Codenames

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Khuldraeseth na'Barya

15:35

I played Codenames in person a week and a half ago. Good times.

dcfyj

15:45

I played Pandemic for the first time in forever last Sunday, does that count? :P

(Board game not online)

James

16:18

@dcfyj Ironic time to start playing it :P

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dcfyj

17:35

@James A friend of mine had never played it and I literally just got a copy of the game :P we played for about 6 hours straight just the two of us haha

James

Nice. What difficulties did you win on?

I think I've won on 6 epidemics exactly once

dcfyj

We won on 4 and 5 that night, the next day we played 1 game before I had to leave, decided to put 6 in, and we won haha

I forget which combo we had, I think contingency expert with researcher

James

I think roles like medic, Quarantine Specialist, and operations expert are more appealing because they get to do cool things, but researcher is secretly the strongest

dcfyj

I don't know, quarantine specialist is amazing at mitigating damage. Researcher + scientist gets the cures fast though

James

@dcfyj Have you ever heard of/played forbidden desert? It's very similar to pandemic, maybe a little bit simpler

I enjoy it a lot. I think it's a bit shorter too

dcfyj

17:42

The problem with getting medic + quarantine specialist is that you have amazing damage control, which causes you to get cocky and run out of cards lol

@James Nah, I have Forbidden Island though, probably a similar game

James

Yep, same series. iirc they're basically the exact same game except in desert you don't permanently lose tiles, it just takes longer and longer to recover them

I think there's a third one too that I haven't played (sky island of some sort?)

El'endia Starman

My wife and I have Forbidden Island. She loves it.

dcfyj

@El'endiaStarman if you haven't played Pandemic it's very similar (if harder) to forbidden Island

James

@dcfyj Well yeah, when you start playing you think it's a race against the cubes, and so you focus really hard on preventing outbreaks and you feel like you're doing awesome because you haven't had a single outbreak and then you get to the end and realize you haven't researched a single cure XD

I think it feels like a race against the clock a lot more frequently than a race against the cubes stacking up

El'endia Starman

@dcfyj I think I've played the board game exactly once many years ago but I did enjoy it.

dcfyj

17:48

lol yeah, It's a race against the deck, so you have to manage your cards really well (especially with only 2 people) and you have to mitigate the damage all while trying to get the cures ASAP

@James Problems is you can't let the cubes stack up, since if you run out of any one of them you lose lol

Forbidden desert looks pretty interesting

looks like characters can die from I'm guessing dehydration

James

Yes

The equivalent of an epidemic is "The Sun Beats Down", where all characters that are not inside a tunnel lose one water ration

dcfyj

huh, there's a co-op version of codenames

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/224037/codenames-duet

James

Oh yeah, I've played that more than regular. It's good

dcfyj

Looks like there are 4 forbidden games: Island, Stars, Desert, and Sky

Not sure if stars is related or not yet

Looks more like a 40k game

Yeah, It's not related, just has a similar name

dcfyj

18:05

@James I'd say epidemic is much worse than that lol

James

@dcfyj Maybe, but there's also... Storms? Or whatever it's called which increases the number of cards (equivalent to infection cards) you draw each turn. Also I think a single round of sand is worse than a single round of infection

dcfyj

I don't know, infections can cascade horribly, I'm not sure about the sand lol

James

Sand doesn't cascade but you add it faster

But hey, they're two different games with different designs and balance :P

dcfyj

true

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