On: The best board games of 2016

[clavalle]

Shogun was the game that introduced me to real board gaming many, many moons ago, but I haven't played Ikusa or the recent reprint.

I take it that you like the most recent incarnation?

[pessimizer → clavalle]

It's an exact reprint:) The quality of what you get in the box is variable, and it shipped very, very late, but that's par for the course with Queen Games.

edit: also, not the Shogun I was mentioning, which is the Dirk Henn game https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/20551/shogun which is the same game as Wallenstein, but with a different map.

[cyberferret → clavalle]

Shogun is one of my absolute favorites, and i still have my original (well worn) set.

The perfect combination of luck, strategy and diplomacy IMO. It is a game for those long winter afternoons though, as the average game ive played lasts at least 4 hours (once we went nearly 10 hours).

But i would say that over 50% of game time is spent just chatting to the other players about Japanese history and other interesting stuff during play.