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I'll just keep watching my discs and trying to get the boardgame out but won't be spending that sort of money on it.
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southernman wrote: More than likely will not take off like X-Wing due to things like price (cheapest here is £44, you get four ships) and expandability/variety ... oh and theme, BSG Reloaded universe is no where as well known as Star Wars.
I'll just keep watching my discs and trying to get the boardgame out but won't be spending that sort of money on it.
Yep. In this particular instance, it's actually a game, not a lifestyle. The base package is all you'll ever need for four players. You expand only if you care to.
Though £44 isn't cheap, it's in line with other games with this sort of content. Fireball Island is closer to £80, X-Wing starter for three ships is £30. Frankly X-Wings starter kit is a bit of an F-You containing 2 ships for one side and 1 for the other if you ask me.
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I have fond memories of the first couple of seasons, but it’s not a show that’s aging well. Returning to the show now feels like renting space inside of a “Never Forget” T-shirt circa 2003–it’s 100% of-it’s-time. That’s not counting the terrible denouement of the show, which was never good.
More importantly, as a dogfight game, how many ships even exist within the IP? I remember two.
I’d have preferred an original, well-written IP.
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GorillaGrody wrote: I’d have preferred an original, well-written IP.
You know this is an impossible task for the board gaming industry.
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Sagrilarus wrote:
...southernman wrote: More than likely will not take off like X-Wing due to things like price (cheapest here is £44, you get four ships) and expandability/variety ... oh and theme, BSG Reloaded universe is no where as well known as Star Wars.
I'll just keep watching my discs and trying to get the boardgame out but won't be spending that sort of money on it.
Though £44 isn't cheap, it's in line with other games with this sort of content. Fireball Island is closer to £80, X-Wing starter for three ships is £30. Frankly X-Wings starter kit is a bit of an F-You containing 2 ships for one side and 1 for the other if you ask me.
Maybe we're just in different economic tranches (the variety of the big wide world), I expect (require) a lot more for £44 - heck I only just pulled the trigger on Seal Team Flix at £39.
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GorillaGrody wrote: More importantly, as a dogfight game, how many ships even exist within the IP? I remember two.
Vipers, Raptors, Raiders and Heavy Raiders. That’s it. And I really like that, after chasing X-Wing through a few waves and buying multiples of most ships. I am totally OK with this.
They are doing ship packs though, the first ones will be Starbuck and Scar. So they will add pilots, and at least the Colonials will have a few there. But Scar is the only “name” Cylon so I don’t know what happens there.
But I am OK with two ship types per side.
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n815e wrote: The X-Wing base set contains less and doesn’t give you a complete game experience.
So one extra ship is a complete game experience ? Give me a break.
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