I’d be happy to play it to see whether it convinced me otherwise, but I have to say those dice sound like the worst thing ever.
I love the box art, though.
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Rattle bones is this hilarious roll and move game that degenerates into a roll and score points game.
Preordered Imperial Steam with a friend to save shipping cost.
You can pretty much assume that any upcoming Capstone Games is anticipated by me.
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My partner mentioned the upcoming Assassin‘s Creed boardgame which is apparently based on the systems of V-Commandoes? Since he loves the computer games and drooled on the demo copy at SPIEL 2018 (although he had forgotten that), I would like to know if any of you know more about the game or the base on which it is built?
Also: @lalunaverde 
we never would have assumed…
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@RogerBW has run some forum games of V-Commandos here, which were great fun, to the point I backed the last Kickstarter so I can have my own copy.
EDIT: looking at the pictures in the link, I think they went a little overboard with the minis. I mean sure, the tower is impressive, but takes up a lot of room (but then, I own Shogun, with the cube tower…). Overall looks a bit more complex than V-Commandos, but without actually viewing a rulebook, it’s hard to judge.
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In addition to what @COMaestro indicated already, the AC game was a campaign from the start while V-Commandos was scenario based (though the last KS added an optional campaign).
That was actually the only thing that stopped me from backing as I love what I had seen of the core mechanics from V-Commandos but I’m not into straight historical war themes.
Edit; also, I believe their is some small element of base building like they had in a few of the video games, but I’m not sure how in depth it is. I stopped following very closely after the PM closed.
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V-Commandos has now been renamed V-Sabotage because they got a legal threat from some video game publisher with more money than them. (Which means the event card backs in the new stuff won’t match, for those of us who already had a copy…)
I know VC/VS pretty well: in effect, every turn is a puzzle, how you’re going to achieve something and end up somewhere safe by the end of the turn. (It’s much more about stealth than about shooting.)
The makers of the original Commandoes game series? I played some of those and enjoyed them a lot especially the folding lifeboat… ah yikes. I saw something on BGG but had no idea of the kind of shenanigans leading to a game having multiple names.
I think the board game borrowed heavily from the old computer game and the computer game got a remaster recently which probably kicked the lawyers into gear.
I was tempted by the AC Kickstarter but not enough to back and TBH the minis started getting a bit on the ridiculous side which killed it for me. I think there was a tower for diving from which didn’t seem like it added anything to the game apart from being a large mini (side eye at Witcher’s horse on a roof and death may dies giant ‘ornament’).
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So Great Western Trail (2nd ed) has cowboys with fricking hats. Want.
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It sealed the deal for me. Never knew I needed hats on my Meeples before now.
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Nope. I want Great New Zealand Trail or nothing. Probably nothing. Mr Pfister’s designs and I don’t get along. On the other hand I don’t have New Zealand themed games…
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Latest estimate is probably November ish. Sigh.
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At non eye watering prices - Fort: Cats & Dogs Expansion - Bestes Angebot für Brett- und Gesellschaftsspiele - BoardGamePrices.co.uk
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I ended up just buying into more dice, cars and the Adrenaline pack (all for GT) from the Dirt campaign, but my poor buddy jumped in on my PM and went all-in (for Dirt). He’s been playing a lot on BGA, I kind of can’t wait for him to get the physical version into his hands. Been thinking of making a trip out his way to loan him GT, actually. He’s got a nice new garden patio and has been itching for a game on it. Such a beautifully tactile game, for anyone still waiting, it’ll be worth it.
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Same here, somebody else has it in the game group, I can wait 2 years till the NZ ed comes up, to see if it is any good.
The only really anticipated game for me is the French version of Beyond The Sun (my wife doesn’t speak English, so all of our games need to be either in French or text-less). That game… It CALLS to me!
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It is awesome. I find it works at all player counts, has good replayablity, is not too heavy to get to the table and the different systems mesh nicely into a whole and that tech tree is just so good. There is a really good implementation over on BGA.
Are you on Board Game Arena? Beyond the Sun is on there
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Played my first game of Beyond the Sun today, and (despite losing badly) it was fun
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