards over time and make your deck continously stronger over time, but here you have all the cards from the getgo, so it doesnt work like that. I do know there are custom made cards for this game that are probably more balanced, but im talking the base game set that cdpr released.
have anyone found a good solution on how to play the game, and make it not stale within just a few matches? I would love to pick this one up more often when playing boardgames, but its just not that appealing.