Carcassonne Central
Off Topic => Other Games => Topic started by: jungleboy on February 19, 2016, 03:50:23 AM
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When I was at Draughts in London with Dan and Decar, we saw someone playing Colt Express (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/158899/colt-express). Decar knew about it and he explained it a bit to me. I love trains and I thought that both the train robbery theme and especially the actual train were really cool. I'm not really into the wild west at all, except for one thing: I love the Back to the Future movies and the third one is set in the old west. Anyway, a few days ago I watched a video review of the game and decided to put it on my buy list. Then I found out just yesterday that there is a new expansion on the BGG store with the Delorean from Back to the Future 3 (http://boardgamegeekstore.com/products/colt-express-the-time-travel-car)! It only cost $5 ($8 with shipping), so I just bought it. So I guess there's no going back on Colt Express now, I'll just have to get the game!
Does anyone have Colt Express and do you like it?
If you don't know it, here's the Drive Thru Review of it (Drive Thru Review is my favourite YouTube board game review channel even though others like Dice Tower have more subscribers):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzCGWv6NBXQ
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I've not been able to play it yet, but it looks fun with lots of players. It's worth mentioning it was the Spiel des Jahres Winner 2015.
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Maybe we can play it at the Oxford meet up if non-Carcassonne games are allowed.
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Sounds good to me. I'm open to playing pretty much anything; Carcassonne or otherwise.
Mrs_danisthirty may be joining us at Thirsty Meeples too and this looks like the sort of thing she might be keen on :(y) So let's just please make sure there's no discussion about how much money has been spent on certain items recently! :-X
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Haha. "So Mrs Danisthirty, I bet you're delighted with that 70-point scoreboard for a bargain price of £200. Less than £3 per stone!"
Edit: I hope the real price wasn't this much :)
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Maybe I like it, this is a photograph of my living room.
(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic2733439_lg.jpg)
Maybe you do not know, but you can play this game on BoardGameArena (http://boardgamearena.com/), perhaps we could arrange a game :)
I have also created some cards (https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/124263/time-card#comment6153946) that facilitate the use of the time car.
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Looks great quevy, merit for you!
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I have Colt express and it is an awesome game ( no wonder it won Siel des Jahres 2015) I have all expansions so far and I can only recommend it :black1-meeple: :(y) :))
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What I also like is how the horse and stagecoach expansion (well, at least the horse aspect) also plays into the BTTF3 theme, because Doc, Marty and Clara all used horses to catch up to the locomotive. And the fact that one of the characters in the game is called Doc!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UswpJh6Zvd8
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actually very calmly I'm working on a variant to be included on bgg, a way to insert the characters marty and emmett
Little rules video
https://vimeo.com/107973367 (https://vimeo.com/107973367)
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Another small variation created by me for the game.
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/126575/unhooks-train-carriage (https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/126575/unhooks-train-carriage)
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My family loves this game. We bought the Delorean, but it hasn't arrived yet. We may pick up the stagecoach if it ever goes on sale.
We play with the following House Rules.
1. Only a child or a first time player can be Ghost. His ability is the best.
2. Belle's ability doesn't work on Cheyenne
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Most of you mentioned you all love 'Back to the Future' - apparently there's a boad game coming out, so I thought I'd mention it here (rather than start a new thread which you might miss). Here's the video taken from Gama last week:
https://www.youtube.com/NE_2l_myZqY
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Looks like an interesting game and discounted on Amazon too. Hmm tempting!
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I played this the first time today. Because I played it at work with colleagues, and because it was the first time any of us had played it, we only managed to squeeze setup + rule-reading + 2 rounds into our 1 hour lunch break. However, this was enough to give us a flavour of the game and we're hoping to be able to hit the ground running with it tomorrow lunchtime and get a full game in.
Because I've only played half a game of it so far I'm not really very well-placed to comment on how the game works other than to say that as a group of 4 it seemed to work well and we all had fun. My favourite part of the game was when a colleague and I were up on the roof of the train on adjacent carriages. I shot him and he climbed down into the carriage, then got shot by another player and punched by the other. We were all laughing hysterically by this point, so I'm really looking forward to seeing what else this game has in store for us tomorrow lunchtime (expect a report)...
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Here is a photo of my pimped out game. The strong boxes are a bit small and the booze bottles are a bit too big. The gems and money bags are awesome though.
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Has Dan hijacked the first compartment?
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Nice photo dirk2112! Which expansion do the booze bottles come with? I need them in my life...
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Nice photo dirk2112! Which expansion do the booze bottles come with? I need them in my life...
The Horses and Stagecoach expansion comes with flask tokens. I bought the bottles from Spielmaterial (they didn't have wooden flasks). To be honest the 2 expansions to Colt Express complicate the game, but don't add much in my opinion. The stagecoach looks nice, but we forget to move it and the guy riding shotgun each turn.
Has Dan hijacked the first compartment?
That isn't a Dan meeple, but it does look like a cowboy version of him. I don't remember where it came from. My son just really likes to use it in this game.
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Thanks. I enjoy the basic game that much that I haven't really looked at expansions for it yet. Not in any hurry to now...
Has Dan hijacked the first compartment?
That isn't a Dan meeple, but it does look like a cowboy version of him. I don't remember where it came from. My son just really likes to use it in this game.
It is one of Meeplesource's "Outlaw" meeples!
http://www.meeplesource.com/proddetail.php?prod=Outlaw-
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Also known as as the DanIsThiefy meeple
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One of the local stores has a jar of random meeple. I bet my son got it from there. We also have a Panda somewhere. :neutral-meeple:
If I see the actual Dan Meeple there, I will have to pick one up.
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If I see the actual Dan Meeple there, I will have to pick one up.
Apologies. I really should have sent you one by now. Especially since I just sent you a package without one. Doh!
Next time Gadget...