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Two years into the world's most complicated board game, masochist gamers "still don't understand what the camels do" - Wargamer (www.wargamer.com)
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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Let me guess... Campaign for North Africa? Are they tracking their Pasta Points? (The Pasta Rule isnt actually a real rule)

EDIT: I knew it. Even the author says the game sucks in the game writings lol.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My friends tried to get me to play Axis and Allies once by telling me their last game went past sunrise.

I politely declined.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 18 points 1 month ago

Some people love complicated, long board games, others hate them.

I love a good economy builder.

[–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 4 points 1 month ago

I used to play Axis and Allies with a roommate, we would routinely have a game on the living room table and play bits of it at a time.

That game's a monster

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

More complicated than the Cones of Dunshire? I don’t believe it

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Are the cones a metaphor?

Well, yes and no…

[–] AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm not cool enough to have a lot of experience with modern board games, but it seems like a lot of them should be computer games for all the fiddly stuff to track.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

There are a variety of apps for tracking stats/modifiers and all sorts of other stuff for any popular modern board games I've gotten into.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah it's nice to play a irl board game once in a while but even for catan 99% of the time im playing it on the computer

[–] blueduck@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is my own bad take: I feel the same about ticket to ride. I do not want to count individual train cars to get my points or validate I did the route or that I have the longest train.

Me draw card. Me place car. You give score. That’s about as much as my caveman brain can handle

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I mean don't sell yourself short, im sure you're plenty smart lol -- it's just time, i just cant spend eight hours tabletop gaming overnight like I used to when I was a lot younger.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

This one in particular is from 1978^^

[–] woop_woop@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

So...this is just a podcast ad then