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Well, let's give this a go. Rules Primer What? Keyflower is the meanest game about preparing for the winter that you've ever played. A staggeringly good combination of worker placement, bidding wars, and downright nasty area control, it takes players through four seasons as they bid for and use village facilities in order to generate and move around resources in order to score victory points. The real crux of the game is that you aren't restricted to only using tiles that you control - you can work other people's tiles instead, or even those still in the bidding offer. Any workers on your tiles at the end of the season go back to your pot, so having a lot of people using your facilities will give you more population for the next phase of the game - but the cost of working a tile goes up as more people use it, so you have to pick your moments in order to try to block your opponents and not get screwed out of whatever it is you wanted to do. As if this weren't enough to balance as it is, players will also need to bid for new workers and their position in the turn order, and manage the colours of workers they have in order to get the most use out of them. So what's the plan?
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Sure, I'll sign up for Racism Simulator 2012!
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Jun 15, 2015 13:26
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I'll play. I've played it a bunch, but I'm no good at it.Stelas posted:[*]How to put this... I'd like to try to capture the feel of playing at the actual table. Because of that, I'd like to ask really nicely if players could avoid specific meeple-counting beyond that which they can remember. I'm happy for you to go 'well that guy picked up a lot of blues I've got to be careful', but I'd prefer it if people didn't keep a text file with itemized lists or anything like that. I want to keep it at least a little spontaneous.
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Jun 15, 2015 13:42
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Let's start the shittalking: Dammit, Stelas, the exact day I go on holiday? Really?  I'm not familiar with the game, so it's probably better I don't play anyway. Good luck, guys. bobvonunheil posted:Sure, I'll sign up for Racism Simulator 2012! Wasn't that one Archipelago? VVVV Boardgames are great. Fat Samurai fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Jun 15, 2015 |
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Jun 15, 2015 13:45
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Fat Samurai posted:Wasn't that one Archipelago? Huh, I guess there is room in the market for more than one colonial racism game per year!
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Jun 15, 2015 13:47
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This game looks awesome. I'd love to get in on this! EDIT: Oh, but I've never played before, just watched an explanation video. 
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Jun 15, 2015 14:03
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I just played this for the first time this weekend and ended up playing it three times in a row, we enjoyed it so much. I'll sign up!
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Jun 15, 2015 14:05
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bobvonunheil posted:Sure, I'll sign up for Racism Simulator 2012! I dunno, in this game the minority holds all the power.
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Jun 15, 2015 14:18
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Stelas posted:I dunno, in this game the minority holds all the power. Fine. Class War Simulator 2012 then.
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Jun 15, 2015 14:22
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Green workers are separate but equal.
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Jun 15, 2015 14:26
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Electric Hobo posted:You could use the gamer variant or whatever it's called. That would fix this super easy, since only the meeples you haven't ever shown stay hidden. Mmmmaybe. I'm thinking about it. It's a toss-up. ActingPower posted:EDIT: Oh, but I've never played before, just watched an explanation video. Sorry! I'd love to include new players but the manual is very dense, and first crack at a game I'd rather make sure I'm not juggling administration with teaching. I'll definitely have posts up explaining what's going on.
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Jun 15, 2015 14:41
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I'll give it a whirl. I'll probably lose, but I know the game well 
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Jun 15, 2015 15:42
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Jesus, Stelas, you are a drat machine. Not two days since the Mage Knight game ended, and you're already launching another board game thread.
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Jun 15, 2015 16:11
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I'll play if there's another spot.
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Jun 15, 2015 16:24
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Come to think of it, that was kind of a shameful title image. Learn the game before making an image, whichever site I stole that from.ETB posted:I'll play if there's another spot. It'll be random pick. I know there's a few people who've shown interest in it so I wanted to give them a fair chance to sign up.
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Stelas posted:Come to think of it, that was kind of a shameful title image. Learn the game before making an image, whichever site I stole that from. Eh, they could have boat 2a behind boat 4b and I don't see anything else wrong. I'm gonna sticky this thread to follow along, I really like keyflower! alathar fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Jun 15, 2015 |
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Jun 15, 2015 16:59
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The one red guy on Apprentice Hall still doesn't make any sense. Immersion ruined.
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alathar posted:Eh, they could have boat 2a behind boat 4b and I don't see anything else wrong. I'm gonna sticky this thread to follow along, I really like keyflower! Conditions of participation: Identify everything wrong with the setup image. The single meeple shouldn't be lying down either; boat 4b only applies to already-occupied tiles. e: ^^^
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I actually had an edit pointing it out, but I reread:quote:They may alternateively use any coloured workers, including more than one different colour at the same time. So Blue -> Blue + Red.
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Okay, I'll give you that one, BUT the winter tiles have been added to the village which only happens after keyples are removed from the village. Check and mate 
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I suppose in the strictest sense. I'm pretty sure I've left meeples on while adding winter since you don't need them anymore, only shuffling them around as needed (winter tile counting or what have you). The image is certainly more interesting with meeples there .
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Jun 15, 2015 17:32
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Yeah, it doesn't really matter at that point. I just needed to talk smack after not knowing the real effect of boat 4b. Strangely enough, I've never actually seen that boat in any of the games I've played.
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Yeah, it definitely doesn't help that 4b differs from 4a (other color bidding DOES have to all be in one color). The summer boats are great in how game changing they can be, but lapses in memory/attention to them have messed with our games in the past even though we've played it many times. Just talking about the game makes me want to play it more! I actually created a (unpublished) Tabletop Simulator mod for the base game just so I could play it with my friend more.
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Jun 15, 2015 17:47
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Ugh, I would play this, but my schedule would be a killer on updates.
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Jun 15, 2015 22:25
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e:wrong thread
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I'll sit this one out unless you have an odd number Stelas, looking forward to heckling whoever signs up though
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Definitely want in on this.
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If I do get picked, expect a lot of... gently caress you for taking that tile. I will ruin you.
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Thinking about it, I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone think of themselves as good at this game. It's that punishing.
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Stelas posted:Thinking about it, I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone think of themselves as good at this game. It's that punishing. I like to think that I'm good, but I don't have a lot of competition in my group. I'm not fond of PbP games, but I'll definitely be following and judging everyone.
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Stelas posted:Thinking about it, I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone think of themselves as good at this game. It's that punishing. You have so little control over what's actually going to be good. It's not even hidden scoring conditions like Archipelago, it's hidden scoring that some rear end in a top hat just stole making everything you did up till now worthless holy poo poo gently caress that guy.
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Our lucky players are, in starting order: bobvonunheil Aston ETB Crackbone Sorry to those who didn't get in! There were 6 entrants but I really wanted to do 4 for the first try.
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Stelas posted:Our lucky players are, in starting order: Woop! My Pax Porfiriana game is on hiatus (Fat Samurai ) so this is a good chance to engage in some vindictiveness in the meantime
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Cool, thanks, I'm looking forward to it!
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SPRING Everyone draws 8 workers. Player's village inventories have been sent via PM - these files will autoupdate throughout the game. Every player draws 3 winter tiles. Again, these will be on the inventories. Players will eventually have to add 1-3 of these to make up the winter draw. Every player gets a Home tile. These are linked via your names below. The spring tiles are drawn. These are on the main image below. Please take it in turn to bid or use tiles, starting with bobvonunheil. Mark them in bold so I see them! Please feel free to use COs prior to your turn, or else if someone's posted their turn and you're next and not interfering with them at all, please feel free to add your turn so that I can update both at once. The player's names in the corner indicate which side of the tile their bet will be placed on. Hopefully all these tiles are readable. They were vetted by means of throwing a bunch of sizes at people.  64 keyples left. 42 skill tiles left. 20 greens not in circulation. bobvonunheil Aston ETB Crackbone
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Okeydokes! I will bobvonunheil fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Jun 16, 2015 |
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Jun 16, 2015 22:26
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Use Miner with 1 Red
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Jun 16, 2015 22:28
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Bid 1 Blue on Key Mine.
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Jun 16, 2015 22:39
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bobvonunheil posted:Okeydokes! It this a bid or a use? It might be best to stick to that terminology for the sake of clarity but for the moment I'll assume it's a use.
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Stelas posted:It this a bid or a use? It might be best to stick to that terminology for the sake of clarity but for the moment I'll assume it's a use. It's a Use. I would have said Bid if it was a bid I guess. But Use and Bid are good words that are non-interchangeable.
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