#onitama

[jones-friend]

I’ve played four new board games and I’m here to tell you about em!

I’ll be talking about them in the order we played them. I recommend them all, and we had about 3 people for all four.

Kanagawa is a more peaceful risk/reward game where you build your studio and paint a beautiful print depicting different scenery and seasons. Starting with the first player cards are flipped over to make columns equal to player number, some face up some face down. You may pass or take a column. The longer you wait the more cards you can get (max of 3), but the more you chance someone taking what you need. I really appreciated the set scoring system here as well, “Diplomas” can be scored but you only get one of each type so you’re weighing if its better to score now or try to beat your opponent by getting one more tree in before they do. The cards having studio/print sides also made it so you rarely feel stuck with a bad card. The art is great and the brush tokens very well made. The only word of caution I have is the game’s rule booklet explains the game’s flavor well but not the mechanics, it took a little to get what should be an easy game to teach.

You’re right, Flamecraft’s pic takes up a lot of space on this post. That’s bc it takes up a lot of table space! I ordered this game off kickstarter bc of the art and I’m entirely delighted there’s a game backing that cute art. In Flamecraft you each are tasked with enriching the town with dragons and enchantments, visiting various shops and collecting enchant ingredients and placing dragons or enchanting shops and “firing” all the dragons there (not laying off, just making em happy). Flamecraft has fantastic presentation with the cutest art I’ve seen in any game. It also has delightful flavor to its mechanics and those mechanics have meaty depth. Essentially you’re trying to find the right route to produce resources to score points, and endgame Flamecraft has a lot going on where that won’t be immediately clear. In a good way. And the clutter ushers the game to its conclusion so it never feels like you’re lagging. Also incredible use of puns and one of the dragons is named Potato. Its a fantastic time.

Parks is a game I had seen before but was unsure about. A bit skeptical. But honestly its presentation and vintage travel poster aesthetic mixed with its leisurely hike mechanic gave me warm memories of cabin nights and nature filled days. In Parks a row of chevron shaped tiles with various bonuses goes from left to right. If you played Onitama the rules are similar. You each have two hikers, and choose what forward tile to move to. Gain those resources: trees, mountains, water, wildlife tokens acting as “wilds” (which are all uniquely shaped). You spend these on visiting parks like buying golems in Century Golem Edition. There’s camping gear you can buy as well for smaller bonuses, a bonus card unique to each player a la Wingspan, and canteens with special mechanics that work when filled with water (token). The art is gorgeous and if I were going out camping or spending time in a cabin this would be on the list of things to bring. I’ve never had a game make me want to go out and see US National Parks.

Last of the night: Twilight Inscription. Baby Twilight Imperium. I feel they made a lot of good choices that keep the feel of Twilight Imperium while condensing it into a 60-120hr game. In this game you have boards you mark with a dry erase marker. Each player has four boards: Navigation, Expansion, Warfare, and Industry. A card is flipped over showing die faces. Players pick a board to operate on this round and gain those die faces. Navigation lets you travel and settle, Expansion lets you better use plants from Navigation, Warfare lets you amass armies to launch on your neighbors, and Industry lets you amass goods. All of these are connected in their output. I appreciated how War worked more like 7 Wonders. You build units marking dots and lines in a starfield inventory management style, and you need more pips marked on the grid than the neighbor that field points at. There’s rounds of voting where having more delegates gives you more sway, and sometimes keeping votes is more important that spending. My only wish is that Trade was more interactive, I really enjoyed the trade politics of Twilight Imperium and player interaction only happens with voting, warfare, and goal scoring. Points are gained thru excelling in the four boards and through four goal cards players play towards through the game. After four war phases the game ends and points are tallied. Bc this is an inscription style game turns are taken simultaneously so adding 8 players doesn’t really make the game go longer, there’s just more people thinking. This game felt great to play, thrilling to balance the different strategies, and had excellent die unlock progression systems I thought worked very well. If you like Twilight Imperium check it out!

Four games, five rounds played, all good stuff! Kanagawa and Parks were the lighter fare, Parks I would put up as a monopoly buster. Kanagawa feels good in the mix, something to puzzle your brain differently. Flamecraft is lighter to medium weight, I could see newer players having decision paralysis but I do feel its hard to make a wrong move, value is value. Twilight Inscription is still weighty, even a small version of Twilight Imperium will take 1-2hrs to play, but it gives bits of the feeling of the game without the shuffle of hosting a 4-12hr game. I would run this with people who played Terraforming Mars and had a good grasp on that. Its a step up from there, and the board system looks intimidating until you realize you’re punching in die faces. That’s all. Four new games four GOOD games!

[remesrobotics]

“Kagekiri”

Unumbered Servants - 影螂(カゲキリ) / 鎌一 / 二螂 “...”

Good Point - Team attack Bad Point - Idle time Like - Strategy game Dislike - Bright light

Kamaichi Height 5’6” (167.64 cm), Nikiri Height 6’2” (187.96 cm)

A pair of mantis-themed assassin/espionage bots who hide in the shadows of Antares' temple tomb, rarely appearing except to exact very specific eliminations, which is not always needed.

They appear to be patched together from repurposed parts from other espionage robots sent against Antares in the past, during the Creators’ wars.

Those parts look awfully familiar…

As their parts imply, they can blend into the shadows and use them to ‘teleport’, and unlike mantises they do rely a bit on poisons. However, stealth is their main weapon. By themselves they are fairly frail, but fast opponents. Together, they use mutual camouflage tactics to overwhelm opponents with trickery.

Both are intelligent and capable of conversation, but not likely to carry it out with intruding parties. That said, they both are (or would be) rather avid fans of 1v1 strategy board games like chess, shogi (provided they have been introduced to them), and Onitama Light and Shadow.

Individually, they are sometimes referred to as Kamaichi and Nikiri, though never by Antares.

[spiderman616]

Late but uhhhhh hc u suck at onitama

had to look up what that was what the FUCK is this shit!!!!!!!! ludo all the way this shit cringe

[allcellrepairs]

32 Best Family Board Games (2024): Catan, Labyrinth, Onitama

http://dlvr.it/TC5PFq

[house-of-spamdini]

I have a secret

I don’t like board games that much. There are some that I can always come back to (scrabble, onitama, chess, blah blah) but I’ve never been a nightly board game girlie. I think it has something to do with how I grew up. I don’t take instruction well if I can’t immediately understand something and almost every game requires that 30-45 minute grace period of learning that can be just unbearable for me. I’m like that with other things too so good to know that board games are one of those things that just kinda tests me.

I’m really thankful for the people I play board games with now because I always enjoy myself with them, but they’re pretty much it for me as far as playing board games go. It’s nice to have people who are patient with me and themselves lol.

Know what I hate more than board games? Card games. “I tap two mana to guard the skeletal concubine” like sure man, whatever you say. You just get no respect from me. Sorry.

[random-conspiracy]

Once again I come to the Boardgame community to proclaim that VOLTO is THE best filler ever. That's it.

20 pieces, 1 board. And it's the fucking BEST. Forget about Hive and Onitama and don't even think about Jaipur. THIS is THE GAME.

[aroundtable]

Torna anche per il mese d Novembre il Tg Table, il tg più amato dai meeple italiani. Anche questa volta, con l'aiuto degli amici di Hirtemis, tentiamo l’arduo compito di segnalare i boardgame in uscita a Novembre, se già normalmente questo compito è improbo questa volta lo è ancora di più visto che il mese parte mercoledì con Lucca Comics & Games e molti giochi da tavolo potrebbero essere presentii sui tavoli degli editori nel Carducci e non in distribuzione effettiva.

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[teamseaslug]

Onitama is my favorite chess-like and just like how I'd be bad at chess I'm bad at Onitama

[auparadisdujeu]

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[total-cards]

The epic Onitama is a great choice for anyone looking for a great abstract strategy game! Place your order now! https://www.totalcards.net/onitama

[chgreenblatt]

Onitama is an excellent two-player game where you’re maneuvering your pieces like chess, but not like chess.

The goal is to either capture your opponent’s monk (the big piece) or to move your monk onto your opponent’s home space (the spot right in front of them). You choose one of the two cards in front of you and move a piece according to that card. Then you pass the card to your opponent for them to use after their next turn. Play continues this way, with players choosing a card for movement, then passing it, like a waltz of death!

You only ever deal 5 cards total to be used in any game, so you can always see what choices your opponent has and will have. This gives you a lot to think about without it becoming too overwhelming. And since there a ton of cards, every game plays a little differently.

It’s fast and light enough for casual players to enjoy, but meaty enough that strategic thinking always wins. Like eating a can Pringle’s where you can’t stop with one, it’s a game that’s easy to end up playing multiple matches in a row. Definitely check it out!

[boardgaminggeek]

Had some lovely games of Onitama over dinner today, a great little abstract game

[thefandomentals]

For an impressive, chase-inspired 1v1 game, look no further than Onitama from Shimpei Sato and Arcane Wonders.

[boardgamesandbeer]

Game: Onitama

Beer: Nebuchadnezzar New England IPA by Omnipollo Brewing

So a snow/ice storm took out our power and this game was simple enough to play by lantern light. It immediately became a favorite! It has the simplicity of Tak with cards to give it a different spin every game. We have ordered the new expansions and can't wait to play more.