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Effective communication

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Look at the chaos we create while building new decks, madness! 😀

So yesterday there was a Netrunner Terminal Directive event at our FLGS. It wasn’t a tournament, but participants could either continue playing the story campaign or try to fill your objectives card by playing matches to each other. If you wanted to play matches, the card pool was restricted to the base game, Terminal Directive and one big expansion box. This made for fun oldskool decks to play against and it really felt like playing Netrunner in “the old days”, so we had a lot of fun. And we came home with a lot of special cards that we won by fulfilling the objectives!

It’s that time of the year again. People are reminding me that it will be my birthday again in a few weeks. Meaning they’re starting to ask if I have a wishlist – I don’t! Maybe you guys can help me out.

What (games) should I ask for my birthday? 😉

The distance and spaces between us

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For those people who have been living under a rock for the past two decades, this is the song by Celine Dion to which is being referred: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHG2oizTlpY 😀

So, yes, Near and Far actually is on its way and it will probably arrive this week. Yaaay! We’re so curious about the game since we both think Above and Below is amazing.  An upcoming problem is that we don’t have a lot of time and that’s a terrible combination with a campaign game. 😉 I’m sure we’ll manage, somehow? I’m just happy that Pandemic Legacy Season 2 will be released Autumn 2017 instead of Spring.

Speaking of campaign games: Netrunner Terminal Directive is really fun so far. We’re reliving Netrunner the way it was before there just were too many cards available and that’s a great feeling. This Sunday we’re even attending a Terminal Directive event at our FLGS. It’s not a tournament, but during the matches, there are objectives you can complete. There are special promos/prizes if you do. So it’s a nice day of Netrunner without the stress of an actual tournament with a limited card pool. Perfect! 😀

So, what board game parody song would you make?

World history

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We are a great influence on kids, as we also proved in earlier. strips.

Another week without playing as many board games than we’re used to due to loads of work. This is getting to be problematic for thinking up good comics. 😉

What I did manage to find time for on Sunday was playing a game of Scythe for the first time!  What a great game! It’s more simple than I thought and I personally like it more than Blood Rage for example. I really enjoyed the smart player boards and the fact that collected resources are left ON THE BOARD in stead of on your player board. Meaning you could lose them at any time if another player manages to take them away from you. 😀 This was the first time everybody in the group played Scythe, so I can’t wait till next time when it’ll go a little faster and everybody kind of knows what they are doing.

What would be your historical timeline in board games?

Can’t touch this

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One of the things that were introduced in the Bespin Gambit expansion for Imperial Assault was the Hidden condition. It’s rather cool, but can lead to weird situations like this one that you’re standing right in front of the enemy, but they’re ‘hidden’. We looked it up and even big figures can be hidden… in plain sight. This whole hidden thing just screamed for a comic.

We’re still hoping there will one day be an app for Imperial Assault that takes over the role for the Imperial Player. Such an app was released for Descent and we think we would try playing another Imperial Assault campaign with an app. Nobody seems really motivated to take on the role of the Imperial Player at this time.

But until that day we’re now playing all sorts of other games! Last week we’ve played the dexterity game Ice Cool, which was suprisingly hard but a lot of fun. We’ve played Concordia, which I lost horribly, but it’s a great and clever game. And Heinze and me finally got our hands on a copy of Android Netrunner: Terminal Directive! W000t! We’ve only played one game yet, but we’re both eager to continue the story and to be playing some Netrunner again.

Did you play any Star Wars games on May the 4th (be with you)? 😉

Gloomy discovery

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The Gloomhaven kickstarter for the second printing has nearly ended, only 17 hours left. So if you want to prevent the situation above, you can still make sure you get a copy. -> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1350948450/gloomhaven-second-printing/

The shirt Heinze is wearing a shirt from the YouTube channel Actualol. If you like board games and you don’t know it yet, you should definitely check it out.

This weekend was International Tabletop Day and the badges we published last week have reached a lot of people! Yay, thanks everybody for sharing, I really appreciate it. 🙂

We’ve not played a ton of games on Saturday, only two plays of Flashpoint and some Lost Legacy. And that’s mainly because we played a lot of games on Thursday and Friday like Mysterium, Ticket to Ride: Nederland, Bang!, Pocket Madness and Bloodrage.

I believe this year’s Tabletop Day was a great success and that leaves me with the question:

What games did you play on Tabletop Day?

Tabletop Day Achievement Badges!

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April 29th is this year’s International Tabletop Day! And to promote a day when people meet up to play board games (yay!), we’ve made some achievement badges you can print and give to other people or yourself when they/you deserve it. A thank you badge for your host of the day, a badge for excellent role playing, a badge for playing a ton of games, saving the world and many more.

Print it on normal paper, photo paper, magnetic photopaper, sticker paper, make actual pins/badges/buttons – whatever you think is cool, be creative and we would love it if you would share some pictures with us. 😀

You can download a printable PDF (letter/A4) by clicking here

Question time! What badges should we include next time?

CAT-tage Garden

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While we were playing Cottage Garden last week, the idea for this comic quickly came to mind. 😉

It’s been busy, so I don’t have a lot to share with you guys this week, except of course this crazy D&D book Dungeonology a friend of ours ordered:

It’s filled with things you can open! Envelopes, little booklets and the giant pop-up map in the middle is crazy cool. It’s hilarious to see such a thing as information about D&D in a book that reminds me of a few books we had as kids.

What other games have cats in them? 

Semi Co-op’s Exercise Guide

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Letters of Whitechapel! The game that is incredibly hard for the player that steps in the shoes of Jack the Ripper while being chased by a mind hive of detectives. And when you’re playing against ‘smart’ players, chances are great that you won’t last long. We’ve played the game at least 4 times and only once did one of us manage to win as Jack The Ripper. And that was really, really, really close. I believe we had Jack surrounded. Imagine the stress for the Jack the Ripper player… and that’s we think it’s a perfect addition for your exercise schedule! 😀

I played Cottage Garden for the first time this weekend and it’s a fun game. I wouldn’t say it’s mind boggling, but it’s a perfect light game to play with a cup of tea while having some good conversations. It really feels like a longer and more eleborate version of Patchwork. I didn’t do as well as the other players who had played it more often, but I really didn’t care. I was just filling up nice gardens and was having a good time. Maybe I’ll get more competitive next time. 😉

What other games would be a perfect addition for this exercise guide? 

Show & Tell

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For this comic I dived a little into the history of Marie Curie and she truly was a compelling person. I knew she was a scientist and was involved in research on radioactivity, but that’s about it. I never knew about the awesome stuff she’s done! I was happy to discover that her vehicle in Steampunk Rally, the Petite Curie, was actually based on the mobile X-Ray vehicles she invented to help wounded soldiers in WW1. Fascinating!

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I already wrote a little about Steampunk Rally in an earlier blog, click here if you’d like to read it.

A friend introduced us to yet another game in the Android Universe: Infiltration. And that was not was I had expected! It’s Ocean’s Eleven the game, only NOT cooperative and it’s quite hard. The game is about you and your competitive burglars/hackers/runners that are breaking in a building that has many floors. A player has multiple actions he or she can perform and they can of course.. move to a higher floor in the building. The new floors you enter aren’t necessarily harder, the problem is that time is ticking and before the alarm counter reaches 100 – you have to be out of the building or you’ll get caught. The higher you go, the further you have to go back to escape. This strongly reminded me of K2. Trying to reach the top, isn’t always a good strategy – it’s sometimes better to head back in time and let other players push their luck… and see them fail… 😉

We love games that are ‘historical’ with a creative twist! Do you know other games that do this?

Cthulhu’s Reign

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Lord Cthulhu is doing very well in the world of board games. Looking at the Lovecraft related games released last year, a lot of them were actually really good games and we own 3 out of 6. Arkham Horror: the card game, Mythos Tales and Tides of Madness. We still have to play and receive the last one though.  While doing a little research for this comic I was rather surprised to see that there is a Cthulhu Monopoly. Did anybody play that? Not something I would think of to add to a game collection… unless I was a collector of Cthulhu games of course. 😀

In totaly unrelated Cthulhu news, we’ve finished the Imperial Assault: The Bespin Gambit campaign! Unlike the main campaign, the rebels won this time. And just like in the main campaign it was quite a strain for the imperial player to put up a fight against four rebel players. It’s just a much harder game for the imperial player and that is a problem of the game. We enjoyed playing through two campaigns, but it’s just very stressful for one player of the group and it’s a nice little puzzle for the rest. So as a group we’re happy to play some other games now.

Which Cthulhu/Lovecraft themed games do you own?
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