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Table-top Games / Power Grid

« Last post by Dragon on September 18, 2023, 17:46:50 »

Yesterday we played Power Grid twice!

The first one was kind of a practice, although it took a while. We were getting reacquainted with the game as well as chit-chatting with our visitors. We were still in Step 1 after an hour and a half. Beth was the first to build 7 cities, but unfortunately she had to go to work, so we called that one and started over with me, Isaac, Justice, and Chris.

In the second game, Chris had a solid lead at first, but I managed to jump ahead with the power plants and cities briefly before I got hit needing more resources for my garbage power plant than I was going to be able to get. I managed to switch from garbage to solar power before the end, but ended up dropping my power output slightly. In the end, Chris had 17 cities and was able to power them all, claiming the win.

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Scale Models / Lego Trains

« Last post by Dragon on September 13, 2023, 18:58:01 »

We got some Lego Trains!

On Monday we put together the Lego City Express Passenger Train (60337) and the Lego City Cargo Train (60198) along with some extra track pieces to form this track. The kids and I had fun running the trains around.

Next up... adding the Lego Education Spike Prime kit to control the track switches. 

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Table-top Games / Cathedral

« Last post by Dragon on September 04, 2023, 12:13:41 »

My daughter and I played Cathedral, a classic style, 2-player game where players alternate turns placing a building inside the city walls and try to get all of their pieces on the board. It is similar to a modern and popular game called Blockus, although I prefer Cathedral over Blockus. In Cathedral, unlike Blockus, players can place their piece anywhere on the board that they wish, but once they complete a wall that separates a section of the board from areas that have opposing pieces, the player can claim the territory and therefore focus on building in other areas knowing that space is reserved for them later in the game.

There have been multiple sets of Cathedral produced over the years. Some have plastic pieces, some wood, but mine is made of polystone resin. I think the style of the pieces is one of the best in this edition of the game, and I love the feel of the pieces. The Polystone Edition is long out of print, but can still be found on eBay.

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Table-top Games / Connect 4 Launchers

« Last post by Dragon on September 04, 2023, 11:47:56 »

My daughter and I played Connect 4 Launchers. This is a fun new take on the classic Connect 4 game. In this game, the goal is still to get 4 of your own checkers in a row, but there two levels to the 3-dimensional board, and there are spring-loaded hand-held launchers which are used to flick the red and yellow rings onto the board. Most of the time that we play this game, we alternate turns launching our colored rings at the board. You can move the launchers around, adjusting the angle and position. The triggers that you pull down to launch the ring also has a pretty wide range so you can try to launch it harder or softer. There are a couple variations of rules, in case you want to play with a crazy speed launching contest, or using special options based on markings on the rings. Whichever variation of the rules that are played, Connect 4 Launchers is still a blast to play.

Doesn't she look happy that I won that round? 

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Table-top Games / The Castles Of Burgundy

« Last post by Dragon on September 03, 2023, 01:00:38 »

Beth and I played The Castles of Burgundy. It's been a few years since we last played. It was a great game! Very close all along, but even more so in the end. We tied at the end and I only won the tie breaker by having 9 open spaces while Beth had 11.

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Table-top Games / Re: Splendor

« Last post by Dragon on September 01, 2023, 23:17:29 »

Tonight we played Splendor. It's one Janai likes, so it's a good one to try to get out when she's considering playing a boardgame. (I originally bought the game for her as a Christmas present in 2016 while we were regularly playing games on the weekends at Serenity Games in Seminole.) Janai's friend, Andy was over so we taught him how to play. He caught onto it well and got a good lead on the points earlier than I did. However, I had been building up my cards to get the nobles and for the last 4 turns of the game, I picked up a noble every time. In the end, I won with 15 points, Andy had 11, and Janai had 3.

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General Discussions / Re: 3D Printer Projects

« Last post by Dragon on August 29, 2023, 16:56:54 »

If you have an image that you want to turn into an STL model, try out this online converter:

https://imagetostl.com/convert/file/png/to/stl

For example, here's a PNG file for PHSC that I was easily able to have converted to STL.

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Table-top Games / Dune: Imperium

« Last post by Dragon on August 27, 2023, 19:45:46 »

Dune: Imperium has become our most played game this year. I got it as a Christmas present last year and we played it 4 times in January alone. Unfortunately, our times of getting it to the table slowed down after that, but we've still played it 9 times this year so far. Isaac and I primarily have played Dune: Imperium as a two-player game, meaning that the House Hagal deck to imitate a 3rd player. Although we have probably made at least one rule interpretation mistake per game, we have been getting better and have still been enjoying the game quite a bit even with some the confusion. Isaac and I have been a pretty even overall too, with Isaac winning 5 of the games and me winning the other 4 that we've played. Of the 9 times we've played, only once was with an actual 3rd human player, and based on that experience, we believe that the House Hagal deck does a nice job filling the void of a 3rd player, effectively disrupting the other players' strategies.

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Table-top Games / Re: Dominion

« Last post by Dragon on August 27, 2023, 17:39:38 »

Friday night, Isaac and I played Dominion again with the Alchemy expansion. This time we used the cards from the "Forbidden Arts" set, which includes some about half of the cards in supply from the first Dominion set, along with the Bandit card which was in the second edition of the Dominion set. That confirms that I got an updated version of the Alchemy set since the 2nd edition for the base set wasn't released until after Alchemy originally came out.

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Tyco RC / Re: Tyco Eliminator and Super Bandits

« Last post by czstycor/c on August 14, 2023, 11:47:08 »

I have some that will be for sale. they are currently being restored and have a Boxed bandit that might be for sale.  Can we see some of your collection? alway excited to see what people have