Been having a lot of fun playing Doomlings with the family.
Neat little card game, limited length, fun combos and nothing stressful
I’ve seen it on the shelf and have wondered about it. Is it different enough from other light card games like Here to Slay, Unstable Unicorns, etc.?
I just played Paperback with my wife. It’s a fun game but suffers from potentially way too much downtime between turns, especially later in the game when you have potentially bigger hands and better letters. Waiting 10 minutes for my wife to try and make a 10-letter word every turn really burned me out.
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Have you tried Paperback Adventures?
Played Spartacus and won it in 45 minutes. The owner (who ‘always’ wins) responded with some extreme salt, blamed the other players, and refused to play War of the Ring afterwards, which was cool of him. So instead I got some Air, Land & Sea in, and we Turncoated a little too hard.
Had a lot of fun regardless, Turncoats is still perfect. I am still terrible at ALS though.
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Nope. I’ve had my eye on it, though.
Well, I’ve played it twice so far, and expect to play many more times (got a bit distracted by Marvel Champions, which I’m finding also quite enjoyable solo, though, of course, very different). The humorous art and naming do a great job of leavening an experience which would otherwise be a little too heavy on the “I know there’s a great word I could make right now, and I’m being too stupid to think of it” for me, so it’s a great balance.
Came across Earth online today, looks right up my alley and pre ordered a copy. Should be here in a month!
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Played it twice on Sunday. What a great game
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You can’t fool me, Undaunted: Stalingrad. I know you hate me. The rolls did not go my way, and my troops could only weather so much. Another God damned Nazi victory. Also saw some really horrendous tile damage, with cover being successively stripped away. Punishing result for me, but that’s war.
Here I go SWarsing again. The design is fairly average, the game gets by on its IP. The deckbuilding is okay but there’s not a lot of deck-thinning options and those options might not even be in the market. The good news is you can kill enemy cards before they’re bought, which is nice. The bad news is I watched Chewie, Leia, and Luke all get hosed before I got the chance to buy them, as attack power is easier to come by than resources. Decent head to head battler, but the cheapness of the design (firmly non-thematic cubes, plenty of duplicate cards, a 2 vs 2 mode that is just “Buy two copies of the game, you stupid nerd.”) is a real sour note. No real ‘wow’ to the card effects either, they’re all fairly predictable and none of them grant the “Oh, that’s broken, surely?” feel of being hammered by something unstoppable. I’m going to play it more, especially because the cards are all original trilogy/Rogue One stuff, so that’s a big plus from me, but this is not a keeper unless expansions change the game substantially.
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Personally, I feel like we’ve moved past the simple deck builder in the world of gaming. We’ve got Star Realm (or Hero) if we feel the need to shuffle up and play and there are plenty of games these days that use deck building as a mechanic that drives a bigger and better game. I haven’t played this Star Wars one yet but it always seemed a bit like that 2-player Hogwarts Battle game - a simple design we’ve seen dozens of times by this point that exists mainly because of its IP. I don’t mind that in and of itself as it may be a draw to someone who hasn’t played many games before, but it simply isn’t for me unless I hear that it brings something new to the table.
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Has anyone played the Flesh & Blood TCG? I’d never even heard of it until today. I’m always open to trying new collectible games, though.
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I have not played it, though I did buy some of the cards a little while ago, mainly for the art. The game looks pretty standard to me–definitely not a kids’ game, about as complicated as MTG, for example. My old eyes did not do well with the game text (in many cases, there’s a lot of it on the card in small font), so I have not tried to learn it.
I feel like I come here with more questions than comments about what I’ve played. I picked up World of Tanks today to play with my son and will share some impressions once we’ve played a little more. But as for questions, has anyone played Wildlands? I’m intrigued because of how simple the design looks - no special powers or anything, as far as I can see. So it seems to be an easy to learn skirmish that I could teach to just about anybody. But is it good?
F&B has an interesting deck structure hero retirement gimmick. Game looks solid.
But - they released a bunch of core must have cards for tournaments that were limited in early edition, so top tier standard decks are like several thousand dollars to build.
Grand Archive TCG looks similar, but is brand new and about to be released. I liked the idea of it, they have a super limited kickstarter version for collectors, but an unlimited first edition for the general public
War of the Ring. Finally got this played again after far too long without. Playing as the Shadow, I started off fairly conventionally, hitting Gondor and Rohan hard, kicking the living shit out of any army within range. At one point, there was exactly one Gondor troop holding Minas Tirith, and it had to fall in the face of a Nazgul-led army, and Dol Amroth fell soon after. The siege of Helm’s Deep took longer, but was also a long-term inevitability. What wasn’t inevitable was Gandalf the White at the head of a tsunami of ents, ripping apart two Shadow armies and taking Orthanc, exterminating Saruman into the bargain. That put me on the back foot, and I never really recovered, descending into paranoia over losing strongholds, and the Fellowship ended up weaselling through to Mordor, where the ring was cast into the Crack of Doom.
We swapped sides.
This time, Gondor opted for a much more proactive approach, attacking Shadow armies that came within range of Osgiliath, and there was a horrendous massacre in Pelargir, as a second-rate Gondor force served up all the shit a Southron & Easterling army could eat, almost wiping them out. I got a little over-confident as a result, before some expensive lessons taught me I needed to be careful, and Gondor proceeded to fall back in the face of a huge Shadow offensive, multiple Scouts allowing a big chunk of the armies of Gondor to escape, while Aragorn and a rearguard held Minas Tirith in the face of overwhelming odds. Helm’s Deep held out even as Minas Tirith fell, and Gandalf the White led a resurgent Rohan army to relieve the siege, as a mixed force of Dwarves, Northmen, and Elves managed to stop a Southron army from taking the Woodland Realm, in what was very nearly a mututal extermination.
The Elves going to war was late, but welcome, and it meant opportunistic attacks from Rivendell and Lorien, which managed to either kill or lure away enough Shadow forces for both Orthanc and Dol Goldur to fall to the Free Peoples. Aragorn and Boromir were dead in sieges. Legolas died protecting the Fellowship. Gandalf the White had become a terrible augur of death to the orcs. The Nazgul marshalled army after army, and the Witch King of Angmar killed a legion of Gondor men, and Saruman died alone in his tower. It was a rough and brutal victory, but a victory nonetheless. I won because I was stubborn in just the right places, and I had enough sense to spend cards as often as possible either improving my chances in fights, or allowing me to fall back with minimal losses. I managed to catch the Shadow player out of position, as the late entry of the Elves meant he had left Moria, Dol Goldur, and Orthanc lightly defended.
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Just needed to brag up my kid a little bit. My 10-year-old has never painted anything in his life but he saw some tank miniatures and wanted to try. I ended up buying the World of Tanks miniatures game and let him have a go at the British Cromwell. The results impressed me:
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That’s better than I could have done at any age : ) Great work!
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I would literally hire your child to paint my minis.
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About the only time saying “you paint like a 12 year old” would be considered a compliment
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