Res Arcana - I've learned it a couple weeks ago and been enjoying it. It's light enough to learn quickly, yet I still have lots of depth to discover, seeing how my friends always destroy me.
Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization - I've played it before a couple times, but really only got into it more this year. Never fails to create strong emotions for me. I play async online and suspect that playing live the game might drag out a bit.
> I think saboteur might be kind of old, but it ranks for my favorite this year
Eh, why? If you're a saboteur you can pretend you're a good guy but that's just bad play. You might like Bang too, it has a similar mechanic.
There's a great iPad adaptation: it looks dated, but takes away the tedium of counting and remembering all that stuff (who has more military power? Is it time to make tactics communal? Did you forget to take away two yellow pop markers?).
Also it helped us when learning the game, even thoughwe've got the board game on the shelf, because the iPad version sometimes didn't let us do something, because of a rule we hadn't internalized already.
I highly recommend it.
Also, the expansion is good. It sounds stupid and expensive (only wonders and leaders, no new buildings or military cards), but it makes it fresh again. That said, we mostly play vanilla.
Res Arcana - I've learned it a couple weeks ago and been enjoying it. It's light enough to learn quickly, yet I still have lots of depth to discover, seeing how my friends always destroy me.
Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization - I've played it before a couple times, but really only got into it more this year. Never fails to create strong emotions for me. I play async online and suspect that playing live the game might drag out a bit.
> I think saboteur might be kind of old, but it ranks for my favorite this year
Eh, why? If you're a saboteur you can pretend you're a good guy but that's just bad play. You might like Bang too, it has a similar mechanic.