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If you're that worried about it, create a scout unit that can peak at enemy units from a certain distance.
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Kashuno posted:I’ve been playing with the scout idea so far and it has produced some great map situations although I’m worried about having too many stats to keep track of. The card back thing is really neat! I like the idea hat you know for example your opponent is bringing archers but could also bring javelin throwers that are made at the same building but get an advantage against archers. Great ideas to play around with How many stats are there? I imagine you can keep a cheat sheet of "Power - Toughness - Range" on a card each player keeps for all units as well as on each individual unit token so that when you flip them over the shorthand is there. Unless you have a dozen+ units you shouldn't have to keep track of too much. Unless individual units get individual customized upgrades after they flip back over (unless you kept a card for each unit on the table on the side of the board that was the "character sheet" for that unit). So you'd have 3 face down tiles on the board, 3 face down cards on the side. You attack with one, revealing it is an archer, flipping over the corresponding archer card and applying any XP or other tokens to the card before flipping the unit back down so that the enemies can lose track of it.
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You'd need time limits, field goals, and some degree of interactivity with defensive players. Draft a team with a larger card pool with a mix of offensive and defensive players, each player plays a card for any given "play" and the yardage is offensive card minus defensive card. There's a football card game hiding in there, but just doing kick > roll > decision over and over with no interaction isn't particularly interesting or thematic. Need to give players choices and keep it revolving around the mind games of calling the right "play".
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Darth Brooks posted:The rule book https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jd6RaDiYiaHyLkr96BLwXOFIlihZSe7jPD6KQMvgCPk/edit?usp=sharing Much improved over your last iteration. Couple of quick notes: You have a lot of positions and players. Do you really have that many interesting things for them to do? Might want to simplify while you test to QB/RB/DL/OL. Would make individual cards matter more and give you a better sense of what works without offering too many decisions - especially if those decisions don't matter seeing as you just pick throw/run. If you're going to add interaction, which you should, isolate it to OL and DL cards. Maybe they just give you a timer of sorts -- OL tries for 3, DL tries for 4, the DL will break through on 4 and sack if the QB hasn't thrown - how far you attempt for is how long you hold while the WR gets there. Likewise the OL tries for 3, DL tries for 1, OL holds and the QB is free to throw whenever. They could have set stamina and essentially turn into a mini game of "win with the least spent resources". Having x5 and x10 on dice rolls is going to get real annoying real fast, just make the numbers what they are. If you need bigger numbers, roll 2d6 instead of 1d6. Scale accordingly.
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May 13, 2019 14:57
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Darth Brooks posted:I'm not sure about making the game more complex. There's a whole bit with different stadiums that will probably be standardized. I'm talking about simplifying the game to its core idea to see if it works before adding much of anything else, only adding complexity in the form of interaction so you don't just take turns watching eachother roll dice. That, uhh, is an interesting paste into my quote. Good clipboard work.
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May 13, 2019 19:51
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Rotten Cookies posted:When I force my friends to playtest this I might have a 2nd version that goes all in on the secret sabotage. Hidden dice allocation (somehow?), secret sabotage goals. But still you only collectively win if remaining pods are safe. Probably Saturday You're halfway to just having a stripped down Battlestar Galactica at that point.
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Splicer posted:Multi stage bosses keep the amount of damage to be tracked at one time pretty low and also lets you do some fun tricks. This is your answer. Keeps the fights from getting stale and tracking only one phase at a time makes it managable. You then also get to make bonus actions or whatever on "phase shifts" and generally open up your design into a familiar space from a bunch of other games you'll have played that you can draw inspiration from. Calculate how much damage an average turn is and make each phase have a little more than 2 turns worth of health so that your players can feel like they squeezed out an attack.
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