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LOTR: The Confrontation is definitely a case where the theme killed it for me. If it had been something else, I might be able to pay attention to all the units and their special powers. But there is no way to make me give a damn about hobbits and shit.
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Most of the rest I've never played, though I own a few of them. I'm trying to decide whether or not to acquire a copy of Samurai that I have a trade offer for.
I'd like to give Ra a shot one of these days, too.
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Michael Barnes wrote: LOTR: The Confrontation is one of the best two player games ever made. Sure, it's Stratego...but it's so refined and the LOTR setting really comes through. It really feels like the Fellowship player is trying to screen Frodo and engage the Shadow. Mirror plays like both a hunt and a crushing military campaign. I love the deluxe edition, the extra characters add a lot of variety without fouling the balance.
Kingdoms/Auf Heller und Pfennig is another good one.
I'm sorry "Sure, it's Stratego... but" don't you mean, "hell yeah it's like Stratego!"? Stratego is the best mass market classic, bar none, and LOTR The Confrontation Deluxe is the best Knizia game.
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I always really love Lord of The Rings: Confrontation and have probably played over 50-60 games in the past few months. It's portable, a breeze to teach, and just pure fun. I love to experiment with starting positions and push my luck. I'll never get rid of it.
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I liked T&E quite a bit, it felt like a very refined conflict game to me and in a weird way its abstract nature lends itself to its theme.
Modern Art i thought was tight but difficult to play well.
Through the Desert didn't do much for me. Probably because i actually like Go and felt that this just didn't cut the mustard in comparison.
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I see a lot of folks commented on Traumfabrik/Hollywood Blockbuster/Dream Factory being one of his best, I played it and wasn't really impressed with it (played it with 5), could someone expand on what they like in that game?
I traded Modern Art recently, I just never wanted to play it, I'd always rather play Medici. I'm thinking of trading Through the Desert, because I have both Samarkand (the new one from Queen) and Kingdom Builder and I think I like both better. Not sure If I'm into Colossal Arena either.
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I dunno. I really dig this game.
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Sometimes it's clearly not important, like in Ra or Taj Mahal. But that view does give games like Lost Cities, Beowulf, and Medici some surprising thematic depth.
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It is definitely time to re-evaluate Beowulf. The thinking at the time (right in the middle of the whole AT upheaval) was that the game wasn't thematic because the players didn't get to BE Beowulf and it wasn't, I guess, a Talisman-style adventure game. Also at that time where you had to "impress" someone were not in favor. But it's actually MORE effective thematically by casting the players as Beowulf's retinue and charging them, basically, with keeping up with an epic hero. But you can't go all-in on every episode in the adventure, so you have to choose when to kind of hang back, recoup yur strength and let someone else step up. There is A LOT of theme here, and definitely not of the flavor text variety.
Thing is, I've never really been quite sure why an auction or Poker-style card play mechanic is regarded as "too abstract" but rolling a die isn't. There is nothing more abstract than rolling a die to determine an outcome.
My Knizia plays this week were Modern Art (I have tragically underrated this game my entire life) and Blue Moon Legends. The Blue Moon set is REALLY good. I do miss the jumbo cards, but the whole game is here, every card. Lots to explore and the game is so, so good.
As for procurement, I'm really after Amun-Re, Royal Turf/Winner's Circle, and oddly Clash of the Gladiators.
Getting back into Knizia games (and other classic German designs) has been the most refreshed I've felt about board games in a long time.
Bull- Through the Desert for Forged in Fire...think about it...
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Maybe I'll pass something along for it.
Getting back into Knizia games (and other classic German designs) has been the most refreshed I've felt about board games in a long time.
Would you say these designs are TIMELESS?
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Ra - I figured out that the reason I don't like 7 Wonders is because it's like someone looked at Ra and thought the set-collecting was the most interesting part. Ra has my favorite auction of any game ever, and it's Knizia's best game.
Tigris & Euphrates - It came out 15 years ago, and there still hasn't been a game that's ever come close to approximating the feel of this one. It's a multi-player conflict game filtered through Euro design, and it's just terrific.
Far and away his best. The whole majority group control thing that he specializes
in shine best in these two.
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