Yeah we got that rule wrong the first few times we played too. The voting cards for each proposed mission are not supposed to be shuffled, so you can see who didn't like the proposal for whatever reason. Also, while it isn't necessary to have the leader go on the mission, not choosing yourself to go (for a guaranteed resistance member) is highly suspicious.
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Yeah we got that rule wrong the first few times we played too. The voting cards for each proposed mission are not supposed to be shuffled, so you can see who didn't like the proposal for whatever reason. Also, while it isn't necessary to have the leader go on the mission, not choosing yourself to go (for a guaranteed resistance member) is highly suspicious.
BattleMonkey
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If you want to draw people in for your minis, you should do 28mm since that is the standard miniature size and for people buying for use in other games, it's the more compatible size with other mini games and terrain. For board games they tend to do 25mm and the cheaper plastic moulding process causes the figures to be a little smaller than that, so you often get board games that are said to be 28-25mm, yet the figs are smaller than the typical minis found in miniature games or those produced by reaper and such for generic purposes.
Doing 30mm realistic scale might work best since the moulding process used by board games will make the figs smaller than sculpted, so they would be closer to 28mm
If you want to appeal to miniature gamers though, you want to go with a higher quality material for your figs, such as resin variations instead of the cheapo board game plastic. The cheaper plastics used for most board games really kills lot of the miniature detail and you get lots of bendy pieces, you can't really mould properly certain details or stuff like thin objects correctly. You have to use higher quality materials that miniature gamers are used to.
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Im still waiting for my add ons in the US :-\
Played Puzzle Strike yesterday for the first time in a while. As annoying as Sirlin can be, forgot how fun that game is. Noticed online that they changed several of the rules though. Notably you can send you gems to anyone you choose and the game ends once the first person has been eliminated (you check the piles of the remaining players -- lowest wins). They also made Combine gems (my favorite) weaker by making them worth -$1. Ordered the Shadows expansion as a result. 
What are you waiting for?
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All the stretch goals. They had a delay for the container with the extra bits, so they only sent me the core games. I got the core games right after Gencon, but still waiting on everything else.
Hopefully soon. I think I got everything.
I got my ship notice a week & a half ago, finally got picked up by Fedex & is on its way. This will be the "everything" bundle.
Anyone shipping at this point is getting "everything" in this wave. People like Battlemonkey will get the rest of theirs once they finish the rest, I believe.
I expected better out of CMON than this series of shipping screwups.
Anyone shipping at this point is getting "everything" in this wave. People like Battlemonkey will get the rest of theirs once they finish the rest, I believe.
I expected better out of CMON than this series of shipping screwups.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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I am so confused with how the Zombicide is shipping. I was apart of the first shipment and I think I got everything that was supposed to come in the first one (zombie dogs, extra zombies, some of the promo characters). The only thing I'm waiting on is some of the other promos that weren't supposed to ship until later.
You were one of the very lucky few who got everything from wave one on that first day or two before they realised they were missing a container. Bastard
If anyone is interested, the Mage Wars playmats are now available on the Arcane Wonders site. For those that don't know, these are rubber mats that you can roll up after use. The advantage is that there are no seams so the cards will slide evenly across the whole board. They've got the original board and also a new Selenia mat which is a dirt arena. It looks pretty awesome.
I'll be looking for impressions that looks awesome
Wow, the game looks really neat, but I'm not quite sold on the mechanics. Maybe I'm just thinking that to dissuade myself from buying ANOTHER game D:
BattleMonkey
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Played the Pacific Rim card game and actually had fun? lol. Its a stupid simple game and it's dirt cheap. The rules are super simple but they do have advanced rules at the end of the rules that it notes are for "adult" players since its written for family fun originally. Advanced rules actually make for an interesting game. Not going to be for everyone obviously but for less than 10 bucks I was surprised we actually liked it lol
Just watched a vid on it. Looks pretty sweet. Might have to pick up for the holidays!
Zippedpinhead
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A good friend of mine just posted a preview write-up of Two Rooms and a Boom.
2D6.org Two Rooms and a BOOM
I wish I could have participated in the preview night, but from the explosion of my facebook from some of the other participants it seems to have gone over well.
I can't find a kickstarter start date (previous date was Sept 24, but that came and went due to some technical hiccups) but they anticipate starting in early November now.
2D6.org Two Rooms and a BOOM
I wish I could have participated in the preview night, but from the explosion of my facebook from some of the other participants it seems to have gone over well.
I can't find a kickstarter start date (previous date was Sept 24, but that came and went due to some technical hiccups) but they anticipate starting in early November now.
Played some Pathfinder finally, after ordering the game about a month ago. Game is pretty fun, although it might be a bit too easy with 2 players. I also love the whole level up your character through multiple playthroughs aspect, but I have too many people I want to play with so I'm going to have to keep decklists for characters that get used in multiple groups.
What have people been doing for marking cards? I was thinking using sleeves that I mark with fine print sharpies, but I dunno if the ink will rub off or not. Plus if I'm keeping decklists I will need to write it somewhere else. I would write on the cards themselves if I could get new copies of them. I suppose I could also use the character sheets Paizo provides but then I would have so many pieces of paper in my box lol.
What have people been doing for marking cards? I was thinking using sleeves that I mark with fine print sharpies, but I dunno if the ink will rub off or not. Plus if I'm keeping decklists I will need to write it somewhere else. I would write on the cards themselves if I could get new copies of them. I suppose I could also use the character sheets Paizo provides but then I would have so many pieces of paper in my box lol.
BattleMonkey
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Easiest is to get the character sheets from paizo.
They also allow you to keep track of deck lists so two birds with one sheet
Affeinvasion
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I got King of Tokyo and Power-up for my birthday (along with X-Wing, Betrayal at House on the Hill, and Quarriors Quartifacts...it was a nice haul). I'm definitely going to pick up the Halloween expansion sometime, though.
I love KoT. I'd heard rave reviews but the first time I'd ever played it was at GenCon during a tournament. I won my first and only game to get this badass mutha:
I wish he had evolution cards or whatever they're called, but he's awesome looking.
I picked up Darkest Night, which is like Pandemic with a little bit of Arkham Horror, but themed like an RPG (think Demon's Souls/Dark Souls). A Necromancer has taken over and is spreading blights across the land to finish humanity off, and you use a mix of 4 hero classes who use different powers to search for holy relics and defeat blights before they spread to your sanctuary, all the while trying to remain hidden from the Necromancer, who you finally confront at the end but can only be defeated by rolling a 7 (and you have a d6,,,).
And it finally arrived here in Austin. A nice big 9lb box of zombie fun.
KOT is A-MAZING. Just waiting on Netrunner Second Thoughts to come out for my CSI order w/ KoT Halloween to ship. I also wish Brockenbar had evolution cards (don't have Space Penguin -- he's fresh too).
BattleMonkey
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Geez and still no ship notice even here.
VGChampion
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Zombicide Season 2 for me as well. I ordered everything possible so while this isn't everything, it came in a pretty huge box and was fun to unbox. Got my shipping notice like three weeks ago. Can't wait to play it this Sunday when I have a day off. The amount of new survivors is crazy.
Just got home from the local board game night. Played Rallyman, the Penny Arcade card game expansion, and a quick round of Poo.
The Penny Arcade game was pretty fun. It's a combination of dominion and ascension and our game was very closely matched. Apparently the base game has a way of being absolutely broken, so it's nice the game we played wasn't like that.
Poo is not suited for 2 players despite it saying so on the box.
It was tough to get going for me. I'm pretty bad at explaining things when I'm passionate/excited. We disregarded the secondary (and riskier) option for movement for the sake of getting the game going, and it was fun! I enjoyed it more than my friend because I love racing and had a better grasp at the theme and what it was going for with the mechanics of it. Definitely need to play it solitaire to learn everything so I can explain it better, hopefully get my dad involved as well.
The Penny Arcade game was pretty fun. It's a combination of dominion and ascension and our game was very closely matched. Apparently the base game has a way of being absolutely broken, so it's nice the game we played wasn't like that.
Poo is not suited for 2 players despite it saying so on the box.
Yeah, lots of fun unboxing all the stuff. Played the first mall mission tonight and it was pretty fun. Still need to do some tweaking of the equipment and spawn decks. Not sure about the Zombivors yet.
the thing I'm not quite sold on is the way you roll dice and they each represent a gear. I don't really understand that abstraction, you roll a die and you're okay as long as you don't roll three hazard symbols? does that mean your three gears just fell out of the transmission? I understand how it works in real life, I'm just not sure what the game is trying to convey from reality for a game. can you shed some light?
the components and stuff make the game look very fun otherwise
It's a game based on Rallying, which is inherently dangerous. In real world rallysport, you have a co-driver telling you what is coming up and if there's miscommunication, that can lead to a crash, or if the driver gets too exuberant. So how I see the gears/hazards is the more you want to progress in your turn (the faster you want to go) the more dangerous & risky it is.
Each gear die can only be used once per turn as well, if you choose to. So there's strategy in how you prep for turns, when you want to just accelerate in a gear, or gear up/down. You can either prolong your turn and make more progress, or you can hinder yourself by using a gear you need too early.
If you do hit 3 hazards, instead of drawing whichever gear you were in as you would normally (which adds to your total time), you instead turn it over where it shows a "0", for neutral, and then has what happened in your loss of control. Either a 180 spin, with no damage, other than having to start in 1st from that space the next turn, or you veer off course which can damage your car. Damage is represented by taking away the amount of black dice you can use per turn.
So when I was trying to teach and learn myself, I got absolutely screwed and flew into some rocks almost immediately.
The gear cards are a little smaller than I'd like actually, but I have big hands. It's not like you need to draw and play cards anyway, they're more like markers to be tallied up at the end. I was surprised at how big the Penny Arcade game's cards were. Funny contrast.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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We played Cuba Libre last night, and it was awesome. Despite being a game from GMT and the Counter Insurgency tag, it felt like a euroized war game. A player in our game said it felt like a multiplayer Twilight Struggle and I think I would have to agree with him. What I liked most about the game is the asymmetrical sides. No two factions played the same, each had their own actions they could perform, and they even had different win conditions. It's a little more complex that Twilight Struggle, because of it's asymmetrical sides, but not by much. I'd say if you can handle Twilight Struggle you can handle Cuba Libre.
I ended up losing but came really close to the win. The winner in our game was the Syndicate, who's win condition was they needed at least 8 open casinos and at least 31 resources (money in the game). To contrast that, my win condition was to have my bases and the population of the areas I controlled to be at least 9.
I ended up losing but came really close to the win. The winner in our game was the Syndicate, who's win condition was they needed at least 8 open casinos and at least 31 resources (money in the game). To contrast that, my win condition was to have my bases and the population of the areas I controlled to be at least 9.
Looks like it'll be even longer now before get Firefly from Amazon.ca. I received my preorder copy this morning. After opening the untouched amazon packaging I found the game box to be scuffed so much on the corner and front that not only was the plastic worn away but the box was worn down to the cardboard. Looks like it was stuck in a belt sander or most likely a conveyer belt. I've contracted Amazon for a replacement but with the game showing out of stock online it might be a wait.
Edit: Just as I thought. I got a email back and they do not have it in stock to send a replacement. I can either send it back for a full refund ($36.69) or they will refund me back 20% ($7.34) of what I paid. Guess I'll go with the 20% as I did get a good deal when I pre-ordered it and it's only the outside box.
Edit: Just as I thought. I got a email back and they do not have it in stock to send a replacement. I can either send it back for a full refund ($36.69) or they will refund me back 20% ($7.34) of what I paid. Guess I'll go with the 20% as I did get a good deal when I pre-ordered it and it's only the outside box.
does anyone here know if you order from coolstuffinc and have a preorder for an order that qualifies for free shipping, will they ship the stuff that they have first, or will they make you wait until the preorder is out?
I have some stuff I want to order and the race for the galaxy new expansion will get me free shipping, but if they won't ship until it comes out I don't want to do that as I would like my games before 2016
I have some stuff I want to order and the race for the galaxy new expansion will get me free shipping, but if they won't ship until it comes out I don't want to do that as I would like my games before 2016
platypotamus
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You'll have to wait. The one nice perk about this is that if other things come out before then that you would like to add to this order, contacting their customer service works out quite well.
thanks for the response... looks like no preorder of the race to the galaxy expansion for me
The very first thing I do when trying to set up Star Wars miniatures is break the tip of the plastic stand into the fighter's bit so I can't put it on a stand.
Also couldn't get my friend interested enough to play with the full rules after a quick demo of the movement/combat so played Dominion tonight.
Also couldn't get my friend interested enough to play with the full rules after a quick demo of the movement/combat so played Dominion tonight.
One Foul Note
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The very first thing I do when trying to set up Star Wars miniatures is break the tip of the plastic stand into the fighter's bit so I can't put it on a stand.
That's something I've always been worried about. Whenever me and my mate set up a game I'm always really careful about connecting the stands to the figures. Good to know that my paranoia is not completely without cause.
It's just me being an anxious idiot, there's clearly the half circle on the instructions for set up. I just was like huerhuehguhuatguag plastic bit go here and then twisted to make the ship face the right direction, *pop* ...fuck
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Ogre showed up today. The box is huge. I know they've been hyping it up through updates ever since the campaign ended but it's another thing to actually have it in my hands. One of my board pieces is pretty dinged up though.
Just picked up King of Tokyo Halloween. Looking forward to playing this, although I'm not sure how I feel about the included King of New York card. It's another indicator that maybe some games get too many expansions nowadays? I'll probably end up buying it regardless.
I saw Pathfinder pack 2 in the shop as well, but since my copy is coming in the post, I had to resist buying it.
I saw Pathfinder pack 2 in the shop as well, but since my copy is coming in the post, I had to resist buying it.
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