Tabletop Game Talk, Anyone?

Superfight
Superfight is a party game that aims to take the zaniness of something like Cards Against Humanity, give it direction, and put even more of the onus on the players to make it fun. Here's how it works: two players compete at a time, with the rest of the group acting as judge. In the base game, there is a character deck and an attribute deck. Each player draws a character and an attribute. It could be something like, "Ghandi + Tentacle Arms" or "Richard Nixon + Diaper Rash." Once they have their combatants, the players argue over who would win in a fight until one player concedes or the judges declare a winner. Separate expansion decks add locations, special circumstance, R-rated cards and G-rated cards. Sometimes you can draw extra attributes.

There's a lot of room for creativity here, and perhaps over beers when I'm feeling a little looser I would have more fun with it, but ultimately I found it more "neat" than really fun. Plus, if you're in a large group, only two players at a time. (Although I guess you could have larger battles, no reason why not.) It is fun when you draw something really synergistic. Like my favorite that I got to play, "My Significant Other, Pregnant ... and 30 ft. tall"

Red Flags - from the makers of Superfight!, which I mentioned last year, comes yet another variant on the basic Apples-to-Apples/Cards Against Humanity social card game. In Red Flags, two or more players are tasked with setting up the perfect date for the round's judge. There are two decks, white cards and red cards. The white cards are positive qualities - "good listener", "owns an island in the Bahamas", "is Ryan Gosling" - and the red cards are really big red flags - "is never not covered with ants", "has slept with one or more of your parents ... recently". Every round the players draw a number of white cards and red cards. First each player selects two white cards they believe add up to the judge's perfect date. Then after all the dates are setup, each player plays one red flag on the date to their left. So, you're goal is to play the perfect deal-breaker on the other player's date. The judge picks which date they want to go on, and if it's yours, you win the point. Repeat until tired.

We bought this. We also bought the "dark red flags" expansion, which has more adult-themed red flags. We played it in one of the lines and had a good time with it. I like that - as with Cards Against Humanity but unlike Superfight! - the game is more in how well you know the other players. It's not just about a good date, it's about a good date for that judge. About knowing when to a play a red flag even when you believe it to be mild, because you know that particular judge will be repulsed. (For example, when playing with Mrs. Snape, always go with body horror if you can. She'll date a bad person as long as that person isn't gross.)

And like similar games, there are always big laughs to be had when the perfect synergy of cards comes out. By example the very first round we played, demoing the game at the booth with me and the dealer making dates for Mrs. Snape, the dealer played a date who had a million dollars, and the red flag I played was "Owes the government a million dollars." Just love it when it works out like that. It's a fun game to play with a group you know well.

Yeah, we talked about Red Flags a bit after playing Superfight, and it sounds like a ton of fun too.

We were playing Superfight with the Green Deck expansion, which adds a lot of G-Rated cards. The guy who hosts the game night insists on playing the various game types and expansions in "order" until they've all been tried out, then if we play again after that it'll be more freeform. So next time we play we'll be trying the Red Deck, which is the R- to X- rated addition.

Does anyone paint miniatures? I'm loving it, though I'm finding that obtaining the right consistency of paint is difficult.

I brought my old N64 over from my dad's house. Didn't find Rogue Squadron, though. I never did beat "Escape from Fest."

Machi Koro:
Cute game, good for a quick spin or for more casual board game fans. Seems like something that might be worth picking up for the "Well the game's set up but we're waiting for steve to show" moments.

I'm so glad X-wing Miniatures has an alternate art card prize for Corran Horn. The best reason to use my favorite ship, the E-wing, deserves a prize, and you bet I'll be hitting up a tournament to get him for my very own.

Rogue Squadron did use E-wings during the resurrected Emperor's assault aboard the Super Star Destroyer Lusankya. In game he uses an E-wing because the T-65 has plenty of pilots ;3

So we played a round of Colt Express (the train) and I was doing super super good until the last round where I was banking on getting the $1000 bonus for going all hog wild with my pistol but there was no one to shoot my last bullet at.