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Lorini posted:I know nothing about X Wings though. Armada is a wargame where you build a fleet of ships and throw dice to destroy the other guy's fleet of ships. There's objectives that kind of mix up how you go about destroying the other guy's ships. Imperial Assault is an adversarial adventure game where a team of rebel soldiers throw dice to complete objectives and the Imperial player throws wave after wave of stormtroopers at them to stop them. You can string multiple adventures together into a campaign. X-Wing is a wargame where you build a squadron of starfighters and throw dice to blow up the other guy's starfighters. It's the best of the 3 games (objective fact).
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Armada is much more similar to tactical/small-scale strategic minis games like Malifaux/Warmachine than it is to X-Wing, to be honest. X-Wing is very much a dogfighting game where ships fly around other and maneuver for volleys, whereas Armada is a slower, more objective-based game where you try to out-maneuver and concentrate firepower. The main twist in Armada -- the secret commands -- is definitely inspired by X-Wing, but the commands themselves are strategic choices rather than X-Wing's precise moves.
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Chomp8645 posted:I agree that trying hard to win is pointless and dumb, but this jagoff was complaining about people trying to use cards that make sense. What the gently caress is that poo poo? Black Card: Stuff Goons do. White Card: Put words in people's mouths. White Card: Look down on people for enjoying a very popular game. White Card: Assume that everyone is as uncreative and unfunny as they are. White Card: Pooping back and forth. Forever. Pick one!
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Thanks guys, sounds like Armada is the one I'm looking for when I get some bucks to spend.
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Jimbozig posted:Black Card: Stuff Goons do. evidence: swap.avi
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Jimbozig posted:Black Card: Stuff Goons do. Also, this.
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Hahahaha "Pooping back and forth forever" That's so fuckin zany!
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Magnetic North posted:Also, this. Same, but the opposite.
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The point is that CAH is so bad at being a game that legitimately attempting to win can create a lovely, un-fun situation.
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hey hey you you I don't like your boardgames no way no way think you need some new ones
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How can you even play relevant cards in CAH anyhow? If the prompt is "poo poo white people say", it doesn't really matter whether you play "Pooping back and forth forever", "Hunting accidents", "Abortions", or "making GBS threads dick nipples", it will be just as much of an unfunny lolrandom non-sequitur.
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I really just like drafting mechanics, hence why I love deck builder games. Dominion doesn't really do it for me though, the lack of flavor feels like I'm playing a spreadsheet. Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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Bottom Liner posted:So what are the best deck builder games if I have terrible taste in games and really like Ascension and Star Realms? Eminent Domain + Escalation is one heck of a deck builder.
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Memnaelar posted:Eminent Domain + Escalation is one heck of a deck builder. This is not a good game if you have bad taste. I think he wants bad games.
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EvilChameleon posted:This is not a good game if you have bad taste. I think he wants bad games. In that case, Thunderstone
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EvilChameleon posted:This is not a good game if you have bad taste. I think he wants bad games. It's good, but it also somehow looks like a really bad one. Like, I can't really vocalize it, but when I looked up the game i thought it looked like hot garbage. But it isn't! Maybe that'll be enough to fool his group.
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Durendal posted:In that case, Thunderstone Naw. Get Marvel Legendary or one of it's variations. Not even kidding that I think it's the best of the "bad deckbuilders".
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Bottom Liner posted:So what are the best deck builder games if I have terrible taste in games and really like Ascension and Star Realms? You are in luck there is a deck builder out there that both has excellent mechanics (because it's just Dominion) and is terrible. Is pedophilia a flavor? https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65282/tanto-cuore 
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Bottom Liner posted:So what are the best deck builder games if I have terrible taste in games and really like Ascension and Star Realms? Play Seasons if you like drafting. There's almost no game once the drafting is done. If you want lovely deckbuilders, go hog wild on anything by Cryptozooic. The Street Fighter Deckbuilder is particularly rubbish.
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Bubble-T posted:hey hey you you
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Re: CAH: Is a game where no one cares who wins still a game????!? Sure, I like Wikipedias first sentence definition of "game" the best: "A game is structured playing".
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Durendal posted:In that case, Thunderstone I deeply regret purchasing Thunderstone.
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Mods please change the thread title to "recreational contests typically featuring a board and/or cards as components", thanks!
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drat Dirty Ape posted:I deeply regret purchasing Thunderstone. Good. 
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Bottom Liner posted:So what are the best deck builder games if I have terrible taste in games and really like Ascension and Star Realms?  Anything from these shelves
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Aww, you don't like Coup? come on, coup is fun.
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Bottom Liner posted:So what are the best deck builder games if I have terrible taste in games and really like Ascension and Star Realms? Sounds like you're a good candidate for Legendary.
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Bubble-T posted:
DC Deckbuilder is on those shelves. Why is DC Deckbuilder on those shelves?
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Bubble-T posted:
I've played a lot of the Penny Arcade game on iOS. Great fun for a buck. I'll try to snag Legendary cheap.
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Sometimes you just want to be Batman. Unfortunately, that game doesn't let you be Batman. It's actually kind of strange how there hasn't really been a game that conveys super hero themes through mechanisms very well. It seems like it would be pretty easy. A super hero themed Arcadia Quest type of game should exist. Maybe that X-Men Spartacus re-theme will be decent.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Unfortunately, that game doesn't let you be Batman. It's actually kind of strange how there hasn't really been a game that conveys super hero themes through mechanisms very well. It seems like it would be pretty easy. A super hero themed Arcadia Quest type of game should exist. What about Heroes Wanted? I guess that's more like Mystery Men than real superheroes, though.
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Dirk the Average posted:DC Deckbuilder is on those shelves. Why is DC Deckbuilder on those shelves? that guy posted:Who wants to play a game that takes 5-10 plays just to understand it in its entirety? Ridiculous. Bubble-T fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Sometimes you just want to be Batman. While the jury is still out on it, Spector Ops is like this in theory. Replace 'completing objectives' with 'finding clues' and you are are a ninja detective with gadgets on your utility belt sneaking around the docks. A henchman sees you? Throw the smoke bomb on the ground and sneak back into the shadows. Plus the henchman don't die, but only get stunned. So you are following Batman's 'No killing' rule.
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Bottom Liner posted:So what are the best deck builder games if I have terrible taste in games and really like Ascension and Star Realms? Just play 7 Wonders which is actually about drafting. Dominion gets more flavor in the expansions but you have to earn the privilege to get there. There's more to flavor than text. Re: Marvel Dice Masters, Coolstuff used to have players of this on the regular every Wednesday but it's died down over the last year or 2.
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Yeah I just saw they're having a tourney this month at the Maitland store, I might go check it out.
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I agree with the second half of his statement. If a game has failed to convey upon you a sense of its identity after 3 hours, it's doing something terribly wrong. I'll also stand by the statement that Legendary isn't a bad game. If you're going to use orthogonal currencies and a market row, it probably has the best system for it.
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Shadow225 posted:I agree with the second half of his statement. If a game has failed to convey upon you a sense of its identity after 3 hours, it's doing something terribly wrong. I'll also stand by the statement that Legendary isn't a bad game. If you're going to use orthogonal currencies and a market row, it probably has the best system for it. That was just him shifting the goalposts from "understand in its entirety" to "begin to grasp", we were discussing Race for the Galaxy so the two metrics are pretty much equivalent. 2 games of Agricola or Caverna were ok in his book though, somehow. Basically he's a dummy who wants to feel like a master of a game after the first play and that's why he owns 8 variants of the same shallow deckbuilding system.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Anyone here ever play Republic of Rome? I've owned it twice but have never actually played it and was thinking of giving it a try next weekend. The politics and such always seemed potentially fun and interesting to me (my group likes that kind of thing), but it also seems bloated and way overcomplicated. It.......takes a while to get the hang of it. Watch alot of tutorials/vids of people explaining it, and check out the Living Rulebook cause it's laid out much better. I really enjoy it, but it is a bit bloated and overcomplicated for what it is. It made more sense to me thinking of it as a cardgame with a bigass board of references, cause that's all it is.
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