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Bottom Liner posted:Look at the models and tell me this is a game you want. If you do, you're a creepy weirdo. A doctor who's dressed more like a mechanic, a mechanic who's dressed more like a cheerleader, a stripper with a chainsaw because that's totally the weapon most likely to be at hand in a strip club, and buttttttttttttttts. I think 14-year-old me was pretty dumb and would have been ok with it, but I think a lot of 14-year-olds would have the sense to pass on this. Adults have no excuse.
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A real font of creativity, this guy. "It's like X meets Y! Please let me blast my sexualized amalgamation of popular geek culture icons into your living room!"
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Boz0r posted:I just thought the map tiles looked cool :-(
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Oct 23, 2015 18:50
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All miniatures games are bad except Mage Knight and the FFG Star Wars stuff
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Oct 23, 2015 18:51
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Earth Reborn owns super loving hard, though. Shame it never got the expansions it was so obviously made for.
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Boz0r posted:I just thought the map tiles looked cool :-(
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StashAugustine posted:All miniatures games are bad except Mage Knight and the FFG Star Wars stuff Counterpoint: Minis games are cool, and good
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StashAugustine posted:All miniatures games are bad except Mage Knight Mage Knight is the best: deck builder, dice game, area control game, economic game, engine building game, miniature game, light roleplaying game, dungeon crawler, co-operative game, solo game, worker placement game, and tile laying game.
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StashAugustine posted:If your game cant be played with carboard counters and wooden cubes Cardboard counters and wooden cubes are just the unevolved form of the miniature, the paragon of all that is good and sexy.
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I would love to play a tactic minis game like those offered by Mantic and similar but I don't have any desire to paint or assemble miniatures so that entire genre is lost to me. That line of games would be better to me if they were made using cardoboard counters and wooden cubes. Also please be aware that I am a huge hypocrite currently backing scythe for $100 because i love pretty resource tokens.
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The best minis game is Agricola with the little sheep
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Impermanent posted:I would love to play a tactic minis game like those offered by Mantic and similar but I don't have any desire to paint or assemble miniatures so that entire genre is lost to me. That line of games would be better to me if they were made using cardoboard counters and wooden cubes. Disk Wars
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Impermanent posted:I would love to play a tactic minis game like those offered by Mantic and similar but I don't have any desire to paint or assemble miniatures so that entire genre is lost to me. That line of games would be better to me if they were made using cardoboard counters and wooden cubes. Mage Wars feels like a tactical minis game except that instead of minis it uses cards. Edit: nobody will ever play it with you, though.
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GrandpaPants posted:Mage Wars feels like a tactical minis game except that instead of minis it uses cards. Yes, everyone should play Mage Wars. Join me in oblivion!
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Lichtenstein posted:Disk How long does diskwars take to learn/play cause my FLGS has a demo copy and there's a guy who goes there that interned with the guy who designed it
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Rutibex posted:Yes, everyone should play Mage Wars. Join me in oblivion! It's worth clarifying now that everyone should play Mage Wars: Arena. The new MW: Academy is out, and while I was excited for it and got a copy from Scott at GenCon, I'm not overly impressed with the system when you take away the map/areas to play with and turn it into a traditional head-to-head card game.
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homullus posted:A doctor who's dressed more like a mechanic, a mechanic who's dressed more like a cheerleader, a stripper with a chainsaw because that's totally the weapon most likely to be at hand in a strip club, and buttttttttttttttts. Not to defend this in any way, but the stripper with a chainsaw is probably a riff on Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers.
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Jedit posted:Not to defend this in any way, but the stripper with a chainsaw is probably a riff on Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. She looks modeled off of Juliet from Lollypop Chainsaw Also: Time Hero = Ash from Evil Dead, Pack Woman Power = Furiosa from Mad Max and Sarah Connor from T2 I smell a potential lawsuit
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StashAugustine posted:How long does diskwars take to learn/play cause my FLGS has a demo copy and there's a guy who goes there that interned with the guy who designed it An hour? Probably shorter if you do play the tutorial. But you don't really want to play the tutorial because it's terribly unbalanced (Orks are John Cena) in a fairly unfun way. So what you rather should do is to just play a single full game using this guy's proposed starters. You can construct them out of a single box, they're actually thought out to work together and showcase faction flavor. Also, you get up-front tips what the hell you should do. Then, remember there is only one difficult thing about this game: understanding the definition of an engagement. Once it clicks, it'll be easy to read at glance, but at the beginning it can be fairly confusing.
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Machai posted:I smell a potential lawsuit Minis games do this all the goddamn time. Here is the original Zombicide Kickstarter, for comparison: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/zombicide/description
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Oct 23, 2015 19:43
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I must admit I occasionally considered getting custon minis for Cuba Libre but idk how you'd do underground/active guerrillas
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Rutibex posted:Yes, everyone should play Mage Wars. Join me in oblivion! i would, but I hate deck construction or any meta-prep mechanic.
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Lichtenstein posted:Then, remember there is only one difficult thing about this game: understanding the definition of an engagement. Coming to terms with the fact that we're not getting more of it is also difficult 
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Tevery Best posted:Coming to terms with the fact that we're not getting more of it is also difficult 
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Earth Reborn owns super loving hard, though. Shame it never got the expansions it was so obviously made for. There have been many times I have almost pulled the trigger on Earth Reborn, but then can't justify the expense of a 2-player game I'll almost certainly only read the rules for and play solo. I am super curious about why it consistently gets praised, though. 
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Boz0r posted:Are the Shadows of Brimstone games any good? They're pretty good if you like dice-chucking dungeon crawlers. The Cowboys vs Cthulhu theme is pretty fun too. You gotta be good at assembling minis though. Those little fuckers aren't all that easy, and you'll need greenstuff + paint to make them look nice. It's fun though.
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Soothing Vapors posted:You gotta be good at assembling minis though. Those little fuckers aren't all that easy, and you'll need greenstuff + paint to make them look nice. It's fun though. Well, I have no intention of painting them, I thought they came pre-painted
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Soothing Vapors posted:
My dark passenger, speaking to me in my sleep, playing with my dreams, covering them with blood... I could never tell Deb about that - Harry made sure of it. If I could I'd do it with one word, "Bazinga".
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Boz0r posted:Well, I have no intention of painting them, I thought they came pre-painted Nope, very very few minis will come prepainted. The only minis games I own where they did come prepainted are Mage Knight (which has like 8 minis) and Tannhauser. Mini painting is part of the ~experience~ for most mini-loving types. It's kind of fun even for someone like me with no artistic talent. Most minis games do at least come fully assembled. But Shadows of Brimstone's minis came assembly required, which was something I was not at all prepared for or equipped to deal with. If you're good with model kits and gluing and using greenstuff to fill in gaps you're talking a couple hours minimum of work. For me it was closer to a couple hours a night for two weeks. sector_corrector posted:My dark passenger, speaking to me in my sleep, playing with my dreams, covering them with blood... I could never tell Deb about that - Harry made sure of it. If I could I'd do it with one word, "Bazinga". hahahh
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I went back to that Pandemonium Kickstarter and clearly the better place to cut off the character models was the waist. But then you couldn't sculpt all those asses.homullus posted:There have been many times I have almost pulled the trigger on Earth Reborn, but then can't justify the expense of a 2-player game I'll almost certainly only read the rules for and play solo. I am super curious about why it consistently gets praised, though. Because it's a bunch of sloppy poo poo and iconography that come together to form a rich tactically complex awesome skirmish game.
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I don't like giving play-by-plays because they're dull, but giving Floating as the clue in Codenames when Ship was the assassin  It was the other team so it didn't hurt that much but come on dude
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Jedit posted:2P Codenames sucks. You're just playing against an artificial clock. Yeah, I did get the impression that a lot of the fun of it would come from a big group.
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It's surprisingly fun with 3 (the courier plays for both teams), 4 and 6 are my sweet spots. More than 8 gets unwieldy.
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Woop Roll for the Galaxy expansion arrived. I wonder how small a box I could compress the game into...
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StashAugustine posted:I must admit I occasionally considered getting custon minis for Cuba Libre but idk how you'd do underground/active guerrillas Have a removable fedora and groucho nose/glasses. I can't remember the name of it, but I played a miniatures game as a kid where a dog, battleship, iron, top hat, and wheelbarrow competed to buy up properties around Atlantic City.
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