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teacup posted:Ummm how did i miss a new pandemic legacy? It went from announcement to reviews everywhere in like 2 weeks so It was kind of easy to miss.
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Communism is a disease  It's essentially Pandemic reskinned into the Cold War. Instead of viruses, you're trying to eradicate Commie Spy Bastards on the board. You establish bases of operation around the world and then send out the Free Candy Vans to stuff spies into the back of them never to be seen again.  There's a spoiler-free demo up for TTS if you want to check it out and get a vibe for it. I like it. I will probably grab it for my group, and a mate will look into Season 1 afterwards. Bonus Steam review  
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Aug 16, 2020 08:10
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Infinitum posted:Communism is a disease In fairness, the CIA is one of the most evil organizations on the planet, even if it's not like post cold war russia was great 
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Aug 16, 2020 08:33
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Yeah, even ignoring the tankies "hoorah, go America, yay CIA, gently caress those commie bastards" is a pretty questionable message in the year two-thousand and twenty. Hopefully it's a little more nuanced than that when you get into the meat. E: I'm sure it will, given the designers... Stickman fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Aug 16, 2020 |
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Aug 16, 2020 08:35
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I would imagine you’re being double crossed or whatever
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Aug 16, 2020 08:54
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Infinitum posted:Communism is a disease It's almost certain that diseases will emerge a month or two in
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Aug 16, 2020 09:04
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teacup posted:I would imagine you’re being double crossed or whatever Yeah apparently there's some working for the Russian scenarios as well. Gonna say no one side is going to come out of this squeaky clean.
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Aug 16, 2020 09:08
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edit, hosed up spoiler tags and can't be assed to fix them
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Infinitum posted:Communism is a disease ...wow I was looking forward to PL3, but this sounds poo poo.
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Aug 16, 2020 13:52
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I would assume that the game's setting was locked down before...*gestures broadly*, but releasing a board game in TYOOL 2020 where you play as the CIA to stop dastardly Commies from developing an engineered virus that will wipe out humanity is really spectacular.
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Aug 16, 2020 14:13
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To be fair Pandemic has already stepped outside the whole disease thing with Cthulhu, Rising Tide, and Fall of Rome. I imagine diseases eventually pop up, otherwise why would your occupation be doctors?
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djfooboo posted:To be fair Pandemic has already stepped outside the whole disease thing with Cthulhu, Rising Tide, and Fall of Rome. I imagine diseases eventually pop up, otherwise why would your occupation be doctors? MKULTRA?
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Aug 16, 2020 15:13
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thespaceinvader posted:...wow I was looking forward to PL3, but this sounds poo poo. Theme or mechanic? Check the SUSD review. Does a pretty good job of explaining what's different about it between the 3 seasons
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Aug 16, 2020 15:35
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It sounds like they went hard into the narrative idea with a reference book of story stuff that might not even be relevant to your game state. I also got the impression that it’s a lot more goofy to stay away from dealing with the realities of the CIA and their global actions. Sounds kinda bad.
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Aug 16, 2020 15:40
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Infinitum posted:Theme or mechanic? Theme. I'm very much not loving here for that theme.
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Aug 16, 2020 16:05
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There is no way to make this point without some degree of oblique spoilers for previous Pandemic Legacy games. Pandemic Legacy Seasons 1 and 2 spoilers follow: The narrative of Pandemic Legacy have dealt with trust, betrayal, authority, rebellion and going your own way to some degree or another. There is a reasonable chance that the starting status of CIA as good guy will not remain, especially considering that IIRC Quinns refers to this game as being full of twists and turns. I seriously doubt this is going to simply say, "Boy, squashing socialist revolution in foreign countries is just so keen! McCarthy did nothing wrong!" However, as a piece of American media, there is a potential for a critical view being cast in the light of singular bad actors rather than corrupt systems. Obviously that would be a bummer. However, the two previous games had very few individual characters that have narrative significance as opposed to organizations, so I think the chances of them trying to pin it on David Badguy is lower than in some other pieces of media. I think the most likely outcome is it is a piece of narrative that meant to be a fun adventure without anything to actually say about its subject matter. I guess it remains to be seeing if that's an issue for a board game in 2020.
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Aug 16, 2020 16:38
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It’s gonna be Cthulhu.
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Aug 16, 2020 17:47
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Spirit Island spoilers follow: it's really funny if you manage to trigger the special effect of that Galactus card with Starlight Seeks its Form.
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Aug 16, 2020 18:09
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The moment I put one game into another game's box is the moment that game disappears from my consciousness. I have to just stare at my wall of games to remember what I have and what I want to play. Do you label the boxes to remind yourselves what's inside? Expansion content goes into the base box if it fits. Even better if everything goes into the smaller expansion box.
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Aug 17, 2020 02:53
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*puts Feast for Odin components through shredder so it fits into The Norwegians box*
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Aug 17, 2020 03:51
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A Snack for Odin.
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Aug 17, 2020 03:57
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Odin would be down for a Helal Snack pack or two, I reckon
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Aug 17, 2020 03:59
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Ravendas posted:The moment I put one game into another game's box is the moment that game disappears from my consciousness. 
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Imagine four varieties of 18xx games on a cliff. Posting works much the same way. 
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Aug 17, 2020 04:14
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Infinitum posted:Bring out The Sack
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Aug 17, 2020 04:23
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This makes me physically ill
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Aug 17, 2020 04:24
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Oh no, why didn't you just post a link (with a  tag) to this, instead of burning my eyes?! 
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Aug 17, 2020 04:50
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I regret nothing
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Aug 17, 2020 05:37
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Bottom Liner posted:I regret nothing When the expansion comes out you’ll have to cut the side off of that box and glue it to the side of another slightly larger box. Then you’ll share(read:unleash) an image of that horrific creation causing half the thread to experience unending night terrors and the other half to spontaneously combust. You’ll regret it then!
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Aug 17, 2020 05:45
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I was turned off by the Pandemic S0 theme, but the SUSD people are far left, and they had nothing but praise for the story. They don't even mention that the CIA are evil. I'm taking this as implicit approval for the direction the story goes. Then again, they tend to take games in the spirit the game was made, and if the game is being cavalier about a historical evil (Nixon, the Whitechapel murders, the CIA when they talked about that social deduction game, and so on) then they often won't address it. It's possible that Panlegseas0 has such a ridiculous take that the historical context ends up feeling irrelevant. Like, if KGB agents are riding around in blimps shaped like Lenin's head in February and all of the characters have unlocked magical wizard spells by April, I'm probably going to give the game a pass.
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Bottom Liner posted:I regret nothing 
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Aug 17, 2020 08:33
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The only board game double up I've got is Dungeon Lords in the Dungeon Petz box and that's because I wanted to use minion meeples with the stickers attached in DL
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Aug 17, 2020 08:34
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Smartphone Inc seems cool. Oh its apparently got big replayability issues. Oh they've added more stuff in an expansion. Oh the expansion won't fit in the base box because it includes a new board. Oh it's not too hard to find a copy from the recent KS where it's all packed into one box. Oh that box is massive (but somehow also too small) and people are really struggling to repack and organise stuff without binning the included player trays/boxes. loving cursed frogurt stuff here.
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CaptainApathyUK posted:Smartphone Inc seems cool. If you're having difficulty boxing Smartphone Inc 2.0 then you'll probably have difficulty playing the game. E: Here's how you do it. Fig. 1 All player pieces in their trays including pads on top. Hard Mode pads top right, Improvements around the top left and left edges. Technologies and Directives in the Hipster CEO box. Player screens on top. The Steve board also goes on top of the player screens - I removed it for clarity.  Fig. 2 Adding rulebooks, Steve board, and a bag of cardboard counters and Mini Improvements at top left.  Fig. 3 Full board, 2-3 player board and score tracker (underneath) completes storage.  As you can see, there's still a good 1cm of air at the top of the box even after everything is packed. Jedit fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Aug 17, 2020 11:47
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The six removable plastic containers are way too snug in the box.
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Irish Gauge felt like a really fun game, and way more difficult choice-wise than you'd expect from the one page rules.
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Aug 17, 2020 11:52
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Cut the titles off all the boxes you migrated from, and then just bluetac them to whatever box they're currently in. I saw some home decoration/improvement magazine suggest storing all of your games in the plastic bag hangers like libraries use sometimes. Just dump each game into each bag, and then hang them up in a closet. Reach in and push them around to find the one you want to play.  (These, but bigger)
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Ragnar34 posted:I was turned off by the Pandemic S0 theme, but the SUSD people are far left, and they had nothing but praise for the story. They don't even mention that the CIA are evil. I'm taking this as implicit approval for the direction the story goes. You might think so but they left their flank open to So Very Wing About Games for liking Welcome To..., a game about white-flight and redlining, apparently.
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Ravendas posted:Cut the titles off all the boxes you migrated from, and then just bluetac them to whatever box they're currently in. Then take the clothes that were hanging in the closet, fold them, and put them in the game boxes on your shelf.
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