GWJ Online Boardgame Group

DanyBoy wrote:

Sorry strangeblades! We were full up, or else I would have tried to convince you to stay. We had a couple others who had never played or checked the rules.

Despite that I think we got a good game in. After a few interface flubs at the start, and a few turns for people to get a feel for the game in action it was coming together. I think people were trying to gang up on me in the end, what with Britain attacking me and Dysplastic trying to buy me out of my main holdfast of Germany. (which he did in the end). So I did the only reasonable thing: Utterly abandoned Germany to the wolves and put everything I could into Italy. And hey, I it pulled off!

No worries on that. I'm interested in learning these types of Euro games. I'm gonna have to bone up first on the next title before playing. That'll save you (or whoever invites everyone) some time.

Polliwog wrote:

Big thanks to DanyBoy and Dysplastic for explaining Imperial.

I'll echo this sentiment. Unfortunately the first trip through any game on Brettspielwelt is mostly about figuring out Brettspielwelt. I had already bankrupted Great Britain before I started to get the hang of what we were expected to do as leaders. I really liked the head trip of playing as the investor and not necessarily connected to the actual colored pawns being moved about the board. BGG suggests it's best with 4 players. I'd be interested in trying that out. It felt like a long time between actions (even when I actually governed a territory). I'm not sure how much of that was the rough interface and how much of it was just the game.

Sway wrote:

Need a third player for a 3-player Through the Ages game. First come first served.
Just reply with your boardgaming-online.com name and I'll add you if I can find you.

If you're still looking I'd join. However, next week does look a bit hectic for me, so I may end up being unavailable for a day or so then. Also, I've never played, so if you'd like someone more experienced, I'd certainly understand. User name is Poppin Fresh.

Sway wrote:
Polliwog wrote:

Big thanks to DanyBoy and Dysplastic for explaining Imperial.

I'll echo this sentiment. Unfortunately the first trip through any game on Brettspielwelt is mostly about figuring out Brettspielwelt. I had already bankrupted Great Britain before I started to get the hang of what we were expected to do as leaders. I really liked the head trip of playing as the investor and not necessarily connected to the actual colored pawns being moved about the board. BGG suggests it's best with 4 players. I'd be interested in trying that out. It felt like a long time between actions (even when I actually governed a territory). I'm not sure how much of that was the rough interface and how much of it was just the game.

Honestly, I think a lot of it was interface. Also, this game was a lot more militaristic than most are, which isn't unusual given that it was the first game, but that slows down the game. The main point of military units is to take over and hold neutral territories, not get into fights for the sake of it, as A) Military units reduce the amount of $$ gained from taxation, and B) Choosing Production/Manoeuvre delays you from taxing/investing more often, thus raising your countries multiplier on the scoreboard, thus giving less VPs at the end of the game.

I was surprised that I was a full 20 points away from Danyboy given that I was exclusively invested in the top 2 countries, Germany and Italy, but Italy had the 5 multiplier for finishing first and Germany, which I was more heavily invested in, only had the 4 multiplier. It's interesting how the turn order matters there as well, as Germany would have also taxed and gotten the 5 multiplier if Italy hadn't.

Anyways, Imperial is a pretty hardcore game but I love it and was glad we played it. Next week, how about we go back to one we've played before and is more accessible so we can get some more people and a couple of games going!

Any preferences?

Poppinfresh wrote:

If you're still looking I'd join. However, next week does look a bit hectic for me, so I may end up being unavailable for a day or so then. Also, I've never played, so if you'd like someone more experienced, I'd certainly understand. User name is Poppin Fresh.

The experience level isn't an issue. It's just the interface. It's really tough to map out if you've never played the game before. You'd at least need to listen to the 2-part How to Play Podcast episode as a primer.
http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/52...

A week where we revisit some of the games we've played before sounds good. I'm sure we can just encourage people to show up and play whatever they are familiar with.

From memory, people have played:

-Dominion
-Race for the Galaxy
-7 Wonders
-Puerto Rico
-Powergrid
-Stone Age
-Ingenious
-Pandemic
-Imperial

Ok, need a bit of help. For the online Through the Ages, I really don't understand Corruption. Why do I haz it and howz do I fix it? Thanks

karmajay wrote:

Ok, need a bit of help. For the online Through the Ages, I really don't understand Corruption. Why do I haz it and howz do I fix it? Thanks :)

The sequence at the end of your turn is:

1) Produce Food
2) Food consumption based on the farthest right most empty column on your colonist (yellow token) track. For example, if you have emptied out the fifth column you will lose 3 food at the end of the round due to consumption.
3) Produce Resources
4) Corruption based on the farthest right most empty column on your resource (blue token) track. For example, if you have emptied out the fifth column, you will lose two resources.

The fix is to use up your blue tokens each round It gets tricky as you may be producing more food or resources than you can spend, so you end up in a bit of a stalemate on production. Or you are building wonders which ties up blue tokens until complete.

Dang. In SpielByWeb I clicked on buttons to see a game in PROGRESS. Not join one. Ach. Can I concede somehow? Or quit without being penalized?

The main link is here:

www.spielbyweb.com

Regretfully work pulled me away and I missed Imperial. It looked rather interesting and a bit confusing at the same time.
Hope to see you all this Wednesday, what is on the table?

Didn't get much feedback from folks as to what they wanted to play, so I've gone ahead and made an executive decision that this week's game will be Puerto Rico. It was played once before - those who have played a bunch of Stone Age should now be well introduced to the worker placement context.

Official Game for Wednesday, 7 September: Puerto Rico

Rules.

How to Play Podcast.

oilypenguin wrote:

It's also on iOS if you want to learn that way.

Only on iPad AFAIK, not all of iOS.

Edit: It's also on iOS iPad if you want to learn that way.

(how embarrassing! It's good on the iPad, though. The tutorial was decent enough that I got the gist of how to play)

So I think that I am starting to get a hold of the rules of Through the Ages. Seems like a fun game, and I can definitely see how the stuff I have been doing in the early game has royally screwed me in the later.

Also, good game to all those that were part of GWJ-Tikal-4 with me.

Now, anyone who wants to play again, check spielbyweb in a couple of minutes, I will be starting up GWJ-Tikal-5, PW GWJTikal

http://www.spielbyweb.com/games.php?...

edit to add

If anyone is interested in starting up another game of Through the Ages, let me know, and I will do the invites. Also, there are still 2 spots left in the game of Tikal I mentioned above.

Edit to add - the 2nd

In through the ages, how do you get rid of corruption?

Dysplastic wrote:

Didn't get much feedback from folks as to what they wanted to play, so I've gone ahead and made an executive decision that this week's game will be Puerto Rico. It was played once before - those who have played a bunch of Stone Age should now be well introduced to the worker placement context.

Official Game for Wednesday, 7 September: Puerto Rico

Rules.

How to Play Podcast.

I am now downloading the podcast. Are there any videos of game play?

Need an invite to the Steam group please.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/kocakoala

I've really enjoyed the PBEM stuff... although I have no idea what's out there except for the Tikal games we've been playing.....

Iridium884 wrote:

I've really enjoyed the PBEM stuff... although I have no idea what's out there except for the Tikal games we've been playing.....

I am also involved in a game of "Through the ages" on the www.boardgaming-online.com website. It is fun. And also complicated, and I think that the only person in our game who appears to have played it before is taking strong advantage of that in the late game, exploiting mistakes that new people make. If you are interested, sign up to the site and let me know your email address, I will invite you to a game.

I am also involved in a game of "Through the ages" on the www.boardgaming-online.com website. It is fun. And also complicated, and I think that the only person in our game who appears to have played it before is taking strong advantage of that in the late game, exploiting mistakes that new people make. If you are interested, sign up to the site and let me know your email address, I will invite you to a game.

Yeah, I've been hamstrung for quite awhile due to corruption and (I guess?) over construction. Then someone came over and stole my blue tech and I can't manufacture anything. I'm just deleting buildings now every turn so I can get some type of minerals going.

karmajay wrote:
I am also involved in a game of "Through the ages" on the www.boardgaming-online.com website. It is fun. And also complicated, and I think that the only person in our game who appears to have played it before is taking strong advantage of that in the late game, exploiting mistakes that new people make. If you are interested, sign up to the site and let me know your email address, I will invite you to a game.

Yeah, I've been hamstrung for quite awhile due to corruption and (I guess?) over construction. Then someone came over and stole my blue tech and I can't manufacture anything. I'm just deleting buildings now every turn so I can get some type of minerals going.

I figured out how to reduce corruption. Corruption happens when you have a whole bunch of resources (either food or ore) left over at the end of the round. I had a whole bunch of corruption (I was up to 8) and got rid of it by destroying some of my farmers and making sure that all of my ore was used up at the end of the round.

I think that there is more to it than that, but am not sure.

mudbunny wrote:
karmajay wrote:
I am also involved in a game of "Through the ages" on the www.boardgaming-online.com website. It is fun. And also complicated, and I think that the only person in our game who appears to have played it before is taking strong advantage of that in the late game, exploiting mistakes that new people make. If you are interested, sign up to the site and let me know your email address, I will invite you to a game.

Yeah, I've been hamstrung for quite awhile due to corruption and (I guess?) over construction. Then someone came over and stole my blue tech and I can't manufacture anything. I'm just deleting buildings now every turn so I can get some type of minerals going.

I figured out how to reduce corruption. Corruption happens when you have a whole bunch of resources (either food or ore) left over at the end of the round. I had a whole bunch of corruption (I was up to 8) and got rid of it by destroying some of my farmers and making sure that all of my ore was used up at the end of the round.

I think that there is more to it than that, but am not sure.

See the end (pg 15) of the rulebook here.

Delerat wrote:

Need an invite to the Steam group please.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/kocakoala

Invite sent!

As a side note, does anyone know how to open up those profile pages in the steam client using the links? When I click the link it opens it in my browser, and I have to log into steam again to send an invite. In the client itself, I can't paste the URL, and can only search for the name, which sometimes doesn't work.

I don't think you can. The reason the search doesn't work sometimes though is because it only looks at player names and not SteamIDs.

mudbunny wrote:

Now, anyone who wants to play again, check spielbyweb in a couple of minutes, I will be starting up GWJ-Tikal-5, PW GWJTikal

http://www.spielbyweb.com/games.php?...

Doh!

I foolishly just signed up to the Tikal game, as I'm enjoying the PBEM we have done so far. Complication is, I jet off on my honeymoon on Saturday morning so will probably stall the game out for two weeks.

Apologies to all involved. I don't know if it will kick me for inactivity?

I am VERY down for Puerto Rico tonight, and will be ready at 8PM EDT sharp, as I have a 10PM football draft!

I'm 10 minutes in to the How to Play Podcast on Puerto Rico. And I am sick as sick so I will be skipping out on the learnin' tonight. Plus the podcaster (I forget his name) says Puerto Rico is one game best appreciated with several plays.

Lots and lots of rain. See you guys next week.

On an unrelated note, Incursion is on sale for $15. Anyone have experience with the game? $15 is impulse cheap, but I've found no videos or quality reviews/impressions.

Here I am actually on time, and it's just two of us, waiting, lonely ... sniff.

Torq wrote:
mudbunny wrote:

Now, anyone who wants to play again, check spielbyweb in a couple of minutes, I will be starting up GWJ-Tikal-5, PW GWJTikal

http://www.spielbyweb.com/games.php?...

Doh!

I foolishly just signed up to the Tikal game, as I'm enjoying the PBEM we have done so far. Complication is, I jet off on my honeymoon on Saturday morning so will probably stall the game out for two weeks.

Apologies to all involved. I don't know if it will kick me for inactivity?

I use my phone to play including having the mails sent to said phone. Is that possible for you?

So I guess there's a big overlap with football fans and boardgamers.