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Eli Gutierrez
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Ian Ramirez
Asking again from last thread: if you had to choose between Five Tribes and Yamatai, which one would you rather have?
I already know that Five Tribes is a little more color blind friendly and that both games can be a problem if you have AP (FT in the beginning and Yamatai near the end). Neither of those are an issue for me so I'm more curious about the gameplay.
Ryan Wright
Got this for £8 from The Works, turned about to be a great little auction game.
Jonathan Campbell
>already know that Five Tribes is a little more color blind friendly
This is so easily fixable I dont' understand making such a fucking issue of it. Then again I just bought over $100 of shit from Asmodee so obviously I don't moralize with my dollars.
Mason Parker
>Well if Nobody Else is Gonna Do Eet Edition
We all love you for it user, you have the drive and we're just coasting along with our lazy sense of entitlement.
Angel Kelly
How do you guys pick up new board games at your FLGS? Do you do a bunch of research prior? Do you ever just pick anything up on a whim; if so do you have a price limit of what you're willing to gamble?
Myself, I can't buy on a whim.
I was at my shop the other day because I just happened to be in the area and I just couldn't do it. There was a decent selection of used games priced at 50-75% off retail. Games I'm aware of, but have never played or really looked into.
Dominic Martinez
I already fucking told you it's Yamatai. It doesn't have that clunky bidding for turn order and has a better mechanic instead. Also, AP? There is no way Yamatai is even close to as much AP near the end as FT has at the beginning. You already know what you're going for by the end of Yamatai because of what specialists you have and/or what buildings are left to be built.
Jackson Martin
>>Best unexpectedly decent game?
The game my brother got me for X-mas. I got Through the Ages and my brother has 0 interest in board games, I don't know how he knew that this would be decent.
Daniel Butler
Gonna spam my team-game list again. Fishing for recommendations.
> What doesn't count
Games with politics, backstabbing, unknown teams or hidden traitor mechanics, 1vMany.
Games:
> Cyclades
2v2, 3v3 or 2v2v2. Symmetric roles.
> StarCraft
Team play variant. Symmetric roles (different races)
> Captain Sonar
team vs team, different roles
> Space Cadets: Dice Duel
team vs team, different roles
> Code Names
team vs team, party game
> Sails of Glory
technically works with literally any count
> Quartermaster General
Team vs team, n vs m | 1 >= n >= m >= 3
> Last Night on Earth
Usually a 1vMany game but can be played as team vs team with 6 or 4 players (2v4 or 2v2)
> Duel of Ages II
Duel of Ages II should fit the bill pretty well and can work with uneven player numbers if people are willing to manage more characters, has enough strategy and management involved to be considered complicated (highly variable character powers and stats, characters relying on using ranged weapons which need to be picked up and most likely traded) and also scales up to 8 players, 16 with the expansion. I believe it's currently OOP (pretty sure the Master Set is and boy is that an expansion and a half) but I imagine there will be another print run sometime this decade as the designer is working on another expansion
> 1775: rebellion
2v2, other games in this series also come in other formats like 2v3
Benjamin Peterson
I like the mancala aspect and simplicity of Five Tribes, but I also haven't played Yamatai at all, just read the rules once