jeb wrote: I can't fault the complaints. The game is pretty simple at its core and can be swingy as hell if your white-point objectives line up. But it's just so good. It's not trying to be a three-hour slugfest between genius tacticians. It's just trying to have cool fights between spider guys and lizard guys, with a dragon guy shooting some lava here and there.
Like most games, I’ll play and have fun with it if it’s in front of me. I’m a gamer, it’s a rare game I dislike enough that I’d have more fun doing nothing (ie, Hansa Teutonica). It’s just not generally gonna be my pick when my rotation of picking a game comes
Really liking it. It's got the whole thing, except for research/tech tree. Every unit is different & useful, terrain types are interesting, cards are powerful, and you can make combos with the objectives.
Shit, I just remembered by favourite DOAM style game. Circus Imperium, and obscure old game about futuristic chariots racing and gladiators slaughtering each other. Maybe it's more a racing game but I dont care. It was pure black tar Ameritrash. That game rocked and I wish I could find it again
I still love Nexus Ops. It fast and fun, and feels more like StarCraft than StarCraft the board game did.
While we're sharing our monoliths, here's mine that I made last year. I carved it from wood and painted it and attached some plastic crystals and greenish uranium glass bits that glow under the black light.
Most of the comments here are spot on about what makes it so great.
I prefer the AH version, and think the FFG version looks like someone puked.
But I never really liked the sci-fi theme, so I created a medieval re-theme that I called
Feudal Ops
. Unfortunately, it only exists in digital, not physical, form. It's a
free download
from my site.
I am pretty lukewarm about the game. I bought the AH one when it was $12 and then sold it a year later. Then I bought the FFG one when everyone kept gushing about it. And sold it a year later.
It is okay but super light. It is basically Fightin’ Yachtzee: roll some dice and make some mostly obvious decisions. That is fine but I’d rather play almost anything else. I would rather play San Juan or Love Letter or something.
dysjunct wrote: It is okay but super light. It is basically Fightin’ Yachtzee: roll some dice and make some mostly obvious decisions. That is fine but I’d rather play almost anything else. I would rather play San Juan or Love Letter or something.
Still great, still sees play, still impressive with a clever combination of traditional DOAM tropes alongside just enough streamlining and mechanical balancing to keep rogue dice in check. Chaining a series of objectives in one round for a victory out of nowhere is a magnificent moment.
The only other game that can challenge it is Risk: Legacy. But that's Legacy, which is great but makes it more of an occasion game. There's never not a great time to play Nexus Ops.
Whoshim wrote: I found NexusOps unsatisfying. I won the first multiplayer game that I played even though I was basically destroyed. I was able to get points through the cards matching up pretty exactly with what I was able to do each turn. It just felt weird to me to lose so much but still win the game. It was not satisfying. I think I only played one game after that.
Yeah, it's really more of an objective based thing. If you're expecting the guy with the most dudes on the map to win, he's doing it wrong. You get points for attacking people and accomplishing things, not waiting until you die of sun cancer in Australia.
Whoshim wrote: I found NexusOps unsatisfying. I won the first multiplayer game that I played even though I was basically destroyed. I was able to get points through the cards matching up pretty exactly with what I was able to do each turn. It just felt weird to me to lose so much but still win the game. It was not satisfying. I think I only played one game after that.
Yeah, it's really more of an objective based thing. If you're expecting the guy with the most dudes on the map to win, he's doing it wrong. You get points for attacking people and accomplishing things, not waiting until you die of sun cancer in Australia.
Yeah. I thought objectives would make it better, but it just felt a bit too random for me. I think the idea of being able to win without dominating the entire board is a good one. However, I was able to win while being dominated (from a military perspective).
I think that objectives usually make military games better ("kill them all" is my preferred way to play Heroscape though). I would be willing to play Nexus Ops again, but I don't know anyone who has it. I might find that my opinion of it changes, but I have enough games that I really like that I am not interested in tracking down a copy.
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