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Has anyone played Imperial Assault who could compare it to both versions of Descent? How similar is it, and is the Star Wars theme added in nicely or just tacked on? The only thing I've really heard about it is that Stormtroopers aren't anywhere near as inaccurate as they're supposed to be so that got me fearing they're just like Descent's archers.
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The Shortest Path posted:Has anyone played Imperial Assault who could compare it to both versions of Descent? How similar is it, and is the Star Wars theme added in nicely or just tacked on? Stormtroopers weren't actually inaccurate in Star Wars 
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The Shortest Path posted:Has anyone played Imperial Assault who could compare it to both versions of Descent? How similar is it, and is the Star Wars theme added in nicely or just tacked on? From my understanding it's a nice streamlining of 2.0. Skirmishes are awesome too, and the spawning system is much better. So basically it's 3.0 with Star Wars theming. It's going to be on sale for $57 soon, but you didn't hear that from me.
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Played a couple rounds of Argent today. It's pretty fun! The amount of variety is insane and it almost reminds me a little of a dudes on a map game like Kemet or something with all the direct attacks. The only problem is it took loving forever with this group, who are kind of middle of the road in terms of playing gamers games. Each game was around 4 hours with 4 players. Some people just sort of melted down with that much poo poo in front of them, Arkham Horror style. Also, some people didn't really manage to figure out how to get voters and just aimlessly bought things and blew up people. Anyways, I liked it, but it seems like it would be a lot more fun with a group that could play it faster/better. I'll probably only try it again with the a team. Wife seems a bit cold on it Edit: this group does ok with keyflower Edit: with the expansion, this game has an absurd level of variable setup. Like, several expansions of dominion variance. It almost feels like a worker placement with powers random generator fozzy fosbourne fucked around with this message at 09:32 on May 3, 2015 |
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Played a couple rounds of Argent today. It's pretty fun! The amount of variety is insane and it almost reminds me a little of a dudes on a map game like Kemet or something with all the direct attacks. The only problem is it took loving forever with this group, who are kind of middle of the road in terms of playing gamers games. Each game was around 4 hours with 4 players. Some people just sort of melted down with that much poo poo in front of them, Arkham Horror style. Also, some people didn't really manage to figure out how to get voters and just aimlessly bought things and blew up people. Also played a game of Argent today with 4 players using the summer break scenario, which is supposed to be a shorter game. Still took 4.5 hours as our resident AP player took minutes at a time for his turns. Still was a lot of fun though, and I have a new appreciation for the student faction. Their starting mages are awful, but the starting spells are both good and the merit badge is nice. Agreed on the variable setup. We used a bunch of mages on their B side, a bunch of new rooms, and had a blast with a board that was very mana poor, but with B side sorcery mages that generated mana. Turned out to be a very interesting game. Also, Inversion is amazing and I will get that spell every game I can.
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Argent sounds really good. Haven't had a chance to play it yet. Did anyone try it with a group who are fans of Harry Potter? Did it go down well, or miss the mark with those guys? My wife and daughter are HP nuts, but the art style seems really opposed to Harry Potter's English charm, and I am not totally sure they could get on board. Rent before you buy would be good with this one 
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Big McHuge posted:I just got back from a friend's birthday party. He has, at times, questionable taste in games, but about half of his collection is acceptable. There were about 6 of us looking to play a game, so he decided to grab a few more people from the party and bust out his personal favorite, Duel of Ages 2. Neither my GF or I had ever played or heard of this game, so we both agreed to give it a shot. It's kind of a combination of both, and I say this as someone who has played the game and found it amusing and not too bad. ...seriously, avoid unless you're really, really sure you want to play it.
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Gimnbo posted:My friends also enjoyed Troyes. It was definitely not chill, though. It was petty and vicious and I'd never seen my friends get as mad at each other as they did when they were buying each others' dice and kicking people out of buildings. Most of my Troyes experience was on BGA so I hadn't anticipated the raw emotional impact of people having they plans ruined on the regular. I played Troyes on BGA from the semi-recommendations from this thread and I had to pick it up. I've only played it a handful of times so far but I still love it. The mechanics just feel so novel to me, and it plays really tightly, even though you are playing with dice the whole time. Also the art is fantastic. I think it would help if you explain to your group beforehand that you shouldn't get too attached to your dice or your peoples' locations in buildings since it's supposed to be pretty cutthroat.
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Duel of Ages is weird as gently caress. The basic theme is a pretty easy sell, and then you look at the mechanics and wonder if this was designed by a human being.
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Anyone else love Epic Spell Wars? Easily my new favorite filler game. Total chaos.
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Bottom Liner posted:Anyone else love Epic Spell Wars? Easily my new favorite filler game. Total chaos. It's fine. The best thing about it design-wise is that unlike Munchkin or something, the game will actually spiral down to an end, so it can't overstay its welcome. It's a pretty simple game despite all the different cards (every effect is basically 'do damage' or 'heal slightly'), but the art is really nice if you're a fan of something like Superjail.
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    So what I'm trying to say is that Warhammer: Diskwars is a pretty cool game. Great mechanics, 8/10. 9/10 if players rap about each move they're making. So good in fact, I was too engrossed to make proper photos of the games themselves. In other news, I had a rather pleasant Warhammer: Diskwars meetup punctuated by a few games of Star Wars LCG and an insightful talk about Emperor Palpatine's computer problems. It's good to be a nerd. PS. Go buy Warhammer: Diskwars I need FFG to print a Skaven expansion. Lichtenstein fucked around with this message at 15:00 on May 3, 2015 |
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burger time posted:It's fine. The best thing about it design-wise is that unlike Munchkin or something, the game will actually spiral down to an end, so it can't overstay its welcome. It's a pretty simple game despite all the different cards (every effect is basically 'do damage' or 'heal slightly'), but the art is really nice if you're a fan of something like Superjail. Epic Spell Wars is cool in the same way that Munchkin used to be cool, when there was only one set and it was just a D&D joke. I love the art, and if I ever see a set for cheap I'll likely pick it up just to play once for a laugh. If they start coming out with Steampunk Adventuretime Spell Wars then I might reconsider my position.
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^ some previews of Epic Spell Wars 2 was posted somewhere in this thread a while ago.Lichtenstein posted:
This is the best post. I have Diskwars and the two expansions, I did my part!
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burger time posted:It's fine. The best thing about it design-wise is that unlike Munchkin or something, the game will actually spiral down to an end, so it can't overstay its welcome. It's a pretty simple game despite all the different cards (every effect is basically 'do damage' or 'heal slightly'), but the art is really nice if you're a fan of something like Superjail. With 4 players it absolutely overstays its welcome, because you need 2 points to win and it's not that hard to target the leader so almost every game goes to n+1 rounds where n is player count.
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Lichtenstein posted:
I own the base game and both expansions, did my part. Great game. You need a bigger play area though, I bought a green piece of felt 90x90cm and it works great.
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Speaking of play areas. I need to build a gaming table for my new house. I was considering just a standard wooden table, something like 7 x 3.5 or something like that. Also thought about using 1 inch tiles in the middle or maybe covering the whole thing in felt. Has anyone made custom gaming tables that they want to share? Right now all I have is a plastic folding table and it's too small. Mostly board gaming, guess the 1 inch tiles would be better if my D&D group met here, which they don't.
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I was just thinking about how perfect my wooden IKEA table is for gaming. Solid birch, extendable, and a good price. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40242592/
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QnoisX posted:Speaking of play areas. I need to build a gaming table for my new house. I was considering just a standard wooden table, something like 7 x 3.5 or something like that. Also thought about using 1 inch tiles in the middle or maybe covering the whole thing in felt. Has anyone made custom gaming tables that they want to share? Right now all I have is a plastic folding table and it's too small. Mostly board gaming, guess the 1 inch tiles would be better if my D&D group met here, which they don't. Make this table. Note the recessed top, so dice can't roll off, and the drink holders that keep drinks secure and away from the table, as well as the felt surface for optimum Disk Wars play. 
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May 3, 2015 16:13
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I hate deep recessed tables so much. Ugh. They should be no deeper than 1 inch.
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Bottom Liner posted:I hate deep recessed tables so much. Ugh. They should be no deeper than 1 inch. The deep recess is so you can cover a game in progress should you need the table for something else. It's pretty useful if you're having a day long session and want to take meal breaks, for example.
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May 3, 2015 16:24
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But where do you put your elbows???
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Rutibex posted:Make this table. Note the recessed top, so dice can't roll off, and the drink holders that keep drinks secure and away from the table, as well as the felt surface for optimum Disk Wars play. Ye gods I want a table like that so bad.
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 I've got this table. I bought it for like 100 bucks years ago during the poker boom. I wish it were a little bit wider for certain games but it had served me well. If you're trying to find something that can double as a normal table is not the best option, obviously.
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Bottom Liner posted:I was just thinking about how perfect my wooden IKEA table is for gaming. Solid birch, extendable, and a good price. So that's 5'x3' or extends up to 6'8"x3'? Not bad. No IKEA around here though. Way way cheaper than my D&D group's custom 8x4 table though. It's just a simple flat table too. Rutibex posted:Make this table. Note the recessed top, so dice can't roll off, and the drink holders that keep drinks secure and away from the table, as well as the felt surface for optimum Disk Wars play. That looks well beyond my woodworking skills. Pretty sweet though. I did consider a small border around my table's edge to keep dice and small meeples (Galaxy Trucker!!) from escaping. Timett posted:
Yeah, it will also be my kitchen table. Not that I would use it for that much. I do have an extended bar countertop for eating on if needed.
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Timett posted:
If that came in a color other than "generic casino green #2" I'd be all over it. Something folding like that would be great to trot out for game night and keep in the basement the other 28 days a month.
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snuff posted:I own the base game and both expansions, did my part. Great game. You need a bigger play area though, I bought a green piece of felt 90x90cm and it works great.  I'm generally covered, but the party mode streched my logistics a bit. The round glass table missed about a big disk's worth of space at the corners but on the other hand it had a cool feature of a black tape showing through the tablecloth to indicate the borders (not visible on the photo though). Rutibex dream table is quite rad, though.
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Big McHuge posted:I just got back from a friend's birthday party. He has, at times, questionable taste in games, but about half of his collection is acceptable. There were about 6 of us looking to play a game, so he decided to grab a few more people from the party and bust out his personal favorite, Duel of Ages 2. Neither my GF or I had ever played or heard of this game, so we both agreed to give it a shot. I will murder you in your sleep.
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Big McHuge, you probably shouldn't have insulted your friend's favorite game on a forum he also reads and posts on.
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Duel of Ages 2 is the greatest achievement of american design. It's the greatest most insane game ever I'm getting erect right now just thinking about playing it. AND for my eurofriends here, it's diceless!
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4outof5 posted:AND for my eurofriends here, it's diceless! So's Ascension doesn't mean a thing.
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Rumda posted:So's Ascension doesn't mean a thing. shut your filthy hole do not compare the greatness of duel of ages 2 to beta version of star realms.
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4outof5 posted:shut your filthy hole do not compare the greatness of duel of ages 2 to beta version of star realms. What is the appeal of DoA2? It can't be the art, story, mechanics, or horrible writing. It's 2 hours of my life, plus explanation, that I will never get back. While playing, I thought it was bad that neither of my pieces had even entered the board till 40 minutes into the game, however upon reflection I think that may have been a blessing in disguise. I actually managed to avoid the completely random outcome determination system that was devised for the sole purpose of being able to brag about being diceless.
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Scyther posted:With 4 players it absolutely overstays its welcome, because you need 2 points to win and it's not that hard to target the leader so almost every game goes to n+1 rounds where n is player count. Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre is a blast. It's easy to explain. The utter chaos means that everyone is involved in every turn. The initiative system is cool; if you play a simple spell you go first. I love the faux metal aesthetic; the humor is much more timeless than thirty-year-old D&D in-jokes. The potential length of the game is mitigated by the fact that you actually play several games in succession. You can even let people tag in and out for each game, so if Benny is on the phone you just play a round without him.
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Big McHuge posted:What is the appeal of DoA2? It can't be the art, story, mechanics, or horrible writing. It's 2 hours of my life, plus explanation, that I will never get back. While playing, I thought it was bad that neither of my pieces had even entered the board till 40 minutes into the game, however upon reflection I think that may have been a blessing in disguise. I actually managed to avoid the completely random outcome determination system that was devised for the sole purpose of being able to brag about being diceless. You just don't get good design, it's not about you having fun it's about solid american game mechanics. The deck makes the game deterministic it's not my fault you're too simple minded to remember the ratios and statistics of the deck.
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Jeez, IKEA wants $299 to deliver a $299 table. Looks like a pass for me.
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Man, Discwars trigger all my nerd boners for Warhammer, without the super expensive plastic modelling it usually entails. Too bad I got no one likely to play with... although, in a few years my brothers kids might just be the right age for some indoctrination  But speaking of Warhammery things, how's Dogs of War (the boardgame)? Can I live the dream of being a mercenary captain? Please rate it in number of massive hats contained, so that I may compare it to other games of similar fancy.
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QnoisX posted:Jeez, IKEA wants $299 to deliver a $299 table. Looks like a pass for me. Yeah their delivery prices are just stupid. Fortunately one of them is kind of local to me, so I just rent a Home Depot truck for $19.99 and pick up my stuff at the store.
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Lorini posted:Yeah their delivery prices are just stupid. Fortunately one of them is kind of local to me, so I just rent a Home Depot truck for $19.99 and pick up my stuff at the store. Yeah, I have no problem moving stuff, plenty of trucks and trailers I can borrow. Just no IKEA store listed within like 2 states. Think I'm just going to check out Craigslist for something local.
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Lorini posted:Yeah their delivery prices are just stupid. Fortunately one of them is kind of local to me, so I just rent a Home Depot truck for $19.99 and pick up my stuff at the store. Their delivery prices are based on your location, not really what you're buying. I bought a bedframe, 2 wardrobes, a chest of drawers, and some shelving units and it only cost 100 to ship all of it. It also costs 100 dollars to ship paper plates.
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