Teacher Terry
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Senet is a combination of skill with some luck involved.
I've played both of them with my grandsons. I like Catan better.I've done a little bit of Catan, Carcassonne,
I'm curious how many of us older folks are fans of modern board games. I'm not talking about Monopoly, Risk, Uno etc. I talking about games like Ticket to Ride, WingSpan, Castles of Burgundy etc.
Define older? Based on my social group, folks in their 30s and 40s are all into them. Based on folks I see online, folks in their 50s and 60s are too...
I just got my Steve Jackson Games 80s pocket box games reprint Kickstarter shipment, waiting on the Eclipse 2nd edition Kickstarter to show up, had a friend over last night to play 7 Wonders Duel, and see the Star Realms foil set kickstarter just funded so I have that to look forward to.
Highly recommend:
Eclipse
Terraforming Mars
Great Western Trail
Pandemic Legacy, Season 1 (halfway through the season, Legacy games are neat!)
<<SNIP>> I looked it up between sessions of Field of Glory: Empires and insta-ordered it the other night. Arrives tomorrow.
Also, I'm pretty sure my older sister made me play too.<<SNIP>> My sister made me play "Mystery Date" with her, LOL.
What makes these different than classic board games? I’m not interested in classic board games any more, would the modern games be different?
Never heard of any of those newer ones, so I guess that lets me out.
I passed on the SJ Games pocket box kickstarter because I still have all the originals. But I did do Ogre Designers Edition, which has to be the biggest and heaviest game ever made. My name is on the box.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjgames/ogre-designers-edition?ref=discovery&term=OGRE
And this thread got me looking again for local groups. One listed Pandemic Fall of Rome as most played recently. I looked it up between sessions of Field of Glory: Empires and insta-ordered it the other night. Arrives tomorrow.
Eclipse is a personal favorite of mine that never gets to the table. Most people don't want to play a 6 hour game.
Terraforming Mars (known in our house as Changing planets) is a game that's been played at least once a week since it came out.
Eclipse is really only an hour a player, so 3 player is a decent sweet spot, 4 if you want diplomatic relations<<SNIP>>