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This is part of a series of bloody matches to the death. Show support for your favorite game so it will do better in the fight. You can support it by writing why you think its the better game and more importantly by betting (i.e. voting for) it. Please make it clear for when I check the bets later. You have until Friday when I tally the bets and declare the winner. I will reserve my bet for any tie-breakers.

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Ameritrash Championship: Dune vs. Cosmic Encounter

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11 Apr 2012 20:35 #122608 by san il defanso
Also, I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't play FuddHunter. To the Kickstarter-mobile!
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11 Apr 2012 20:57 #122612 by Msample
I'd rather have my hand in a Bene Gesserit pain box with a Gom Jabbar at my throat than play Cosmic Encounter. I just don't get it.

Vote: DUNE
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11 Apr 2012 20:59 #122613 by Ancient_of_MuMu
Dune is good, but it is no Cosmic Encounter.

Vote: COSMIC ENCOUNTER

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11 Apr 2012 21:09 #122614 by Jackwraith

Chapel wrote: CE is a fun beer and pretzels kind of game, but I still like a lot more meat on my plate. Dune has theme, and it has enough narrative to immerse me into that theme. CE is good for laughs, but at the end of the night it's just as empty as an experience as any fluffy euro like dominion or ticket to ride.


I'm also a fan of the meat-on-the-plate thing. I love games with all kinds of detail that is drenched in theme. I love games like TI3, Here I Stand, Siege of Jerusalem. Hell, I grew up basically as a grognard, playing things like Panzerblitz. But if we're talking about the best AT game of all time, we're not talking about something that virtually requires knowledge of the theme to work. Half the assessments of Rex on the Fortress have been thinly-veiled complaints about the fact that it isn't Dune. They don't say anything about the fact that it has the same rules. They just say it's not Dune. That's not an appreciation for a game. That's an appreciation for a book (which deserves it; don't get me wrong.)

Dune needs the right kind of people to play well. CE can play well with anyone. Dune needs six players to play at its best. CE can get by with four but can play hilariously with up to eight. CE is fun, wacky, random, brutal, and completely interactive (what many could say are the hallmarks of Ameritrash.) Dune fulfills 3 of the 5 there.

I'm in favor of complex games. I'd play them non-stop if I could convince my group to play them with me. But, if we're talking about the best AT game of all-time, CE is simply the better design, irrespective of spice or influence.

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11 Apr 2012 21:11 #122615 by Chapel

Jackwraith wrote: CE is simply the better design..


It is indeed elegant. :)
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11 Apr 2012 22:11 #122620 by DeletedUser
"In space, no one can hear you whine"

Vote: Cosmic Encounter

The most played game in our group by far.

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12 Apr 2012 00:57 #122628 by engineer Al
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12 Apr 2012 01:31 #122632 by Space Ghost

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12 Apr 2012 01:41 - 12 Apr 2012 01:58 #122635 by Mr. White

Chapel wrote:

Jackwraith wrote: CE is simply the better design..


It is indeed elegant. :)


Yeah, we've already done the rounds where CE could be a euro. Like a mysterious wandering pilgrim, rayito2702 came in with a strong case for CE as a 'proto-euro' then he disappeared.

fortressat.com/index.php/forum/10-amerit...it=10&start=10#52903
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12 Apr 2012 01:58 #122638 by Juniper

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12 Apr 2012 02:27 #122640 by san il defanso

Jeff White wrote:

Chapel wrote:

Jackwraith wrote: CE is simply the better design..


It is indeed elegant. :)


Yeah, we've already done the rounds where CE could be a euro. Like a mysterious wandering pilgrim, rayito2702 came in with a strong case for CE as a 'proto-euro' then he disappeared.

fortressat.com/index.php/forum/10-amerit...it=10&start=10#52903


If you're playing Cosmic Encounter the fun way, it's anything but elegant.

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12 Apr 2012 03:54 #122650 by dysjunct

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12 Apr 2012 06:50 #122659 by Delobius
Cosmic Encounter, despite the attempts of my fellow inmates over the last year to ruin it for me.

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12 Apr 2012 15:38 #122688 by Uethym

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12 Apr 2012 19:00 - 12 Apr 2012 19:01 #122708 by Notahandle
Death and Taxis wrote:
" "In space, no one can hear you whine""
You could not be more wrong. A friend up in London still remembers with great amusement that Cosmic Encounter game where I played the Sniveller.

VOTE: C O S M I C
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