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Probably one of the 18XX that was hand-made by mystic dwarves in the mines of Moria using tiny hammers that I have in my collection.
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Tekopo posted:There are probably less than 20 people that actually have played 18OE in the world, so I doubt it. You know what 18OE is missing? Detailed logistical rules for train operations, with trains using coal and water per hex, models using more coal per hex prior to the development of the Kylchap exhaust obviously. Train drivers tracked individually with experience scores for each. A 10' long map. We need The Campaign For North African Railways.
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Tekopo posted:Probably one of the 18XX that was hand-made by mystic dwarves in the mines of Moria using tiny hammers that I have in my collection. I would be more interested in 18XX if it were literally dwarven trains tunneling through Moria and setting up trains.
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Jun 30, 2016 14:57
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silvergoose posted:Yeah it's just a curiosity; what's the world-least-played game in everyone's collection...that the person has played, I guess? Like, is mine NT, GoG? Papparazzo the weird card game we played once? Maybe Nauticus? Mage Wars 
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MikeCrotch posted:You know what 18OE is missing? Detailed logistical rules for train operations, with trains using coal and water per hex, models using more coal per hex prior to the development of the Kylchap exhaust obviously. Train drivers tracked individually with experience scores for each. A 10' long map. Please stop, it's hard to conceal an erection while I'm at work.
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MikeCrotch posted:You know what 18OE is missing? Detailed logistical rules for train operations, with trains using coal and water per hex, models using more coal per hex prior to the development of the Kylchap exhaust obviously. Train drivers tracked individually with experience scores for each. A 10' long map. Set it during the 30s and play as the Nazis making the trains run on time.
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Tekopo posted:There are probably less than 20 people that actually have played 18OE in the world, so I doubt it. I know this is a joke post but it's an interesting estimation challenge. I'd guess somewhere between 1,000-10,000, though I wouldn't be shocked if it was a little lower. I'm almost certain it's over 500 though.
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SirFelixCat posted:It's simply not a game. It's an activity. Doesn't TAN have a fail state, something like the winner earning fate and destiny points. I think that would move it out of the activity range of things. I'm not being a dick, I read the rules once and vaguely remember their being conditions for a winner.
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Jun 30, 2016 15:13
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w00tmonger posted:Sorry is this a bad thing? I have so many boxes where poo poo would just go everywhere if I had them on their side... Horizontal storage is bad for your boxes, it's annoying to take out a box, and even more annoying to put a box back. Trade-off is you need to use baggies , plastic containers or well-designed inserts (be it original or home-made) to prevent jumbled components. Texibus posted:Doesn't TAN have a fail state, something like the winner earning fate and destiny points. I think that would move it out of the activity range of things. Point is that TAN is so random that players don't have influence over who wins. Much like...Monopoly. theroachman fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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Texibus posted:Doesn't TAN have a fail state, something like the winner earning fate and destiny points. I think that would move it out of the activity range of things.
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Collectors Edition of Scythe arrived today and got it to the table + Beautiful production value. Very glad I paid for the CE, as the premium bits add a lot of wow factor, as does the massive version of the board. + Plays pretty much exactly like anticipated. Very euro, very engine buildy. Combat is more Rex than Kemet, and like Rex, is best used sparingly. + A lot going on. Will enjoy mining the depths of this one - Explanation was tedious. Even with experienced gamers, they were approaching overload. I'm not sure how you'd tackle making it less onerous, other than maybe leaving bottom row actions until turn 3 or so? - A printing/graphic design screw up on one player board meant that one player was taking money every time they moved. They won our learning game handily, and it wasn't until it was over we realised what had happened. Be very careful explaining that it's Move OR take coins. Will have more impressions later, but so far it's an interesting hybrid area control. Has a lot of DNA in common with games like Hyperborea and Romolo O Remo. I really like those, but I know they're a little dry for some.
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djfooboo posted:Holy poo poo, I have an aunt who is crafty and has all the expansions. Forwarding this to her I think potentially I could have fit the expansions in if I had made the insert differently. If I had put card slots at 30 degree angles and stacked them all up, maybe. I only have the base game for now, though, so it's fine. And if I get expansions, it wouldn't be hard to remake the insert. Definitely not sleeved though. I'm not sure if I'd be able to squeeze just the base game in sleeved. Sockser fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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Rutibex posted:Mage Wars Hey, both my wife and I have played mage wars, not even with eachother! Don't own it though.
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blackmongoose posted:I know this is a joke post but it's an interesting estimation challenge. I'd guess somewhere between 1,000-10,000, though I wouldn't be shocked if it was a little lower. I'm almost certain it's over 500 though. Note he said played not owned 
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For people with interesting financial situations, apparently reddit says that a Large Padded Cajon Drum Bag is just as good as some of those custom Kickstarter board game bags.
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golden bubble posted:For people with interesting financial situations, apparently reddit says that a Large Padded Cajon Drum Bag is just as good as some of those custom Kickstarter board game bags. Yup, but a $1 IKEA bag is still the best option because carrying 30+ lbs I'm a square backpack is terrible on your body and looks goofy as gently caress.
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silvergoose posted:Yeah it's just a curiosity; what's the world-least-played game in everyone's collection...that the person has played, I guess? Like, is mine NT, GoG? Papparazzo the weird card game we played once? Maybe Nauticus? For me and my wife, Fruits Basket: Friends of the Zodiac.
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Bottom Liner posted:Yup, but a $1 IKEA bag is still the best option because carrying 30+ lbs I'm a square backpack is terrible on your body and looks goofy as gently caress. Yeah, that or a reusable grocery bag if you aren't bringing a huge box game. I don't understand why everything needs a "gamer" specific product.
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Bottom Liner posted:Yup, but a $1 IKEA bag is still the best option because carrying 30+ lbs I'm a square backpack is terrible on your body and looks goofy as gently caress. I always go with the $1 IKEA bag. I can carry three very large games easily and can fit more if they aren't huge.
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Papes posted:Yeah, that or a reusable grocery bag if you aren't bringing a huge box game. People are terrible with money and will drop 2-5x normal price on something tagged as being for gamers, of course.
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SilverMike posted:People are terrible with money and will drop 2-5x normal price on something tagged as being for gamers, of course. That, coupled with the disliking some aspect of the first "standard" method tried.
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homullus posted:I always go with the $1 IKEA bag. I can carry three very large games easily and can fit more if they aren't huge. $1? Well look at Mr Rockefeller here. Plastic grocery bags are free! 
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Rutibex posted:$1? Well look at Mr Rockefeller here. Plastic grocery bags are free! Just make your own bags out of cardboard and packing tape
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It's a question of weight. You are not carrying Imperial Assault, Caverna, and FCM in a grocery store plastic bag without the bag breaking. I do a rolling cart myself.
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Rutibex posted:$1? Well look at Mr Rockefeller here. Plastic grocery bags are free!  Are you familiar with the IKEA bags in question? Or is this a story about how you collect free plastic grocery bags and stick them together with the fruit preserves in the bottom of the jar and recycled staples?
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w00tmonger posted:Just make your own bags out of cardboard and packing tape Packing tape costs money friend, here is a better alternative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiHojsMTBeA
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Just throw all your games' contents into one big Ikea bag and bring it everywhere. Instant game any time!
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I used an Ikea bag for my recycling and the bag fell apart
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jmzero posted:There's perhaps another dimension here too in terms of what causes problems: what losing is like. I mean, if you're losing in Galaxy Trucker, you still get to play Galaxy Trucker and build a ship and participate. Why would you forego that just to screw with someone? If you're losing Monopoly, you don't get to do anything, you just get to death spiral and every move brings you inexorably closer to death. I understand how that makes "acting out" more likely in Monopoly - I mean, you want to do "something", right?
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Dr Tran posted:I used an Ikea bag for my recycling and the bag fell apart Ok? I guarantee they last as long as those cheap fake cordura bags people are hocking on Kickstarter that are basically Walmart quality fabric. The difference being $75-$100
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I'm really excited to try out codex, all the game mechanics look amazing. But my god is the art and theme the most blandly uninspired, low effort, completely loving inconsistent, copy pasted, bullshit I have ever seen.
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[quote="Fenn the Fool!" post=""461617860"] But my god is the art and theme the most blandly uninspired, low effort, completely loving inconsistent, copy pasted, bullshit I have ever seen. [/quote] Davidsirlin.jpg
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A lot of people in my gaming group including myself use this for transporting games and it's very great for that purpose. I can easily fit six regular-sized board games in there no problem at minimum and still have plenty of room for smaller games.
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Fenn the Fool! posted:I'm really excited to try out codex, all the game mechanics look amazing. But my god is the art and theme the most blandly uninspired, low effort, completely loving inconsistent, copy pasted, bullshit I have ever seen. You forgot to mention "completely uncredited", and by extension "probably plagiarised".
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Mega64 posted:A lot of people in my gaming group including myself use this for transporting games and it's very great for that purpose. I can easily fit six regular-sized board games in there no problem at minimum and still have plenty of room for smaller games. But $22? You must be the Marquis de Sade to spend that sort of money on such perversions when you can use by catch material from your food gathering expeditions!
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Fenn the Fool! posted:I'm really excited to try out codex, all the game mechanics look amazing. But my god is the art and theme the most blandly uninspired, low effort, completely loving inconsistent, copy pasted, bullshit I have ever seen. Yeah, it's really generic, although I like some aspects. The spell icons and upgrade icons do look like something straight from an RTS or MOBA icon bar, although that's a weakness as much as a boon. RTS/MOBA icons are designed for easy readability at a glance at like 75x75 pixels. Sirlin's artists have an entire half a card at 300dpi to work with, and could have done more than the bare minimum. I also like the building cards, most of which are generally at the right scale and isometric perspective to mimic buildings on a Warcraft map (with a few wonky exceptions.) But the units are so completely phoned in. Hundreds of iterations of "bust looking quarter-right, no background" and "bust looking quarter-left, no background." And what art there is gets really constrained by the dumb swoopy frame, which eats up too much real estate and really throws off the balance of the frame. Look at how many of the looking-left units are crammed into the right side of the frame. Personally, I'd like it if the art used the same isometric-angle-against-a-map as the buildings, to really commit to the RTS aesthetic, rather than going with a sad Magic ripoff. And the stylistic mismatch between the heroes and the units is really glaring. Partly because Sirlin is married to using his Yomi characters, and his artist(s) have no idea how to render these anantomically-improbable anime blobs in the more realistic style of the units.
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If Sirlin's games have some of the worst art you have ever seen then feast your eyes on something like Damage Report
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The most maddening thing is how bad all the worldbuilding, or lack thereof, is. There's such a bizarre mishmash of themes and settings that none of it makes any sense and none of the flavor is compelling. Like, one of the Red heroes is a goblin or an orc or something(?) but literally no other unit in the game is and the units he has are mostly human pirates and brigands. Why isn't he just a pirate? I have absolutely no idea who would be excited about playing Blue's army of traffic cops, tax collectors, and assorted bureaucrats. Purple's wonky-rear end sci-fi units are completely out of place next to the other factions. Any link between flavor and rules is so tenuous it hurts to think about. The ninja, spaceship, and traffic cop are all 1/1 creatures but the panda cub is a 2/2. The ninja can be detected and the spaceship can be blocked by another flyer or shot down with AA stuff; the traffic cop though, get hosed, can't stop a god drat traffic cop. This is all aesthetic stuff and I really don't want to let it affect my opinion of the game, but drat is it hard not to. I almost want to do a re-theme of the whole game with warcraft 3 screenshots or magic card art or something, uggghhhhhh.
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Or sentinels of the multiverse. Sirlins art isn't bad it just lacks any soul or creativity at all. It's plain Jane slapped on clip art garbage. Sirlin basically made Smash Up with better mechanics. Lol my Poodle attacked your Rhino and my Not-Zerg blocked your Not-Protoss so cool! But for real, Smash Up has better art, flavor, design, and theme. Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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