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Max posted:If you're interested in the cooperative questing mechanic but not married to the theme, I would actually suggest AH over LOTR at the moment. AH is new so you won't have to drop a poo poo load of money all at once, and you can keep up with it's development. To be fair, you can buy the LOTR stuff at your own pace, since it's co-op and therefore there isn't a competitive meta to keep up with.
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GoneWithTheTornado posted:To be fair, you can buy the LOTR stuff at your own pace, since it's co-op and therefore there isn't a competitive meta to keep up with. Yeah but not really. PJOmega posted:Yeah, but that requires nerds with fiscal accountability and impulse control. Max fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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GoneWithTheTornado posted:To be fair, you can buy the LOTR stuff at your own pace, since it's co-op and therefore there isn't a competitive meta to keep up with. Yeah, but that requires nerds with fiscal accountability and impulse control.
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dexefiend posted:I totally see myself buying all the Lord of the Rings stuff now... How much do you need? I have a pretty big lot of 1x core and first two cycles and both Hobbit Saga boxes for sale for a good price.
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I'm aiming at an awfully tight window. If the Dunwich Horror box set is supposed to drop on the 12th, what's the expected time for it to be in retailer hands?
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Jan 6, 2017 03:36
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Depending on your FLGS, the 12th. I remember the AH core set arrived at mine on the release day.
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PJOmega posted:I'm aiming at an awfully tight window. If the Dunwich Horror box set is supposed to drop on the 12th, what's the expected time for it to be in retailer hands? Even if they get it before the 12th, selling it before street date is asking to get hosed over. More specifically though, whenever the UPS/Fed Ex guy gets there.
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Jan 6, 2017 06:08
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Man there are some...interesting prices for LotR LCG packs. Just saw a copy of Watcher in the Water for the princely sum of £999.11 
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S.J. posted:Even if they get it before the 12th, selling it before street date is asking to get hosed over. More specifically though, whenever the UPS/Fed Ex guy gets there. I wasn't looking to break street date, so thanks I suppose? Was more wondering if the 12th was the ship-to-retailer date or the expected street date.
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PJOmega posted:I wasn't looking to break street date, so thanks I suppose? Was more wondering if the 12th was the ship-to-retailer date or the expected street date. For a lot of stores (mine included) it is often both. Sometimes we'll get FFG product a day or two before the street date, other times it will show up on the street date. There's no rhyme or reason for it other than FFG distribution is not great.
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PJOmega posted:I wasn't looking to break street date, so thanks I suppose? Was more wondering if the 12th was the ship-to-retailer date or the expected street date. This can of course vary across the globe, but nowadays (since the asmodee merger) it seems like the distributors hold the products in stock and only ships it to retailers the day before FFGs intended street date, whereas prior it used to be intended street date +- 2 weeks. PJOmega posted:Yeah, but that requires nerds with fiscal accountability and impulse control. If there was as much content for AH as there is for LOTR I would order everything straight away 
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I think i have dodged the LOTR bullet for now. However, if my innaugural AH game night turns into a monthly thing... I might need a second game, right?
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PJOmega posted:I wasn't looking to break street date, so thanks I suppose? Was more wondering if the 12th was the ship-to-retailer date or the expected street date. That wasn't an accusation, I was just being thorough in my response.
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Baron Fuzzlewhack posted:For a lot of stores (mine included) it is often both. Sometimes we'll get FFG product a day or two before the street date, other times it will show up on the street date. There's no rhyme or reason for it other than FFG distribution is not great. Do they still do the thing where stores can only order a certain number of LCG packs? My local had to buy Netrunner packs from other stores since FFG would only distribute 6 per store and there were vastly more people than that who actually played Netrunner.
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MikeCrotch posted:Do they still do the thing where stores can only order a certain number of LCG packs? My local had to buy Netrunner packs from other stores since FFG would only distribute 6 per store and there were vastly more people than that who actually played Netrunner. We've been ordering LCG poo poo for a hot minute and I've never even heard of this.
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dexefiend posted:I think i have dodged the LOTR bullet for now. However, if my innaugural AH game night turns into a monthly thing... I might need a second game, right? From what I've seen around other fourms playing with one core set makes everything much much harder to the point where harder difficulties and later scenarios are outright impossible supposedly
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MikeCrotch posted:Do they still do the thing where stores can only order a certain number of LCG packs? My local had to buy Netrunner packs from other stores since FFG would only distribute 6 per store and there were vastly more people than that who actually played Netrunner. They do have limited stock of each release and they do tend to "tier" their retailers so that the biggest ones get the most. They do this across the board for all products. Sometimes this creates shortages. ...like pretty much every distributor ever.
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Actually I think it might have been a UK thing since we have our own distributor. And it wasn't a size thing, it was "you want netrunner, you get 6 packs. No ifs no buts." Getting those early netrunner packs was kind of a pain in the rear end I tell ya.
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MikeCrotch posted:Man there are some...interesting prices for LotR LCG packs. Just saw a copy of Watcher in the Water for the princely sum of £999.11 Don't ever look on Amazon. Look on Boardgameguru and buy entire cycles twice a year instead of packs monthly. If you do this you'll end up getting free shipping, near as drat.
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I also recommend getting opaque sleeves and not being afraid to try proxying. They don't look bad with my amateur color printer and it helps if you don't want to get another core set for 3 cards, or if one stupid pack is missing for half a year. I have multiple core sets so I just use the extra encounter cards plus a sheet of photo paper whenever I need to.
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Stores definitely get certain allotments of products, especially when it comes to FFG. e.g. When the TIE Striker, U-Wing, and Star Wars Destiny product came out last month, stores were allotted a certain amount of product at the distribution level because of the high demand for the products. My store honestly would have bought out one of our distributor's entire Destiny allotment if we could have, but they (understandably) capped us at a certain amount. We ended up not getting an allotment for the TIE Striker and U-Wing because distribution was so messed up on those two items. Also note that if your local store is in the US and is buying product from other stores, they should be very, very careful. Asmodee NA specifies in their licensing agreement that stores cannot sub-distribute to other stores/individuals with intent to distribute product, and so that could put your store and the store from which they're buying at risk of losing their entire Asmodee license. I don't know if it applies to stores in the UK (doubtful), but they should be wary nonetheless. It's one of the unfortunate effects of Asmodee's grabbing up publishers across the board. Anyway, sorry for the boring store chat. More on-topic, for anyone who didn't watch the Team Covenant Dunwich Legaxy unboxing video, FFG has posted a preview of the upcoming new investigators.
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Ashcan Pete looks like a fun design, really looking forward to him the most I think. Jenny looks like poop, shat from a butt
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Soothing Vapors posted:Ashcan Pete looks like a fun design, really looking forward to him the most I think. Jenny looks like poop, shat from a butt That is where poop usually comes from IIRC.
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While Pete is probably the one new investigator I'm most eager to try, he seems kind of scary to play in that with no way to pull Duke out of the discard pile, he can get shut down real hard. I mean, if you draw Paranoia as your weakness, you're pretty set up to fail.
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With the impending expansion release is it still wise to get a second core set or does having the cards from the expansion fix the issues having only one core set presents?
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Welp. I just bought The Treason of Saruman and The Grey Havens at 50% off. Guess I am playing LotRLCG! Bottom Liner posted:How much do you need? I have a pretty big lot of 1x core and first two cycles and both Hobbit Saga boxes for sale for a good price. How do i contact you? I need an email address that doesnt have my name in it... dexefiend fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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The Peter Sylvestre card looks really good.
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dexefiend posted:Welp. defeldus gmail
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Sloober posted:That is where poop usually comes from IIRC. please don't colostomy-shame
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I must be missing what makes Jim Culver's box text good. Especially the second part, of auto success becoming a 0 skull. Anyone have some insight?
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No if I'm reading it right, the modifier on a skull is a 0 instead of the bad stuff it usually is.
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theroachman posted:No if I'm reading it right, the modifier on a skull is a 0 instead of the bad stuff it usually is. Yeah, you basically change a couple of -2/-3 tokens for +0. Not a bad deal, although you still deal with the added effect.
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Sloober posted:That is where poop usually comes from IIRC. YMMV... Jim Culver's ability significantly increases the number of good draws available in the bag. Remember he can also run two copies of Grotesque Statue, which combined with the skulls substantially boosts your control over ol' Lady Luck. Am I correct in thinking 'treat skull tokens as 0' means you ignore any scenario specific rules for them and instead treat them exactly as if they were just a 0 tile?
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Skull equalling zero is, like the others have said, a few less negative tokens in the bag - a small buff to every single test you'll be making. The Elder Sign switcheroo is there to keep triggering his signature trumpet, while a zero result is usually good enough for whatever you were trying to achieve in the first place.
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Jim is really good. Consistency in a game like this is extremely powerful.
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I just played a ridiculous 2h 4p melee game of GoT that I think killed all my interest in Melee. Board wipe after board wipe after board wipe and someone was playing Kings of Winter so that made it extra difficult to crawl back from the Valars and First Snows. It didn't help that the lineup was Tyrell big money (who just sorta got assed on character draws), Martell Rains for the Long Plan/Valar combo, me as Baratheon/NW to control out The Wall, and Lannister/Winter. Holy poo poo that was a slog.
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Obama 2012 posted:Am I correct in thinking 'treat skull tokens as 0' means you ignore any scenario specific rules for them and instead treat them exactly as if they were just a 0 tile?
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Lichtenstein posted:
Thank you, hadn't seen his trumpet.
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In addition, I think Jim wants to play 2xRitual Candles. Having a Skull change from -2 or so to +1/+2 seems awesome. Add Grotesque Statue and you have a really good chance at successful tests.
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GrandpaPants posted:I just played a ridiculous 2h 4p melee game of GoT that I think killed all my interest in Melee. Board wipe after board wipe after board wipe and someone was playing Kings of Winter so that made it extra difficult to crawl back from the Valars and First Snows. It didn't help that the lineup was Tyrell big money (who just sorta got assed on character draws), Martell Rains for the Long Plan/Valar combo, me as Baratheon/NW to control out The Wall, and Lannister/Winter. Holy poo poo that was a slog. Just like MtG, melee games are poo poo.
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