I don’t know, I just know that the name of my O-Phasengruppe was The Weird Wizards (groups of students organize a week of introductions at university, this week is called O-Phase as in orientation phase, gruppe=group)
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Lots of people like it but have not played myself. Currently Demon Lord is on one of the bundles (humble or holding) so available very cheap digitally there
Edit- link to the first bundle (of holding) Shadow of the Demon Lord
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Pre release notice of a couple of card games
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gameportland/haggis-and-tricktakers?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=Haggis%20
Haggis is a fantastic climbing game for 2 or 3 players (it’s on BGA).
Not played Tricktakers but it’s very highly regarded and second hand prices are bonkers
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Haggis is fun! No idea about Tricktakers. I haven’t played Kings: Tricktakers, which I received a while ago
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I’ve heard a LOT of hype about Tricktakers. People have been importing in Japanese copies to get their hands on it, and Spacebiff has been very complementary of it. Excited that there’s finally an English print!
Bit sad they’re just releasing the first Tricktakers and not both of them though.
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I am still waiting for my copy. But I have a notice that it will be here… probably right around the time we move. I have now changed my address for this one 3 times back and forth and back and forth…
PS why are there tokens on your floor?
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That is the punch holes for a bunch of the trackers. By the size of the pile you can tell it took a good few hours to setup. Which I found weirdly therapeutic.
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Darn, I wanted to believe that was the entire contents of the box! Though I guess this would then be in the Boxes Full of Air thread.
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There is an entire 4 pages of A4 dedicated to iconography.
This may take some time.
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Ah the nostalgia is winning over me… the only thing that can save me now is to look at the price tag!
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I was looking for something the other day and found I still have my old copy of Worms 2. Because you never know when I might suddenly have an old Windows PC I could play it on …
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Indeed! Hits several of my Kickstarter no-nos: mixed gameplay (the Alternate Landscapes Pack) and shinies content in a higher tier, no draft rulebook, no designer credit (even on BGG), lots of miniatures. What I’d really like is a retail edition with the 5/6 player expansion, extra weapons and game cards, and alternate landscapes pack.
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Worms as a boardgame just doesn’t really make sense to me anyway but for me red flag number one and the only one I need is it’s Mantic.
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What’s up with Mantic?
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They mostly don’t make very good games, trade heavily on minis, and then the game people really liked people are mad about their handling of it for reasons I forget because I never played it.
Iirc it was legally distinct from Blood Bowl.
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I couldn’t figure it out from the kickstarter page, but how do they recreate the experience of failing to notice a tiny bit of terrain floating in mid air by your worm then blowing yourself up?
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I’m surprised to hear that. Mantic are primarily a miniature wargame company, so I can understand some caution over their ability to produce a good boardgame. However, I’ve heard quite a lot of praise for how good their previous licensed games are (Hellboy, the Walking Dead), and there’s a lot of praise for their wargame rules.
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That was my impression too. I’ve mainly heard wargamers who like the rules enough to be tournament enthusiasts. I also had the impression that ‘not blood bowl’ was popular for good game play. Only had SVWAG to go on for praise for Hellboy but I’d also not heard bad things about it. Interesting you say Walking Dead has positive rep as I thought it was interesting that they attempted a coop minis game but came out wrong time for me to pay much mind.
I suppose the thing is I don’t think I’ve engaged with any of their kickstarter backers so that could be a different way to generate bad feelings
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I have Dungeon Saga and it is bland and soulless. I haven’t heard particularly good things about anything since outside of the wargaming space and I really am not qualified to speak to wargames’ quality, only that people were not happy with how they dealt with their Blood Bowl knockoff (though as I say people seemed to like it). Mostly what I have heard about the wargames is the minis are close enough to GW properties to sub in (if people let you) and much more affordable but they might be good also, IDK. Minis are not for me so I don’t play games that require collecting lots of individual ones.
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