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[tarcone]

Eclipse is $67 at my FLGS. It is out of stock. But it is in my wish list right now.

So many games, so little money.

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by tarcone

Eclipse is $67 at my FLGS. It is out of stock. But it is in my wish list right now.

So many games, so little money.

Hence they only covered their preorders. If Mage Knight is getting reprinted this year, I would expect Eclipse to get reprinted as well, or soon after Christmas. The expansion pack is coming out around that time as well, so might as well have both being out. People who have play tested the expansion pack consider it one of the better ones you will find and you can mix and match whatever from it. You also can do teams.

Did another Summoner Wars fight and I'm slowly getting better at playing the game. I still need two more matches before I get through my initial list of factions and then matchups after that should get a lot better. I was impressed with The Filth(mutations), but the Benders(mind control) denial aspect won out in the end.

[Danny]

Eclipse is a fantastic game, but much better with 5 or 6 instead of 2 or 3.

[Matthean]

GameSurplus

One online place that still seems to have copies. $63.50 is a solid price.

Another place if that doesn't work

http://boardgameguy.com/products/Ecl...dOrder%29.html

[PadresFan104]

Thanks to everyone who suggested Dominion. Got it today as a Fathers Day gift and played with the family. Everyone had a great time, and it only took one game to get the flow down. Can't wait to play more tomorrow!!

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by Matthean

GameSurplus

One online place that still seems to have copies. $63.50 is a solid price.

Another place if that doesn't work

Eclipse (Pre-Order) - Board Game Guy

Down to GameSurplus.

[Matthean]

Board game inspired Woot t-shirts.

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[Warhammer]

Not sure if any one has played this, but played it tonight for the first time, Space Alert.

This is a co-op game that is a combination of Robo-Rally, Galaxy Trucker, and Pandemic all rolled into one. The cool mechanic is that it has a sound track. You are on a exploration ship. Your mission is to last 10 minutes to allow the computer to scan the system. The computer calls out the threats, and you have to work out how to defend against them. You plot out your moves, and then after the sound track is over, you resolve your actions and the actions of the threats.

I am typically not a fan of co-op games, but this one challenged us, and was quite a bit of fun.

[Matthean]

It's been on and off my list. I probably should pick it up at some point since I'm lacking in co-ops although that starts to change once Mice and Mystics comes out.

My list is officially done outside of reprints for Letters from Whitechapel, Taluva since Z-Man got the rights to it, Drum Roll if/when it gets US distribution and 2nd edition of Sentinels of the Multiverse. Everything else is expansion packs if I feel like getting them, and I generally don't. I went through and looked at BGG's top 500, or so games and nothing stands out. I went and looked at games on my wishlist and looked at some borderline cases, and I ended up taking them off in the end based on reviews that go beyond "this game is awesome."

[tarcone]

I have been watching Eclipse at minaturemarket.com. It started at $67 a week ago. It is now selling for $90. There was a stop at $75.

[Matthean]

Standard price increase once preorder pricing is gone. Regular price is $99.

[dzilla77]

The UPS guy dropped my copy of eclipse on my front porch yesterday. Its already punched and in planos. Probably gonna play a solitare game this weekend to get the rules down.

[Matthean]

Eclipse reprint is slated for October.

[rockboy70]

Le Havre is out for IOS.

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by rockboy70

Le Havre is out for IOS.

Yes, my daily app store search for the game was just rewarded. It is installed and awaiting play.

This is my most favorite of board games, and the only game that has rivaled Eclipse in number of plays this year.

On the topic of Eclipse.

We experienced our first ever completely unbalanced game of Eclipse this weekend. One of the players took the "Descendants" race, and while everyone had played before, no one had ever chosen this race before. Before this player's first turn, a couple of people placed inner ring hexes with aliens. He ended up occupying the galactic center and the two inner ring hexes across the board on the first turn. He used ALL of his actions in the first turn and completely uncovered ALL of his economic production boxes the first turn. It was over almost before we started playing.

So the descendants power was disrespected, but no more. They will also no longer the get free pass from other players that they got this game.

[Glengoyne]

Dola,

I just wandered out to BGG, and read that the galactic center IS NOT an ancient hex, so the Draco or Descendants cannot occupy it as the other Alien occupied hexes.

So now I get to rescind the Draco player's victory and call him a cheater.

[Galaril]

First let me say I am not affiliated with VPG or any other gaming company want to give a strong recomemndation for this sereis of games. I have recently bought a bunch of the Victory Point State of Siege Solitaire board games. They are mostly wargames/historical games and are a blast. But a few are not war games like the below Swing Staes game that let's you battle out in the 2012 election or Nemo's war from the Jules Verna novel 20000 leagues under teh sea to name a few. They usually play in a hour or two sometimes less than an hour for some.

I have played:

" We Must Tell the Emperor"- The Pacific Theater of WWII: 1941 to 1945

We Must Tell the Emperor brings Victory Point Games' unique States of Siege(TM) game series (first introduced in Darin Leviloff's groundbreaking Israeli Independence design) to the grand scope of the Pacific Theater during WWII. As the Military and Political leader of Japan, you must drive the enemy "Fronts” far away from the Home Islands while also securing enough precious resources to maintain your Empire. If the war cannot be brought to a successful conclusion early on, then the burgeoning Allied strength will unleash a hailstorm of steel upon the player that will require the utmost test of skill, nerve, and luck in order to survive.

As the various headline cards are revealed, you must deal with enemy offensives and constant resource crises. A new addition to the series is the inclusion of a Battle Table where the player has the option try and change the course of history at locations such as The Coral Sea, Midway, Santa Cruz, and Iwo Jima!

The Guadalcanal Campaign is probable - but not assured - and China will play a pivotal role in the conduct of the war. Will you have sufficient Oil to fuel your Army-Navy while propaganda boosts your government's Prestige? Launch Kamikazes, endure marauding Allied submarines, and hope that your Island fortifications can stem the Allied tide.

"Malta Besieged: 1940-1942"-

That Scorpion of the Sea: Malta Besieged is a solitaire game covering the pivotal World War II years of the mid-1940 through 1942 period in the often overlooked Battle for the Mediterranean. You are placed in the role of the Commonwealth Commander in the theatre, and must utilize every resource at your disposal to fend off unrelenting Axis attacks in order to ensure the survival of the island of Malta.

Built upon the same States of Siege engine as the designer's previous 2010 Charles S. Roberts award-winning release (We Must Tell the Emperor), Malta Besieged features both familiar and innovative game play. Supply was the key element in the Mediterranean Campaign, and so it is here as well. Players will have to safely shepherd vulnerable convoys - and their valuable cargoes - in order to effectively wage war. With the ability to trade Supply for extra Actions at the most crucial moments, this places an additional emphasis on that precious resource and also creates extremely tense convoy battles which will resolve as the game progresses.

ULTRA is a crucial asset in the game, but beware of Axis counterintelligence! Spitfires can rule the skies, Gibraltar can block U-Boat advances, Operation Herkules is a constant threat, and Admiral Cunningham himself can intervene on occasion.

North Africa is not treated as a mere sideshow; indeed, the struggle with Rommel, the "Desert Fox", holds the ultimate key to victory... if Malta can hold out against the constant pressure. If a fortified Tobruk manages to stubbornly delay the vaunted Afrika Korps long enough, then General Montgomery and his battle-tested 8th Army can possibly make a final dash from El Alamein to capture Tripoli and secure a glorious triumph.

Raiding Axis supply lines to weaken Rommel's Situation, scrambling Hurricanes to provide Air Support for inbound shipping, attacking the Italians early before the dreaded Luftwaffe arrives, requesting British Fleet escort for your individually named convoys, and maintaining the morale of a battered Malta are just some of the important decisions to be made throughout the game. Numerous theater-wide events such as The Fall of France, O'Connor's desert offensive, the daring raid on the Italian Fleet at Taranto, the Air Assault on Crete, the evacuation from Greece, the sinking of the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, and the Torch landings are all abstracted via card play, and can have a significant impact on the overall conduct of the war.

"The Lost Cause:
The American Civil War: 1861 - 1865"-

Empires in America is a States of Siege(TM) series game on the French and Indian War (1754-62) created by veteran designer, Joe Miranda. With riveting solitaire gameplay action, you must command the beleaguered colony of New France, from Halifax to the Ohio Valley, while Britain and her American colonies press in from all sides with war raging from the fortress of Quebec to the Monongahela.

Employing Leaders to command the opposing Armies, Empires in America presents a new focus on the important historical personages of this era like Montcalm, Wolfe and even a young George Washington. These Leaders establish their reputations as their fortunes wax and wane on campaign across the far-flung frontiers of colonial North America.

Can the Montreal Militia and Algonquin Indians defeat General Braddock’s redcoats before they reach Fort Duquesne? Can your Troupes de la Marine stop Rogers’ Rangers at Fort Ticonderoga? Will the Royal Navy sail up the St. Lawrence River to support operations against Quebec? Can court intrigue at Versailles undermine the machinations of William Pitt (the Elder)? Find out as you defend Montreal in Empires in America."

"The Lost Cause"-
The American Civil War: 1861 - 1865

After the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, State after State in America’s “Deep South” seceded from the Union that the North felt must be preserved. In the ensuing war, brother fought brother as the Confederacy resisted with all its might for over four years in The Lost Cause.

This States of Siege solitaire game puts you in the shoes of Jefferson Davis and the Confederate High Command as the Union armies close in from five different directions. With famous Generals like Lee and Johnston leading armies for their new nation, much of the conflict also takes place on the waterways and in the halls of power of foreign governments.

Told through the use of Headline and Broadsheet Event cards, history unfolds before your eyes as you direct the Southern war effort on land, sea, the diplomatic and home fronts, in an effort to secure independence and survive as a nation. Can you organize the Confederacy and devise the plans necessary to secure victory? Can you make the best use of scarce Southern resources, allocating them at the right place and time to preserve the Confederacy? Or will relentless Union pressure make it all a Lost Cause?

"Ottoman Sunset"-Ottoman Sunset
The Great War in the East, 1914 - 1918

VPG brings you WW 1 action in The Great War in a Near Eastern adventure in Ottoman Sunset. The Turkish Empire, long the “Sick Man of Europe,” is surrounded by enemies and in a fight for survival as French, Russian, British and Commonwealth forces converge, joined by the Arab Revolt. The ancient capital of Constantinople is under threat from all directions, and only a cunning leader can help the Ottoman Empire endure and survive.

As the headlines unfold, you draw upon military resources and rely on your German and Austro-Hungarian allies to help you. Threats by land and sea are faced, and international politics is often at the forefront of events.

Can you save the Ottoman Empire? Can you secure the Dardanelles from Allied invasion? Will the Arab Revolt and Lawrence of Arabia prove your undoing, or can German aid and distant victories help you prevail?

"Swing States 2012"

-Swing States is a solitaire game simulating a U.S. presidential election in a given year (2012). You are a political strategist hired by the nominee to win the Presidential Election for either the Democratic Party (symbolized by a donkey) or the Republican Party (symbolized by an elephant).

You must make strategic decisions regarding fund-raising and expenditures, where to campaign and where to advertise, when and where to send the nominees and vital surrogates, how much time they should spend fund-raising, preparing for debates, conducting opposition research, and dealing with scandals that appear out of nowhere.

"Nemo's War"-

Jules Verne’s classic novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea tells the story of Captain Nemo and his astounding ship, the Nautilus.
Set in year 1866, this amazing electric-powered submarine travels across the seas tacitly on missions of research and exploration, but it isn’t long before two captive crew members, rescued from the wreck of a Nautilus attack, Professor Aronnax and Canadian whaler Ned Land, suspect Captain Nemo’s motives are more complex and perhaps sinister.

Can you command the Nautilus on its year-long cruise to destiny? Can you fend off giant squids, discover the South Pole, the Arabian Tunnel or the lost city of Atlantis? Can you scourge the high seas and create enough fear in the great maritime powers to free the oppressed colonial peoples of the world? There really is a whole new world to of adventure to explore and master when you are fighting Nemo’s War.

"Toe-to-Toe Nu’klr Combat with the Rooskies"-

This is it, Boys, we're going in...

The “Go Code” has been received and the war plan decoded; it is time to turn your B-52 into Soviet air space, and head for your primary target. You’ve got 50,000 lbs. of fuel, two H-bombs, a crew looking to you for leadership, and a mission that your country needs you to fulfill.
Toe-to-Toe Nu’klr Combat with the Rooskies is a fast-playing solitaire game. You decide the payload, pick your targets and must then challenge the Soviet Union's defenses.
SAMs (surface-to-air missiles) and Soviet Air Defense fighter/ interceptors will find you as you cross “The Big Board.” Events will relentlessly dog you and your crew as the fate of America, even the world, rests on your shoulders. A single mission can be accomplished in about 15 minutes, or take an hour for the whole campaign game. Take a darkly humorous trip in a less-than-serious game exploding with atomic fun.
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The games are fairly inexpensive running from $15 to $30. I also recommend buying them from NWSONLINE.COM Search as he gets a great discount of around 20-25%
VPG WEBSITE:Victory Point Games
Board Game Geeks page:The Lost Cause | Board Game | BoardGameGeek

[Danny]

Victory point games gets snug thumbs up from me! I have l
Purchased way too many of their games lol

[moriarty]

Originally Posted by Warhammer

Not sure if any one has played this, but played it tonight for the first time, Space Alert.

Fun game. Hectic, chaotic, ... needs the right group, but can be a blast.

FWIW - There's audio files online and I believe available for the phone, so you don't have to mess with a CD player.

[Matthean]

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Eclipse.

Eclipse? Woo hoo!

There's like eleven board that needs to have stuff punched out from it. This is going to take some time to weed through.

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by Matthean

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Eclipse.

Eclipse? Woo hoo!

There's like eleven board that needs to have stuff punched out from it. This is going to take some time to weed through.

All well worth it. Congrats.

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by Glengoyne

All well worth it. Congrats.

Life would be easier if one potential job wasn't asking me to have half of my certs done already and me needing to take another math placement for a grant after I thought I passed the right one before. Studying for four technical test in an asap kind of why isn't fun nor does it lead to lots of time to learn new games.

[Matthean]

Glory to Rome:Black Box edition

Expected release: Find a calendar and a dartboard. I ended up with July or August. Your results may vary.

[tarcone]

King of Tokyo available at gamekeeper.com

[Matthean]

$39.99 is a solid price for it as well. You can get the promo character and cards via the BGG geekstore. The extra guy likely isn't worth $5 unless you have to have everything, but the promo cards are nice. I got the guy since I was ordering a bunch of the promos anyway.

King of Tokyo Promo Cards (IELLO)

King of Tokyo: Brockenbär Character (Heidelberger Spielverlager)

[tarcone]

Its priced at minature market for $25.99
Im going to wait that out for a few days to see if they get it. If not Im ordering off game keeper.

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by tarcone

Its priced at minature market for $25.99
Im going to wait that out for a few days to see if they get it. If not Im ordering off game keeper.

EDIT: Says out of stock.

Original replay had one retailer saying it will hit stores on the 25th.

[Matthean]

This is likely old news, but I forgot to mention Memoir '44 is F2P on Steam.

[gi]

Originally Posted by Matthean

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Eclipse.

Eclipse? Woo hoo!

There's like eleven board that needs to have stuff punched out from it. This is going to take some time to weed through.

Being delivered next week for me. Can't wait.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Picked up Small World, Killer Bunnies and Eclipse yesterday at my FLGS as retail therapy for not getting a job I was excited about. Played a 3-player game of Small World and enjoyed it. Merchant Warlocks are silly powerful if the other players leave you alone.

Eclipse looks absolutely amazing and I can't wait to try it out.

[tarcone]

Im going Tuesday to my FLGS. Looking at picking up king of Tokyo (They better have it) and Eclipse.
Somehow I have to get a $125 purchase by my wife.

Eclipse at $90 is giving me pause. But it does look amazing.

At some point I need to get Dominion. Also, Fortress America.

I wish I was rich.

[terpkristin]

Ok, what is FLGS? Friendly Local Game Store?

Once this s/c is done, I'm going to have to try to find one near me and see if people want to play games. I'm getting jealous reading here.

/tk

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by terpkristin

Ok, what is FLGS? Friendly Local Game Store?

Yep.

I kind of wish Chris Kluwe had opened his board game store in Minneapolis, though the Fantasy Flight Event Center will do for a local gaming shop.

Cardboard Children: Fortress America | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

This really made me want to get Fortress America.

And this is what I love about the game. The “feel”. There are better dudes on a map games than Fortress America. But none of them tell this story. You can almost imagine the flow of the game as newspaper headlines.

AMERICA INVADED!
AMERICAN FORCES IN DISARRAY
EASTERN SEABOARD FALLS!
AMERICA: NO SURRENDER
LASER TECH HITS BACK
INVADERS LOSE GROUND IN SOUTH
THE PEOPLE RISE UP!
LASER WARFARE SHIFTS TIDE
ENGLISHMAN’S BAD TEETH SHOT OUT!

Man, this is a fun, old-school game. When you play it, you can almost picture yourself in an American college dorm room, with Red Dawn playing on the TV and Born In The USA on the radio. And Sally knocks on the door and asks you to go to the diner with her, and you’re all like “Sorry, Sally, I’m playing Fortress America with the guys!” And you don’t lose your virginity for another six years and you’re a fucking idiot.

This game would probably not be designed in 2012. Publishers would turn up their nose at it and say there aren’t enough rules, or that luck plays too big a part in the battles. Or that the story of the game is just too silly and you might have mental health issues for even thinking of it. But fuck those guys, because Fortress America already exists, it rules, and it’s about an America that we all secretly love.

See, when I was young, America was this big scary glamorous place that would fuck you up if you looked at it the wrong way. America existed in my head as a creature with Stallone’s muscles, an eagle’s head, Ronald Reagan’s voice and a rocket launcher. In the 1980s, American culture fed me the idea that the USA was built on solid foundations of kissing beautiful girls, driving shit hot cars, shooting anyone who wasn’t American, putting lasers in space and playing some pretty sweet rawk guitar. Now all of this is BAD, sure, and it was a LIE too. But for an 8 year old boy in Glasgow it was certainly cool. Every kid wanted to be an American in the 80s. Fact. These days America is just a confused skinny dude with horn-rimmed glasses trying to decide what to do with a bible.

Fortress America is that good old 1980s fictional America in a box. This is the ultimate guilty pleasure. Pick it up, open some beers, and enjoy some Old Glory.

[tarcone]

Originally Posted by terpkristin

Ok, what is FLGS? Friendly Local Game Store?

Once this s/c is done, I'm going to have to try to find one near me and see if people want to play games. I'm getting jealous reading here.

/tk

Go to boardgamegeek.com and search there for gaming meet ups. Or search the interwebz.

I did this and found several groups within a 30 minute drive. I signed up on one of the web sites and receive emails of upcoming meetings. I have yet to make it to one. So busy. But there is a Thursday night group that meets weekly. Im working on getting to that one.

[Wolfpack]

Originally Posted by mckerney

Yep.

Cardboard Children: Fortress America | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

This really made me want to get Fortress America.

I had the old FA when I was a kid, complete with Saddam on the box. One regret I have is that (because storage and maintenance wasn't something pre-teen/early teen children bother with) I basically lost the game over time. Hard to do with a box that size, but I somehow did it. The only thing to survive to now is the map board. All this is a long-winded way to say that at some point I'm going to get a piece of my childhood back.

(Of course, had I kept it, I'd have probably sold it out for cash once it became a collector's item....)

[tarcone]

We had a lot of those big box games. Shogun, FA, A&A. We ate them up. By we I mean the guy who hosted all the time. His wife made him get rid of all his games about 2 years ago. And by get rid of, I mean to the trash.
I found out because I called him (We live in different states now), and asked if he still had Supremacy. And he told me of the disposal. Sad day.

[Danny]

Wow, what a marriage that sounds like

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by tarcone

We had a lot of those big box games. Shogun, FA, A&A. We ate them up. By we I mean the guy who hosted all the time. His wife made him get rid of all his games about 2 years ago. And by get rid of, I mean to the trash.
I found out because I called him (We live in different states now), and asked if he still had Supremacy. And he told me of the disposal. Sad day.

DTB.

[tarcone]

This video made me smile.

[Matthean]

Funny to watch all of the people coming in on BGG asking about Eclipse, asking if the price is correct, and if they can get it for cheaper.

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by Matthean

Funny to watch all of the people coming in on BGG asking about Eclipse, asking if the price is correct, and if they can get it for cheaper.

I'm a bit worried about getting a copy of the expansion. I snapped up a copy online of the first print run, cause I suspected it was going to be hard to come by. Now with the publisher making the follow up print run SO small I'm thinking that the expansion, with presumably close to double the people (two print runs) looking to buy the expansion which I'm guessing will have yet another modestly sized print run, is going to be very hard to come by.

My FLGS thinks they got burned by their distributor on Eclipse. They pre-ordered 8 copies, and got the order reduced to 4, none of which they have received.

I understand a small publisher with a limited budget not fronting large print runs, but this seems extreme.

[Matthean]

Unfortunately, the publisher is small and they don't have anything that really has a similar mad rush for it. I'm preordering the expansion like a month early likely from Cool Stuff Inc. since I get a discount there anyway.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Not to be a stinker, but the game is amazing. We played a three player and a four player game yesterday. It's super intimidating when you unwrap it, but the game play is quite intuitive, and it seems to be balanced quite well. In both games the Hydran Progress won, with the Descendants and Plant guys being runner up both times. In game one, none of us really knew what we were doing and the Progress player won by virtue of having a lot of territory. In game two, the Plant guy did a great job of using exploration to make himself very inaccessible, but the Progress' research won the day in the end.

I can't wait to mess around with it some more.

[terpkristin]

Originally Posted by tarcone

Go to boardgamegeek.com and search there for gaming meet ups. Or search the interwebz.

I did this and found several groups within a 30 minute drive. I signed up on one of the web sites and receive emails of upcoming meetings. I have yet to make it to one. So busy. But there is a Thursday night group that meets weekly. Im working on getting to that one.

Yeah I will once my schedule normalizes a little. I'm a little bummed nobody I work with plays games...they are the ones who would normally fit that stereotype. But most of the ones I'm friends with are either movie buffs or video gamers, not into board games.

I'm honestly a little intimidated about going out and seeking random people. Never thought I'd miss my old roommate, he would have been a good partner in this type of crime. Alas he now lives in Pittsburgh and is finishing up med school...speaking of no time...

/tk

[Autumn]

TK, maybe it would help to try to meet one gamer, connect with someone who is interested in trying board games. If you can find someone, through Meetup or bgg or whatever else, then get to know them first, then the two of you can go to some of these group settings together. I'm with you, I basically would be anxious about just going to play with a bunch of strangers. But I have a friend who is also into games and we've gone to some of these things together. I actually met him through a different gaming venue, so that might be a path for you to try rather than jumping straight in.

[Matthean]

RE: Eclipse

Why is this practice important? Because game retailers – both brick-and-mortar stores and online sellers – have traditionally been terrible at placing preorders, leaving publishers in the dark as to how many games to produce.

Asmodee's Stefan Brunell mentioned this during our talk. In late 2011 Asmodee brought it roughly two thousand copies of Eclipse, despite not having preorders to justify that amount, and blew through all the copies immediately. Now Asmodee has an Eclipse reprint of 5,000 copies scheduled for release in the U.S. in May 2012. Brunell says that his bosses balked initially because retailers and distributors still weren't placing reserve orders to justify a print run that large, but he convinced them to do it anyway. What's changed in the intervening weeks between the time that reprint order was placed and today? Eclipse has hit large, everyone wants it, retailers and distributors have finally placed preorders – and now those 5,000 copies are already sold out at the publisher level, with another reprint in the works. If retailers and distributors had done their homework when the game debuted at Spiel 2011 in October and placed orders accordingly, both the initial shipment and the reprint would be larger, and everyone would have a better chance of getting the game. (That said, gamers also tend to be negligent when it comes to placing preorders, and their preorders drive those of retailers and others down the line.)

NY Toy Fair 2012: Hobby Becomes Mainstream, and Vice Versa | BoardGameGeek News | BoardGameGeek

[Peregrine]

TK, you may want to look and find a board gaming event near you - when I started in the hobby I knew a few people, but going to a four day gaming event here locally was really what tied me into a whole bunch more people - and really those gaming events are crazy fun if you just want to game and hang out with gamers for days.

Many, but not all work on an invitiational system but once you know a few people you can usually get an invite, especially if you are looking to meet gamers in the area.

[Matthean]

Minor preview of the new Summoner Wars reinforcement pack.

Bellor's Retribution | News | Plaid Hat Games

[DanGarion]

No Eclipse at my FLGS #1, now to try FLGS #2.

[Vince, Pt. II]

2 more three player games last night. In the first, my Descendents absolutely crushed the field such that both opponents ceded the game by turn 5. Got some lucky rolls with a Cruiser to keep the Machenema from breaking my front, which in turn crippled their production. Coupled with a few lucky ancients pulls, I was never looking back.

Game two saw a much more even game, as my Planta were barely edged out by the Hegemony taking one tile from me on the last turn. The third player as the Hydran Progress would have been right in the hunt, but they put a decent investment into an early fleet that was completely unlucky against some ancients.

This game is awesome.

Sadly, I probably won't be able to play again for a few weeks as we move.