Okay, today I've been with a group of people at the
Ducosim boardgame fair.
We didn't get too far there with playing games, because explaining and playing sucked up more time than thought, so we got only through 3 games in 7 hours. Was still fun.
Don't remember the names of the first two games. #1 was very complicated, trading on the Portugese trading port in Japan, had a ton of rules. Played that for 3 hours, did only 3 of 5 turns, then decided to go further. Wasn't bad, but the time span...
The next one was a simple dice rolling game. Was sort of "Connect Four", but the dices determined where on a board you could put your stones. Not bad, but not much strategy.
The last one was
Concordia. That one I liked pretty much.
It's about building and trading in Roman times, and a mix between board and deck building game.
You have a deck of cards, which allows you to perform certain actions on the map (Italy or Europe), like building production centers in cities, harvesting resources from cities (randomly determined at the beginning), buying new cards, trading resources, and so.
The goal is to score as many points as possible. Points you get via different ways, e.g. for built production centers, for the distribution of your centers via certain provinces, and that is scaled with the type of cards which you have on your hand.
I think that one can be pretty interesting and strategic. Might consider buying it at some point.
Bought myself there a used version of Euphrat & Tigris (10, can't go wrong), and PowerGrid, because it was one of the few games which had a higher player number. Both for sure only because I've read here about them, so
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Had in the evening also a nice game of Arkham Horror. And yeah, for 6 people it's really not *that* balanced.