I nearly bought arkham horror today what with all your stories of fun but I couldn't justify in the end due to the eyewatering commitment! 2 hours minimum seems long!

Did Games Brittannia yesterday, had full game of Walock of Firetop Mountain, which was alright.

You'll all be pleased to know that SG bought Dominion on the back of the talk in here and that we played it last night. Solid. Looking forward to diving in a bit more and trying some of the other action combos.

I smashed him by about 10 in the end. Got in early buying gold and malitias. Got the jump on SG by a couple of hands giving me militia + 2 golds for Provinces. Once I got the majority of them, it was all over.

I will also +1 Scotland Yard. Great little game.

I have never played Risk. But I am tempted. Thoughts?

2 player Risk is much better than the full game IMO. There's less scope for just plonking all your armies in one place and romping across the map. You also have neutral armies to contend with. I play it loads with my bro in law.

I really fancy Risk Legacy, just need a solid dependable group to play the 15 matches with.

Good shout on San Juan Nexx, I watched a Dice Tower review of that recently and thought it looked pretty neat.

I have read several reviews of Infiltration and have not felt inclined to take my interest any further yet, theme sounds great though.

Got Mrs Surveyor lined up for an evening of Agricola and white wine this evening, she is a lucky lady.

I'm not familiar with many murder mystery games but BGG suggests Letters from Whitechapel and Mr. Jack as being good 2 player games.

I played Rex: Final Days of an Empire for the first time today which was brilliant, probably one of my favourite games now.  Its a reimagining of Dune which I haven't played but is meant to be a classic.  Its basically a wargame with some political depth and some other really interesting elements thrown in.  

I was doing a Rob Stark at the start of the game by winning all of my battles but not making much progress.  Then 3 of the 6 players formed an alliance but I couldn't get the guy I wanted to ally with to join me.  Became obvious why in the next turn as he tried to go for the solo victory (which is very difficult for most races) and almost pulled if off too but I managed to beat him in the fight for the last sector that he needed thus ruining his chances for a solo win.  When the next chance to form alliances came up the 3 of us banded together and managed to get the win 2 turns later after one of my allies, who had avoided fights for the entire game up to this point, won his first and only battle to secure us the last sector that we needed.

The battle mechanics in the game are brilliant.  It uses a battle dial system which means that you can see most of what your opponent could play in the battle (apart from strategy cards) but you don't know what they actually will commit as you lock in privately.  Add traitor cards and race powers to the mix and it results in some interesting game theory as you try and predict how your opponent will play. 

Anyways, great game.

Mystery Express looks like just the right thing! Cheers

I also have Mage Knight incoming, really looking forward to that. 

Do Games Lore charge much for shipping? I picked it up for just under £60 all inclusive

Cool, might use them.

Mage Knight is proving difficult to break in to but does look incredibly tantalising once you do.
Took about an hour to unpack, an hour to read through the walkthrough and by that stage myself and the gf realised that it wasn't going to happen tonight.

Also there's one piece missing! ONE PIECE!!!!! ARGAGRGGGHHHH

At least you can play Mage Knight solo, it sounds preferable to do that once or twice to grasp the rules too.

Cor.

I fancy selling my copy of Pandemic because I never get to play it and it needs people to love it, people who can dedicate time to learning it.

£20 plus P&P?

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Cor. I fancy selling my copy of Pandemic because I never get to play it and it needs people to love it, people who can dedicate time to learning it. £20 plus P&P?

Ha, I literally ordered myself a copy of Pandemic half hour ago, Games Lore are selling it for £25. Will be our first co-op game, looking forward to trying it. 

Chucked Pandemic into the basket whilst buying Saboteur for the sister-in-law and Jambo for my best mate, everyone is getting board games for birthdays from now one as I try to convert a few more people.

4 hours of Dominion tonight with SG and mrs face.

Awesome.

Tried many variants. Last 4 games where the big money variant. Really not sure on the use of cahpel, and even moreso chancellor, particularly in that variant.

Still, I won 5-6 games in a row, so I'm happy.

I don't get the hype around Dominion, I find it to be dull.

I played Intrigue (not Dominion: Intrigue) the other day and really enjoyed it. If I had to sum the game up in one word it would be vicious. The people I was playing with were still holding grudges later in the night when we were playing completely different games. The game pretty much revolves around negotiation, bribing and swearing after someone screws you over. Definitely worth checking out.

Infiltration is not great for two players. King of Tokyo is good if you want something light and want to have a laugh with.

I see, I might still pick it up for the rare occaisions I get to play it. Kings of Tokyo gets great reviews but a lot of folk say it is incredibly broken. I take it they are just proper anal gamer nerds, yeah?