Hello anons, let's play some board games over TTS!
Starting with simple fun games, Reiner Knizia's RA! Could move on to Kemet, Clank, Pax Renaissance, and others, come join! Lobby info in the next post.
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Lobby: Gankeroard games
Pass: rage
Ra lobby has 3/5 players, hurry up or you are going to miss it!
How do I join and play two rooms at the same time?
>join room
>play turn
>leave room
>join other room
>play turn
>leave room
>repeat
It's that easy.
Two PCs
We have begun!
What do the outlines mean?
I would, but I'm still working.
Legend in right upper corner
>tldr
From least played to the most played
That's more games played than what the average Gankergay will ever play in a lifetime.
Pax is too advanced for Gankertards lol
Additionally another anon is hosting Europa Universalis: Price of Power! If you want to play a heavier game, head up to
Lobby: /vm/ big game
Pass: rage
I trust the boardchads that join to be able to handle it, in fact, Pax Ren is quite easy to teach.
3/4 just need one more to start the europe experience
btw we're finishing up the cleaning phase part 3 A-IV for round 1
just 7 more rounds to go!
>3 hour for 3 players round
good lord
Eh, a new player joined so teaching included. It can go surprisingly quickly at times, and can grind to a halt when rules need to be consulted.
Anyways, it's quite fun, lots of things to do.
Castille player (Yellow) is culling unrest in his nation due to the Iberian wedding and is now venturing into the New World.
French player (Blue) is consolidating France after the 100 year war (where the British were very lackadaisical about and just took a fat bribe to get rid of the French lands).
And England (Red) is.. well you see they are trying to.. uhh, I have no clue. They're gonna do the War of the Roses event, so that's cool.
Why not play the video game instead?
He is doing exactly that tho
You have other people to help you with that!
>He is doing exactly that tho
touche
Fair enough. I still think a video game-turned board game is not a good idea but vice versa is.
Good question. It's a different experience and I like it a lot more than EU4 multiplayer. It being a board game it slows everything down to a very chill, no pressure environment and all the decisions carry a more palpable impact.
What's bad about it as opposed to EU4 is all the dull micromanagement the computer would do for you and the map feels lifeless without the constant ebb and flow of nations in the video game (In Price of Power they just sit around waiting to be conquered, unless you add "bots" but then there's more work to do).
Meanwhile we lost again on our 4th game of the day lol.
At least this time we made it to the end kek.
lmao, imagine not being ghostpilled
Ghosts and players operated on different galaxies of thought.
ngl would have picked 3 aswell. the frick are you doing, ghost
>first image is a lake seen by evil eyes
>number one location has a evil looking fish
>second image is a knight on a hourglass
>number one is a elderly knight from scotland, showing the passage of time
>third image sees a monocle reflecgin a mansion
>number one is literaly wearing a monocle
hoever didnt vote for number one is a fool
Third image of face down because nobody got to clairvoyance level 3
>only two images are revealed
>number one only has one working eye
see one more evidence to back me up
number one was the one
Cards are shuffled so you don't know which card refers to which category.
what number was it then?
I wouldve gone for 1 just because of the knight fitting the general. The axes/ghost could refer to the sword fish, or to the water pool. But could go either way. It could be that one refers to the murder weapon, but then 2 would be more logical (fork being a stabbing weapon).
End of second round
Castille vassalized the entire Aragon and defeated Granada, England took over Ireland and is on fire, France kinda sat on it's butt and researched a bunch.
did host crash?
He's coming back
My computer froze and TTS crashed so hard i can't even ctrl+alt+del
Rehosting in a second
Pray whatever script it has doesn't break. I stopped playing TTS because of that exact reason when I used to play 40k and XWing on it.
We did 2/8 rounds and took us only 4.5 hours.
The big Euro game will continue next week at 15:00 UTC, join us, there's a seat open for the HRE Emperor.
It is, so we need some videogame board games to reel them in
Hosting and teaching Europa Universalis: the Price of Power
/vm/ big games
rage
What the frick does Pax even mean
So a game for children is too complex for Ganker? sounds about right
godspeed anon. playing actual videogames on Ganker
Almost videogames but that's the best you can get here
Play coop
Join first
>be into boardgames, but not all
>meet someone irl who is into them aswell
>he automatically assumed I play the same shit as him (brown war games, space war games, yurop trading games, that type of shit)
>tell him that those arent my cup of tea, instead tell him some of my favourite games (QoQ, BotC, Mysterium, wingspan, Bärenpark, Cascadia, etc)
>"Oh, so you arent into boardgames at all..."
I hate you elitist c**ts.
Wanna play some Mysterium after we're done here bro?
Mysterium is the shit and only soulless bugman don't enjoy it.
Channeling all my thoughts through esoteric symbolism and abstract pattern recognition is my peanutbutter and jam.
>>"Oh, so you arent into boardgames at all..."
based
you sound locked
I need to buy TTS already, I absolutely love board games but I usually only play them once/twice a week
Well do it and join us anon
>Only ~40 open games
>~390 locked
What the fugg
It was usually like that but people would say the password in the global chat, now you're either bound to find the little public ones, or through discord. Or, through here.
>global chat
>He can't read
And RA is OVER! GG wp everybody, those pharaohs really put on some work.
Moving on to MYSTERIUM, come join, we can teach and it's really simple to play.
Lobby: Gankeroard games
Pass: rage
Mysterium game with 4p starting now
would ahve joined if I had tabletop sim.
just cant justify the pricetag when for the same amount I could buy a good physical boardgame aswell
TTS is on sale all the time and like 10 bucks when it is.
Also you can try out games before you buy them and avoid shit games
>buy simulator
>also buy the same games again that you own physical lmao
I think im fine not double dipping
>try out a game on the simulator youre considering buying
>its shit
>dont buy it
>already made back TTS money
All games are free to try in the workshop dude.
>he can't pirate DLCs
>he didn't grab TTS on a -90% sale from argentina for 0.05 USD
Even the paid DLC games have a free workshop counterpart you moron.
We lost, the murderer of the anon is still roaming free, maybe for the best....
Starting round 2! 4/6 players
Guess what, we lost again. Playing a third round!
lmao i bought this game the other day but refunded it because online lobbies were just blackjack and obscure board games
/vm/ plays games often if you're interested in gaming with anons.
>expecting pub lobbies to be good in any game
Time to walk the dogs, I'll be back in an indeterminate amount of minutes and I'll host something else if there is demand.
Is this any good? I saw a local game shop peddling it and it looked pretty 'busy" for my tastes. I like simple, readable and interactive
I don't know lmao, just posted it because I actually had to go walk my dogs and found this to post. I'll learn it though, looked fun and there are too many games featuring cats
There can never be too many cat games
Indeed. Cat theming, no matter how surface level it is, always is a plus in my book. Shame a lot of cat games are color intensive (my father and best friend are both colorblind (red/green weakness)) or 2 player games (i prefer boardgaming with atleast 4 players). So finding games with cats that everyone (friend group and family group) can enjoy is a challenge.
These kitten pawns are indefensible.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2906937827
That's legitimately sacrilegious
Sorry I'm late, took longer than expected, now I have about about 45 minutes before I have to leave for real so idk if anybody is up with 30 minute games (or we can even finish 30 minute games in 30 minutes lol).
That was the very first thing I thought too with the knight, but then the other card made me think of a magic act, with the knight one being the library for obvious reasons.
>, but then the other card
Ive played this game a ton during lockdown with friends (to the point most cards have a specific meaning because it was used in some weird way in a game before and that stuck with people.) and overthinking is what killed almost every run.
>hey, he gave a card with a horse, i must have the jockey. But wait, maybe he means the racecar since thats also something that goes fast
<other people jump in and say he has the racecar because some shitty nonsense hint somehow relates someone else to the jockey
>ghost reveals right/wrong
>huh, I guess I was the jockey after all
Yeah I think during all 3 games we ended up screwing each other by presenting ideas that changed people minds but most of the times both were wrong lol. Other times though, the help made everybody go like pic related. It's a pretty great game.
Anyways, I won't have time to keep hosting, but if any anons missed it or are interested in playing more in the future, we have a thread on /vm/ you can visit where we play games more regularly:
Video games rotted my brain. I can't sit down and LEARN a board game because I'm so used to the game itself telling you what you can and cannot do. You could be cheating or playing a different game entirely and you wouldn't know it until you're memorize every single word in the manual.
Been a while. I know global chat is gone but is room chat still a thing?
ye you can call your fellow players whatever you want in room chat
Is voice chat still discouraged? I admit I prefer to text more these days since I don't want my niece being picked up.
Pretty much all anons use text only. If you are searching for a lobby in discord it's 50/50
should i host some spooky games for october?
Well duh
Is anybody going to host anything else? Looks like the only open game is that 20 hour long one.
explain this to me for I am a moron, how do I play 40k on this piece of shit
just like in real life
you move pieces and you roll dice
it even has a built in ruller for you to count the two inches since you cannot use your penis in the digital version
I looked into Pax Renaissance but the tutorial is 1 hour long, what the frick is this autism?
Pax Ren is easy, just has a ton of levers and deep space for strategy but mechanically speaking, it's extremely simple to grasp, after playing a couple games you'll start to figure out how to form sound strategies.
Does TTS have built in VC? I wouldn't be able to type very well in VR.
Yeah it does. I've heard the VR isn't very good though. It hasn't received any update for years now.
it's over.
It was a good thread, but alas, hosts are dead.
Why do you guys always die when i get home?
I might be back home in a couple hours, I could host then if the thread's alive, or if it isn't, check /vm/. But I like threads here in case new people are unaware.
There's no way the thread could stay bumped with no hosts
Well there's an easy fix to that now is it?
Hello, I'm back in case anybody not on the current lobby is in need of some board games. Just say the word and I'll open a second room.
no more games today?
If anyone's interested, I'll host a couple games. Starting with Cat in the Box, it's a relatively simple trick-taking game with a mini-zone control mechanic attached. Fairly easy to pick up and is up to 5 players
Room: Gankeroard games
pass: rage
2/5 currently, we'll aim to get started in 10 minutes or so.
>More cat games
This ones at least moderately fun, I promise! Just don't start a paradox.
3/5 starting in a few minutes.
All games featuring cats are inherently fun. It's the board Chad animal of choice.
schrodinger's cats is underway
They are and aren't.
White cat won this game by narrowly escaping paradoxes. Hope you all enjoyed. Next game TBD.
101st for TI4 sucks
And we are playing Pax Renaissance with 3/4. It's a heavier game but if you're up for that, you're welcome to join.
Starting a game with 3
Wasn't this the game that removed the global chat so that trannies wouldn't get offended?
The one and (not the) only
Things happening on the West
The Medicis can't fricking buy a comet for the love of christ.
And finally, the Medicis win via Renaissance victory!
GGs and thank you anons for playing!
I just wanted to say I'm shocked anons actually got in to play EU:PoP and Pax Ren.
Nice work.
Boardchads are just built different.
Obligatory video
Its odd that despite board games having so many limitations they often feel more mechanically cohesive and well designed than most video games.
I guess less is more sometimes.
boardgames?