'War Stories'
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
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I have no love for Risk. No matter how good your strategy, it still comes down to dice rolls.
Okay, I really don't think it's a fair fight when the other guy has a bear and a dog on his side. Booooo. (Click to watch me get pummeled.)
Yeah, that happens. I've only beaten a Brute who had a bear once but it was close. Still, the imbalances make it fun. If the game was perfectly balanced it'd be dreary.
Yes, but then you're playing on a computer.
And you can't send your vanquished foes into the guacamole with a supercilious flick of your fingers.
History of the World. But you really need a whole afternoon (at least) to get through it
Repunctuated:
History of the World: you really need a whole afternoon (at least) to get through it.
Raq! Are you ready to learn from the devastating fury that is Death Spigot? [link]
My best favorite strategy game remains Dune.
This is a game I would love to play. I have a copy, but no gaming group.
My favorite tabletop strategy game is History of the World. But you really need a whole afternoon (at least) to get through it.
Another one I quite enjoy, but it's pretty heavily dependent on the card draws. Getting Rome is a big advantage, though there's time to try to pull them back afterwards. In the final round, though, if someone halfway in the running gets Britain, there's not a lot you can do about it.
A game with a similar feel, but somewhat more balanced, is Britannia. Each player controls about four different groups, active at different times, covering the period from the Roman invasion to the Norman invasion. (Yellow, for instance, gets the Romans and then Romano-British, with a supporting cast of the Scots, the Dubliners and Harald Hardrada's Norwegians.) I feel Red has a bit of an advantage (they get the Saxons), but not by much. It's quite possible for any player to take the game.
OK, because it took me so long to join Death Spigot's school, I contributed three brutes: DePunch Mode, who is lame, and Darth Nane and Darth Nocuous, who are scary. Here's Darth Nocuous' second fight ever, and it's a two-hit fight: [link]
Sean and Omnis, I have a private game set up on Conquer Club and am waiting for both of you to join. You should have private messages to that effect over on Conquer Club.
Hi ND, nope, no private message, and the game requires password, which is probably what the message tells me. eta Username is OmnisAudis (no underscore). I wonder if that was the hitch.
Some quick tips for you other Conquer Club players --
If you want to find all games with ND, click on his name, which will take you to his profile page, where you should be able to click on Find All Games With This Player, and it will take you to a page with all games he's in.
I did a search for games, and in the bottom field of user, put his name in, that did it too.
sure, NoiseDesign is actually working today. Me? Not so much. All that means, no testing of the Conquer Club.