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FIELDS OF ARLE. While The Colonists group hogged one table for almost an entire day, we've another group doing the 3P ver of Uwe's excellent Fields of Arle which is (originally) a very good 2P game. The Tea & Trade is looking to be a must-get XP if u are a fan of the base game. Being able to play this with 2 or 3 player is great! #boardgamecafe #otkmeetup #boardgamenight #uwerosenberg #tabletopgaming #boardgames #fieldsofarle #fieldsofarleteaandtrade #zmangames

Epic strategy never have it at this scale before. The downside obviously is the long hours needed to complete the epic arc. But those willing to put in those hrs would be well rewarded over your Community's growth over the 4 Eras. The four Colonies (out of possible eight) shapes your starting strategy. The constant jousting for "places" (worker placement) on the common board will test how adaptive your strategy is in the longer term. The four eras all have their own pacing; from the decidedly slow burn in era 1 to the abundance of everything in the last era. Some of your colonists would also have prospered from farmers into wealthy merchants who now own casinos instead of forrester lodges (hmm moral decay? LOL) Glad we finally got a 4p Four Era game done! Now....when can we do this again? 😁 #boardgamecafe #otkmeetups #lsdnite #boardgamenight #tabletopgaming #boardgames #epiceuros #thecolonists #mayfairgames #lasthurrah

TESLA vs EDISON with Powering Up. Did a 6p game, probably the right count for this. Its kind of mashing Power Grid with a stock market but only taking the surface-level mechaniics of each. At its heart its still a worker placement game; yr workers in this case being the luminaries that work for you. As a worker placement game, there are many interesting options, and yr choice (or maybe forced) purchase of each luminaries help to customize yr abilities per game. The map building does not reach PG's level of tension but I like how they integrate the AC/DC tech tree and patents into the map building. To do well, you need to control the tech tree to your advantage. The stock market is probably the "weak" link. They wanted it to be brutal (and it can be brutal!) and then tone it down by limiting trade/buy to one and also stopping price manipulations in the last round. But I can also understand the gripes of those who built all the way to the front only to get thrashed to the bottom. Theres no dividend payout and the only way you get a return is to trade (ie sell) other's shares which also thrashed them in the process. Theres no reason NOT to do it. But that totally unbalances the game and can lead to random kingmaking as the shares contributed the bulk of end game VPs. Perhaps if they flip to money being endgame VPs (like most games having a dominant share market), it may work better. Anyway if you look at the overall package, its still a thematically well made Euros. Just need to make up its mind what to do with the stock market. Hehe. #boardgamecafe #otkmeetups #boardgamenight #tabletopgaming #boardgamenight #teslavsedison #acdc #poweringup

Dominant Species. Been a while since this gets to the tables. Still as good as eva. Arguably Chad's best. Brutal. My spiders were doing fine dominating the tundras then one bad mistake (not watching out for regression) and bye spideys. Playtime is long (esp by today's standards) but if u want a game that shifts and kicks with every turn, this is definitely one worthy being on your library. Now, let's get a Chad Jensen nite at OTK. #boardgamecafe #otkmeetups #boardgamenight #gmtgames @gmtgames #dominantspecies #chadjensen #tabletopgames #boardgames

It's heavy (rated 4.17 in BGG). Will take long (> 3h) to play in the first session. It's a Spielworxx game! SANDS OF TIME, the latest from Spielworxx is not hard to learn but has layers to unpeel in order to master. The Chronicles approach offers multi-path to winning while the game board scales according to num of players (like Spirit Island) and has random seeding of resource/capacity tokens making each game's tactical start different. Board position is importan, very important. It is a CIV theme game after all. Military might is another important element (yup, no carebear civ route to victory here) but its not as punishing as Thru the Ages. I like how the Raid mechanic allows a militarily-weaker Civ to carry out guerilla style attacks against the strong, providing some balance from the Oppresive. The 2-layer turn order mechanic using Dynasty & Generations achieves both objectives of being a game timer yet introducing uncertainty and tension into the game (will the King live one more round?) This is a limited 1000 copies print run by Spielworxx and I heard Stronghold is working on a 2nd print run later this year. Another solid game to join our Spielworxx library. #boardgamecafe #otkmeetups #boardgamenight #thesandsoftime #spielworxx #boardgames #tabletopgaming #boardgamegeek #civilization

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