Tabletop Game Talk, Anyone?

I love TTR, absolutely get the europe map as a base game if you do though and I heartily recommend the expanded ticket pack for it though ( I actually custom rule and take one of the long range tickets out of the original set too)

It's a fairly easy game to learn though can get very cutthroat with more experienced players and yeah definitely needs 4 to be at its best though I don't mind 3. How competitive/nasty the game is definitely depends on your ticket draw though. Some games can be really contested, other games can be more of a separate rush.

I have the Legendary Asia map as well though I've only played it once so far.

GoT was the first combat territory game I played and I like it, but Kemet is everything I want in a game!  I must investigate those others.

I feel strongly that Galaxy Trucker is the better game. If your group is really into zombies and/or cooperative play, maybe Last Night on Earth - which I do like - but Galaxy Trucker has more interesting mechanics. Last Night on Earth can be really frustrating for the majority of people playing since the zombies have the advantage and there's an actual player in control of them. That's different from something like Arkham Horror or Shadows Over Camelot, which yeah are difficult co-op games, but there's no human antagonist against you so it's not so painful. Galaxy Trucker, on the other hand, is beautiful game with lots of variety and a great concept.

I haven't played Kemet. I cannot advise on that decision.

I've played a couple more Mage Knight games now, although I've yet to actually win. This was the first time I think I could have taken out a city on my own but there was only one turn left and we still would have had to take out another city to win. Another two rounds would have let us do it.

I really love how the theme and the mechanics are so intertwined. It's surprisingly immersive. Every little gameplay mechanic has some thematic interpretation and it all fits logically within the game's world. You even form a narrative of sorts as you move along, it's all very well thought out.

@patrickbatman ganews - Not having enough players is always the problem here too. Lately we've been playing Citadels or Pandemic when we have 4 people. Talisman too when we have time. What do you all like for smaller groups?

Baron von Costume - That actually sounds perfect. We've been trying to move lately from co-op to more competitive and strategic games like that. We want to try Game of Thrones over the weekend, although everything I hear about it gives me doubts.

My issue is players too, the 2 people that i used to game with most are about to have baby #2 and I'm guessing I won't be seeing much of them for a few year

I've never played it myself but friends of mine have and they like it a lot. It even seems to have a very high rating on board game geek, it's at 25 on their over-all ranking.

Anyone played Machi Koro? I'm curious how it is... though I understand the strategy gets a bit simple if you really get into it it seems like it might be a good gateway game to those of the monopoly set.

Last mission of the Imperial Assault campaign tonight, and I'm apprehensive.

Last week's penultimate mission was, in my loudly stated opinion, "a bunch of goddamn fucking cheeseball ass".

We as the Rebels were responsible for locating and defeating General Weiss. We thought we had a good idea what was coming, as Weiss has a figure of himself piloting an AT-ST with custom weapons.

We are doing great in the mission, and we open the door to Weiss' location just as his AT-ST appears. At this point, we discuss our options. Weiss can be attacked on foot, but any damage he takes disappears as soon as he reaches his AT-ST, which he can do in one turn, so unless we are able to totally kill him outright, is probably a bad move. The Imperial player helpfully reminds us that we CAN damage the AT-ST prior to Weiss getting in, so it would take less attacks to defeat him.

We discuss our options, and I suggest that I attack the AT-ST. Using a couple of my rare abilities and a one-time-per-mission special item to ignore the target's massive armor, I manage to do TEN points of damage to the AT-ST which only has 15 hitpoints.

Weiss goes, and we discover that as soon as he enters the AT-ST, it AUTOMATICALLY HEALS FIVE POINTS. Then, Weiss can immediately use a new ability to convert Influence (reinforcement points) into another five points of healing, making my attack completely useless.

For the next four or five rounds, the Imperials proceeded to kick our ass - stunning us so we couldn't attack often enough to get ahead, while everything we threw at the fucking goddamn cheeseball ass AT-ST was either shrugged off or healed until we all got defeated.

I apologized for my frequent outbursts during the game, but I was (and am still, a week later, slightly) upset about the whole thing. It was 99% impossible to win because of stupid game mechanics that don't make sense in the Star Wars universe (fucking vehicles DON'T HEAL) and totally unbalanced advantages for the Imperial side.

I complained so much that the Imperial player felt it necessary to assure us (me) that the final mission does not include the healing mechanics, that they were only for that mission. It still sucked.

(We have had difficult missions throughout the campaign, and I have not had major issues with most of them, except for the ones where "Oh, your objective changed this turn, oh, Imperials get to move now, oh, you lost" happened.)

Imperial Assault Final update - The last mission was just as shitty as the previous one, except maybe more so, because it gave us the illusion of completely kicking ass in the first two turns, and then by the eighth (and final) turn we'd been completely obliterated yet again.

Weiss showed up TWICE. The first time his stupid overpowered AT-ST appeared, I managed to KILL IT in two shots. Then at the end of the mission, he shows up again, in a highly defensible spot. And true to the Imperial player's shitty cheap-ass bullshit of the previous game, Weiss didn't have the SAME healing abilities as the previous mission, but he had enough support around him to heal just as much as before, making him impossible to kill.

Fuck this game. I might try again in skirmish mode, where it's just 1 vs 1 and single battles, but otherwise I'm done.

Actually, I would still recommend it. We had a few big problems in our campaign - the Imperial player is an EXCELLENT gamer who prepares well, and he chose one of the toughest skillsets for his army (the one including probe droids that could heal other units, which is fucking BROKEN), and we apparently chose some of the weakest Rebel characters out of the ones we could take.

Yes, last night. I was lost.

Did you ever pick up Galaxy Trucker? And if yes, how do you like it? It's a recent favorite of mine.

I'm planning on grabbing it tomorrow and hopefully playing thurs night.

I'm getting a good-sized table for my basement from Lifemate's moving parents. Hopefully this will result in many more game nights. Plus I'll have a place to set up Axis and Allies where there are no toddlers in the house.