iPad games

I went and got an ipad for my birthday. I know a bunch of people are ahead of me so what's everyone's best games? What usernames etc do I need to find you? I'm in the game centre as kes smith and usual use kestersmith in any game that requests it.
I've been playing a bit of ascension, bang, neuroshima, eclipse and rad warriors.

Obviously depends if you like the games in questions, but I think these all have pretty good iPad conversions:

- Ingenious
- Small World 2
- Carcassone
- Ticket to Ride
- Elder Sign
- Lords of Waterdeep

I'm stayshiny on Game Center, but I haven't really got into online play with any of these (yet) - mostly I've played them locally or against the AI when I have a bit of time (usually on trains/flights or when I'm ill!).

Ch1ma3ra is me.

Ticket to Ride
Carcassonne
Small World
Ticket to Ride
Lords of Waterdeep
Agricola

Those are all solid conversions. One I found to be a crushing disappointment was Catan which has no online MP at all. Fluxx was pretty crappy too for that matter...

ch1ma3ra wrote:Ch1ma3ra is me.

Ticket to Ride
Carcassonne
Small World
Ticket to Ride
Lords of Waterdeep
Agricola

Those are all solid conversions. One I found to be a crushing disappointment was Catan which has no online MP at all. Fluxx was pretty crappy too for that matter...

All of the above excluding Agricola. Game centre Id is jonboy@40. LoW is defo current fave but it's not game centre unfortunately so my username is jonboy.

Don't play carc with Neil and anuerin unless you don't mind it taking 2 months to finish a game

They just added online multiplayer to Catan. Haven't played yet but sounds good

Really? That would be a good thing. So don't need to spend more money right now tho!

How on earth do they deal with trading resources?

Looks like it's online-only with no async capability.

Also looks like their registration servers are slightly buggered as I am continually failing to register an account

It's only just gone live so might be an issue there

I'm in now, doesn't seem to like any special characters in username or email address

Manhatten Project has just been released

oooo keen to try that...
Did you see Blood Bowl is out?

I did, but the couple of reviews I read weren't very complimentary - enough so to push that into the "when it's on sale" list

I doubt it will get cheaper... £2.99 at the moment... for a GW product... You only get access to 2 teams and the other 4 are IAP. I think that is the biggest gripe...

I can see why but to me it's the same about moaning about cheap Ryan air flights...

The PC version (which essentially this is a port of) came with 8 teams but when it came out cost £30. People seem to think that owning the PC version entitles them to play the IAP teams on iOS! When has cross-platform gaming ever been free really?

As I said above - the game play to me is exactly the same as the PC version. The AI is still pants. But then it has always been a game to play with others and it comes with online play. Not Async but then how could it be? With all the different skills players can get that interact on the enemies turn it would take forever to play 1 match...

Manhatten Project appears to be live only - no async. Boo!

Please tell me it has chat servers? Why cant games companies see how good Carcassonne is and emulate the communication structure!

I've no idea - I won't buy an iOS boardgame that doesn't support async play - that just does not fit my usage patterns at all.

Really annoying when you consider games like Ticket to Ride, and Catan (and Scotland Yard) are basically unplayable for me :/

So I've just spent an afternoon killing (and being killed by) Paul in Star Realms - anyone else got it?

Its freely downloadable and to play against the (cheating) AI, but online MP (Async \o/) requires a one-time purchase of £4 (and can then be used on any platform (Android, iOS, Windows, OSX))

Ok so I caved and bought carcassonne for iOS.

Does anyone fancy a game?

My game centre username is Blinky82

Blinky wrote:Ok so I caved and bought carcassonne for iOS.

Does anyone fancy a game?

My game centre username is Blinky82

Challenge accepted!

Well Paul is the first to soundly beat me at Carcassonne. It was relatively close until the last 20 tiles or so, then the bonus points came out. Looks like I need to start learning a few tricks... :-o

Challenge is open ended if others want to play?

Also, thinking of grabbing the Lords of Waterdeep app next assuming I like playing the board game next week. Do you guys recommend?

Ste

have added you on GC. Also Waterdeep is an excellent game, although again it's one where the expansions make it shine. A lot of us have the app.

Not had a request through Dave, did you forget the 82?

I don't think so, but have sent another one in case I did

Nope nothing yet. What's your GC username I'll try and find you.