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Gary Sax wrote: Though to be fair I wouldn't want to have to play so many new games constantly, sounds stressful.
As Barnes has talked about in the past, there certainly are downsides. I've assembled and painted up the starting survivors and White Lion for Kingdom Death but haven't had an opportunity to play it with my group. It looks like it'd play well solo but it's one my buddies would really enjoy. It may be months now until I get to it.
Also have a copy of Pandemic Legacy I bought still in shrink. Probably shouldn't have but the hype got me. Will probably be months until I get to this as well.
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Played Food Chain Magnate at the pub with some friends. Game is wickedly brutal, and I liked it. I won by slowly running the bank, while not taking any highly paid executive. Interesting strategy.
And played 7 Wonders and Splendor at work several times
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charlest wrote: The new version of Fire and Axe: A Viking Saga is great. Really enjoy this game as a streamlined simulation with some chaos. All of the Viking games this year (BR, Fire and Axe, and Champions of Midgard) feel very different.
I haven't heard too much about this one lately. Can we expect a review at some point?
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charlest wrote: The new version of Fire and Axe: A Viking Saga is great. Really enjoy this game as a streamlined simulation with some chaos. All of the Viking games this year (BR, Fire and Axe, and Champions of Midgard) feel very different.
I haven't heard too much about this one lately. Can we expect a review at some point?
Yes sir, pretty soon. Have three plays in of it now. Talked about it on the podcast as well which is being uploaded tonight.
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Josh Look wrote: Someone on here said that Warhammer Quest ACG was easy. I don't remember who that was, but that person is either playing the game wrong or they're a no good fucking goddamned liar.
I said it was easy after the first game or two, because I stormed through it. But I think I was doing a couple of things wrong, probably missed a step or two. It definitely gets more difficult, especially on the Delve mode.
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Josh Look wrote: Someone on here said that Warhammer Quest ACG was easy. I don't remember who that was, but that person is either playing the game wrong or they're a no good fucking goddamned liar.
The game is pretty difficult. It's also one of those games where it's really easy to forget a rule or fuck something up. I missed two pretty big things that helped make the game a bit easier.
1) When your heroes take turns activating enemies there are two things to remember: First enemies don't inflict their damage unless they actually have the keyword "inflict" on them. Totally missed that the first time. Next if they're in the shadows and they have the "inflict" keyword they only damage the hero that activated them. I totally buggered this up on my first couple of run-throughs.
2) During your hero's turn if you can exhaust an enemy it does two things. First, the exhausted enemy can be ignored when you perform an action. So if you're doing an attack action against two enemies and one of them is exhausted...you only need to roll the black die for the un-exhausted enemy. Again, something I missed. The other more obvious thing is that they don't attack/act when activated.
When I've soloed the game I only use two heroes. Using anymore than that just leads to forgetting which character already acted and whatnot. I do think which heroes you bring makes a big difference on the difficultly level. I've been having pretty good luck with the archer and the priest.
Oh, another small easy rule that I missed was getting treasure when exploring. When you reveal a dungeon card if it has a little gold coin in the bottom lefthand corner you get to draw from the treasure/item deck. Basically, during my first couple of sessions I fucked up everything.
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Black Barney wrote: Played SMASH UP and won in a four player setting. That game takes too damn long
By which I assume you mean your game took about 5 minutes.
(Yes, it does)
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