What boardgames are you playing in 2012?

[MerricB]

I've been playing lots and lots of Lords of Waterdeep, which is an exceptional Euro-style boardgame from Rodney Thompson and Peter Lee at Wizards - this game is really, really fun.

Apart from that, some Heroclix, Power Grid: The First Sparks, Merchants and Marauders, and Dungeon Petz.

Cheers!

 

[catsclaw227]

... Merchants and Marauders ...

I've heard a lot of good stuff about this one. What would you compare it to?

 

[MerricB]

I've heard a lot of good stuff about this one. What would you compare it to?

Blackbeard, but done *much* better. It feels like a sandbox game: you can investigate rumours, go on missions, do regular trade between cities, prey on merchant ships or become a bounty hunter tracking down pirates.

One of my top 10 games - it's really, really good.

Inexperienced play is 45 minutes per player; experienced play halves the time.

Cheers,
Merric

 

[Agamon]

Thursday, I played another game in our Risk Legacy campaign that took longer to set up than play, then Origins: How We Became Human. Wow, that's a heavy one that was as long as Risk was short.

 

[Wycen]

Just in time for Merric's review, we played Lords of Waterdeep last night. I liked it and would play again. We wondered how balanced some of the goals were when some are worth 4 VP's and others are worth 25. And the Intrgue cards add a nice interaction factor you don't always see with Eurogames.

After that we played Qwirkle, which is on my list of games not to play, but oh well. Others played Mundus Novus again.

 

[catsclaw227]

Last night I did solo plays of Elder Sign and Lord of the Rings LCG. I like them both, though I think I prefer Elder Sign. It's basically Arkham Horror Lite, shorter game play and without a board. Good suspense though. LotR LCG was hard to win solo, got beat twice.

 

[Jan van Leyden]

Tonight we only had one table with three players. All three (not me) are fans of Das Zepter von Zavandor and gave it another run. Afterwards the played a few rounds of Im Wandel der Zeiten.

I hope that I'll be not as fatigued next Wednesday!

 

[Fast Learner]

Das Zepter! A bit too much math for the amount of fun for us to play it a lot, but we love it. Phoenicia dumbed it (or Outpost) down too much, eliminating the fun. I suspect there's something in-between that would make for an even better game.

 

[MerricB]

Played three games of Heroclix last night. Tonight I've got Ikusa, Space Empires 4X, Lords of Waterdeep and Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards in the car, so we'll see what actually happens...

Cheers!

 

[Jan van Leyden]

This thread is pretty busy for a boardgaming-one. Maybe we need some sort of statistics to capture what games get played how often on ENWorld?