The thing is, I don’t know how good replay value will be – I know from back in the time when I read adventure books, even the big ones were read at max twice, then given away, because you would know too much about everything. And with this game, even t…

This. Allthough I would disagree on the micro game, because it is a rather deep and full game and goes easily for an hour. Which might be great for a long train ride. But the one thing that I really like about it as a travel game: the minimal footprint…

I wasn’t too impressed when reading the solo rules from the recon expansion. It read more like “this is something you can do with your cards when nobody else is around” than actual solo rules for the full game. Which could be problematic anyway, because of the inherent bluffing aspect of the skirmish phase.

Well, I hope someone picks this up for German translation, I could see this being a good game for me and my wife, giving me some thematic dressing and her a game where actions make sense in the theme.

Lord of the Ice Garden. Heavy as you ever could wish for, totally asymmetric win conditions and powers for every faction and no luck except from setup variations. Gorgeous plastic, too. Two game variants, so you can ease in with the basic game and afte…

My game is in German. But Legends of Andor just recently got a new publishing partner for English versions, so hopefully they will do a better job than FFG. Don’t remember who it was, though, sorry.

I try to go just to look and so only habe one or two “motivators”. This year it is Game of Gnomes, because I want at least one of the Fragor games in my collection, since they are the Definition of small scale designer games to me. No idea if the game is really good, but I am sure it will be overproduced. Other than that mainly looking at ger!an releases from Asmoodee, especially Xenoshyft and Blood Rage, and stuff from Heidelberger (where usually my ” only looking” breaks down).

no, as the “meta” is in the adventure packs, so you buy them with your cards. Adventure packs are not mixed, they stay as they are (constructed out of parts from the packs of one cycle). Each cycle has new mechanics in the adventures that try new ways to kill you.

As a recovering MTG player myself, who needed his deck building (and actually playing) fix desperately and didn’t have anyone to play MTG with, I went with LOTR:LCG and it fixed almost everything in that regard for me. I can deck build to the wazoo, I can netdeck if I want to try something someone else designed, the adventure decks provide an ever changing “meta” (different cycles have very different target approaches to destroy you) and, since it is a great solo game, I can just play it whenever I want and have the time. No need for any pesky friends here and no whining that my Bolas EDH deck is oppressive 😉 There is actually only one downside: almost no secondary market for singles. Which is not that bad, as even if you buy everything available you are far away from anything a useful MTG collection costs. But it is irritating, because the base game comes with incomplete sets of some cards (some only one copy, some only two copies) and so you either have to get additional core sets or try to hunt down cards on ebay. Overall it was a big win for me and it turned into my top number 2 game of all time (only surpassed by MTG). And since it is coop, you even have a decent chance to get someone else into it, because unlike MTG, you don’t obliterate the player just because they are a noob.

by TheGargoyle
Wow, now I am actually happy again that I skipped that kickstarter. Having it in German will help to bring it to the table.

by TheGargoyle
Well, this game actually comes with exclusives: the standees. And those make it cheaper than the full game, so for me in Germany, backing it now for the standees version actually makes ist quite probably cheaper than waiting for retai…

Exactly. More cards to choose from and terrain stuff that aligns with MTG lore. If that happens, I might consider it. Ok, there is one way they could make me insta-buy it: Karn as a chooseable plainswalker and a bunch of artifacts to accompany him.

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DreadArkive wrote:I stick with 51 cards, the extra one being “Gather Information”Exactly that. You can go up on cards if those cards are cantrips or tutors, because they replace themselves. In those cases you can go up slightly – 51-5…

by TheGargoyle
diceman wrote:Ok, here are the final 2 gnomes …..Wait. From the game description:”5 different gnomes, only one of which rides on a frog”So we are still missing one gnome, and that one has to ride a friggin frog, dammit! Don’t sell u…

Well, I hope they do, because without those, this game is rather bland. Taktical skirmishes really rely out interesting terrain features that you can take into account in your tactics. I’ll wait on this one to see what comes out with regards to terrain…