Outside of the auction, the game is very solitaire-ish. I just pay 1 Aqua for each card, indeed.
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Theyâve started doing that with the spin-off Pandemic games. Now they are just the title and somewhere on the box it will show âPandemic Systemâ.
I think Star Wars: The Clone Wars was the first to do this, but I know they have changed the box art on at least Reign of Cthulhu and Iberia to do the same thing. I think Fall of Rome as well. And you can see it on the side of the Fate of the Fellowship box.
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Chaps in the Old World has you explicitly as the Chaps gods who are not especially nice people
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I wish this typo would become the official reprint plan
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Leave everything else exactly as it is, but put bowler hats and monocles on every mini.
Except for one faction. They get cowboy chaps.
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Slaanesh. Definitely Slaanesh âŚ
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Right, so, my point was that HF without the auction sounds like HF without the game. More of a practice mode than a solitaire mode? But if you like it that much I suppose there must be something to it.
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Hmm. Perhaps the possible aspects that appeal to people are different. The auction portion of the multiplayer game seem fairly uninteresting in my opinion. Albeit, Iâve not experienced it directly, but I have consumed some playthrough videos where it was featured.
As @lalunaverde said, the auctions basically come down to â1 aqua per cardâ, plus or minus 1 aqua depending on how interested you actually are in the offer, and whether youâre going up against someone with the tie-break special ability.
I wish an expansion would get released that replaced the entire âresearch auctionâ with an actual R&D process.
I know thereâs an Economy expansion coming soon; I didnât pre-order it because it doesnât apply to solitaire play. But, ultimately, I feel that the economy and âresearchâ portions of the game are the weakest and least interesting.
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Well, I agree that itâs fairly uninteresting, which is why I bailed on the async HF game I joined. So itâs not about âappealâ. But I also saw it as the game part of the game: the decisions that affect winning or losing. The rest seemed to be parsing the board and rolling dice.
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thereâs more cash involved in multiplayer games. Difference is that you can received money, which you canât do in solo.
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Yeah. Thatâs a fair point. But without being able to preview upcoming cards, I feel as though this is more luck-oriented than skill-oriented.
The game needs a proper R&D mechanism. Admittedly, that may detract from the focus of throwing together a rocket and flying around the solar system â this appears to be the primary goal of the game and, as Benkyo mentioned, it boils down to reading the map and rolling dice at that point.
A fine sandbox it be. And perhaps the skill in the gameplay is identifying the cards on auction and accurately positioning yourself to get what you want while profiting on your opponents. But, again, without being able to see upcoming cards on the offer, itâs all just reactionary.
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thereâs ânot really much gameâ in this game. You literally move around the map, roll some dice, and then shit happens. The âgameâ isnât the reason why I play HF4A though. If you want dense rules (to an asinine amount) with depth, Pax Renaissance is in my Top 20 ever.
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Hunt for the Ring has 1 player as Frodo, and everyone else as Ring Wraiths hunting himâŚ
Twilight Imperium is super dark if you read the associated lore. No good guys there except.maybe the Mentak, and they are piratesâŚ
Dune has no heroesâŚ
Oh, Archapelago and New Angeles are both âone secret good guy against a horde of awful, awful capitalists,â so that might count?
And then countless games where you play as blood barons, imperialists, or slavers without comment.
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I think the big difference here is if itâs an existing IP. Otherwise you have quite a few where youâre certainly not playing heroes (A War of Whispers, John Company 2nd) but thatâs very different to a property that has two sides (like Star Wars) and youâre outright playing the Empire.
(Mind you, the mid-90s Tie-Fighter PC game was brilliant)
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Yes, sorry, I was specifically thinking of the case in which there is an IP owner which is distinct from the game designer.
Lucasfilm/Disney had clearly lost it when they started having Stormtrooper cosplayers as convention security. Look, guys, these are not the forces of order even if they are the forces of lawâŚ
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Itâs my birthday on Monday, so had a friend over to play some games. She proceeded to beat me at all of them.
Consentacle - Pulled this one out for only the second time ever. First game, we were just using euphemisms, then we switched to no talking for the second game. I donât think Iâd ever say itâs a great game in terms of mechanics, but itâs a delight to play with the right person.
Unmatched - Started off with trying out the new Slings and Arrows set. I played Titania against my friend as Shakespeare. I lost quite badly.
Switched over to her as Medusa and me as Sherlock. An incredibly close game where I got them down to 2 health and would have taken them out if theyâd attacked with Medusa instead of a harpy. Next turn, I chipped away 1 more health but they finished me off.
Robin of Locksley - Finally got to play this for the first time. Enjoyable despite not really getting the hang of it.
Wonderland Xiii - Very odd little push-your-luck game. I was doing so well until I was laid low by my hubris and ended up with no full sets of cards.
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⌠surely nobody would be stupid enoughâŚ
⌠I mean, come on⌠they canât be that dumbâŚ
âHello, and welcome to Hot Lead Con 2025! This is the premier WW2-era miniatures combat convention in North America! Now, before we get started, you will note our security is cosplaying in era-specific grey uniforms, and easily identified by their bright armbands labelled with the acronym for âSafe Security.ââ
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Well my second match of the A Gest of Robin Hood tournament timed out, giving me the win, though the way the game was going, that was probably a given anyway. We were in the third Ballad, I had 5 points of Order as the Sheriff, and my opponent was low on pieces and funds.
So moved on to the third match right away, this time as Robin. First Ballad went okay, had some back and forth but ended with a point or two of Justice. Second Ballad, everything went to pot. He almost got an instant win with 5 at the end of it, but a lucky event moved the control marker one step my way, however I was down to just a few pieces and only 1 shilling, pretty much forcing me to try to Rob on my first action, which failed. In fact, I think every Rob action I tried for the latter half of the game failed. Before the end, all of my pieces were off the board, only one parish was Revolting and I was broke. Just utterly crushed.
So, on to the fourth match. Weâll see how this goes.
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I played half of a game of Brass Birmingham after work, as a couple of colleagues were keen to give it a try. We were learning, and didnât have time to keep playing once the canal era was finished. Iâve played once before, but had forgotten most of it, and so my strategy was once again âpoorâ :).
Hopefully weâll give it another go sometime soon, now that we all have some idea of what we should be doing.
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