Big fan of Quo Vadis which removed hesitations on extra cost.
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I too purchased the poor manās edition
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Damn it, Space Biff has given The Old Kingās Crown a glowing preview
Iād managed to ignore this, but now Iām excited again
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Oh no, my wallet!
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Moon is back on kickstarter, with a whole host of wooden coins. Past me would get the coins, but Iām not sure what Iād use them for
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sinisterfish/moon-playmat-coin-chests?ref=profile_created
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One of the most flexible and adaptable currency progressions is 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50,ā¦
However, in a game, it doesnāt make sense to have both a 1 and 2. Similarly, if you have a 5 and 20, you donāt need a 10.
In other words, they should have just used 1, 5, 20, 100 and printed more 5s and 20s.
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Yeah, Iāve put a reminder on it to see how the distributions end up once the extra coins are added.
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Backed Cascadero, should be a safe bet, no negotiation involved. Decided I didnāt need its little brother.
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Mine arrived today!
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Now with wooden camels for $29.
Off to back
Yeah. I donāt see why youād want to spend $29 for that. They even admitted that they reverted back to plastic camels due to fiddliness of the former. Unless, Through the Desert is like one of your desert island games. Sureā¦ (pun intended)
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Wood is best! Forever.
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Wood may be best, but not $29 best.
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It also wonāt prevent them from including the plastic camels in your box
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I guess itās easier to throw an extra bag in the delivery than repacks.
Either way Iām in for wooden camels.
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The Corvus Belli people have subcontracted out a fleet combat board game based on their Infinity universeā¦
Iāmā¦ hmmm. Not impressed? It has some neat ideas, but honestly 2 ships per side in the base box, or 6 ships per side for a whopping $350CAD (plus shipping!) just doesnāt appeal. Red Alert, the Command and Colors fleet game, comes with two fleets ofā¦ 20? And gosh does this one ever look shockingly fiddly. So many cubes on so many flat pieces of cardboard/plastic that, if nudged, would instantly ruin the game?
BUT, the art is beautiful, and the inertia thing is a neat idea (I think Talon does something very similar, honestly, but Iāve never actually played the game, just read the rules, and itās hex based and dry-erase, so already massive steps up in playability).
So, I dunno. Iāll probably nab it at retail? Maybe?
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This is not by any means the only space combat game to use vector movement (and like almost(?) all of them it errs in adding your acceleration to your speed at once, as if youād done all your accelerating right at the start of the turn rather than spreading it throughout).
Itās not quite FC0B because Gamefound doesnāt tell you about backing history, but itās this organisationās second project. Miniatures (being done by a third party). No rulebook.
And basically apart from the pretty minis Iām not seeing anything here that I couldnāt do with Full Thrust or Talon orā¦ well, you get the idea.
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I love Infinity as the last painted thread proves. Their sub games I find relentlessly disappointing apart from Aristea. So a crowd funding release from CB is a red flag.
Have you played REM racers? It seems cheap enough to consider so that might be an exception of me trying one
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If you want a really cheap space battler, 10 Billion Suns exists.
Same guy as Gaslands, so itās hereās the rules, use whatever figures you want.
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Minor note: Itās a mere 1 Billion Suns
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