boardgames!

[mojo pixy]

I found a game in a charity shop a few weeks ago called Kick Off. It's an old MB game I'd never played before but basically you use cards to move a ball around, score, save and take free kicks. The board is of course a football pitch with squares on, it's basically a strategy game, but dressed as a football game I have to say it makes me smile.

It plays well and can be momentarily exciting, but that 100% depends on how well shuffled the cards are. If the cards come out badly it can be repetitive and joyless.

Anyway, here's what it looks like. It's cute!

 

[BlueSquareThing]

I found a game in a charity shop a few weeks ago called Kick Off. It's an old MB game I'd never played before but basically you use cards to move a ball around, score, save and take free kicks. The board is of course a football pitch with squares on, it's basically a strategy game, but dressed as a football game I have to say it makes me smile.

It plays well and can be momentarily exciting, but that 100% depends on how well shuffled the cards are. If the cards come out badly it can be repetitive and joyless.

Anyway, here's what it looks like. It's cute!

I remember having that as a kid. No idea where it went to - quite possibly that charity shop!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Talking of crazy expensive games, someone on my timeline was tweeting about Twilight Imperium, which looks incredible, but is £130!

You get a lot of game for that but the main issue is how often you really going to play it. I’d bet Gloomhaven would see more actual table time...


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[Kid_Eternity]

Gloomhaven sounds like the Warhammer Quest successor I've always wanted.

Yeah I’ve heard it being called Heroquest for grown ups.


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[belboid]

Played a few games of Istanbul last night.

It is a fine game, and quite quick playing once you’ve actually remembered all the rules and what every location actually does.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Played a few games of Istanbul last night.

It is a fine game, and quite quick playing once you’ve actually remembered all the rules and what every location actually does.

Love this game! Scales really well with player count!


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[belboid]

ffs

Played Forbidden Desert with some newbies last night. After getting hammered in the first game, I had to double check a rule, and discovered that we'd always being doing the storm wrong, so had never once had a Respite from the Storm. Once we'd sorted that, we came close as dammit to winning the next one despite not even having the water carrier.


Tried Great Western Trail earlier too, but only got through the first two stages of the game before we realised we were all too pissed to understand the final bit. Still, looks promising.

 

[not-bono-ever]

I have mentjoned this before, but try to get a copy of 70s stalwart Buccaneer- guaranteed to result in real life pirate syle fisticuffs in the comnfort of your own home or i will give you your money back*






* not guaranteed. ROAR. see T&C. restrictions apply. you home may be at risk.

 

[Mordi]

Buccaneer beats Talisman as the game of the youth I would most like to play again.

Was it really made by the same people who designed Monopoly, or is that just publisher nonsense?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

ffs

Played Forbidden Desert with some newbies last night. After getting hammered in the first game, I had to double check a rule, and discovered that we'd always being doing the storm wrong, so had never once had a Respite from the Storm. Once we'd sorted that, we came close as dammit to winning the next one despite not even having the water carrier.


Tried Great Western Trail earlier too, but only got through the first two stages of the game before we realised we were all too pissed to understand the final bit. Still, looks promising.

Forbidden Desert is great fun but you’re right brutal. We’ve played it five times and only beaten it three times.

Playing GWT for the first time tomorrow evening, can’t wait!


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[belboid]

Playing GWT for the first time tomorrow evening, can’t wait!.

Have a bloody good look at the rules before you start, that's my recommendation. It is the most complex board game I've played, and as soon as you get one bit, you have to re-assess whether your strategy really makes sense once you get the next bit. If you see what I mean.

I'll be interested to see how you get on.

 

[BigTom]

My local board game night has started again so I went last night and played Notre Dame, which I found to be a pretty dull game, mechanically decent but totally uninspiring, a proper beige euro; and Treasure Island which I enjoyed a lot, hidden information game where you are trying to find long john silver's treasure before them moving around a map whilst the long john silver player gives you clues (some of which can be lies, others have to be true) to help (or hinder) the other players (the premise is that you've captured and are torturing him, but if you don't find the treasure quickly enough then long john silver escapes and goes for the treasure themselves. Really enjoyable game, which the long john silver player won.

 

[BigTom]

also is anyone else going to the UK boardgames expo?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

also is anyone else going to the UK boardgames expo?

Always mean to them realise I’ve left it too late each bloody year..!


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[BigTom]

A new weekly night has started near me so I'm playing games regularly again Over the past month or two I've played Wingspan (nice game), Reavers of Midguard (ok but didn't grab me), Viticulture (the expanded version, was good but too complicated on a first play, probably better once you know more about the cards and mechanics), Euphoria (Fine, the dystopia theme didn't work that well for me tbh but mechanically it was decent), Cryptid (person setup the board wrong so the game took two hours and we couldn't find the creature... I should love this game but struggled with it so idk, apparently meant to be about 20 minutes...) and Isle of Cats (Really liked this). Probably a few others I'm forgetting.

I've backed Parks on Kickstarter which looks lovely and has good reviews from its previous printing. I'm going to be at Concord convention in Bristol this weekend and Airecon in Harrogate in a few weeks if anyone else from here is going?

 

[killer b]

I was looking at wingspan the other week, it looks great.

Me and Mrs B have been playing Jaipur a lot recently, which is a brilliant two-player if that's of interest.

 

[killer b]

oh, I see it's had a lot of mentions previously on the thread...

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I went a little insane and got a Crokinole set.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

 

[Mordi]

I was looking at wingspan the other week, it looks great.

Me and Mrs B have been playing Jaipur a lot recently, which is a brilliant two-player if that's of interest.

Jaipur is great, we've a couple of similar 2 player card games on the shelf. Morels, Fox in the Forest, Air Land and Sea are all good. Patchwork however is a game that blows me away with how concise and clear it's design is. Simple and balanced enough that I can play with my 5 year old daughter and yet with a real solid crunch.

 

[killer b]

My daughter has patchwork, not played it but she loves it.

We've also got a two player called Fungi which is a bit fiddly to start off with but great fun once you get the hang of it.

 

[strung out]

I can heartily recommend Coup: Reformation. A very fun card game for 2-10 players. I've spend a lot of time playing with friends. Still never won

 

[CNT36]

I went to a Toy Fair through work last month and they were hawking another Atmosfear reboot.

 

[BigTom]

I was looking at wingspan the other week, it looks great.

Me and Mrs B have been playing Jaipur a lot recently, which is a brilliant two-player if that's of interest.

Wingspan is a really gentle, nice game to play. Really beatifully designed visually and a decent light to medium weight engine builder. Sightly flawed by the last round egg laying dominance but really it's a game to relax and play for best effect rather than trying to min/max it on the points, so it doesn't matter as much as some people make out, unless you only like playing games for the min/max opportunities.

 

[BigTom]

I could probably play patchwork forever as well, love that game. Not played jaipur though.

 

[tommers]

I can heartily recommend Coup: Reformation. A very fun card game for 2-10 players. I've spend a lot of time playing with friends. Still never won

Yes we play Coup at work. I have also never won.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Last night I took my crokinole set to my D&D group as the DM couldn't make it.

We had tons of fun.

There were 6 of us and we played 4 player team games.

The games only last about 10min each so we rotated players quickly and (I think) no one felt left out.

Makes me feel better about spending shitloads on it.

 

[Orang Utan]

Can anyone recommend boardgames for two players that are fun to play and not too complicated or strategic to play. Quizzy type games a plus, but not necessarily just those

 

[belboid]

Ticket to Ride is okay with two, and the London version is quick play (15 mins)

obviously there’s cribbage. I’ll try n think of more quizzy ones.

 

[mx wcfc]

A guy I (vaguely) know does boardgames. They are meant to be good, and his reputation is spreading beyond Brighton.

Paul Stapleton

I've been a Brightonian, keen gamer and cartoonist since the mid 90's, and in 2012 I finally got to combine all three to make my first board game, BN1: A Board Game All About Brighton. It was a continuation of a comic strip I'd been drawing for a couple of years prior, and the first run sold out...

boardgamegeek.com

Really nice fella. Frontman of a folk punk band, Pog, as well. Just don't camp near him at a festival cos he's up at 6 in the morning playing his boardgames with his kids.