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Keegan Cole

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Been a while since I posted, was stuck in the void.
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So...it's been more than a month since my last post and I definitely need to hop back on to a regular cadence. But I wanted to come back with a bang and showcase everything I own for Arkham Horror: The Card Game, aka the game that never gets put in the kallax.

This has been my favorite game since I started playing it about a year and a half ago. And the completionist in me went absolutely chaotic.

The binders hold all of the investigator cards. The wooden crate underneath hold all of the scenario and encounter cards with dividers (except for the standalones and Edge of the Earth which are in the EotE box...only because the crate ran out of room...cuz everything is sleeved...).

The wooden components are from @stratastrike and all of the wonderful tokens are from @aurbits , held within the amazing Games Lair 600+ by @gamegenicsupplies .

The two part huge playmat underneath is from the wonderful @momomonsterco and the chaos bag is from...the Ren Faire.

I absolutely adore this game and all of the shiny bits you can get for it. If you wanna know more about any of the components or the game itself, always help to chat!
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Thank you @fantasyflightgames for letting us into this year's spoiler season for Arkham Horror's Chapter 2 Core Set!

Looking forward to seeing how this format plays out with the other classes, but looks like some great big hand and indexing shenanigans!

#arkhamhorrorthecardgame #arkhamhorrormemes by @foxbocksgames

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Been doing science and potentially committing crimes
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My #8 of my #top10 board game experiences of 2024 is Jekyll and Hyde vs Scotland Yard, a 2 player only co-op trick taking game, one of my fav pickups from GenCon.

I grabbed this on a whim after hearing some people looking forward to it between shifts at the con, but then I looked at the box and saw trick taking and thought...uh oh...I hate trick taking. But then I played this with my wife and instantly realized how amazing it is. Enough so that it is making me come around on trick takers.

One player is Jekyll and one is Hyde. Each player plays one card card like a normal trick taker, but the trick here is that Scotland Yard also has a deck, and they play one card randomly off the top each turn, so you're never really sure what could happen. Each game is a different mission with different objectives you're trying to complete. You can also brew potions to activate different abilities to help turn the game in your favor. Not to mention there are technically multiple trump suits each game as well that can change!

An incredible game that I highly recommend anyone pickup, especially if you mostly play at 2 player. taken in Chicago, Illinois by @foxbocksgames

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2 years ago

My hands hurt from all the shuffling
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My #9 top gaming experiences of 2024 is the OG deck builder, the brilliant Dominion.

Major major major thank you to @riograndegames for sending me more than enough Dominion to experiment and enjoy for the next year!

Very straightforward but brilliant rules set, the ABCs. Action: play an action card and resolve the abilities, which could lead to more actions. Buy: use your treasure and any bonus money to buy a card, or multiple cards based on your action cards you played. Cleanup: discard everything you played and everything in your hand then draw five new cards. Game ends after three of the available piles of cards are gone, or the Province pile is empty, cards that worth the most points.

It just holds up so well after all this time and the expansions just add so many amazing things to try. I will definitely be posting throughout the year about all the expansions and my Dominion journey. taken in Chicago, Illinois by @foxbocksgames

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2 years ago

Thank you to @fantasyflightgames and team for sharing these spoilers for The Drowned City campaign, and to everyone that caught the Instagram Live reveal of the card, especially my buddy @foxbocksgames for dissecting these cards with me!

Hardboiled definitely is a lot more versatile than I imagined! Not only is it amazing shotgun tech, it's great for a last action Breach the Door, emergency evade, or even passing a frozen in fear. It can even be committed to friends for their turns after yours!

Doppelgänger seems to be nice tech for evade friendly Kymani, Lucius, and even Alessandra. Some cool applications are setting up for a good Transmogrify or zipping back to a location for an end of scenario escape. I can see some really ridiculous Power Word play too!

Are you excited to play any of these cards?

I'll post some showcase decks for these cards in the comments!

#arkhamhorrormemes #arkhamhorror #arkhamhorrorthecardgame #arkhamhorrorlcg #thedrownedcity #boardgames by @foxbocksgames

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2 years ago

New Year, New List, Same ole pose.
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Finally back to start off my #top10 new to me games of 2024. Spoiler: this has been an amazing year of two player games.

Kelp is an asymmetric two player only game, with one player scavenging the ocean for food as an octopus while also trying to evade the other player who is trying to eat them, the shark.

The octopus plays a hidden movement/deck builder game, revealing their hidden blocks to pay for card costs. The shark on the other hand is playing a dice rolling bag builder where the color of dice they roll determine what they can do. While the octopus is trying to flee and eat while also setting traps for the shark, the shark is trying to optimize movement by swimming down currents as it searches for the octopus.

The balance for both sides in this game is incredibly well done, with powerful cards requiring you to reveal more blocks, making it easier for the shark to find you. But the shark has to movie every turn, so it can't camp out and wait for you. Highly recommend this mid weight game where both sides are a blast to play. You'll have a WHALE of a time! taken in Chicago, Illinois by @foxbocksgames

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2 years ago

Pre-birthday post, more games duh.
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Ok, so I've played some games recently that are totally ruining this list already, but we will talk about that later. Here's the next set of my #top50 games of all time
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40. Dale of Merchants: Even though this game can feel like a really basic deckbuilder/thinner for you experienced gamers, don't be a fool, just buy this. Honestly, this almost feels like a collection staple. You are merchants in a dale (wow right) and are trying to build stalls to sell your goods. The way you build stalls is by using your cards. Each card has a value so you use these values for your stalls (stall 1 costs 1, stall 2 costs 2, etc.) The trick is, when you build a stall with your card(s) they are now out of your deck. Your deck also has a bunch of junk (literally) that is clogging it up. You can get new cards from market to give your deck more consistency and crazy powers. The best part, there's an insane amount of decks you can combine to make the market, all decks being a different animal. You can use these animals to also make the game as random, lucky, mean, clean as you want. Amazing game.

39. Res Arcana: Another card game? What a shock! No, but really Res Arcana slaps. You have a really small deck of magical items/creatures you use to convert resources to other resources to pay for your additional cards, power locations, and high valued artifacts. You only get one action a turn, but the ways this game can build up to absolutley bonkers turns is great. I forgot to mention you have a mage card that gives you additional special abilities. If you like fast but thinky filler games, I highly recommend this one.

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2 years ago

I'm a horrible magician. I vanish, but then take a while to reappear.
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Back with the next portion of my #top50 games of all time.
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40. Horseless Carriage: Have you ever felt like a complete moron? No? Lucky you, play this game and that'll change quickly. Another fantastic Splotter game where you create, advertise, and sell cars based on what the public are wanting. You don't spend money for parts, you don't bid on car parts, you just suffer as you try to slot more and more pieces into your factory that is always ALWAYS too small, the longest phase of the game even though it happens simultaneously between all players. Food Chain Magnate you ruin your opponents, Antiquity the game destroys you, Horseless Carriage you destroy yourself. Amazing.

39. Lisboa: I used to be pretty hot on Lacerda's games and owned them all at one point, but slowly realized most of them felt like work to me and were not that fun. Except for this one. I think the theme and how it fits in with the mechanics is excellent, lots of different puzzles to figure out to try and squeeze out points, and honestly it comes down to a pretty simple play a card draw a card game loop. It does have one of my least favorite mechanics in a game, a shit ton of different scoring cards that you need to buy to actually score, but otherwise, an excellent heavy euro.

38. Bruges: An amazing Feld game with one of my favorite mechanics, multi-use cards. You use your cards to build houses to then put people into those houses that you can use to activate different abilities. Like most Feld games, there are points to collect everywhere and you have to do a bit of everything to maximize your score. The has been reprinted as Hamburg with some updated rules, and honestly, I really don't like the updates to any of it. If you're like me and love a tactical game and just have to deal with what comes up, Bruges is the better (but more expensive) game between the two. taken in Chicago, Illinois by @foxbocksgames

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*sticks hand up* Give me a high-five more of my #top50 games of all time
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Continuing on with the list and a slightly regular posting schedule with 45 - 41
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45. Sky Team: A co-op two player game where a captain and their copilot try to land a plane in a series of more difficult challenges, i.e. airports. You both roll your four dice, and based on their results you can place them on different areas of the board. The catch? Once you roll your dice for the round, you can no longer talk, just like how I imagine a real flight crew acts. The closer you get to the end of the game, the more stressful it gets. My wife and I love this one. One of the best smaller box games out right now!

44. Grand Austria Hotel: A second dice for actions game in a row? What? I don't even really like dice games that much, but look at that. You're trying to run the best hotel by recruiting guests to come eat at your cafe, preparing excellent rooms, and making good use of your staff that are highly underpaid. You roll dice for a round as shared pool, then the players use those dice for various actions. The amount of dice rolled of the same number make those actions stronger, so it's a bit first come first serve. Plays up to four, but again, is an incredible two player game. I still have yet to try the expansion, but honestly the base game is perfect as is.

43. Quacks of Quedlinburg: I mean, who hasn't heard of this one in the community yet? Just a really fan bag building, push your luck game, where you are trying to make the best potion in Quedlinburg...shh...don't tell anyone, but you really suck at it. Every round you have a chance of gaining points and money to purchase new ingredients to make your potential potions even better. Huge variety in the ingredient setup, some expansions that also add more to the game if you like, and just a blast watching your friends scream "MY POT BLEW UP!" Also, makes an excellent drinking game if your into that...you lush.

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2 years ago

Hey, I know it's been a while, let me make it up to you with a #top50 list
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I promised to do this, and I"m here to make true on that promise. The start of my Top 50 Fav Board Games. 50-46
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50. Grove: A fantastic little solo game I just picked up during our trip to Colorado and it will forever be in my backpack just in case I need something to do for 15 minutes. You play with 9 cards, trying to overlap them in ways to generate fruit in your grove. After all 9 cards are played, total up how much fruit you got and that's it. There's a mini expansion in box you can play with it too to make it even more of a puzzle, but honestly even just the base game is worth it.

49. Wizards of the Grimoire: An awesome two player card drafting, spell comboing, fight to the death. Each turn you draft a spell from the market to add to your spellbook, then you utilize the mana cards in your hand to charge and cast your spells, trying to get your opponent to 0 health before you. The fun with this is that it's a shared pool you're drafting from and the spells stay faceup on the table, so you can see what your opponent is trying to do. Maybe a card will pop up in the pool that can fully counter your opponent's engine, forcing them to pivot. But the same can happen to you. Solid game!

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This is not a surprise to anyone
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Shocker! My #top10 gaming experiences of 2023 list concludes with a tie between my two favorite games of all time. My #1 s this year are Blood on the Clocktower and Arkham Horror the Card Game.

Both games always, no matter how many times I play them, give me a memorable moment or two that just stick with me. Whether it be replaying the two newest Arkham campaigns and realizing they are my least favorite in the bunch or teaching Clocktower to so many new people this year, I am constantly impressed with the experience these games foster.

I won't go over rules or mechanics for these since I have multiple posts about both games in my feed, but if you ever want to talk about or ask about either of these games and why they are so incredible to me, I will always gladly wax poetic for hours about them.

With that being said, happy holidays to everyone and a very happy new year. My resolution? To post more again... taken in Chicago, Illinois by @foxbocksgames

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Of course we need to have some honorable mentions
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Before revealing my #1 board game experience of 2023, we of course need to have some honorable mentions that didnt quite make the #top10.

War of the Ring the Card Game is an amazing game that really stays true to the LoTR story. My main issue was that the 2 player variants are not the best and the game really shines at 4 players or if you are willing to play two player but both players playing with two separate hands and decks. @ares.games

Witchcraft! @saltandpeppergames I've been having an absolute blast with as a solo only game where you are a group of witches actually protecting a town from evil, but of course the town thinks you're the cause of it. Really fun and brutal game.

Sky Team @scorpionmasque is a treasure of a game that I've been playing a lot with my partner. You are trying to land a plane together via dice placement, but once you roll the dice, you can't talk anymore. With missions that get more and more difficult, there is a lot in this little box.

Netrunner @nullsignalgames is just always a good time and I'm finally getting back into it this year. It is probably the greatest competitive card game ever made and everyone who grew up playing TCGs should absolutely experience it

Klask @klaskgame is just a wooden board of joy. Like Airhockey meets foosball. This is my go to drinking night game. taken in Chicago, Illinois by @foxbocksgames

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