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silvergoose posted:gently caress that, you could start building mines and poo poo immediately and then turn the speed up really fast. I was a young teen when it came out but I felt like the space battles and the campaign play were both such crap. At least R2 and C3PO would tell you that Skor II had built a new troop unit, that was exciting.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:I was a young teen when it came out but I felt like the space battles and the campaign play were both such crap. At least R2 and C3PO would tell you that Skor II had built a new troop unit, that was exciting. I always just autoresolved battles, the combat system was shiiiiiiiit but if you brought enough stuff you'd usually win pretty handily. Concentrate forces, build up infrastructure, send diplomats, train jedi, I thought it was super fun.
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StashAugustine posted:I'm not quite as negative about it but yeah I'm also disappointed; I'd have to see how it actually plays out. The tactics cards are an interesting idea but I don't know if they'll make combat that much better. The Death Star run is a little better than it sounds I'm pretty sure you can play it every combat round until it works; which makes it still kind of uninteresting but not terrible I'm glad I don't give a poo poo about Star Wars and certainly don't give a poo poo about any of the crap FFG pushes out. 
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Tekopo posted:Imagine if they had done some sort of R&D system in which you build your deck of tactic cards that you draw from, and there is counterplay and poo poo and you can tailor your deck to specific tasks etc etc. Man, that would have been awesome. Star Wars Kemet. Apart from the Star Wars bit, you've basically described Forbidden Stars (and StarCraft, as mentioned earlier)
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I like that they included models of both the death star AND the half-rebuilt death star. That's pretty cool. Detailed minis too. Game looks kinda meh though. I'm not a big fan of most 1-on-1 games in general either. I guess you can play with 4 people?
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Anonymous Robot posted:Fury of Dracula question: If Dracula is ambushing, he resolves encounters one at a time, in his preferred order. If the hunter searches a lair or hideout with two or more encounter cards, all are revealed and the hunter encounters them in the order of their choosing.
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Zaphod42 posted:I like that they included models of both the death star AND the half-rebuilt death star. That's pretty cool. Detailed minis too. There is no information about 4 player yet, but this looks 1v1 through and through. Any other mode is going to be slapped on to make the player count go up.
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cenotaph posted:Is this a thing I'm going to have to snap up or could I preorder it a couple of months from now and be fine? I would order pretty quickly. I wonder if The Great Zimbabwe will come up soon as well. e: oh wait it's there too poo poo
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Fat Samurai posted:There is no information about 4 player yet, but this looks 1v1 through and through. Any other mode is going to be slapped on to make the player count go up. I just looked up the FFG site and it says 2-4, but the game seemed overwhelmingly 1v1 to me yeah. Sounds like just something they slapped on the box like you said.
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Fat Samurai posted:There is no information about 4 player yet, but this looks 1v1 through and through. Any other mode is going to be slapped on to make the player count go up. It's probably going to be 4 player in the same way War of the Ring is "4-Player".
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MikeCrotch posted:It's probably going to be 4 player in the same way War of the Ring is "4-Player". Probably worse; the war of the ring 2v2 is really funny and leads to great shouting matches. Still tacked on, though, I won't argue that.
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drat... Favor of the Pharaoh is really, really mechanically close to what I'd been making notes about. Anyone have any experience with it?
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sector_corrector posted:drat... Favor of the Pharaoh is really, really mechanically close to what I'd been making notes about. Anyone have any experience with it? I played it once and it seemed like a lot of pointless build-up that led to all of us having enough dice to win in the final round, so it boiled down to luckiest roll. Completely abstract with an arbitrary theme. After we finished one game, absolutely no one at the table was interested in a second.
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Banana Man posted:Anyone have any thoughts on Theseus the dark orbit? Theseus: The Dark Orbit is great and you should be my friend and come play it with me, and we will play Earth Reborn also and be pals happy and having fun forever  Seriously though it is a very well done game. Straightforward rules and gameplay and factions that play extremely differently from one another. It's a slightly odd mix of abstract and, uh, 'thematic' I guess but it works IMO.
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sector_corrector posted:drat... Favor of the Pharaoh is really, really mechanically close to what I'd been making notes about. Anyone have any experience with it? I enjoyed it but it can be really clear who's going to win and they're pulling the ladder up after them. I've only played it 2v2, and maybe with other players it gets a lot more chaotic, but an early run of bad luck can leave one guy attempting to make 4 sixes out of 3 dice while their opponent is rolling dice with a shovel and then adjusting the results to his whim.
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T-Bone posted:I would order pretty quickly. Well I pulled the trigger on Indonesia. Now the waiting game begins.
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Banana Man posted:Anyone have any thoughts on Theseus the dark orbit? I and my friends rather jokingly call it space mancala, but it's pretty aight. Only problem is that it's basically impossible to plan even a turn ahead if you're playing with more than 2p since the board state changes too much, but for its complexity it plays relatively fast with pretty interesting decisions to make.
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Banana Man posted:Anyone have any thoughts on Theseus the dark orbit? I'll throw in another recommendation for Theseus, although my caveat is that the game was pretty much clearly designed for 2. In a way, it's sort of like Tash Kalar in that there are other player options, but one just seems more right, especially since more players tend to make for a bigger clusterfuck of things (to make the parallels even funnier, the 4p game is also a team thing). But yeah, really good game that's easy to learn, set up, and the races are even nicely thematic, even if some cards are kinda suspect. It's a really underrated gem that has a fun theme, especially if you're the type to roleplay the things you're playing, since being scientists with Camcorders set up loving everywhere with a single control room makes me giggle because I am 12.
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I played Elysium tonight and it was a pleasant experience. I'd play again, but I'm not rushing out to buy it. Welp that's my story. Also last week I finally got to try Viticulture and despite the owner getting some key rules wrong, it was still incredibly enjoyable and I will be getting a copy sometime in the near future. Is the Essential Edition good enough? Or should I look to buy the full expansion along with it?
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Eminent Domain: Microcosm: Small. Challenging. Fun!
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Eminent Domain: Microcosm: Small. Challenging. Fun! I hated it. The worst rule book I've ever seen and more convoluted and harder to learn than the full size game. Also super swingy and stupidly complex scoring. Happily put mine in the out pile.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Eminent Domain: Microcosm: Small. Challenging. Fun! Oh god it's finally happened. The box blurbs have gained sentience and are trying to pass as human.
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Bottom Liner posted:I hated it. The worst rule book I've ever seen and more convoluted and harder to learn than the full size game. Also super swingy and stupidly complex scoring. Happily put mine in the out pile. Swingy, yeah but I appreciated that there are 5 or so special things about most every card, it adds a little meat to the game. I like the minimal engine building mechanic that replaces the role phase too. The scoring was a little complex but not bad for a euro sort of game, except for the the VP on certain planets because they're unique and hard to remember to count. The rule book took me over half an hour to figure out, to be sure, and teaching took a little while too.
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Crossposting from the iOS board games thread: So I did a fun thing last night! I went to a special playtest of physical board game+app, Fabulous Beasts. I figure there's enough crossover that it's relevant here. It's about to be launched on Kickstarter in a few days, and the version I played was still a little rough around the edges (all 3D printed pieces still) but hopefully it's all worked out soon.  So the white base is your play area, and you scan the animals/elements/miracles on the rfid bit of the base, which registers them on the app, and adds them to the in-game world, and then you stack them on the white circle.  The white Xs and arrows crossbreed the creatures or move them from their element to another (land/sea/sky) and it all adds up, points-wise, along with things you do on the app while trying to stack things and not have the whole thing topple over. It's a great cooperative game, although I can't see it being cheap when the Kickstarter, uh, starts. Site: http://playfabulousbeasts.com 
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The_Doctor posted:Crossposting from the iOS board games thread: The visual look of the game is really something, the gameplay sounds like not really something. I mean, "stack these objects in a random order" could be done with dice alone, without RFID and programming and such. If there were such a thing as "concept games" that appeared in shows and then were never produced, this would be that kind of game. Unless the app part of the game is really interesting, I guess.
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Sloober posted:It'll probably take off as much as Golem Arcana did What worked/didn't with this? I've been curious about it. Not really interested in buying it but it's definitely an odd concept.
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Guys, finally. You've been clamoring for it, you've been waiting for it, and finally, the most hotly anticipated board-game-to-phone conversion has been released on iPhone.
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Morpheus posted:Guys, finally. You've been clamoring for it, you've been waiting for it, and finally, the most hotly anticipated board-game-to-phone conversion has been released on iPhone. I hope it meows every time you push a button or whatever.
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homullus posted:I hope it meows every time you push a button or whatever. I hope it does that even if you're not playing the game.
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Morpheus posted:Guys, finally. You've been clamoring for it, you've been waiting for it, and finally, the most hotly anticipated board-game-to-phone conversion has been released on iPhone. I have better things to do with my $1.99, thanks any way.
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I just sold an old copy of Android, and me and the guy who bought it was chatting a bit about it before he left. I mentioned that the rulebook is a mess, and his response was "Don't worry we'll be playing it at the next Mensa meetup, I'm sure we can figure it out." If they're so smart, why the hell would they want to play Android?
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That's also the name I use for my boardgaming group.
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T-Bone posted:That's also the name I use for my boardgaming group. I'd rather say I was going board gaming than to a Mensa meet-up.
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cenotaph posted:Is this a thing I'm going to have to snap up or could I preorder it a couple of months from now and be fine? It looks like they are now printing to demand, so maybe not? But if you really want it, you should order it now.
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Also you can now follow me on Facebook. Jennifer King Schlickbernd. I talk about board games, and also politics (I'm liberal), sports, and my dogs on occasion  .
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Mister Sinewave posted:Theseus: The Dark Orbit is great and you should be my friend and come play it with me, and we will play Earth Reborn also and be pals How are the expansions to Theseus? Also, just reading about Earth Reborn makes it seem kind of daunting but is it as scary to learn/play as everyone seems to be making it out to be? It looks like it could be another dust-gatherer if I'm not careful but the stories from the people on BGG make it sound pretty epic...
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