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Munkienut

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Good decision in my opinion @MalevolentPandadon't think you'll regret it.

 

It's great value, I was £107 for the expansions, big box, resource holders and wooden tree. You're getting all that except the resource holders I think but get the base game and 3 expansions with deluxe components that have cost me probably £150 if not more. Not to mention I also still have to buy the base game upgrade pack which will cost me about 30 quid if it ever comes in stock again!

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/braingamesusa/iron-forest

 

I saw a prototype of Iron Forest on display at the 2019 UK Games Expo, and it immediately went on my mental wishlist. I imagine it's undergone a good deal of refinement since then, but the premise was: what if you took ICECOOL, but instead of penguins you had MECHS, and instead of a flat arena made of boxes, you had TWO LEVELS to flick your pieces around on. There was also launching device that you'd slam your hand down on to catapult your weeble out of a tube.

 

It was all very exciting and I've been desperate to play it with my kids since I first saw it.

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Yeah V-Commandos is really good. At first I was a bit wary that you could lose your stealth on a 1/3 die roll, but theres enough ways to get around that and overall its a bloody great game. 

 

I'm in for the new Ghost expansion and the Secret Weapons one since I didn't have that - but cant justify piles of minis especially since the current counters work so well. 

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I'm in for the Ghost expansion, and I agree entirely about it working with counters (I'm not a miniatures fan myself).  At least this KS is a game first with minis added later (unlike lots of them that seem to be a box of miniatures with a game tacked on to justify them).

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It's all kicking off big time here now.  Cloudspire last week, Middara this and now Oath coming next week.  :omg:  

 

This post however is to link y'all into Hexplore it.  https://gamefound.com/projects/hexploreit/vol4#/   The challenge facing the team is to spread the uptake of the game beyond the core fan base.

 

$65 (+20) for the base game is absurdly good value for money.  I know I'm a nutter and a huge fan and all that but if you are either a solo or 2 player gamer I would ask you to take a look.  Not sure about playing with bigger groups since you move as one party (default game) and there is a lot of text to read on cards - a party of 3 or more could have a cracking game of versus though (this is included in the "return to" expansions).  

 

In my opinion these games might appeal if you

  • like games with memorable moments^ rather than a routine VP race or completion of defined missions.  
  • welcome unpredictability (links to above) - large encounter decks, enemy action tables, random order of tiles in play (and placement of initial quadrants).
  • like role playing games where you can choose your character's attributes and let these guide the gameplay.
  • like levelling up in-game (there are 6 different difficulty levels).
  • dislike RPGs or dungeon crawlers which either require huge numbers of tokens* or provide no means of recording key details (that's you Shadows of Brimstone, hence the laminator).
  • enjoy the character interplay with Gloomhaven or maybe some deck builders where you have say a whipmistress subduing an holding an enemy and an assassin moving in with a poisoned blade to weaken and finish them off.

 

* Sword & Sorcery excused for it's enemy AI and character progression, but it makes a huge and immovable mess on the table whilst missions are in process

^ e.g  a dangerous lynx takes up occupancy in your treetop hide-out, a routine mech fight almost pushes you into the boss's lair, the sandwort destroys the city from which you hoped to set up a chain of casinos...

 

Having said that the phrase "managing spreadsheets" is also applicable.  Basically you are increasing your stats and leveraging these into increased powers (masteries) and survivability, so a fair bit of mental maths.   There is an app available but it seems to be a bit flaky.  The white boards are fine.

Also lots of text to read, although Vol 4 has more artwork on the cards.  There is however beautiful artwork in the story book and on the back of the role cards.

 

Anyway, if interested I would urge you to take in some of Jonathan's video playthroughs - he posted one of this volume in two parts recently (including an unexpectedly catastrophic ending).  They give you leisurely but good feel for the gameplay (I don't know where he finds the enthusiasm) without really spoiling anything since there is so much variation.  All the games play in the same manner, just differ in the settings, roles and some points of detail (SoS being a bit of an outlier). Earlier volumes are also available for $64/$84 which you won't find matched at retail.

 

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Cosmic_Guru

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Just a couple of days left on this.  Not likely to convince anyone I suppose, even I realise the scenario pictured below doesn't represent fun for most.  However, exciting to see the total raised is 150% of that for Shurax.

In other news, I'm trying to stay away from big projects but miniquest adventures has taken off well and looks decent value for money.

 

 

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Your fault @Cosmic_Guru since you first mentioned it in this thread, but I've been uhm'ing and ah'ing over backing Hexplore it (and now I'm running out of time to decide).

 

The settings and crazy range of characters etc is really appealing but I'm worried it might be a bit too crunchy.

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Munkienut

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It's not that I haven't looked into hexplore it or that I don't fancy it, quite the opposite actually. You've definitely sold me on the idea of it with your posts, sadly it's more that it's out at a time I'm sinking 600 dollars into a marvel united KS (I'll get some money back from a friend for the stuff I already have from original KS though), 100 into my father work, 35 for Canvas Reflections and 54 for transmissions and need to stop myself from backing any more for a long long time.

 

The Isle of cats expansion will probably be my only exception ;)

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15 minutes ago, Munkienut said:

It's not that I haven't looked into hexplore it or that I don't fancy it, quite the opposite actually. You've definitely sold me on the idea of it with your posts, sadly it's more that it's out at a time I'm sinking 600 dollars into a marvel united KS (I'll get some money back from a friend for the stuff I already have from original KS though),

 

I hear you on Marvel United - going all in and grabbing the previous expansions has broken my wallet.

 

Plus Phase 2 of the Hellboy board game Kickstarter which I didn't know about till last minute.

 

Ouch

 

>_<

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Cosmic_Guru

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1 hour ago, Spatial said:

Your fault @Cosmic_Guru since you first mentioned it in this thread, but I've been uhm'ing and ah'ing over backing Hexplore it (and now I'm running out of time to decide).

 

The settings and crazy range of characters etc is really appealing but I'm worried it might be a bit too crunchy.

I would ask yourself 3 questions.

Do I prefer a prescribed story / mission / victory path or do I like ad- hoc improvisation and creating my own narrative?

Do I prefer planned strategy or randomness?

Do I enjoy seeing how classes combine and reinforce each other (video game, card game, whatever context).

If the answers are the latter, the latter and yes, this could be for you.  

Crunchy yes,  but arguably neater and  easier to control and record than other card or token based products.

 

Thankfully I'm totally immune to the charms of Marvel.

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Spatial

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It definitely ticks the boxes. The free-form style was definitely part of the appeal as I've been doing some solo-RPG'ing with all the narrative creation that involves. This looks like it will give a bit more structure to that form of adventuring.

 

Did I see somewhere they will do one more expansion after this? Rather than going all in I have considered getting Noctis plus the first release in order to save some cash for other Kickstarter money pits. I could always grab the others if they come around again in the future (though the FOMO pull is really strong).

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15 minutes ago, Professor Rob said:

I'm quite intrigued by Stationfall, but given the shipping charges, I think I'd prefer to wait until it's available at retail.

That does look interesting, but yeah- a 5$ saving on MSRP to then pay $20 on shipping is just weird. I feel it needs to be either KS only, or a bigger discount to MSRP these days to make backing worthwhile.

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Munkienut

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I really like the look of My Fathers Work, could do without the expense at the moment but the game not coming to retail (Kickstarter exclusive) has pushed my hand to get it now while I can. I can afford it, it's just I'd rather not in the same month Marvel United etc funded but have the same thoughts that things shouldn't be released as a kickstarter only release.

 

In other KS news I see the Isle of Cats is getting an expansion and the designer has been posting a few sneak peeks on twitter with some of the new bits, so far it's been Kittens and other ancient creatures, looks lovely and love the game so will have to get that, thankfully not going live until the 25th.

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A couple of things-

 

Anybody seen the cancellation of the Prison Architect KS? It's a really weird one, because whilst I like David Turczi (at least, he was nice when I met him), backing out of something when the KS is already failing feels off. Like, he'd be fine with the moral repercussions if it made him wealthy, but if it's not even going to fund better save face. I know he's got evidence that he felt this way before, and I believe him, but the push to act on those feelings shouldn't depend upon the success of the KS. Still, I think most of the people who had an issue with the game are happy to forgive him so that's good. (Except for the previewers who gave it a rave preview- are they bad people now? The whole thing is super messy.)

 

Also, in an attempt to save postage money on a popular KS, I might end up becoming the companies' UK distributor. Which is nice but very weird. Not going to post anything identifiable yet, but I've a feeling a whole bunch of other US Kickstarter's haven't understood the 2021 shipping into the UK situation, and might be in for a rude awakening. If I do get the chance to do this it'll be very exciting!

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Spatial

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CMON's latest action with the Marvel United Kickstarter is a bit... disconcerting...

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/marvel-united-x-men/posts/3238975

 

With little explanation they just wholesale cancelled orders and started refunding anyone living in Norway (at the moment it's unclear how that applies to others they've run recently like the Wild West Zombicide). No real explanation as to why, save for some vague reference to a recent law change. People in the comments say it's nonsense and, aside from a rule change at the start of the year, there's been nothing relevant (and apparently even that can be resolved by adding peoples Social Security numbers to parcels).

 

No indication of it being anything wider than that yet, but I can't help but hear the faint echoes of "a Norway style arrangement with the EU" Brexit-mantra in the back of my head...

 

 

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I think I'm going to have to do that with Die of the Dead. Only one Norwegian order, but it's been turned back at customs, also using Shipquest. It's either a Norway thing, Shipquest thing or both, but it's not just a CMON thing.

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