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Tijdens de vakantie gaan onze eigen spelmomenten gewoon door en was het vanavond tijd voor Aquasphere van @quinedgames In dit spel ga je robotjes programmeren die later acties kunnen uitvoeren. Zo probeer je in de onderzeeër de beste plekken te veroveren om aan het eind van de ronde de meeste punten te scoren. Met de acties kun je de capaciteit van je voorraad verhogen. Kun je inktvissen vangen die anders minpunten geven of bijvoorbeeld diamanten verzamelen, die heb je dan weer nodig om verder te komen op het punten spoor. Zo ben je steeds bezig om de juiste balans te vinden in dit spel.
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During the vacations our own gaming moments continue as usual and tonight it was time for Aquasphere by @quinedgames In this game you are going to program robots that can later perform actions. Thus, you try to capture the best spots in the submarine to score the most points at the end of the round. With the actions you can increase the capacity of your stock. You can catch squids that would otherwise give you minus points or collect diamonds, for example, which you need to advance on the points track. Thus, you are always busy finding the right balance in this game.
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🇬🇧🇺🇸 English below in the first comment of this post 👇🏼👇🏼
Non siamo riusciti a portare sul tavolo molti giochi nelle ultime settimane a causa di numerosi impegni di lavoro. Tuttavia abbiamo reperito questo gioco non proprio recente che ci incuriosiva da un po’ di tempo.
🗝️🌸 Keyflower é un gioco della tipologia piazzamento tessere ad asta che si svolge nel corso di quattro round. All’inizio della prima stagione pescheremo in modo nascosto 8 keyple e verranno messe all’asta delle tessere specifiche per ogni stagione. A nostro giudizio spenderemo keyple (lavoratori) per aggiudicarci le tessere o piazzarli momentaneamente per eseguire l’azione indicata, selezionando così il colore e la forza di quella azione.
🎯 L’aspetto sicuramente più innovativo è dettato dalla possibilità di eseguire azioni sulle tessere dei nostri avversari posizionando keyple che a fine round andranno nella loro riserva.
🤯 Il gioco tutto sommato sembra semplice, ma ha le caratteristiche di un vero e proprio brain-burner. E’ stretto e anche se a discrezione del giocatore, il numero di azioni é limitato rispetto a quello che vorresti fare. Necessita di più partite per essere padroneggiato, per questo e per la sua strettezza ci ha un po’ ricordato Cooper Island 🥹
📖 Il regolamento è a tratti poco chiaro e la versione digitale su #boardgamearena ci ha chiarito qualche dubbio, ma serviranno altre partite per chiarire alcuni punti.
👩🏻🤝👨🏼 Come sempre lo abbiamo provato in due giocatori e la scalabilità è ottima, proprio perché la modalità di gioco non è in alcun modo alterata. L’interazione c’è e può diventare anche cattiva.
🔥 La variabilità nel set-up è ottima dato che le tessere vengono selezionate dal pool specifico di ogni stagione, inoltre negli anni sono state pubblicate molte mini espansioni con nuove tessere e due grandi espansioni che introducono nuove meccaniche. La durata di gioco è comunque contenuta e una volta comprese le icone, si va più spediti.
⚪️ Se lo avete provato, fateci sapere che ne pensate. Per noi è sicuramente promosso e non vediamo l’ora di reperire le due grandi espansioni!
⚖️ We're back home, and one of the first titles that we put on the table was Carnegie, the masterpiece that Xavier Georges published with @quinedgames . We used some of the new donations from the mini-expansion, as well as several departments from that expansion - including some really cool ones that allowed scoring for empty spaces in your office building, and for all markers placed within a region of your choice. Also, some really interesting effects were on tiles that we did not manage to purchase by the end of the game, such as being able to basically "teleport" one worker anywhere in your building at the cost of sending someone on a mission on the board.
🧩The puzzle offered by Carnegie is incredible and holds up really well after multiple plays. The interplay of positioning on the board, acquiring new tiles, deciding on what to focus for final scoring, and multiple other small mechanisms make it such a fascinating game that we always enjoy.
🎊 It's also been the first game when one of us made a lot of points during the game, especially by unlocking the first category of buildings (the ones with the bridges, always forgetting their names). Over 40 points by the end of the game! Unfortunately, that same player lost by more than 50 points lol 😂
❓Have you played Carnegie? Which is your favorite Xavier Georges title?
Carnegie 🚂
In Carnegie, players are aiming to be the influential entrepreneurs building an industrial empire. 🏭
There are 20 rounds. Players take turn choosing one of four departments on the timeline and perform the action using the activated workers. Players have to pay attention to the timeline and opponents moves to be able to optimise income collection.
There are opportunities to make a donation which helps secure end-game points.
Department tiles are limited! There is this race element among players to grab those juicy ones before they ran out! Players also compete to be the first to reach the end of each region track.
Our thoughts: We finally tabled our copy of the game, after playing it a while ago! Carnegie is a truly thematic Euro, where every decision hurts 🤕. Donations is an important element of the game. So you will want to be able to always pay for it.
If you are able to predict your opponents move, you would be able to take advantage of it by sending your workers to the regions that will likely trigger income collection!
This game rewards you if you are able to do a bit of everything. We always feel we could have done/ optimise more after the game ends 😅
We also are so in love with the game inserts and components, which makes the game even neater! 🤩
What’s a Euro game that you have played lately?
🐎If you are a board gamer, to the cliched "never meet your heroes", you might want to add "never play the out of print games that you desperately sought for years" - or at least, do not set unrealistic expectations for them.
🤠 Carson City is a game by Xavier Georges, codesigner of Troyes and designer of one of our favorite games, Carnegie. As such, you can see why the reprint of this title was something that we were really looking forward to. Furthermore, reading the rules further increased those expectations. After playing the game, though, we can say that we would have enjoyed this one so much more had we not set those really high expectations for it.
🌾 There's almost nothing wrong with Carson City - in fact, it is a unique blending of worker placement and tile laying where players can fight each other for action spots, can place cowboys in order to steal money from the buildings of other players, and can contest land plots claimed by other players. With 2 players, you have to play on the river side of the map, as it increases competition on the board for those high-reward land plots. Sure, some of the actions spaces could have been more interesting (many are variations on gain money / gain VPs), but there is enough going on to qualify this as a medium weight eurogame that has the advantage to accommodate 2 to 6 players.
♟️The select-a-character tile part of the game, which is essentially a construct-asymmetry-throughout-the-4-rounds of the game is also really cool. Some of the characters do seem to have better effects than others, but we have to play more in order to truly master how they should be used.
❓Have you played Carson City? What OOP title were you looking for and did not really raise to your (admittedly ridiculously high) expectations? Let us know in the comments!
🌟 so here‘s the solution!
how do we determine the final winner?
- guessing right AND messaging me
- if there are multiple people in for the win, we have to draw for the lucky one
- in case no one guessed correctly, we go to next closest one, again no message, no win!
➡️ so check your guess and solution and message me, if you were close! 😉
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🤩 24 hours left! Do you ❤️ Castles? 🏰 If you do embark on a strategic journey in Stupor Mundi set in the reign of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Summon allies, upgrade your castle 🏰 and navigate alliances in a dynamic deckbuilding game. Choose actions wisely to impact the game's landscape and claim victory 🙌
⚓ Love travelling around the circular board to obtain certain cards and actions. Also using specialists to get powerful advantages!
Also the card action system rocks; by choosing whether to place your card face up for card benefit or down (with card art spears pointing to actions you can take)
Building up your castle is extremely fun too and allows you to issue edicts 📜 and gain more benefits!
So much to love here check it out now on Gamefound ⭐
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🏰 STUPOR MUNDI is the next release by Nestore Mangone (Darwin‘s Journey, Newton)
what‘s good
🔸interactive scoring element
🔹clever card play
🔸different strategies will lead to victory based on variable setup of specialists‘ tracks
🔹more opportunities to be exploited by changing available action cards
🔸overall great modern eurogame design
💭 i was able to play it 1️⃣1️⃣ times already and it still ranks between 8.5 and 9 / 10 for me! can‘t wait to play the actual deluxe copy with double layer player boards and final castle pieces!
‼️ the gamefound campaign is running for 2️⃣ more days and backers get 2 extra expansion modules for more replayability! also, it‘s most likely the only opportunity to get your hands on the deluxified versions of STUPOR MUNDI!
check out @quinedgames for more information 🙃
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