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#121
We played XCOM as well... was there a place i was supposed to write that down?
#122
Quote from: omegadirective on November 15, 2014, 06:52:13 PM
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/20551/shogun
Anybody have this and want to teach it?

If you're still interested I can brig shogun to the March 9th event :)
#123
GAME TITLE: Space Cadets
TEACHER: RTigger
START TIME: 8:30
DURATION: 2h
# OF PLAYERS: 7
URL: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/123096/space-cadets

Space cadets is a co-operative board game where each player is in control of a station of the spaceship you all share.  Whether you're the Helmsman, Engineer, Weapons Officer, Shield Officer, Sensor Officer, or Captain, you'll be in charge of completing a mini dexterity game, the success of which will determine the outcome of your collective mission.  If the Helmsman ends up turning the ship the wrong way, the Shield Officer needs to compensate by buffing up the shields on that side of the ship.  The sensor officer needs to lock on to enemy ships to make the weapon officer's torpedoes more effective.  And the engineer is responsible for divvying up the ship's power to everyone's station to increase their odds of success.

Each station has a unique timed mini game, and just because you start as the Captain doesn't mean a well placed phaser hit from an enemy ship won't knock everyone around and cause you to change stations!  Once there's a core breach on the ship, everyone needs to work together to repair the core and avoid annihilation while *also* performing their station's duty.
#124
Quote from: Lareina on February 17, 2015, 09:16:55 AM
We just tried it last night with the 2 of us with the tutorial, you'd think that a tutorial would be in your favour...

Yeah, they don't take it easy on you.  But then again, I don't trust any co-op where you win the first time playing :)
#125
I know a few people expressed interest when I brought this a few weeks ago, so I figured I should officilly list it and see who's I interested.

XCOM is the board game adaption of the video game of the same name. Players play cooperatively as the commander, communication specialist, squad leader, and chief scientist attempting to save the world from Alien invasion.  The main mechanic is a dice rolling push-your-luck, risking resources to accomplish life saving tasks. The game also requires an app that adds time pressures to the gameplay via timed events that scale in response to the game state.

I've played this twice on easy and have yet to beat it :)


GAME TITLE: XCOM The Board Game
TEACHER: RTigger
START TIME: 8:30
DURATION: 1h30m
# OF PLAYERS: 4
BGG URL: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163602/xcom-board-game
#126
Quote from: Lori on February 02, 2015, 10:49:20 PM
Let me know if you want to set a starting time for 1 or both of these and they could be put on the schedule.  I'd also need the player counts and game length.  If you want to just play it by ear that's cool too.

I'd like to try XCOM some time but tomorrow likely won't work for me.  Hopefully you'll bring it out again!

I'm going to play it by ear since I don't know exactly when I'm going to be there, aiming for somewhere between 8 and 8:30 if the kids co-operate and go to bed :)
#127
Going to try to make it out to my first chewsday challenge tomorrow night!  I'm going to bring Acquire and XCOM (I know, two different sides of the fence) around 8-8:30 PM, if anyone wants to join great, otherwise I'll try to sit in with someone else.

See you there!