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The General posted:Picked up the Conflict of Heroes Solo expansion, and I must say, these rules look super tight. I'm excited to try them out. I assume the expansion works with all the individual campaigns?
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cenotaph posted:I can only hope that in a couple of years people will be complaining about them publishing too many 18xx games. If they got 1817 that would be rad as gently caress Yeah my Falling Sky/Cuba Libre got here today too \o/
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Got my Falling Skye/ Cuba Libre today too.
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I'm very envious of all of you, still waiting on my Falling Sky to arrive and I'm looking forward to seeing how well the solitaire works.
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i should have ordered cuba libre but i genuinely didnt believe they would ever actually send it out
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WAR DOGS OF SOCHI posted:I assume the expansion works with all the individual campaigns? I'm not sure if it would be super balanced. And you'd have to give the AI a couple of things. The solo missions with the expansion also have a time track which is different than the turn track. There's another expansion for designing scenarios on the fly, and it says it works well with that (I don't have that expansion). I also think you could work the cards into a lot of simular scale wargames to give yourself direction when playing solo.
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Boardgameguru has Cuba Libre and Falling Sky available for pre-order for UK goons. Cuba Libre expected early-June, Falling Sky mid-June.
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MikeCrotch posted:Boardgameguru has Cuba Libre and Falling Sky available for pre-order for UK goons. Cuba Libre expected early-June, Falling Sky mid-June.
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Tekopo posted:I would have preordered falling sky but I think there might be copies at the UK Games Expo and since I'm going I'm gonna wait until then. The Boardgameguru website specifically says there won't be copies for the Expo but I don't know if that is that they won't have copies or no-one will have copies.
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MikeCrotch posted:The Boardgameguru website specifically says there won't be copies for the Expo but I don't know if that is that they won't have copies or no-one will have copies.
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Got my copy of Zones of control Downside: does not smell like a new game, I wonder if all of china smells like new games hmmm. Upside: 770 pages of designers notes  edit: "Goal-Driven Design and Napoleon's Triumph" 4outof5 fucked around with this message at 22:23 on May 18, 2016 |
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4outof5 posted:Got my copy of Zones of control Yeah I got a copy of that too, right after it came out. Pretty good so far.
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Yeah I really kinda want that book.
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I'm going to play a solo game of Fire in the Lake and I was wondering what the best method is. Do I play two factions like the book says? Or just play one faction vs 3 bots? Or go the whole hog and play all four myself? And if I play one or two factions vs bots, what's the best choice for solo play?
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Received my copy of Cuba Libre recently (last week Friday)--it's an abstract enough "wargame" that my wife even likes it, so that's pretty rad.
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Bullbar posted:I'm going to play a solo game of Fire in the Lake and I was wondering what the best method is. Do I play two factions like the book says? Or just play one faction vs 3 bots? Or go the whole hog and play all four myself? And if I play one or two factions vs bots, what's the best choice for solo play? I'd say play all 4 yourself. The bot language is a special kind of torture that really requires learning inside and out before it can be executed effectively, and even then you're basically left with the same choices you'd make if you played all the factions, but with a slight amount of variance as to the locations ops are executed. Read the playbook single player stuff, study the NP flow charts, and decide whether that extra layer of wrinkles is worth it. I feel that trying to play optimally as each faction is interesting enough, but maybe it's not for you. Or you could go half way, using the flowchart for suggestion as to what a faction would do, but carry out the granularity yourself without a chain of booleans.
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I think it's just as fun to play all the factions myself. I vastly prefer that over using the AI charts.
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Tek, you free this weekend or Bank Holiday weekend?
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tomdidiot posted:Tek, you free this weekend or Bank Holiday weekend?
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Finally got around to preordering Falling Sky (did it from Miniature Market since they had the best price) Better late than never 
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COOL CORN posted:Finally got around to preordering Falling Sky (did it from Miniature Market since they had the best price) If any of y'all want to do a Skype/PBEM sometime, let me know. Gonna run through it a bit solitaire this weekend, but I'd like to try it out with real people too.
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Also I just got Der Weltkrieg: The Western Front (w/ Schlieffen Plan) in the mail. I knew this was a beast of a game, but ~1600 counters for a standard 22"x34" map is ... ridiculous.
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COOL CORN posted:Also I just got Der Weltkrieg: The Western Front (w/ Schlieffen Plan) in the mail. I knew this was a beast of a game, but ~1600 counters for a standard 22"x34" map is ... ridiculous. Welcome to the SPW club. Only three more fronts to go!
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Athaboros posted:If any of y'all want to do a Skype/PBEM sometime, let me know. Gonna run through it a bit solitaire this weekend, but I'd like to try it out with real people too. my bro have you heard of VASSAL Also #boardgoons in the MIRC chat has a sign up for COIN gaming. I don't know how often it's used but get yourself up on that if you want to get some games in.
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Impermanent posted:my bro have you heard of VASSAL Haha I know, I figured VASSAL was assumed. Just wanted to get a shout-out in the thread since I suspect there are folks here who aren't in the IRC (and I forget to check it too, though I am on the spreadsheet).
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 IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM
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COOL CORN posted:
That looks goddamn fantastic.
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COOL CORN posted:
"A look into the mind of a WW1 General"
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COOL CORN posted:
More like the Welpkrieg.
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Apparently there's a Warring States period CDG being developed by Mark Herman!
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Will it be the third in his "debate" series? The Greek follow-up to Churchill looks pretty cool so far.
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Not sure, sounds like another straight CDG to me.
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After all this waiting, I now have Cuba Libre and Falling Sky sitting here, but I'm moving and will have no time for board games for another week. Cruel fate. Has anyone here actually played Falling Sky yet?
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Now I see why Der Weltkrieg has so many counters on such a small map. First turn, Germans attack into Liège. They attack with 30 strength points. There's 8 SP worth of units in Liège, and a 36SP fortress. Germans roll a 5, killing off 5 SPs of the Belgians. Belgians roll a 6, which kills 27 SPs of the Germans... because all counterattacking forces are tripled. The Belgians attacked back with 132 strength points. Jesus.  Luckily my artillery will be adjacent to Liège in another turn or two.
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Woah that's high casualties doesn't that seem excess.... *finds out that Der Weltkreig is WWI* *nods*
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Welcome to Belgium, Hans
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I'm pretty sure that's how things actually went, the Germans went in with infantry and basically ran into a meat grinder, before the famous Guns of August showed up a few days later. But still, I'm used to blitzkrieging!
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Germany got all upset because the Belgians wouldn't be nice, understanding guys and let the German army violate their sovereignty to march on through to France. Instead, the Belgian population resisted and slowed them down. Germany responded with massacres of entire towns. Not so much as a reaction to being constantly sniped at, but out of frustration because their precious Schlieffen timetables were being hosed with. They were really anal about that goddamned Plan, which I guess is understandable after 20+ years of Schlieffen indocrination being drilled in their heads, but the bizarre thing is them just tossing it out the window a week or two later and pretty much losing the war at the end of August 2014 because of it.
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a new hot take on the 100 year war
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