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[–] cylons_R_people_2 [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

In betrayal house on the hill, I was the betrayer and had no idea what I was doing. I hate being the traitor in games and was so stressed. I ended up reading and rereading my section of the booklet and was able to keep my character away from the others and by pure luck I had the situation where there was poison gas in the rooms everyone else was in. Their health slowly deteriorated turn after turn. I ended up winning the game when they all died. Even though the other players were a bit upset and kept checking the rules to see if I was playing correctly.

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[–] VravoBince Dune Imperium [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Dune: Imperium, I had a great start with the Baron and reached 8 points very fast, but my deck sucked and the momentum just stopped lol. I didn't manage to get any points and another player surpassed me.

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[–] Saelethil Rising Sun [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

I was trailing way behind in our first game of Arcs: Blighted Reach.

I got a new character in the 3rd act and was able to complete my objective right before the end. Which won me the game. It was very close

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[–] Intvgene [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

I've lost a game of Dune Imperium being up 10 - 6 in the last round before scoring.

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[–] ScaredMap4883 [score hidden] 3 hours ago (0 children)

Being the first one to get a metropolis in Cyclades has always resulted in me being piled on by the 4 other players and then someone else sneaking in from behind to take the win. Never be the first!

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[–] BizmoeFunyuns [score hidden] 13 hours ago* (0 children)

I was brand new to The Lord of the Rings LCG, staring down the infamous Hill Troll and learning the hard way why veterans feared it.

The board had become a nightmare. Uruks and giant spiders swarmed the staging area, piling up faster than I could deal with them. To make matters worse, a brutal encounter effect meant I couldn’t even attack the Hill Troll until every other enemy was gone. The math was undeniable. There were too many enemies, too little time, and no realistic path to victory. I was certain the next round would be my last.
Then Legolas stepped forward.

One single ability I’d nearly forgotten about, one that allowed him to strike past the horde standing between us and the troll. With my final resources committed and absolutely no backup plan if it failed, Legolas loosed his arrow.
It flew over the Uruks, past the spiders, and straight into the Hill Troll. The beast fell.

One moment I was preparing for defeat; the next, the greatest threat on the board lay dead at Legolas’s feet. It felt exactly like a scene from the movies. Like most other Lotr LCG players will say, I’ll never forget my first Hill Troll kill

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[–] LCS213 [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Firefly the Boardgame:10th anniversary edition. Had one turn to use my last fuel to make a full burn to get to the destination and misbehave 4 times to deliver my stolen contraband. Had to roll a 6 on the last misbehave card to proceed and win the game and nailed the roll!

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[–] astraea08 [score hidden] 11 hours ago (0 children)

Sometimes this happens in our games of Long Shot the Dice game, a horse would be chilling then suddenly shoots forward multiple turns lol

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[–] andypee81 [score hidden] 3 hours ago (0 children)

Playing One Night Ultimate Werewolf with around 8 or 9 people, and I got sucked into the "meta" that emerges when you play several rounds with the same group. The quiet introvert, who never volunteered information or took the lead in discussions, was insistent that he wasn't a werewolf. I thought I had proof he was telling the truth, so I backed him despite others being skeptical. Vote happens, I'm double crossed, and just left speechless at how I took his claims at face value because he was never the loudmouth in prior games.

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[–] JamesReid860 [score hidden] 8 hours ago (0 children)

I’ve definitely come from behind to win a game of TI4! Got a few points at the end to do it

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[–] power_wolves [score hidden] 6 hours ago (0 children)

Just finished up a game of War of the Ring. I was playing the Shadow and was looking very dominant but let my son take a few cities so I could apply pressure everywhere else. I neglected to see I left Moria wide open. He marched to little dudes into it and that was it.

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[–] SaltyBalthamel [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

I was playing Oath with four friends, and as a Citizen had set up the Empire for a hands-down win. However, the Chancellor had amassed enough favor to exile me and completely shut out my chance for victory.

Before he could execute his plan, I got to a site where we were able to negotiate a binding deal of any kind. In exchange for not exiling me, I gave up something quite valuable indeed... naming rights for my next child (with my wife's approval, of course)!

Making this deal allowed me to clinch the win as the Successor, and even better served as a great segue for a pregnancy announcement to our playgroup 😁

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[–] goodwillhunted [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

I had a 3 player game of Dead of Winter where player 1 started hoarding medicine and going to collect weapons when we didn't need them. I called him out and voted to exile, thinking he's a traitor and about to turn on us, but player 2 didn't go along with it. We failed our crisis due to that and were nearly down to nothing and surely losing soon. Next turn I sent all my people out from the colony to get supplies we needed and made noise that would attract zombies to his character at the same location. He got player 2 on his side to exile me for that and due to not having my mouths to feed they ended up not losing anymore morale and won. We were all shocked that no one ended up being a traitor.

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[–] govnar_smrti [score hidden] 11 hours ago (0 children)

Heat has a lot of dramatic reversals. Just came from a 6 player game where everyone was leading at a time

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[–] purewisdom [score hidden] 1 hour ago (0 children)

War of the Ring 2v2. Free Peoples players arrive at Mordor with 0 corruption and a few companions in the fellowship. Shadow proceeds to draw all 4 of their special tiles in a row while rolling 6 eyes at the right time and corrupt the Free Peoples for the win.

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[–] funnelyourcakes [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Coming back with basically only end-game points from sponsor cards in Ark Nova to steal what appeared to be an obvious victory from a friend.

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[–] supaflyevilguy [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Just last week we had a game of Dune Imperium Uprising end with a winner on 2nd tiebreaker (Solari), closest game we've had.

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[–] RUBBA23 [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Playing Wonderland’s War thinking I’m totally cleaning up, winning nearly every battle I take part in. End game scoring comes around and I clearing wasn’t clocking his quests because he had an insane comeback and just passed me by a hair.

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[–] FirewaterTenacious Twilight Imperium [score hidden] 9 hours ago (0 children)

Twilight imperium - winslayed someone by stealing their home only for them to play the Become a Martyr secret.

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[–] crapplegate [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

I had a great comeback in Arcs. Way behind in round 1 and 2, but some crazy strategy to come back and win by 1 using round 3 and 4!

Love WoT. Read that series so many times as a kid!

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[–] itaitie [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

The greatest victory that can be achieved is playing Dune OG (Galeforce 9) is when you're the bene gesserit faction and you fulfill your initial winning prediction clause. The 6 hour build up is worth it. Still riding the high years later.

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[–] tehmanimal [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

One time playing Risk:2210 a player held North America and both of the water nations bordering it. After losing all of North America and being left with only 1 troops in each water territory (6 total troops), the attacking player couldn't finish him off because he didn't have the commander that let you enter water territories. 2 hours later, guess who won?

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[–] Killerpies1 [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Just played TI4 for the first time and everyone was so close to winner the reveal or a secret objective by one player to win was crazy.

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[–] RobinZ1987 [score hidden] 4 hours ago* (0 children)

I had a bit of a reputation among friends, so when I joined a game of Dune which I had never played with friends that had lots of experience I guess one friend took advantage. He predicted me to win in 6 rounds, which I did. With a surprising move that noone saw coming. Only for my friend to reveal his prediction that let him win instead. Laughing how he didn't even have to help Edit: spelling

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[–] pieslaw [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Playing War of the Ring as Shadow, needing to win that last siege, but rolling nothing but 1-3, to lose to a single archer in Lorien, heartbreaking.

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[–] Wizoord [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Playing Clank Catacombs and clearly in the lead in points, only to be knocked out in the depths because everyone else ran for the exit when I grabbed my second artifact.

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[–] sharrrper [score hidden] 9 hours ago (0 children)

I won a Twilight Imperium game going into the final round on 5 points when the leader was on 9.

I'll assume the reader knows how to play TI4

Four player game speaker is to my right. I don't remember what they took but coming to me I had to take Imperial otherwise the leader to my left just takes it and can win with his first action to score an objective. The problem was that Leadership was still in so he just takes that and gets first score in refresh anyway. So he just takes that and it's over. But he doesn't. He takes Tech. I can only assume he figured his 4 point lead (I was in 2nd with those 5 points) was unassailable. Usually he probably would have been right.

I wait for the tiles to come back around and take the lowest number of the remains, don't remember specifically what it was, but it guaranteed I was ahead of the leader for scoring initiative.

We play out the round and I manage to score an Action Phase secret objective (Destroy a Flagship) and use the Imperial to score another single point objective. In Status Phase I score a Status secret objective and the only revealed two point public to make 5 points for the round and snake the win.

I was nervous the whole time, but by far my most epic comeback win.

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[–] whosethrowawyisit [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Dramatic reversal in Risk when I was beating my son, we went to bed, and in the morning when we were going to finish it my armies had been mysteriously decimated in the night lol

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[–] pete_darby Cosmic Encounter [score hidden] 3 hours ago (0 children)

Playing Rallyman, 4 player, I'd played it safe on the first two runs so was way slower than everyone else going into the final run. Adopted an incredibly high risk strategy for the last run, and the dice gods were with me as I rolled no hazards for the whole run, ending seconds faster than the previous leader at the end.

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[–] djfluxtux [score hidden] 10 hours ago (0 children)

The most dramatic reversals I've seen in board gaming are honestly in Dune Imperium: Uprising. In both solo games and with my friends, the ending is almost always a well-executed, shift in power be that changing alliances or sandworms entering the fight. I've seen players go from being 4 points behind the leader, to surging ahead of them in one climactic turn. I love the swings because the same opportunities are generally afforded to each player--even when it's those nasty solo rivals that score many points in the last round and crush me. That just means I should have crushed them sooner!

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[–] The1NyGuy [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Cthulhu Death May Die last dice roll before dying.

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[–] cat9090 [🍰] [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Definitely my biggest switches of fortune have come from the Dune board game.

The one that comes to mind is loosing to a bene gesserit player who predicted I would win. The high from winning to realizing I lost to also being so hyped someone got a prediction win was a real roller coaster of emotions.

Big fan of wheel of time. Looking forward to this

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[–] Celticpred14 [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Playing the Game of thrones board game and making alliances to win the game has got to be some of the most fun and exciting moments!

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[–] LOLMrTeacherMan [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

We were playing Magical Athlete, I was Lackey. I needed at least second place to secure the win, but I was behind all race. No one could roll a 6. I finally started to catch up at the end with the one person finished and another just 1 space from the finish line, I just needed a 4 or better to get second place and… I rolled a 2. Dang!

As the second place racer gloats, he rolls the die for a 6! Which means Lackey goes 2 spaces first! I got second and won the game!

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[–] TheBeerka Galaxy Trucker [score hidden] 11 hours ago (0 children)

I'm a lifelong gamer. Great at most games i play, be it videogames or boardgames.

I no longer play anything competetive tho, since i'm not the best player even in the house anymore.

My originally non gamer SO beats me in everything.

There's that Wonderlands War match that still haunts me.

I was doing great initially. I'm horrible remembering details, but she kept doing something with some kind of griff bird. She kept shouting 'A griff biiiiiiiird' and she moved it to yet another battlefield. She memes that to this very day. Turned almost every battle.

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[–] New-Tadpole-5304 [score hidden] 8 hours ago (0 children)

I feel that my frosthaven group had a dozen stupidly close victories. 2 out of 4 players down and the remaining 2 having to muscle out a solution with both a weskened enemy state but also a minimum level of resources (and turns) left to do it. Plus the staggered retirements in frosthaven meant it was often different people saving the day which is great for any table.

Honorable mention is also "James Allens DRiFT" also had to whole table standing and screaming at 4 little cars nearly every week.

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[–] CallousJack [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

The most dramatic moment of a game of Battlestar Galactica, from 2010-ish.

The humans had been doing well it was late in the game, only a few jumps before victory, and resources/morale were mid to low.

This particular challenge proved to be potentially very difficult and had the possibility of setting up a death spiral for the human players that they might not be able to recover from.

The player who was Adama was in a position that, if given a second action they could ensure that the challenge was passed and victory would be almost certain.

So....of course they got that extra action. They then used the first action to activate a board space that put another human in jail and their second action to reveal their cylon card which wounded another human.

Instead of saving the day, they effectively shot one crew member after convicting a different crew member of that (future) crime.

The humans did not win that game. And that player is still suspected by default of being a traitor.

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[–] Zaboomafookaloo [score hidden] 5 hours ago (0 children)

Gloomhaven. 2 left in the party out of 4 with 1 turn left before exhaustion and 1 burn card remaining in each hand. 4 enemies left with nearly full hp. Both burns pull the 2x to clear the dungeon.

Never hit that high again..

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[–] aibrys [score hidden] 10 hours ago (0 children)

During a three player game of Inis, one player was down to one unit on turn 2 whilst myself and the other player were maintaining control of every area. In a bid to win the game via tiebreaker, I initiated a prolonged battle in the capital which ended up weakening our position so much the third player whom we had discounted for so long ended up sneaking a victory with just three units by placing a sixth sanctuary in relevant territory after we had expended all our cards.

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[–] robotshavehearts2 [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

The greatest victories for me have always been those ones where I know it’s close but it’s all in the air until the final counts.

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[–] unhappymagicplayer [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

I made a good friend pay over 100 for a power plant in power grid. He ended up losing because he couldn't afford to turn on all his plants

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[–] Axne15 [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Star Wars Deckbuilding game has had numerous close calls and comebacks that came down to a bad draw for the other player.

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[–] FuzzyVisuals [score hidden] 2 minutes ago (0 children)

I've had several games of sea salt and paper where one player can make an absolute beast of a round by calling last chance and scoring an absurd amount of points through mermaids and set collections!

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[–] 165penguins [score hidden] 9 hours ago (0 children)

We were playing a game of betrayal at house on the hill. The haunt had started and the traitor had to sacrifice us or items to win. We had to run around collecting paint and then bring it back to ruin a room. Problem was the only way into that room required a sanity roll that all of us were going to have a hard time doing. The traitor only needed one more item to win so decided to explore a room. An event was drawn, they failed the roll and ended up dying. Leaving us to fight npc cultists with our good fighting stats and eventually get through the sanity check to win the game.

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[–] HelloFirstTimePoster [score hidden] 3 hours ago (0 children)

I was in last to such a degree in a game of Quacks of Quedlinburg that it felt like I was halfway filling the pot with rat tails. Every other player busted for the last three rounds and I kept missing the white chips each pull. Ended up closing a 30 point gap and overtook in the final round, winning within five or so. The luck of the draw is the biggest draw of that game, bar none.

Side note: as someone starting the second Wheel of Time book, The Great Hunt, tomorrow, I look forward to playing War of the Dragon in 2039 to avoid spoilers, given the pace I’m clipping through these books! Good luck everyone :)

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[–] classicwang [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

7 point score in one round in dune imperium with guild spy and worms.

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[–] Thurad [score hidden] 1 hour ago (0 children)

In the final of a Blood Bowl tournament. I have 3 turns to score and the ball is next to my end zone. I have to hand the ball off twice, make a dodge, and make multiple go for its all with no rerolls.

The little heroes go for it. Thorin picks up the ball, hands it off to Durak. Durak moves down the pitch as fast as his little legs can take him whilst his buddies block the few elves left. Next turn Durak pushes himself to hand off to Azgar who marches down the pitch a whole six squares, leaving him 6 from the end zone. His friends take the last elves off the pitch leaving him one more turn for glory….

Azgar goes for it (twice) and the crowd goes wild as the dwarves take the championship in style!

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[–] Popular-Seaweed-6802 [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Losing at a game of zombie dice against wife to come back and score 13 points in final round to win, she still can’t believe that win.

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[–] LegendMKII [score hidden] 10 hours ago (0 children)

I am very proud to have a reputation as the player who often is very middle of the pack throughout the game then pulls something out of the hat to secure a win.

I recently played Spartacus, Blood and Sand, and managed to win the game without having any gladiators or slaves at the end, without winning any fights, and just an army of guards to my name!

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[–] ToNIX_ Spheres of Influence [score hidden] 14 hours ago* (0 children)

The greatest recent comeback was when we playing Flip 7 during Christmas. I reached 205, so I decided to stop playing.

My cousin, with nothing to lose, kept taking cards. He got the x2, 7 cards for the bonus +15 and ended up with 206.

It was absolutely crazy, we all ended up yelling 😂

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[–] Andus35 [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Played a game of John Company where I managed to burn the company against the will of the other players by betraying them after grabbing some key presidential positions, which was set to put me just in the lead — but then the card pull at the end let the shareholders off blameless so they retained their points and ended up barely ahead of me.

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[–] derkyn [score hidden] 8 hours ago (0 children)

I remember a nemesis moment where I was the scientist, the guy in the wheelchair and had the quest of killing the queen. So I was searching for her and she really did ambushed me and gave me two serious wounds just at start, both of them actually were on the legs so I was lucky. I beged the the other players to support me to killing her and they shooter her until she went away while I failed all my shots. Then another alien gave me the last serious wound, I was already thinking that I wouldn't survive and do the quest but in the last move, the queen got close again and I shooted her with the my last ammo. But I didn't hit any of my shots, so I was going to die there. But another player just got to use his last bullet using a crit and killing her for me.

Actually I didn't hit any wound to the queen, and were all the other players that all had their shots critical against her, but I felt proud killing her with that scientist that is really bad a killing,, and actually had time to get into hibernation and survive.

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[–] PlantsNCaterpillars [score hidden] 7 hours ago (0 children)

One time I was playing UNO and the person next to me was going to go out on their turn and was very cocky about it so I played a reverse card and when it was about ready to be their turn again back someone played a draw four against them.

They were soooo mad. Then they took a nap and forgot they even played the game because they are 94.

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[–] Necro_Ash [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

At the time partner drew the literally near perfect chain in a starting Uno hand. I got her on the "didn't claim Uno" with her last card and proceeded to win the game in the long run. She never wanted to play Uno again.

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[–] BojackChavez [score hidden] 5 hours ago (0 children)

I was playing a 4-player game of Rebirth. Throughout the whole game the other 3 players were racking up points, leaving me squarely in last place for much of the game. However, during final scoring when we revealed our mission cards, I was fortunate enough to surpass my opponents by scoring more than enough off those cards to win the game! Such a cool feeling to jump ahead like that in the 11th hour!

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[–] bbbanchi [🍰] [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

To the EXCEED players out there. I was playing street fighter season 3. I was down to 3 health and my girlfriend had basically full life with Sagat. I was able to string a series of attacks with zangief and leverage his ability for a crazy comeback. I was just in da zone. The payback zone

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[–] jemd13 [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

My first ever game of Dune Imperium, we did a 6 player game (where you have the..commanders or whatever they're called?) and we had a battle phase where I thought I could win, had a good surprise planned out, but understimated our opponents. The great battle of arrakis ended up with the blood of my team soaking the sands 😭. But we put up a good fight

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[–] BigBasic [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

During a game of Catan the person who was obviously headed for a win on their next turn got very braggadocios about there position. Before there next turn the other 3 players and myself teamed up to trade almost all our resources to one player so they could squeak out the 10 victory points and steal the win. Not the most ethical of wins but my goodness it was satisfying.

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[–] spchina Firefly The Game [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

BSG, I was hidden cylon in 4 player game playing as Laura Roslin. The humans were doing really well, one more jump to victory, all they needed were three jump symbols. Two unlucky crisis cards back to back meant both base stars and a number of raiders spawned on the board. Admiral played his turn debating whether to use the last nuke but ultimately decided not to. His crisis card had a jump symbol. I used his decision to turn the team against him and we sent him to the brig on the next turn. Their crisis card also had a jump symbol. My turn, I play a Quorum card to brig another player. With 2 of 3 humans in the brig, there was very little they could do. I didn't get to formally reveal as cylon because they just called it there. The sense of betrayal I saw on their faces that day has lived rent free in my head over the last 15 years.

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[–] tjr112887 [score hidden] 11 hours ago (0 children)

I was playing Root digital with friends as the Woodland Alliance. I was able to craft/ play a ‘favor of the foxes’ card and score 19 points in one turn to go well over the needed 30 points for a victory. To date, still the most points I’ve ever scored in one turn!

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[–] nerdycanuck Spirit Island [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Was playing Legendary Encounters Predator and this was a while ago so some details are fuzzy, but it looked like we were going to lose for a good chunk of the game but managed to stick with it, if barely. It got to the point where we had to escape to the chopper (win condition) and two out of three of us made it there with one person (me) lagging behind. Cue my husband and friend yelling at me to "Get to the choppa" until I finally make it, narrowly avoiding death. I think this was 9 years ago or so and we still reference it pretty regularly lol

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[–] jamessings [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

I was down a good 15 points in Arcs and made a huge move in the last chapter and won the game! Really made me appreciate how well that game leaves opportunities open for big comebacks!

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[–] Ranccor [score hidden] 4 hours ago (0 children)

Game of Risk when I was in high school. Was attacked with an army of around 30 to my 4 and held the position. We always played 4 player so the guy who attacked me was super mad and the other three of us were laughing at his misfortune.

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[–] kanito8a [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

In Eldritch Horror we were just 1 dice roll to win. And a bad roll started a chain of events that made us lose in that turn!

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[–] The_Fayman [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Two weeks ago I my second ever commander MTG game the blue deck player started very early on his devious setup. First he allowed us to draw more and second he forced us to either pay an extra mana or let him draw a card instead. So far no big deal, however, every time he drew a cars we had to discard two.

Being the beginner I am I thought this doesn't seem that bad as I had a very strong board (borrowed a colorless deck from one of the other players which allowed me to stack +1/+1s on my commander and other creatures like crazy) but the other two players insisted we team against the blue player ASAP.

So we did.

We left the blue player at like 12hp when we noticed one other player setting up something insane which would cost us 6hp for each mana used or something like that, I hadn't fully grasped the situation but the blue player asked for a deal. He could solve this issue if we let him live for just one more round.

We shake hands. The deal is made. Blue makes that problem go away by doing something to that commander, I use my strong board to beat that guy. Three were left in the game.

Now a new problem arises. The red player has a near infinite combo now! He leaves blue player at 2hp and decides to continue his combo on me.

The now dead player helps me figure out how to best use my hand and I manage to cancel the combo just in time before I die.

It's the blue player's turn and he mills red player to near death and removes half my deck. My turn, I have to decide how to spread my damage as I can only finish one person.

I decide the blue player gets to live another turn, maybe I can survive one more round to finish him? Nope, blue player immediately mills me.

Blue player wins with 2HP and no damage done.

It was a roller coaster and there was such a huge amount of social interaction I hadn't expected out of mtg. Still going to stay far away from owning tcgs. It was fun though

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[–] Thackabe [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Playing The Thing as the Alien on a deployment in Afghanistan. I had everyone believing I was good by sending everyone else on a mission even though it failed. I would have been the first one on the helicopter but for the last mission I had the reins and was able to show the fail before anyone else had a say. The betrayal on the others faces was amazing.

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[–] mistavengeance Power Bowler [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

In Arc The Blighted Reach I won in the last turn off the last chapter with my hail Mary objective after having only scored ONE point in the entire three-night saga up to that point!

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[–] IrSonnex [score hidden] 35 minutes ago (0 children)

Slay the spire boardgame: drawing all my curses with only 1 usable card that had card draw which in turn drew me lethal. Small emotional rollercoaster.

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[–] ksmit098 [score hidden] 11 hours ago (0 children)

I was on a team for Password and we we're down at the end of the game, and needed a correct guess on the final word to win. Friend gave me the clue light, and because I was playing FFXII at the time guessed luminosity and got the win.

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[–] LarsAndTheAuton Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Last game of Scythe, everyone thought I was losing badly, because I only had one star. But my popularity was high while everyone else's was low, and I had a bunch of resources to convert into coins at endgame. I won.

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[–] DarkLancelot [score hidden] 10 hours ago (0 children)

We play lots of Nana and the triple sevens is a huge win

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[–] Nflickner [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

It's Christmas break, and I'm pumped to finally be playing against my brother, who lives on the other side of the country. We've played a number of games of Air, Land, and Sea together, but the pinnacle of our battle of wits comes in an epic game of Imperium Classics, a thinky deckbuilder we'd both only ever played solo against bots, but never against a human opponent.

My brother is playing the Egyptians, a civilization with a rich history mechanic that lets him thin his deck down into a finely-tuned machine for racking up glory and points. I'm playing the Persians: my deck is much thicker, but I'm able to buy more cards than him.

As we're playing, I'm bemoaning the fact that I'm going to lose. As anyone who's played a good deckbuilder knows, thinning your deck of chaff is almost always the best strategy. I'm also starting to feel bummed that this greatly lauded game might just be imbalanced, and my positive opinions of it slowly start to erode as we play.

Imagine my shock when we tally up the scores and the Persians come out on top!

Honestly? I'm more happy that the game is well balanced for a variety of strategies than I am that I actually won. Turns out the designers knew what they were doing all along.

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[–] OriWindcatcher [score hidden] 11 hours ago (0 children)

Has to be in darwins journey, you can pull of some crazy turn sometimes and my brother was down a lot, made more than 70 points 2 round in a row, won the game.

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[–] alfredissimo [score hidden] 4 hours ago (0 children)

Played a game of Jaws as the shark. I had a perfect first half of the game so I started the "ship destruction" half with all the cards and the humans had nothing. I proceeded to get hit on every single dice roll they made which means they won even though they never found me in the first part of the game. Amazing luck and a funny story.

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[–] DiceAddictedDragon [score hidden] 9 hours ago (0 children)

Me winning a game of Catan when I didn’t play for win, but roleplayed a swamp hag tending to her swamp

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[–] Gimrak Twilight Imperium [score hidden] 5 hours ago (0 children)

Winning a game of Star Wars Rebellion by scoring the "blow up the Death Star" objective

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[–] haymatt18 [score hidden] 3 hours ago (0 children)

I had a 3 and a half hour game of catan explorers and pirates where 3 out of the 5 players were neck and neck at the very end and it all came down to one lucky development card. It was super late and everyone was going crazy

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[–] FreshestofDougs [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

The Bene Gesserit winning in Dune will always be completely unexpected due to how many possible combinations exist.

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[–] bjholmes3 [score hidden] 2 minutes ago (0 children)

Yugioh. Last match of weekly, undefeated up to that point. Match was 1-1 and my opening hand was a complete brick. Opponent was on the play and they took way too long on their turn setting up their opening board. Time was called as I entered my main phase.

At the time, the rule was if time was called and the players had an equal amount of wins, you would finish the phase you were in and then whoever had the most life points wins the match. I had an otherwise useless card that incidentally gained a few life points, so I just played it and passed and clutched victory from the hands of defeat.

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[–] SoochSooch Mage Knight [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Aeon's End. Was absolutely going to lose on the enemy's next turn, but the turn order deck pulled all 4 of the player cards before either of the two enemy turn cards allowing us to just barely win on the last turn.

Actually I'm pretty sure that's happened more than once.

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[–] skerton17s [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

I had a buddy go for zero bids on the last round of Skull King. He hit it and made up a gazillion points to win by 20! Absolutely wild.

Thanks for the great opportunity; congrats on the campaign!

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[–] brzrkr76 [score hidden] 10 hours ago (0 children)

It was clank catacombs with me scouring for a relic. 3 players out and I was deep. Pulled a tile with a portal and a relic. Got the relic and then to the portal. Grabbed a monkey idol and came out in second place as the other survivor was taken out by the dragon.

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[–] Comfortable_While112 [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Playing as the Free People in War of the Ring, the ring bearers were found just too many times and corruption was just too high arriving at Mordor. Destroying the ring was now not going to work and so an elf army marched on Moria and a rallied Rohan marched on Orthanc. Both strongholds were taken and the celebrations continued into the night.

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[–] lllRedEyelll [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Last card winner for the Fellowship in LotR: Duels in a otherwise completely dominated game by Sauron.

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[–] thisshitsstupid [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Always gotta be mtg stories for me. Crazy top decks. Being dead next turn and having 1 out. Calling it out loud and flipping the top card and it actually being the hit is always fun!

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[–] jeikiru [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

I was on the losing end. The first time I played Dune Imperium Uprising. I hit 10 points and was knocked down. Then I hit 10 points again the next turn to have someone get to 13 and take the win.

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[–] Visible-Check5924 [score hidden] 1 hour ago (0 children)

Playing Inis, 5 players. I start 4th round with only 1 unit in 2 territories that have no sanctuaries. All other players were very close to having winning conditions. A player put Fili token in a territory that had quite a few units and sanctuaries. I managed to recruit 2 units and near the end of the round I moved my 4 units to the territory with Fili token, which thanks to Fili token did not trigger a clash, and used Lost Vale advantage card to move 1 unit a the player with also 4 units there, out of that area, making me chieftain over 6 units. Somehow everybody else was 1 away from having a victory condition and so I clinched that game having the least clans and being only in 1 territory.

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[–] Essen_star [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

My city. Friend was last in almost every round, but he invested in his mines and other meta objs that he ended up first with most points

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[–] Wowzapanzer Spirit Island [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Spirit island getting the right fear card to secure a win is one that stands out for me

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[–] Neymarvin [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Probably the fellowship game with last dice roll on a mission we were stuck on!

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[–] Substantial-Fox-833 [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Playing Eve: war for new eden.

I'd won the early game going for early pressure and exploration with small ships and some cruisers. However it started to swing

Opponent opposite had just got large ships, wiped out my main fleet, everything else of mine was scattered. He was controlling the centre of the board and I was generally unable to contest it. He'd destroyed my ships and if you know that game, the comeback mechanics aren't the best. He'd started getting the extra VP for conquest reasons. Taking 2 every turn to my 0.

I'd managed to research utility systems and built 5 interceptors at my forward engineering complex. Following turn moved these through the blockade of battleships and cruisers into his home systems. Starting the raids and stealing his VP. He couldn't build there any longer and the way the minerals had gone he couldn't get much Trit to replenish any smalls.

The cruisers were too slow to get back to his home system before the raids started. Completing my mission and forcing a 3VP swing in the final turn. Upkeep started and he wasn't able to catch up despite having a huge advantage in the centre of the board.

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[–] GleeFrog [score hidden] 6 hours ago (0 children)

First game of a Invincible the Card Game playing against the Flaxans. We were so focused on getting rid of the spawns every turn that the main boss was getting no damage and leveling up and just putting out stronger spawns. We thought we realized our mistake too late but a couple lucky card draws later we focus fired the boss down and won.

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[–] lemueldave [score hidden] 7 hours ago (0 children)

Darwin's Journey with Fireland expansion. I thought I lost but we missed scoring the land and sea journey tokens, I won by a hair.

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[–] mjolnir76 [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Playing Salem with my 80-year old mother. She and I were both witches. She killed me in the first turn. Turns out we won because my brother and sister were both convinced that one of them had to be a witch because “a witch would never kill another witch!”

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[–] Fairywinkle Archipelago [score hidden] 9 hours ago (0 children)

Needed to roll a single hit in Arcs to win. Rolled 5 dice. All blanks. Cussed fates!

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[–] dummyTukTuk [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

When playing Fate of the Fellowship in solo mode, I used the eagles to fly Frodo into Mordor and destroy the Ring.

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[–] ImitateReality [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

The classic Bene Gesserit surprise win in Dune has happened exactly once in my group and that was about the saltiest I've ever seen people get lol

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[–] Fuzzwakka [score hidden] 6 hours ago (0 children)

Playing Magical Athlete as Sisyphus, rolled 6 so many times. Had no chance of winning, and then I rolled a 5 six times in a row and came in first by a single space. Had already lost all the points he started with but hey, the win was amazing.

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[–] AdventurousYoung1737 [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Down to the last roll of the dice in fief

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[–] Anomuumi [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Played GoT with the Ironborn, and backstabbed Lannister at exactly the right moment, and then steamrolled most of the north because everyone else was tied squabbling in the South. It went exactly to plan.

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[–] albynomonk Heat: Pedal To The Metal [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

I was in last place on the final lap in the final race of a Heat: Pedal To The Metal championship. I managed to come all the way back to take 1st place in the race and won the championship!

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[–] AtronadorSol [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Arcadia Quest: Inferno! We were at the end of the campaign, both down to one hero, and just threw the competition out the window in favor of dumping the rest of our dice into the final boss. My SO dealt the final blow with the starter sword+shield weapon and it just felt so darn poetic.

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[–] Socrates_Soui [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Double reversal. I was playing Nemesis and we were all about to successfully hibernate. I guarded the last person as they went into hibernation ... only to then walk away from the hibernatorium on route to set the self-destruct. They couldn't believe what was happening. I had betrayed everyone! But then on the way to the self-destruct I started a fire which spread uncontrollably and burnt up the ship, so we all lost. Sad times haha!

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[–] olikahn [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

I have seen someone winning a game of dune imperium who had only 6 points in the last round. Was pretty crazy

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[–] Mateui [score hidden] 11 hours ago (0 children)

First game of BSG - just myself and my 8 year old niece, Julia. We played using the official 2 players rules and mainly wanted to learn the rules of the game so that when we play with more players we'll have a better understanding of the game.

Myself - William Adama Julia - Starbuck

- Cylons started invading us right from the start so Starbuck was out in space fighting them off while I was giving her executive orders most of the time.
- It took some time to get to a distance of 4, and by that time our fuel was already in the red. An extra "You are not a Cylon" card was added to the deck of loyalty cards and we each took one.
- I was still a human.
- We continued on playing and I didn't suspect Julia of being a Cylon at all. The chance of her being a Cylon was very low in the first place and she did not try to sabotage anything.
- We even failed one skill check that ended up with myself being thrown into the brig. It took two turns to get myself out - Julia was able to help despite the destiny deck being against us.
- We soldiered on and eventually made it to 8 distance, however, our fuel went down to zero. We both lost. I revealed my human card, and Julia revealed herself. She started to laugh menacingly. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I'm a CYLON!!!" she was able to mutter during her laughter. I WAS FLOORED. Here was this little girl leading me on the entire game.. there were so many times when she could have revealed and just crushed me. Instead she let the game take me out because she knew it would and she wanted to shock me. Well, mission accomplished... Cylons 1.. Humans 0.

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[–] Hubris_23 [score hidden] 9 hours ago (0 children)

The craziest reversal of fortunes for me is when I finally read the rule book for Darwin's Journey half way through a blind play bga game and somehow won afterwards.

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[–] Hastur_Fthagn [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

We (my wife Gabbie, & I)had a fantastic game of Star Wars Risk: Clone Wars edition.

Gabbie (republic) had 4 planets left, I (separatists) had the other 38.

Gabbie gains her reinforcements, places them all on one planet, makes a mad gamble at attacking planet to planet taking out 3 of my planets, then attacking and defeating the Emperor! Man it was epic!

I know that makes very little sense if you haven't played the game, but essentially she had like a 5% chance IF THAT to win, I had a "guaranteed win by that point". Yet she managed to pull through with a move worthy of the Star Wars Saga.

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[–] J00ls [score hidden] 9 hours ago (0 children)

Came back to win Struggle of Empires from last place the other day. Hope that’s a good enough comeback for ya!

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[–] Littleblaze1 Gloomhaven [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Good luck!

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[–] Small_Ad_3630 [score hidden] 11 hours ago (0 children)

Gotta be Cosmic Encounter. The game lives and dies on the dramatic moments and desperate pleading for someone to play a cosmic/card/hand zap.

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[–] The_Nim [score hidden] 11 hours ago (0 children)

For me it was in catan when some excellent rolls let me get the longest road and eek out a win when other players were dominating otherwise

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[–] eev200 Reiner Knizia [score hidden] 4 hours ago (0 children)

Forbidden Desert. Running out of water and discovering water tile, or getting overwhelmed with sand and getting the dune blaster card.

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[–] MJSmitty02 [score hidden] 10 hours ago (0 children)

TI4 and the King actually losing after 12 hours!

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[–] modain [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Dropping a surprise eagle in Ark Nova and then supporting a project from your hand, neither cards which your opponent knew you had.

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[–] PinkCupcakePie [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Game of thrones thr board game, where as the grey joys, I made a last ditch effort no one saw coming, placing ships to sail almost all the way to the east coast for some surprise attacks.

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[–] xyqtt1 [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Innovation. Basically getting hammered all game. Opponent was guaranteed to win next round. Hitting a lucky blind card with draw and meld which havee an instant win condition which I met.

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[–] promek [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Not so much trailing behind but a miraculous escape. We were playing OG Clank! and on paper I was winning, but I was right down at the bottom of the depths with only 2 health remaining and the first player had just escaped with the other two close behind. Miraculously, in two turns I drew just enough movement to charge all the way out to the exit to escape with just 1 health remaining, somehow dodging every dragon attack layed on me, which was many as the other players made sure to buy out the market before leaving themselves.

And yes we checked the bag after and I had more than enough cubes in the bag to meet my grisly end, I was just amazingly lucky. Nobody thought I would make it, least of all me. Was an all timer.

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[–] 0bZen [score hidden] 7 hours ago (0 children)

Most recent thing that comes to mind was an 8 player game of Skull. 5 people had 1 victory already and all of them just kept upping the bid. A player with only 1 coaster left bid 9 (out of 12 coasters out). After they won, the rest of the group revealed the last 3 coasters, all were skulls.

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[–] avhan [score hidden] 5 hours ago (0 children)

Playing TEG. Only had Italy and Germany left. Was kind of left alone by other players one turn too many. Got all of Europe in s blitz and proceeded to conquer all instead of objective.

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[–] the_cat_did_it_twice [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

3rd to 1st in a tight game of Dune Imperium with some Bene Gesserit card draw, mentat and a stockpile of spice allowed me to get two points on the faction track and scoop a 2 point battle win from a friend who thought they had the win clinched.

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[–] edsjfhek [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Pandemic. We have 3/4 cures researched, and the final epidemic card is drawn, the deck is shuffled and the cards that are drawn to spread diseases leads to a chain of 6 outbreaks killing us all immediately. Really showed us how brutal pandemic can be on occasion haha

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[–] JimmyTurx [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

A particularly memorable game of War of the Ring; Sam & Frodo nearly maxed on Corruption, Sauron's forces one stronghold away from a military victory.

An enormous army of orcs lead by the Witch King bares down on the Woodland Realms, as the Hobbit's thread their way into Mordor, and it becomes a race against time. Could the remnants of the Fellowship make it up Mount Doom before the last Elves fell in the Mirkwood?

They ultimately did; a single elf troop remained defiantly facing down the Orcish horde, whilst a string of well-timed draws of the special tiles from the bag got the heroes to the top of Mount Doom with a single point of corruption to spare. From the brink of defeat to victory, as all great stories are.

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[–] jorbgamer [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

I had someone in Aces with only a few points in the first 2 rounds. In the last round, everyone was fighting for the same objective, and they forced it so it didn’t score, and then cashed out to win big with everything else.

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[–] Hoitoru [score hidden] 9 hours ago (0 children)

Shadows over Camelot. Went the whole game as traitor right until we were about to end and one bad curse would kill multiple of us and all it would take is the three Merlin cards to save us all and win the game. I held one of the only three and right at the cusp of victory just said “nah I’m good” and held the card. Comeback in the opposite sense but about as satisfying a traitor reveal as I’ve ever had

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[–] DeDuc [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

I was playing a game of eclipse second Dawn and was pretty far behind as far as combat was concerned but had placed most of my cubes so my income was amazing, and over the course of a round I managed to build up a ship that had a blue dice and multiple orange missiles and a buff to my rolls and that one round let me do a 180 and just start slaughtering. I didn't take a single point of damage when I went to attack the big bad in the center of the board and it was glorious

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[–] Daxas42 [score hidden] 11 hours ago (0 children)

I play mostly solo, so marvel champions I am playing 2 handed spiderman and black widow vs venom goblin. Felt really good going getting set up and was about to really lay the hurt. Can't remember the entire order of events, but we are one and glider came out back to back. Was immediately on the back foot and lost only a few turns after...

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[–] nwbryant [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Most recent one for me was in flip 7. Was I. Last place with a mere 20 something points, person in first had 130+. They proceeded to bust very quickly for several rounds while I had a couple very high point rounds to win the whole thing.

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[–] KalleElle [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Stole a Spirit Island win on a board spiraling out of control when 3 of us combo'd to generate 7 fear cards in a turn for a terror victory, so satisfying

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[–] Tonkers303 [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Playing Codenames, it's the other team's turn and they only have one card left. The clue giver accidentally said the actual word instead of a clue. It was pretty funny at the time and we still bring it up.

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[–] Tanathonos [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

In la famiglia we were desperately out and we turned around on every front by playing a game of subterfuge and winning a crazy amount of fights.

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[–] Individual_Plastic41 [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Arcs, last turn used a card to steal all fuel from one of the players to clutch the game win

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[–] Gugu0220 [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

In a Yu-Gi-Oh! match, I was losing badly, with very little life left and the other guy still had 8000, but I managed to destroy his field and finally win. It was very difficult.

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[–] DarkeKnight [score hidden] 6 hours ago (0 children)

Dune Imperium: Uprising. Playing Staban. Early faction access in the Imperium row was blocked by the other players. Muad'dib was 1st seat and somehow got Fremen 2 in round 1 (and also bought Leadership from the card row??). End of round 2 the imperium row turns up both Steersman and Overthrow. I still had basically no faction access. Everyone's committing to try and get the OP cards in round 3. I lose out on both cards due to two early reveals ;-;. Me and the other dude play out our turns trying to salvage an advantage. I luck into Guild Spy + 2 other faction influence cards. I start cooking. Muad'dib is still handily winning but I'm turning it around. We're one combat away from Tier 3. Everyone assumes we'll go to the next combat at least. But I've got the faction track exactly where I need it - one below emperor alliance, one below shipping alliance and one below fremen 2. BAM, 3 VP from revealing guild spy + 1 VP from buying a Spice Must Flow. I hit 10 VP (thanks to a combat match, VP from faction tracks and a previous spice must flow). We're all shocked. And then we start another one lmao

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[–] Dry-Device6151 [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

When playing the Plague inc board game with my buddies, I always play fungus and I’ve wanted so bad to make my strategy of just being everywhere to work. Well one day it finally worked. It was a long multi game comeback where my strategy finally worked and it reached a point that I was taking countries from every player in the game by getting as many event cards as possible. A great experience

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[–] DarrenTerp [score hidden] 9 hours ago (0 children)

The biggest reversal was risk, though I've probably not played it since ;) I had control of all Asia with extra nations buffering most inroads. I probably had 20 or 30 armies camped on the entry point from North America. My best friends fiance decides to attack with an inferior force. We both advised her that defensive advantage was real and she was probably destroying herself. She didn't care. Chaos was her middle name. ... ... ... I didn't kill 1 of her troops. In a bloodbath that would astound statisticians the world over, my troops rolled over like a gas station hotdog. My flank was undefended outside of this army. (I must've also had australia... Not sure) She swept through and I was left just staring at the board in disbelief. Yes this is a true story. No I am not exaggerating. I roll so bad that in BSG my friends consistently make me roll for the cycllon ships... and it works!

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[–] mailmi [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

My family has a tradition of playing hearts almost every week, and we've had some crazy comebacks. One time, my wife was all the way down at 1 point, and she ended up shooting the moon once and then somehow getting us all down below zero for the victory. It was insane.

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[–] beege_man [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

I've had a few good reversals in Dominion. In one my friend was constantly chipping away towards a win while I struggled to get my deck to do anything useful. I had a plan, but turns were running out as he was rushing to trigger the end. I hadn't taken a single victory card yet and he had several Estates and Duchies. Then on the last turn before he could trigger game end, my deck finally hit properly and I essentially played my entire deck out in one hand. I was able to buy THREE Provinces and steal the game from him in that one epic turn. It was great watching his face change to pure dread as my turn just kept drawing more and more cards from my deck and chaining on itself.

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[–] mo342hd [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

It was 4th chapter in a tight 3-player game of Arcs, warlord ambition was declared twice and the other 2 players were fighting over a strong guild card and had been betting a lot of their agents on it. I managed to destroy a city, ransack the court and kill all of those agents to show everyone who the true warlord is! Got a lot of points from winning that ambition and was able to come out on top!

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[–] kyle8998 [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

In a concordia game when I was two turns away from a major action to make a comeback, I thought I had plenty of time until the last 6 remaining cards were bought triggering the end game before my turn…

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[–] BKulzick [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

I won a game Tiny Epic Game of Thrones on one turn. I took control of two allies and flipped almost the entire board to my favor. We still had one more round left, but everyone quit.

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[–] theyyonk [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Gloomhaven - our group had to burn 8 (!) cards over the first 2 turns. We knew it would be impossible to win with normal methods, so we threw a Hail Mary. Our mind thief used invisibility to distract the room while the rest of us bolted through the dungeon, ignoring all monsters and rushing the boss. We then burned every card for the final 3 turns, killing the boss on our very last turn, with 3 of us knocked out.

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[–] Variak21 [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

I lost to myself more times than I would like to admit. lol.

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[–] tehmanimal [score hidden] 9 hours ago (0 children)

Let me tell you about the time I nearly flipped the table.

Playing Betrayal at the House on the Hill and I ended up being this invisible predator/ghost thing. I had things pretty well locked up and one guy was loudly complaining about how it was unfair. Well I made a mistake and they were able to spot me, and then 5 terrible rolls in a row lead to me losing. I've never been more salty.

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[–] 11075 Paleo 🦣 [score hidden] 6 hours ago (0 children)

In Dune: Imperium – Uprising, I had 9 points, but the winner jumped from 3 to 10 in the last round.

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[–] ImmediateNews5945 [score hidden] 5 hours ago (0 children)

Ankh Gods of Egypt. I was comfortably in 2nd place out of 5 players when we reached the Merging of Gods event. My 2 nephews Gods merged, they were in last place at that point... but the game ended with them making a comeback and winning it all! very surprised and shocked. but a very cool gaming moment. Enough so for them that they clamored to schedule another gaming night.

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[–] ricktencity [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Winning a game of spirit island after flipping the blight card in the first couple turns and having only 1 blight left over for the entire rest of the game. Still managed to squeak it out somehow.

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[–] Freddy_Lopez [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Playing Risk. First few rounds and a guy only had Australia left. We decided to let him live and had a laugh until he conquered the world..

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[–] HuskyDMO [score hidden] 8 hours ago (0 children)

My biggest comeback was in the Game of Thrones board game. As House Tyrell, I made a hasty alliance with Pike and used my armies to spread out into the areas around High Garden. Pike betrayed me and took High Garden on the second turn of the game. Effectively out of the running I consolidated power defended, and marched turn after turn after turn until I could retake High Garden. I thought that was the one thing I could accomplish in the game, and I felt pretty good about it. Then my House Cards lined up for one final strike. I sneakily moved my way across the board for a couple turns and got in range to make a double move to take King’s Landing the last turn of the game and win.

I might not have been a gracious winner that day. Haha.

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[–] Shadowert [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

A final battle in TI4 taking someones home system andere scoring a secret objective. Hard tot explain all the details, but that game has many memorable reversals

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[–] Solendor [score hidden] 10 hours ago (0 children)

Playing Arcs, another player was sitting on 6 points going into chapter 3, with the others around 12-15. Said player managed to score 1st in every ambition declared and swept the table. It was such an unexpected comeback that I've only seen once so far.

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[–] CommonSkys [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

I was absolutely crushing my wife in Twilight Struggle. I was the USSR, sitting just two points away from an auto-win with the board nearly covered in red. DEFCON was hovering at 2. I played CIA Created for its operations points to lock down one last region. BUT I made a mistake after nearly 4 hours into the game, because it's a US-associated card, the event triggered for her first. My wife didn't hesitate. She used her free action to immediately launch a coup, moving DEFCON to 1 and triggering global thermonuclear war. Since it was my action phase, the rules state that I was responsible for the apocalypse and instantly lost via DEFCON suicide. She went from facing absolute defeat to pulling off the ultimate, literal nuclear option, and I gladly accepted the defeat.

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[–] Narrowedice [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

You know, I can't even remember what game it was, but I was at a friend's house, and we were playing some dice chucker. I had seven dice available, and just had to roll higher than twelve to pull off the win.

I rolled eleven.

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[–] Zenatsuken [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Horizons of Spirit Island, we were entirely sure we were headed for defeat as it felt like we just could not keep up with the invaders. With only 2-3 turns left, one of our teammates generated an insane amount of fear, getting us down to just needing to take out the cities, and then our offensive spirit let loose on the final two cities. I've been chasing that high ever since..

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[–] VR_Troopers_WikiMod [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

My biggest loss came in Heat, where the final chicane had a -1. I was well ahead of the pack, every other car was still in the top long straight when I had reached the chicane, but I could not draw a 1 for a very long time - so I kept spinning out and adding more stress to my hand, leaving less and less of a chance for a 1 to cycle through, and eventually not only did every other car catch up to me, they passed me and I was still trying to get through the chicane.

I finished last (out of 8)

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[–] Zeroinvictus [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Just recently played eclipse with my friends saw my buddy playing the plants with like a planets went all out spread my forces thin giving up the middle but making him lose 5 planets just losing by 3 points

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[–] Tall-Character-3491 [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Gloomhaven game at 1 in the morning where a 3 hour - 4 player game came down to flipping over the final attack modifier card and needing a +2 or we lose. We get the plus two and we all freak out dancing around and silently mouthing shouts as we having sleeping kids in rooms all around us. Once we settle down we all give each high fives. The most excited and quietest board game celebration I've had so far.

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[–] claytonjaym Ra [score hidden] 7 hours ago (0 children)

I was playing Zoo Vadis with my family over the holidays and I I was last to get to the podium and poised to take the last slot, but my cousin's partner extorted the SHIT out of me for her vote, knowing that I would be ineligible to win if I didn't pay her for the privilege of moving that last space. She convinced me to give her 10 laurels for the last move of the game whick rocketed her to first place.

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[–] PHX_Flame [score hidden] 13 hours ago (1 child)

Nemesis from almost dying to running away in an escape pod while the ship exploded

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[–] mjolnir76 [score hidden] 12 hours ago (0 children)

Did something similar. Ran away, rolled for noise, left the queen for my friend to deal with.

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[–] Hybeltiger The Ledgerman [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

I was in such a bad position that extended to my mood while playing Eclipse 2nd Dawn, I literally said you my fellow players that I wanted to quit the game. It was a really bad first half of that game. They talked me out of it, and I just kept my head down and focused on getting my game going better.

I managed to pull ahead and secured the top spot in the game with six points more than the penultimate player.

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[–] MooseTheGrand [score hidden] 9 hours ago (0 children)

I once had an incredible run in Skipbo and I have been chasing that high ever sense.

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[–] poshferatu [score hidden] 10 hours ago (0 children)

I thought I was a goner in a 6 player For Sale after basically losing every house auction. Then on the second round I managed to play my mediocre cards in a way where I ended up winning or coming second with relatively high-value checks when other people were saving their expensive houses for the last few turns of bloodbaths with the super high checks. Ended up with a clean victory with very mediocre cards!

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[–] MLadys-Malady [score hidden] 12 hours ago* (0 children)

We were playing a 6 player game of Twilight Imperium Prophecy of Kings and I was the Mahact Gene-Sorceres, a somewhat violent faction that bases most of their strategy on battle.

From the start of the game, people were weary of me. They made it their goal to see me fail wherever possible. They purposely voted against policies in their interest just so I wouldn't get what I wanted. I knew that it would be an uphill battle.

Towards the middle of the game, I was lagging behind pretty severely. But as someone who isn't aggressive and a more political player, I couldn't just attack anyone I wanted. I had to use other means to qchieve my goals. Using my savvy puppydog eyes and convincing everyone that I was behind enough to not pose any threat to anyone, I convinced other players to let me team up with them to defeat the leading players, since they were at 10-11 points (out of 14) and I was at a measly 6.

The great part about being an underdog for most of the game is that people still remember you as a weakling, even as you progress towards their level. I was able to achieve several public and secret objectives in the final hours of the game to bring myself up on par with everyone else.

Even better, the leading player (playing the Ghosts of Creuss and now at 13 points) had Mecatol Rex, the most powerful system in the galaxy and held the Imperial card, meaning they could win the game on their turn. Unless anyone stopped them.

The game board transformed to an all out war. People sent as many Dreadnaughts, War Suns, Destroyers, and Mechs as they could to the system. It seemed like each player's turn could turn the tide. But the Ghosts held strong. They had an endless stream of backup pieces from their home planet and were able to fend off all other players.

On my turn, however, I used my Hero ability: choosing 2 adjacent factions and making them fight to the death. I used it on the Ghosts on Mecatol and the Sardakk N'orr, another powerful militant faction. The battle was close, but the Ghosts held them off, though severely weakened.

Throughout that phase, Mecatol changed hands about 3 times. The weakened Ghosts were taken over by the L1Z1X Mindnet, who in turn lost it to the Embers of Muaat. I was able to snag it myself and hold it until the end of the round. I was ecstatic! I might just come out on top.

It was just my luck, too, that I was the Speaker that round and was able to select the Imperial card, meaning if I could only hold on to Mecatol Rex until my turn, the game would be mine!

War broke out again. People were making alliances with each other in order to try to take me out! The Ghosts of Creuss ended up attacking me and they were supported by the other players. Last round they were the villains, but now they were the only hope of letting the game continue. Bringing extra ships from their wormhole onto the battlefield,I felt nervouse. I was outnumbered. It all came down to the tosses of dice and the odds weren't in my favor.

I started off by getting the upper hand, assigning more hits than the Ghosts. Unfortunately, my luck didn't hold and I quickly fell back behind. I destroyed the Ghosts' War Suns and Dreadnaughts, but the cost was too high and I ended up losing the battle and in turn, Mecatol Rex, my only chance at victory.

But then I saw it! I had an Action Phase Secret Objective: destroy another player's War Sun or Flagship. Though I lost the battle and it seemed like my enemies had a chance, I played my final card and gained that last victory point, winning the game and returning the Mahact Gene-Sorceres to their rightful place on the throne at the center of the galaxy.

The game took 15 hours and we finished at 2 am, but it was the greatest board game experience of my life!

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[–] Squabbl-24 [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

I've only played dune 2019 one time at a con because we were able to get 6 players together but it was the greatest board game experience EVER! for the majority of the game I was losing and the fremen and atreides were battling back and forth for the win. To make a long story short, I made a small comeback and at the end of the game I fought the fremen for the win and what he didn't know was I had Stilgar as my traitor which barely gave me the edge and I won the game! Everyone screamed when I revealed Stilgar and it is my favorite board game experience, as well as my favorite comeback ever.

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[–] willozsy [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

Just 2 days ago, I was trailing behind in Tokaido basically the whole game until the final count because I got the most almost everything except the shop items and shrine contributions.

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[–] TylerFerm [score hidden] 4 hours ago (0 children)

I think it was actually Clank! Catacombs. I didn’t have the best artifacts and cards and all that but in the final moments we were all in the rooms right before the exit and the dragon knocked out everyone except for me and I was able to escape. It was a really exciting moment. The 20 point bonus made me win the game.

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[–] SenHeffy [score hidden] 13 hours ago (0 children)

A Dune game where a near eliminated player won 2 battles with 1 troop including a treachery card.

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[–] mushypizza [score hidden] 10 hours ago (0 children)

The market crashed in Magnate

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[–] mikemar05 [score hidden] 11 hours ago (0 children)

Every TI4 game it happens. Been on both sides

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[–] MJay1010 [score hidden] 14 hours ago (0 children)

Playing war of the ring as the side of the light.

I was getting truly beat down, losing minas tirith and the shore early.

I focused on moving the ring as quick as possible and it came down to a last round, where a single hold out stood in siege at helms deep as frodo entered the crack at mount doom destroying the one ring at the last.

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