Stuff of interest at GenCon (the "short" list)

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Rob Kouba

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Aug 17, 2017, 1:37:21 AM8/17/17
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So the following list are things I think could be worth a look (not including expansions):

• Monster Slaughter - Hall C (Ankama) - Play as a family of monsters eating kids from a camp lol.
• Hunt for the Ring - Ares 217 - Lord of the Rings hidden movement
• Tesla v Edison Duel - 1159 - On sale
• 1750; Britain vs. France - 2318 - War
• Dicey Peaks - Calliope 1901 - From Tiny Epic Galaxies Guy
• Too Many Bones - Chip Theory (2931)
Cool Mini (415) has a ridiculous amount of cool stuff including:
     • Godfather
     • Rising Sun demos
     • Song of Ice and Fire minis demos
     • Way of the Panda demos
• Walking Dead: No Sanctuary - Cryptozoic 601
• Pulsar 2849 demo - Czech Games 232
• Big Trouble in Little China demo (not Legendary) - Everything Epic 1457
• Rambo - EE 1457
• The big splash especially felt tomorrow by FFG (809) will be release of Legend of the 5 Rings LCG in their 704 man tourney lol.
• I think they will also have Game of Thrones Catan which should prove interesting as it centers on the Wall
• This War of Mine - Galakta 237
• Doctor Who Time of the Daleks - Gale Force Nine (629) - my lone event is to demo this
• Quartermaster General: Cold War - Griggling Games (2511) - This could be the theme that gets me into this game.
• Legend of Korra Pro Bending Arena - IDW 154
• Mountains of Madness - IELLO 249 - looks hilarious for a horror game
• Bunny Kingdom - also at IELLO and on sale - supposed to be great
• Vengeance - Mighty Boards 1649 - will be on sale i believe and looks crazy cool where you play protagonists in a revenge flick. The fact you draft how the different people have wronged you to start with is cool.
• Anachrony - Mindclash (1739) - for you worker placement lovers this one is hot! My friend Kickstarted and nothing but awesome reviews.
• Fallout - Modiphius 2461 - one of the two games based on the video game
• Time of Legends: Joan of Arc - Mythic 3063
• Wasteland Express - Pandasaurus 2853 - nothing but good things on this post apocalyptic pick up and deliver
• Hand of Fates: Ordeals - Rule & Make 2549 - Video game inspired
• Iron Curtain - Ultra Pro - 709 (IF YOU LIKE TWILIGHT STRUGGLE, GET THIS...I AM)
• Shark Island - Upper Deck - 1205 good Richard Launius fun with Jaws
• Z man - 1429 - should have some kind of demo for Pandemic Season 2
• WizKids -317 -  has an Expanse boardgame that uses a COIN type system in an influence game but a waaaayyy shorter game
• WarTime - If you want to skirmish (think BattleLore) in real time controlling your forces by the use of sand timers, WizKids has this coming out
• For trick takers, Wiz Kids has Tournament at Camelot which looks great
• Or, if you like ladder games, Custom Heroes is that kind of trck taker with the ability to improve cards on the fly using the Mystic Vale system (701)

See you tomorrow or Friday ladies and germs! Feel free to reply with what you buy (so I don't have to demo lol)!

Rob

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Lance Moody

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Aug 17, 2017, 1:48:40 AM8/17/17
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Thanks for this list, Rob!

I am hoping that the Imperial Assault app will be released at Gen Con.  Would like to do a campaign with it. 



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Richard Jones

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Aug 17, 2017, 7:00:43 AM8/17/17
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Wow, Rob, you're going to be very busy! 
Good luck. Let me know how far you get through this list 🙂

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Prakash Madhav

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Aug 17, 2017, 10:06:33 AM8/17/17
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Ditto, Lance.  I've been waiting for the Imperial Assault app since last Gen Con when they announced they were working on it.

I'm also looking forward to any sales on other board game apps.  Mainly, I'm looking for sales on Race for the Galaxy, Sushi Go, and Terra Mystica.

As for actual board games, I've looked at previews of quite a few of the Gen Con releases.  None of them really stood out as must haves.  It's a pretty disappointing looking Gen Con for board games compared to previous years.  There were a few that I might check out like the Flipships flicking game.

Prakash

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Vasiliauskas, Pete

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Aug 17, 2017, 10:25:23 AM8/17/17
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A board game app sale would be nice, I'd pick up a couple of those.

I played Flipships at Origins, it was a fun dexterity game.  I'd play it again.

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Dylan Posa

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Aug 17, 2017, 2:57:58 PM8/17/17
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Wish I was there (kind-of)!
If you get a chance to check these out, I would love to hear your opinions:
*Bottom Of The 9th Clubhouse Expansion
*Bunny Kingdom (just seconding Rob's interest in this)
*CON521 (so meta)
*Cubicle Raiders (sort of bothered by the art, though)
*Einstein (thought it'd be good for the kids)
*Giga-Robo (might be as good or better than King Of Tokyo)
*Legend Of The Five Rings (another second)
*Neon Knights 2086 (what Lazer Ryderz should have been?)
*Rising Sun 
*Robots Love Ice Cream
*Spy Club (also for the kids)
*Viral
*Witches Of The Revolution


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Aug 17, 2017, 6:20:04 PM8/17/17
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I'm here. There are a lot of things I've been interested in seeing. I haven't made it through everything on my list yet.

The Thing: Outpost 31-- it looks really nice, but I haven't had the chance to demo it. I think I'm going to like the co op print and play better but who knows. 
This War of Mine
Lovecraft Letter
Lazer Ryderz 
Dark is the Night
The Chameleon
Flip Ships
Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time-- I did get a chance to watch it played and it seemed a lot less exciting than I imagined. Just a first impression.
Detective: City of Angels
Table of Ultimate Gaming-- they have a Kickstarter coming the 24th and a table to show here. It was a lot nicer than I expected, although it has a plastic texture to the surface that might turn off some people. Kind of like the thick Costco folding tables. But it seemed sturdy and looked really nice.
Spy Club

Dylan, I've seen Einstein. It seemed surprisingly abstract given the other games they make (Tessa v Edison for example). 

Mostly I'm here for RPGs and I'm about 40 minutes out from my next one. Later!
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Rob Kouba

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Aug 17, 2017, 6:34:49 PM8/17/17
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Anybody buy anything yet?

Jason Cefaratti

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Aug 17, 2017, 10:49:48 PM8/17/17
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I got a few things.  I got guilds of London by tmg and deception by greyfox plus the expansion to sheriff of Nottingham 

Jason

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Richard Jones

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Aug 17, 2017, 11:10:51 PM8/17/17
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Anyone pick up the Bob Ross game?


Anybody buy anything yet?

Rob Kouba

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Aug 17, 2017, 11:32:50 PM8/17/17
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Glad someone picked up guilds. Is merry men good or did you buy blind?

Wish I still had the deception promos to give you.

Rob

Jason Cefaratti

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Aug 18, 2017, 2:06:22 AM8/18/17
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Bought merry men blind

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Matt Lovell

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You guys gotta go to room 134 greater than games and demo spirit island

Anybody buy anything yet?

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Mark Deeter

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Thx for the list. I grabbed Tessa v Edison Duel and This War of Mine off the list.  Fantasy Flight sold out of Legends within an hour and had a 2 hour line to get in. I'll get it off Amazon in November.  I've seen Mountains of Madness being played last night. Going to grab (assuming any left). 

Mark

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Vasiliauskas, Pete

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I had tried This War of Mine at Origins, quite a neat story to it, not sure how the gameplay holds up over time.  But would like to get into it again.  Glad to see it's coming to the group.

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Jason Cefaratti

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Rob, the version of deception I bought has all the promos and kickstarter cards so we are good.

Thanks,

Jason

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Prakash Madhav

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Aug 18, 2017, 2:15:11 PM8/18/17
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No imperial assault app yet. Boo.

Rob Kouba

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So I nabbed:

Dragoborne (free deck with demo) - if anyone wanted to suffer through the demo for me to get a second deck, I could actually make a playable set lol - Bushiroad booth

Hotshots

Castle Panic - Engines of War

Iron Curtain

Major General

Dark is the Night

FYI

Doctor Who: Time of the Daleks is fun but a tad long for a die roller. Enough to keep you interested though. Oct release is speculated.

Cheers!

Rob





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I got Photosynthesis. Or rather, they're mailing it to me. I won the tournament so I get that plus Kingdomino (which I haven't played). They were out of copies for the con.

Rob Kouba

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What makes it "plus"?

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Kingdomino is pretty bad, then? I don't know what it's about. Well, how about "plus" they mail Photosynthesis so I don't have to pack it home.
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Dylan Posa

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I liked kingdomino a lot when Richard brought it.

Rob Kouba

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That was my kingdomino...just wondering if you meant you won something called kingdomino+.

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Lance Moody

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That Hunt for the Ring....   what is everyone riding around on? Toilet Plungers?


Saturday, August 19, 2017 9:12 PM
That was my kingdomino...just wondering if you meant you won something called kingdomino+.

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Saturday, August 19, 2017 8:47 PM
I liked kingdomino a lot when Richard brought it.
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Friday, August 18, 2017 9:41 AM
I had tried This War of Mine at Origins, quite a neat story to it, not sure how the gameplay holds up over time.  But would like to get into it again.  Glad to see it's coming to the group.

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Richard Jones

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This Rob, how far did you get through this list? 


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With only one day, not close lol.

Rob

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