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New P500 games: Hubris and Red Dust Rebellion
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Hubris is about the Diadochi period, where the three kingdoms descended from Alexander's empire eventually lost the initiative to the Romans. It's based on a leader system, where each leader has unique traits and/or special abilities and are the driving force behind actions. But there are restraints built in based on the size of one's court. If you have too many capable and, thus, ambitious leaders, you risk revolt or rebellion. Not enough means not being able to keep up with the Joneses.
Red Dust rebellion is kind of one aspect of the The Expanse, where Martians have decided that Earth corporations control too much of their lives. Apparently, just the theme was enough for it to make the cut (currently 508 orders), although I just got the email today.
Regardless, I have neither money nor space for more games, but those were the first thing to really catch my eye from GMT in recent months.
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I'll be honest, I took a good look at the list and didn't see anything that gripped me. So I went to Hollandspiele next to prepare for their sale. Much more fertile ground at the moment.
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I had forgotten they had a Marc Simonitch Caesar vs. Gaul game coming out, that could be interesting too.
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I insta-cancelled all my COIN preorders right after that game. I was done. I don't get the appeal of the system and why everything is shoehorned into it. What do you guys like about it?
Somewhat related, I also no longer preorder any wargames. I decided I would stop paying to be a beta tester.
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I'm also definitely in for the final Space Empires 4x expansion, even though I definitely don't need even more weird stuff to bolt onto that game.
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I really liked Andean Abyss. I have that and Fire in the Lake (and maybe one other?). Both are really hard to get played both for time/learning commitment and also setting.
I've generally stayed away from the treadmill of COIN releases but having the game in a setting that's a little less sensitive is an attractive option to me. I'll definitely keep an eye on it.
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And they're uh transitioning out Rodger MacGowan clip art and boy is it time.
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ChristopherMD wrote: Damn, that's some good card art.
Very 1994 in their execution. SpaceCorp did the same thing, hiding nice art in small boxes on the card. These cards do have a body of text that requires more space but the concept is the same. They might have done better to zoom in a smaller details in the images and to make the box size (and aspect ratio) vary by card when space is available.
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