Managed a 266 in Fantasy Realms, which I was pleased with.
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Had a gaming day today and managed to get Terraforming Mars - Ares Expediation to the table. I liked it, 4 players, went fast - not sure I made the best decisions but we all finished relatively close.
Then we played Dune Imperium - with expansion.
Oh my god that game is amazing! So well built. I want to play it so many times!!! Managed to win and it really scratches that deck building itch
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We love Dune Imperium here but have yet to play the expansion.
In the two weeks I’ve owned War of the Ring, we have seen:
- six games between my 12-year-old son and me
- two wins in a row for the boy to open our streak
- General Brandybuck display hidden genius in the absurdly bloody (5 6s rolled on 5d6) and consequently successful siege of Mount Gundabad to finally break the back of the Shadow
- my discovery that one of the d6 I’d been using the first two games was actually a d3
- Frodo pull an Isildur at the cracks of doom once (still the farthest we’ve gotten with the fellowship, due in part to a now-corrected rules error)
- 0 appearances of the Mouth of Sauron
- me get totally on my bullshit with the laser cutter (painting still in progress):
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Beautiful job. You could sell those on etsy, if you were of a mind.
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I envy you painters. I’ve dabbled and have had moderate success. The Reaper learn to pain kits were a great introduction and I have a number of minis I’m rather proud of. That said, I am waaaaaay to particular about the condition of my games to start painting them. Forget the time it would take; a couple (inevitable) mistakes here or there and I’d be angry beyond words.
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After years spending more time painting than gaming with Warhammer minis as a teen, I’ve sworn to never paint them again.
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That’s just the bottom. The reason for the box joint edges is that I intend to make it a full box. Still working on how I want that to look and attach; right now I’m thinking I want it to lift off entirely to be truly out of the way during games, rather than trying to something with hinges or the like. But I confess, I went to Etsy first for inspiration and was surprised not to see something similar already there!
But possibly the dorkiest thing I have ever done is create computer instructions to use a laser to cut something so that, while I play a four-hour wargame based on The Lord of the Rings, my custom-painted armies stay in neat rows. I mean, honestly, it probably isn’t, but it’s got to be up there.
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I love Dice Throne, and the Marvel version that I Kickstarted arrived today! Sadly, my wife and daughter don’t like the game, and so I have nobody to play with. 
I need to see if I can get my buddy to learn to play.
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Does it work with Adventures?
I don’t have that, is it fun? I assume that this would work with it, as you can play these against the first 2 sets of characters.
I also love dice throne! Went super all in on dice throne adventures. Missed marvel.
Is it good?
I don’t know yet, have not had a chance to play. I might have to buy Adventures to get to try them all out if I can’t talk my wife into playing.
Dice Throne feels like a neat system with exciting character design, but my son and daughter reliably agree to target scary gamer dad, then turn on each other before I’m out of the game, causing hard feelings. My daughter has wisely decided that’s not an experience she wants to repeat, so opportunities to play are going to be more limited in future.
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You could always play the traditional “attack to the left” variant. We play Magic like this all the time.
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I think the base 3 player rules work well though, because you are always incentivized to attack the person with the highest life (unless that is you.)
I think in my house, because I brought home Everdell from the same Pax, they just compare Everdell to Dice Throne and they love Everdell, so just always want to play that instead.
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I so want those platforms. I have a friend with whom I play cyclical games of WotR, and those would come in VERY handy.
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It occurs to me that one could drill a block of wood with a Forstner bit of the appropriate diameter and marked on the side for the desired depth, and accomplish much the same result pretty inexpensively. Obviously, my laser-cut ones are awesome, but in retrospect, that was probably somewhat over-tooled if I’d intended to stop at the tray stage.
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My current bugbear with this hobby concerns waste, which is starting to get to me, especially as the games pile up and I need to buy new shelves. No, not minis, that’s for another time. While I know publishers find it difficult to makes changes in terms of box dimensions, there’s one I think could be sacrificed without much pain. Now, normally, Europe Divided looks like this:
Standard single trench insert, useful only for initial transport really, does the job. The problem as far as I am concerned is this:
If you take the insert out, it becomes apparent you only need perhaps 25-30% of the current box’s depth to hold the game. Publishers don’t want to shrink game boxes to lose shelf presence etc, but sacrificing depth maintains the impressive box covers, eye-catching art and so on, boards stay the same size, the back can remain just as explanatory as to what the game is, everything stays the same, there’s just less air in the box. Obviously this won’t work for all games (I was looking at games like Doom and Unfathomable, and figured they could easily do this if you replaced the minis with counters), but it will work for quite a lot of them.
This means us consumers can store more games per shelf (because we don’t store them front-on unless we’re sociopaths), there are more games per shipment, and so on. Europe Divided is a particularly good example as it’s only a board, cards, and counters, and I know cubes/resources/pieces etc can be bulky, but even so, most games could cut down on their box depth considerably. I’m don’t think this compromises their printing and boxing either; cards are still in stacks, counters can still be in punchboards, they’re shipped in a more compact box so they’re not prone to movement and damage in transit, so no insert is needed saving waste, and so on.
I need a hobby. Another hobby.
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