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[tennispl]

Finally bought Gloomhaven. After spending like 20 hours reading and re-reading the rule book, taking monster AI quizzes on boardgamegeek, organizing everything in Plano boxes, and starting painting the 6 starting minis, I finally started playing. Playing solo with 3 characters (Cragheart, Mindthief, Tinkerer), I’ve cleared the first 2 scenarios so far. My god, this game is amazing. It’s going to take me 2 years to finish. Here’s the first 3 I’ve painted; the aforementioned ones, my shit phone can’t do them justice.

 

[neorunner]

I feel you tennispl, my to play game backlog may out last my cellar.

 

[ggfunk]

Bloodborne pledge manager is up. I know there's a lot of plastic in there, but I am not paying $46 to ship a game. Eff that.

 

[nanobrew]

Bloodborne pledge manager is up. I know there's a lot of plastic in there, but I am not paying $46 to ship a game. Eff that.

I was thinking of backing it, but I thought it would be such a big game that I would never get to it. Best case scenario would be I could scrounge up a crew to play it once. Once cost was factored in I could not even pretend to justify it.

Was the $46 with all the add-on expansions or just the base game with kickstarter expansions?

 

[franch]

Finally bought Gloomhaven. After spending like 20 hours reading and re-reading the rule book, taking monster AI quizzes on boardgamegeek, organizing everything in Plano boxes, and starting painting the 6 starting minis, I finally started playing. Playing solo with 3 characters (Cragheart, Mindthief, Tinkerer), I’ve cleared the first 2 scenarios so far. My god, this game is amazing. It’s going to take me 2 years to finish. Here’s the first 3 I’ve painted; the aforementioned ones, my shit phone can’t do them justice.

going to play our first game sat i think

 

[ggfunk]

I was thinking of backing it, but I thought it would be such a big game that I would never get to it. Best case scenario would be I could scrounge up a crew to play it once. Once cost was factored in I could not even pretend to justify it.

Was the $46 with all the add-on expansions or just the base game with kickstarter expansions?

46 was the base set plus stretch goals

 

[ggfunk]

going to play our first game sat i think

Who are the starters you're using?

 

[franch]

Who are the starters you're using?

it's in shrinkwrap still

 

[ggfunk]

it's in shrinkwrap still

Open that shit yo... Also get an organizer.

 

[neorunner]

going to spend the day reading rules and punching tokens sat i think

Ftfy

 

[franch]

Open that shit yo... Also get an organizer.

bought the stuff for YASS. my buddy and my wife and me are going to be playing it and i didn’t want to open and unbox without him.

any YouTube rules videos you’d recommend as a pregame?

 

[GhostOfGaspar]

I've got Kingdomino getting delivered today. Seems like a simple and quick game to play with my beguiling bride on the weekdays. I watched a couple review videos that were positive. That, in combination with the Spiel des Jahres and an $18 price tag with next day delivery seemed like a can't miss. Anyone have experience? Strikes me as a simple game mechanic with layered strategy after you get a bit of experience.

 

[ggfunk]

Also re read the rule book every few scenarios. You will miss stuff.

 

[ggfunk]

I've got Kingdomino getting delivered today. Seems like a simple and quick game to play with my beguiling bride on the weekdays. I watched a couple review videos that were positive. That, in combination with the Spiel des Jahres and an $18 price tag with next day delivery seemed like a can't miss. Anyone have experience? Strikes me as a simple game mechanic with layered strategy after you get a bit of experience.

I've got both King and Queen. King is a light, fun game that looks great on the table. Queen opens it wide up with a whole bunch of new mechanics to consider. If you end up liking Kingdomino be sure to check out Queen domino as well.

 

[tennispl]

bought the stuff for YASS. my buddy and my wife and me are going to be playing it and i didn’t want to open and unbox without him.

any YouTube rules videos you’d recommend as a pregame?

I also went YASS, although I did more than just that. I used the 4th Plano 3600 for all the rest of the small cards, as well as the starting minis. I also got an accordion folder for the map tiles. It’s the only part that doesn’t fit in the box, but that was worth it compared to a random jumble of map pieces which defeats the purpose of organizing in my mind. Even the broken token organizer doesn’t handle the map pieces well. Although I haven’t done it yet, I’ll also get a couple deck boxes for the city and road events, personal goal cards, etc, and without the map tiles in the box there’s plenty of room.

I can’t speak to videos but I will second this

Also re read the rule book every few scenarios. You will miss stuff.

As well as add that the official FAQ on boardgamegeek has been a godsend. There’s a lot of other good content there, but if you only read one extra thing, that’d be it.

 

[sjstraub]

I've got Kingdomino getting delivered today. Seems like a simple and quick game to play with my beguiling bride on the weekdays. I watched a couple review videos that were positive. That, in combination with the Spiel des Jahres and an $18 price tag with next day delivery seemed like a can't miss. Anyone have experience? Strikes me as a simple game mechanic with layered strategy after you get a bit of experience.

It's a light fun game. Coworkers and I can get a couple done during our regular friday lunch gaming sessions.

 

[franch]

I also went YASS, although I did more than just that. I used the 4th Plano 3600 for all the rest of the small cards, as well as the starting minis. I also got an accordion folder for the map tiles. It’s the only part that doesn’t fit in the box, but that was worth it compared to a random jumble of map pieces which defeats the purpose of organizing in my mind. Even the broken token organizer doesn’t handle the map pieces well. Although I haven’t done it yet, I’ll also get a couple deck boxes for the city and road events, personal goal cards, etc, and without the map tiles in the box there’s plenty of room.

I can’t speak to videos but I will second this

As well as add that the official FAQ on boardgamegeek has been a godsend. There’s a lot of other good content there, but if you only read one extra thing, that’d be it.

i would have gone daedalus/BT but i am uncoordinated, clumsy, and not remotely crafty. i'd definitely end up with a broken half-put together insert and covered in fuckin glue.

i haven't assembled YASS yet but from what the pics show i shouldn't need to buy anything else?? (i'm not sleeving)

 

[ggfunk]

King is a light, fun game that looks great on the table.

It's a light fun game.

GhostOfGaspar

 

[tennispl]

i would have gone daedalus/BT but i am uncoordinated, clumsy, and not remotely crafty. i'd definitely end up with a broken half-put together insert and covered in fuckin glue.

i haven't assembled YASS yet but from what the pics show i shouldn't need to buy anything else?? (i'm not sleeving)

You definitely don’t, only if you want to make it even better. I didn’t sleeve either and have no intention to. I do recommend printing out the sheets that label the Planos though so you can find monsters and overlay tiles super easy.

 

[tennispl]

Because I know you’re all on the edge of your seats, here are the other 3 starting minis. I won’t post any others as I unlock and paint them for spoilers obviously. I wasn’t super excited to paint the scoundrel, but she actually turned out really well. The brute is my favorite of all of them.