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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:you may not be an american by birth but you sure have a very american way of dealing with things you don't understand 
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And this isn't even getting into the fact that Reavers are basically coded to be incredibly clumsy Native American surrogates what with being a raiding party that strikes backwater planets at random and cannot be negotiated with. "But they're actually caused by a pacification drug that either makes people lazy themselves to death or in rare circumstances become psychopathic murderers that were caused by Alliance experimentation" yes good you are correct, this means that the Native American raiding parties drunk on murder and sexual menace were caused by the Union all along, you cracked the code, the South did nothing wrong. Whedon writing!
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I'm still surprised that Whedon didn't just call the pacification drug firewater.
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This is why every "lost cause" narrative should be based on the Spanish Civil War, but the symbols to code for that conflict aren't widely recognized. Genuinely curious if there are any good games based on asymmetrical underdog conflicts, ie Colonial Twilight for the Battle of Algiers
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A Horse Named Mandy posted:This is why every "lost cause" narrative should be based on the Spanish Civil War, but the symbols to code for that conflict aren't widely recognized. 
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The Malthusian posted:I really wish that conquistador game was just about Mexico natives monster- huntering dragons without Europeans in it at all. I'd also like to see more games with this approach. It's hard to do narratives reflecting historical imperialism/colonialism tastefully, and I'm not convinced those narratives are interesting enough to justify the effort, compared to other stories you can have your games tell. A game I like in this regard is How We Came to Live Here, which is basically an Anasazi fantasy game and states in its introduction "your people are the People; no other humans are ever going to show up in this world." It gets that out of the way pretty fast so it can move on to storytelling about the culture it's really focused on.
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Just take the MtG Ixilan setting and run that. Dinosaur riding natives versus Vampire conquistadors
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Xelkelvos posted:Just take the MtG Ixilan setting and run that. Dinosaur riding natives versus Vampire conquistadors A lot of the work for that has already been done.
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A Horse Named Mandy posted:Genuinely curious if there are any good games based on asymmetrical underdog conflicts, ie Colonial Twilight for the Battle of Algiers There's Ambush Alley, which is all about asymmetrical combat in the form of "professional military versus irregulars". The main example of this is the US military against Taliban, but it works for (and has guidelines to cover) basically everything. Very modern day, though, wouldn't work at all for anything pre-WW2 at the absolute earliest. The rules are pretty solid for that, although your mileage may vary on how well you think it handled the subject matter.
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A Horse Named Mandy posted:This is why every "lost cause" narrative should be based on the Spanish Civil War, but the symbols to code for that conflict aren't widely recognized. Would OGRE count? It certainly feels like an underdog conflict when facing the OGREs, at least.
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A Horse Named Mandy posted:This is why every "lost cause" narrative should be based on the Spanish Civil War, but the symbols to code for that conflict aren't widely recognized. This is literally the COIN (COunter-INsurgency) series from GMT. The scenarios vary, but they're all one player taking the part of a government while the others play insurgent factions. Example: Andean Abyss, which pits the Colombian government against FARC, the AUC and the cartels.
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Days of Ire in which you play as student activists against the Soviet government in Budapest, 1956. They’re kickstarting a sequel in which you try to escape from the subsequent full military crackdown.
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fr0id posted:Days of Ire in which you play as student activists against the Soviet government in Budapest, 1956. They’re kickstarting a sequel in which you try to escape from the subsequent full military crackdown. Um, communists would never do anything bad
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fr0id posted:Days of Ire in which you play as student activists against the Soviet government in Budapest, 1956. They’re kickstarting a sequel in which you try to escape from the subsequent full military crackdown. 
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I just got a free Breakfast Cult expansion in my email inbox. Who knew it was still being worked on?! (I did and I'm very keen.)
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Cassa posted:I just got a free Breakfast Cult expansion in my email inbox. Who knew it was still being worked on?! Me too! "Hey, a Breakfast Cult expansion! Cool! Do I get--" "Hey, a coupon for the Breakfast Cult expansion!" It's been a good morning.
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I had totally forgotten about it so it was a very neat surprise. Sounds like a fun expansion too.
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My wife saw this and got extremely excited: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hannahshaffer/good-dog-bad-zombie-a-cooperative-board-game Is there a verdict on it? Good / bad / dumb ?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:My wife saw this and got extremely excited: Given it's use of "hooman", we can safely say bad
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Muscle Goblins from one of the KoW facebook groups
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:My wife saw this and got extremely excited: The game doesn't appeal to me at all, but Hannah Shaffer has designed some neat RPGs so she probably knows what's up?
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Savage Tokusatsu has the best videos for a KS ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS5KLqLD_RE
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:My wife saw this and got extremely excited: Mechanically looks alright but too cloying after reading all that for me. Since she doesn't mind the theme probably a safe bet.
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potatocubed posted:The game doesn't appeal to me at all, but Hannah Shaffer has designed some neat RPGs so she probably knows what's up? Chekans 3 16 posted:Mechanically looks alright but too cloying after reading all that for me. Since she doesn't mind the theme probably a safe bet. Thanks, that's what I wanted to know.
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Steamforged Games are having a St. Patrick's day sale, this includes late pledges for Resident Evil 2 - the board game. I didn't look into it back when it was on Kickstarter, but after having gotten into Guild Ball I know these guys are capable of writing great rules, so this opportunity was perfect for me.
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Dark Souls, their other board game, is not something that would convince me to kickstart any of their other board games going forward.
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S.J. posted:Dark Souls, their other board game, is not something that would convince me to kickstart any of their other board games going forward.
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Why is it 2? Gimme a modular mansion with a big sweet staircase main iconic room
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Bombadilillo posted:Why is it 2? Gimme a modular mansion with a big sweet staircase main iconic room Get a copy of Mansions of Madness. Okay, so it's not Resident Evil, but modular mansion with big sweet staircase, check.
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JazzFlight posted:Yeah, and combine that with the fact that (for me) I already have too many zombie miniature games. I know, it's Resident Evil, but at this point, I need some plastic toys that are different from my other plastic toys. As good a point as any to mention that The Gods War has opened up to late backers again for a limited time.
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Cassa posted:How much is that like Chaos in the Old World? If it's like Cthulhu Wars, there are definite similarities, but CW is more about achievement hunting than actual area control. That is, each faction has its own set of goals (e.g., occupy territories, occupy gates, capture cultists, etc) such that conflict doesn't necessarily arise from a shared pot of points, although some of this does happen, but from either pursuing your own goals or stopping someone else's. Combat is also a lot rarer, since you generally don't want to engage unless you're getting something for it, and only a few factions really get something out of it. I like it, and feel that it neither surpasses nor is surpassed by CitOW. It is, however, loving expensive, so where you stand on vanity miniatures (and it's ridiculous to think that the figures are anything but) is up to you and your budget.
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So they're doing a TMNT Munchkin kickstarter. I'm assuming its just Munchkin with a TMNT skin. Brings me to my question - Is munchkin any fun? I don't have a copy and if I was going to get one this would probably be my best bet.
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MrFlibble posted:Brings me to my question - Is munchkin any fun? No.
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MrFlibble posted:Is munchkin any fun? Absolutely not. Avoid at all cost.
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I considered that KS for a second, but then I remembered it was Munchkin. Hopefully we'll get more actually good games like Shadows of the Past.
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MrFlibble posted:So they're doing a TMNT Munchkin kickstarter. I'm assuming its just Munchkin with a TMNT skin. Brings me to my question - Is munchkin any fun? I don't have a copy and if I was going to get one this would probably be my best bet. No. It's terrible pick on the leader luck bullshit. Every. Single. Game. Will end with one person about to win, everyone burning all their resources to stop it, and the next person saying. "Well. I guess I win". It's a terrible wet fart of a take-that game. My favorite episode of TMNT was the one where Raph was going to beat shredder but then Donatello was like, nope that'll be too many radical pizza points, and canceled his attack. That was so epic.
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