M and games like it also have amazing aesthetics and craftsmanship that you don't get in a video game. Though of course whynotboth.gifHaha yeah, but couldn't you say that about most board games, assuming that you're OK with interacting with a game digitally? There are a lot of unacceptable downsides of that to me though, most prominently that I find the social experience to be greatly compromised. K
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There is a middle ground I suppose, which is app-aided like what MoM has officially, and what several other games have on an unofficial basis. Some people get annoyed by this but personally I quite like it. Don't know if that would work with KMost board games I've played? I can't say I've found many boardgames that require so much upkeep and math that they'd be better run by a computer....with the exception of something like Suburbia. Even then, Suburbia is trying to be an abstraction of Sim City. A faithful analog reproduction of Sim City on the table is a fantasy, but completely unfeasible, to say the least.
And you're right that board games benefit from a human factor that computers struggle to replicate.
I mean to say that the way KDM's design is described sounds like it would work better as a "Tycoon" game on my PC more so than a $100(1,000?) board game.
I take it KDM is also trying to abstract a videogame (Monster Hunter), but this is where we maybe don't see upfront how complex and dense with math a videogame really is. If people can swing that, then I guess thats their killer weekend, but "high barrier to entry" only begins to describe what that game looks like to me.
Sure they do, it's called "good graphics"
M though, but I certainly don't mind less accounting if it can help me get to the fun decisions faster while still retaining a lot of the appeal of a physical game.There is a middle ground I suppose, which is app-aided like what MoM has officially, and what several other games have on an unofficial basis. Some people get annoyed by this but personally I quite like it. Don't know if that would work with K
I thought it was supposed to be out already but I just checked and saw that it is still listed as a pre-order at a lot of places. I guess it's a possibility that it could be a bit delayed until the film releases, since FFG's Wave 10 of X-Wing won't be out in time for the film. They want the U-Wing and TIE Striker to be out by then but I think it's a long-shot. So maybe Disney and FFG wanted to keep Destiny in reserves until Star Wars hype was at maximum levels.
For Necromunda, if at the end of a game a model was Out of Action (removed from the game), it had to roll a D66 on an injury table -- rolls 11-15 are out right death, 16 was multiple injuries, arm would was 23, etc. You could even get captured, have full recoveries, or even survive against all odds with a full recovery and earn extra XP. If a model was Down at the end of a game, on a roll of 1-3 it became Out of Action and had to roll on the injury table, but on a roll of 4-6 it was a full recovery and the model could still collect income and such.
I have checked it out once a week or so and your post made me check it again. I thought I might pledge, since I was really interested in playing the original Mythic Battles. After seeing that it will be $500 to get everything for Pantheon, I might go ahead and just pick up the original game now. I'm not one of those "I hate miniatures and always prefer standees, chits, cubes, or anything else" types but I don't particularly need a small-time skirmish game to have minis. I've just started reading the rules for Okko and think I am gonna love it, and it only has standees. A BGG user posted some really cool custom standees for the original game.