What did you play in the last week. Recommendations, warnings and experiences are all intersting!
Knocked out some Dominion! I have all the original cycle expansion, plus the 2nd edition updates. First game was crazy, Platinums/Colonies, Tiara, Pirate, Tide Pools, all lead to crazy and big plays. Second game was grindy as hell, only trashing was Lookout and Jack of All Trades, and only draw or action engine was doing nonsense with Trail. First game I got to try Tournament though, which is a really interesting power-curve throughout a game.
Absolutely love Dominion, classic but it remains strong. We only have 2 expansions. Seaside and Intrigue. What is your favorite one?
Ooo tough choice! I’d go with either Prosperity or Dark Ages, for complete opposite reasons.
Prosperity has a lot more support for “big” plays (big money, big actions, big engines), along with platinums and colonies, so it can be a lot of fun to get up to much more nonsense than usual.
Dark Ages on the other hand, lends itself to more grindy, clever engines. The themes of trash value, as well as low-cost stuff and ruins, really lets you get into the mud and grind a pile of dirt until it miraculously creates gold. The addition of shelters to replace the starting estates is really fun too, and gives the starting deck a little more oomph and utility.
Back to the wall, I guess I’d pick Dark Ages, as I love me a battle of attrition. But either of these are great, and tbh any of the original expansions are wonderful! (I can’t give an opinion on the new age expansions since I own none of them)
We spent most of our week discovering 2 kickstarters that just landed, The Witcher and Isoforian guard.
The Witcher is very easily becoming a slog when playing at higher levels. We played a 4 player game that lasted 3 to 4 hours. It is a lot of fun, but the sweetspot for the game feels around 1 or 2 players. Lastly we are thinking anout adding some extra homerules, as you can now win the game by only fighting lvl 1 monsters. This is also something I see a lot of on BGG forums.
The Isoforian guard is so much fun! Really like the bag drafting gameplay, and the story. The game is tougher than we thought. We wanted to continue with the story, but we got our asses kicked and learned that grinding might be needed to get some better equipment and abilities.
We played the Witcher a few weeks ago, both with 2 and 4 players. Funnily enough the 4 person game went relatively fast, because one player was not afraid to take risks and rush monsters, rather than collecting more cards, trails, monster weaknesses and exploring etc. It still took a while because it was the first game, but I also got the sense that the game can be very fast, if at least one of your players is willing to take risks and forces the others to move faster.
