Played a 2 player game of Quarantine on Sunday night. It didn't seem to play very well as just 2 players but had the making of a good game with 3 or 4 players.
That's the hospital one, right? I really want to try it, it looks kinda like a board game version of Theme Hospital!
After it's been sat on my shelf for a while, I finally managed to play a game of Mahattan Project - Oof, wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. Worker placement where you try to build a bomb. Great game!
Played that once and really enjoyed it. I remember the thing that stood out was that it was possible to play your workers on other player's boards. And there is one action that pulls all your characters off the board, so you needed to time that carefully to make sure that nobody could then block your production lines before your next turn so you could use them yourself.
On a different note, I have heard loads of good things about Android: Netrunner. Its a Fantasy Flight Games card game, specifically an LCG : Living Card Game. It differs from the usual TCG/CCGs in that you don't buy a started deck then spend a million pounds on booster packs which may or may not contain the rare cards you want to make your ideal deck work. Instead, you buy a starter set, and then FFG release what are essentially expansions. Each expansion contains a set selection of new cards, and 3 of each card (The maximum you can have in a deck). That way you can go online and see what cards are in the expansion, or 'data pack' and choose if you want to buy it, and you'll only need to buy it once.
Anyway, that's the idea, now for the actual gameplay. What I really like is that it is asymmetric. One player plays the corporation, a big company attempting to complete various agendas, while the other player is the runner, a hacker attempting to break into their systems and steal the agendas for themselves. Corps can play ICE firewalls to try and stop the runner, while the runner has several options, they can run at a face down card that has been played, if they can make it to an agenda they capture it for their own points. Alternatively, they can run on the corps discard pile if there is an agenda on top, their hand (pick a card at random, keep it if its an agenda) or their deck! All of these need to be protected!
On top of that, within each side there are separate factions each catering to a certain style of play. FFG have got a very good tutorial on youtube:
Anyway, I really want to play some games of this online, and the best way to do this is through a program called OCTGN, which is like a virtual tabletop that lets you play card games online (MTG players may know of Lackey - It's like that, but better as it actually has the rules of the games and the cards programmed into it). Here are the rules to get it set up:
http://octgn.gamersjudgement.com/wordpress/anr/installation/
Anyway, would anyone be interested in building some decks and playing some games of this online?
