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Board Game Cycle: Ars Alchimia
Board Game Cycle: Arkham Horror: The Card Game
Game 1: Base game + all expansions up through Edge of the Earth (The Gathering)
Game 2: Base game + all expansions up through Edge of the Earth (The Midnight Masks)
Game 3: Base game + all expansions up through Edge of the Earth (Murder at the Excelsior Hotel)
Enthusiasm: 鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍
Board Game Cycle: Arkham Horror (Third Edition)
Game 1: Base game + Dead of Night + Under Dark Waves + Secrets of the Order (Approach of Azathoth)
Game 2: Base game + Dead of Night + Under Dark Waves + Secrets of the Order (Approach of Azathoth, Story Mode)
Enthusiasm: 鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍
Board Game Cycle: Apocrypha Adventure Card Game
Game 1: Apocrypha Adventure Card Game: The World (Taking the Plunge)
Game 2: Apocrypha Adventure Card Game: The World (Shirts and Skins)
Game 3: Apocrypha Adventure Card Game: The World (Faust Company)
Enthusiasm: 鉂わ笍鉂わ笍馃枻馃枻
Board Game Cycle: Altiplano
Game 1: Base game + Sunny Days + The Traveler (without events or traveler)
Game 2: Base game + Sunny Days + The Traveler (with events and traveler)
Enthusiasm: 鉂わ笍馃枻馃枻馃枻
Board Game Cycle: Alien Frontiers
Game 1: Base game + Matter Extractor
Game 2: Base game + Matter Extractor + Factions (all) + Outer Belt + Expansion Packs (all) + Promo Pack 2017
Enthusiasm: 鉂わ笍鉂わ笍馃枻馃枻
Board Game Cycle: After the Empire
Game 1: Base game + Captain of the Guard
Game 2: Base game + Captain of the Guard
Enthusiasm: 鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍
Board Game Cycle: The 7th Continent
Game 1: Base game + The Forbidden Sanctuary + The Icy Maze + Swamp of Madness + Fear the Devourers + Facing the Elements + Path of Repentance + BGG Promo Cards + What Goes Up, Must Come Down + Comfort Creatures + Flying Roots
- Scenario: The Voracious Goddess
- Difficulty: Easy Mode + Prodigy Mode + Immortal Mode
- Notes: Exploration cards from Devourers, Elements, and Flying Roots were replaced
Enthusiasm: 鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍馃枻
Board Game Cycle: 7 Wonders
Game 1: Base game + Wonder Pack + Cities + Cities Anniversary (2P)
Game 2: Game 1 + Leaders + Leaders Anniversary (2P)
Enthusiasm: 鉂わ笍馃枻馃枻馃枻
Jan 27 2022
Board Game Cycle
I鈥檝e been busy for the past year with a variety of things1, which has delayed additional posts to this blog. But, now that things have hopefully? settled down a bit, I鈥檝e decided to embark on a project with my wife - to go through our collection of board games (almost all of which are my fault) and give them a whirl. I鈥檝e built up a fairly decent-sized collection, and my own experience with board games is deeper than my wife鈥檚, so this is an opportunity for her to broaden her horizons in this space (and it also gives me a chance to play more board games during these crazy times). The idea is to go through them alphabetically and give them all a couple of playthroughs. Additional guidelines:
- The game must support 2 players (if there happens to be interested guests at the time, it can go higher), so nothing like, say, Apples to Apples2. It doesn鈥檛 necessarily have to support them well, although it鈥檚 always appreciated.
- We鈥檒l generally be aiming for 2 full games. This will get adjusted on a per-game basis, so for more complex games, there might be a partial game we abort in order to get the rules down, and for longer games (such as those which require multiple sessions for a single game), we may only do one playthrough.
- For campaign games, we might do a partial campaign, or if the game supports it, non-campaign scenarios.
- The first game will be closer to a base game, where additional games will have expansions (if available).
- Games which are essentially palette swapped variants are treated as a single game (e.g. different maps sold as different games, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game or Arkham Horror: The Card Game campaigns, etc.).
Thoughts will, of course, be posted here.
1 This includes Atlassian deciding to leave the self-hosted space, which blew away my plan to go to Confluence; as a side effect, I鈥檝e also had to convert every post by hand back to XWiki, so there may be some conversion errors here and there.
2 Not actually a serious example, although I do own a copy.