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Anonymus Fluhre said:
Sad that you don't any CSG's anymore. They were a good idea.
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Eh, sort of. The problem with Pirates was that when you built the ships, you'd need to bend the bits to make the hull, so they wouldn't quite punch back into the card. And then you had a storage problem because they weren't quite sturdy enough to keep assembled. Andt there were all sizes of ships.

Also by the time of 'Revolution' they were doing captain & event cards so some packs had more ships than others.
 
There were other CSG games out there. You have the Star Wars one and lesser extent a Transformers one for the live action movies. Unlike others though that use plasticard and/or polystyrene, the Transformers one was just cardboard if I recall.

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Neat, we have a new LGS and it doesn't cater to just CCG's and has some room for gamers to come and play. Daily events too which is new. Usually stores only do one event every other day.
 
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Has anyone tried the Zona Alfa tabletop skirmish game? Looking to pick it up but I like to try before I buy and none of the usual sources have a pdf copy.
 
I would argue CSG is good for younger kids just getting to tabletops since they didn't take much to build some of the models and iirc wasn't that expensive (I think it used to be $3-4 for a pack with two ships). Granted there was the issue of them not lasting long but it's better then accidently breaking a 20-40 dollar model.
 
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vern said:
I would argue CSG is good for younger kids just getting to tabletops since they didn't take much to build some of the models and iirc wasn't that expensive (I think it used to be $3-4 for a pack with two ships). Granted there was the issue of them not lasting long but it's better then accidently breaking a 20-40 dollar model.
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also looked pretty dope right out of the box, no pushing grey plastic around.

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Has anyone tried the Zona Alfa tabletop skirmish game? Looking to pick it up but I like to try before I buy and none of the usual sources have a pdf copy.
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haven't played it but iirc it was ok, some issues but you could overlook/houserule those.
as for sources, check the publisher then go from there.
 
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Just snagged a copy of this. Anyone got any experience with it?
 
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Oh shit, it’s out? Mind finding a copy that fell out of the back of a truck?
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Get on Scribd and take the free trial membership, you can DL it from there for nothing.
 
Ghostse said:
Eh, sort of. The problem with Pirates was that when you built the ships, you'd need to bend the bits to make the hull, so they wouldn't quite punch back into the card. And then you had a storage problem because they weren't quite sturdy enough to keep assembled. Andt there were all sizes of ships.

Also by the time of 'Revolution' they were doing captain & event cards so some packs had more ships than others.
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One of the reasons why Pirates of the Caribbean went away as well as collectible constructible card games is that A major game company, I want to say WoftC/Hasbro, that they hold a copywrite while the fad started to gain traction... AND NO ONE FOUGHT IT. Now this only applied to card game and not to other types of game tokens that can be constructible on larger sheets.

Power leveling A LOT. I specialized in Game Design and got in the Entertainment Industry back in 1974. A lot of things were easy to get into back then as garage companies opened up, just like video games in the 80's - 90's which I got into as well.

Needless to say I have several IP's that I hold in the area. This is one of the reasons why I have an IP attorney so I can ass rape those fuckers who try to steal any of my IP's in the court of law.

I started to leave the sector when dumb as shit WOKE people started to express their opinions about Gender this and Color That to the point that it is destroying the genre(s) as well.

I would be rather be sitting on my ass making money as I watch my holdings than deal with those pussies that they called themselves as... men.

Yea my patience with a certain class of people have reached their limits.

This video about the SJW's and the comic book industry, which btw I was involved with that in the 80's 90's as well pretty tells it like it is. It does not matter if it is board games, rpg games, comics, movies etc. One the WOKE enters the sector of entertainment, they destroy it.

 
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TheRedChair said:
The Reason why Pirates of the Caribbean went away as well as collectible constructible card games is that A major game company, I want to say WoftC/Hasbro, that they hold a copywrite while the fad started to gain traction... AND NO ONE FOUGHT IT. Now this only applied to card game and not to other types of game tokens that can be constructible on larger sheets
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there's also the CCG aspect which at some point people simply started to hate hard. the old ones like mtg/pokemon/yugi get a pass due to sunken cost, but anything new immediately gets asked how random it is, and any hint of boosters etc people immediately tell it to fuck off. can't even remember the last time I saw a kickstarter featuring random elements of that kind.

it's one of the reasons FFG started doing LCGs instead of CCG (GOT 1e had the old model, I think CoC too before they switched it mid-edition), and they were quite successful with it. shame netrunner was a license wotc could just fuck with, would love for asmodee to give it legal pass and blatantly remove what's needed and re-release it.
 
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@ZMOT I guess while you were typing I did change the First few letters to "One of the Reasons" instead of "The Reason" But yea I love MtG in the 90's and started to hate it in the early 2000's.

But I see where you are coming from so I can agree with what you are saying.
 
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@ZMOT I guess while you were typing I did change the First few letters to "One of the Reasons" instead of "The Reason" But yea I love MtG in the 90's and started to hate it in the early 2000's.

But I see where you are coming from so I can agree with what you are saying.
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it just my experience from lurking BGG for a long ass time (although haven't really been on there the last 1-2 years), and BGG is full of consoomers chasing the newest hottest shit crawling up their own ass constantly (never ever try to talk shit about kickstarter exclusives if you don't want to see some prime spergouts), and that was long before the woketard menace took hold.

for all the woke shit boardgames are still better set up than most other industries, sure you're much more dependent on official sources due to production capability (although kickstarter helped with that tremendously), but at the end of the day quality is still king. you can have the prettiest, wokest game but if the mechanics are shit people will just ignore it, and quality is the antithesis to wokeshit. worst case you can just ignore stupid shit (like removing the "slave" card in five tribes) for the sake of mechanics or go back to old games which won't be replaced anytime soon anyway.
this also means most woketards aren't able to handle the heavier games so they're mostly stuck in casual shit that gets new games all the time.

vern said:
Thanks I'll check these out actually, billion suns seems like a game I know a coworker would enjoy playing and I have a small soft spot for papercraft because of an old pirate papercraft I loved playing back in elementary (although I can't remember what the fuck it was called).
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slight update, seems the website for wormhole is gone for good (assumed it was my VPN messing things up again), so you might have to trawl the high seas for it. also be aware you need a lot of ink for it (less if you built the flat version) and foamcore for mounting.
kinda surprising considering their TTRPG stuff was pretty good and I'd assumed with corona locking everyone at home it should've boosted sales somewhat.

EDIT; just checked and of course now it's back. still, no https and hardly any activity on the website, if you're brave enough to buy something better do it via paypal just in case.
EDIT2: reading up on OPR I stumbled on something that might be interesting for you as well (didn't even know they had those rules too): https://onepagerules.fandom.com/wiki/Warfleets:_FTL - it even has solo/ai rules if you want to give it a go.
 
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ZMOT said:
there's also the CCG aspect which at some point people simply started to hate hard. the old ones like mtg/pokemon/yugi get a pass due to sunken cost, but anything new immediately gets asked how random it is, and any hint of boosters etc people immediately tell it to fuck off. can't even remember the last time I saw a kickstarter featuring random elements of that kind.
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That was one of the things that turned me off to a lot to the Pirates game as well as some of WizKids offerings, including their Mechwarrior game (Which should have been called BattleTech because of the focus on combined-arms and not solely Battlemechs. Reeee.).

You had factions, were clearly meant to field units from a specific faction, but everything was blind boxed. Additionally they had point costs.

So you had to not only had to hope for uncommon & rare models, but you had to pray they were for your faction AND they wouldn't fuck up your army cost. To build an army you'd need to spend Warhammer levels of money on the gatcha mechanics, so why not just play warhammer.
 
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Ghostse said:
That was one of the things that turned me off to a lot to the Pirates game as well as some of WizKids offerings, including their Mechwarrior game (Which should have been called BattleTech because of the focus on combined-arms and Battlemechs. Reeee.).

You had factions, were clearly meant to field units from a specific faction, but everything was blind boxed. Additionally they had point costs.

So you had to not only had to hope for uncommon & rare models, but you had to pray they were for your faction AND they wouldn't fuck up your army cost. To build an army you'd need to spend Warhammer levels of money on the gatcha mechanics, so why not just play warhammer.
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WizKids really only had their miniature games going for them. My groups just went out and bought singles. My Mage Knight army was like $55 total for a tournament army. Best non miniature Battletech game was probably the card game. I really hope to see a living card game Battletech game one day.
 
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That was one of the things that turned me off to a lot to the Pirates game as well as some of WizKids offerings, including their Mechwarrior game (Which should have been called BattleTech because of the focus on combined-arms and not solely Battlemechs. Reeee.).

You had factions, were clearly meant to field units from a specific faction, but everything was blind boxed. Additionally they had point costs.

So you had to not only had to hope for uncommon & rare models, but you had to pray they were for your faction AND they wouldn't fuck up your army cost. To build an army you'd need to spend Warhammer levels of money on the gatcha mechanics, so why not just play warhammer.
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I played the Wizkids Mechwarrior game for about a year and the investment didn't seem nearly as steep, but then I was also really lucky and pulled this beast on a blind tournament:
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Fuck balanced armies in a 300 point game, I plonked down this 267 pointer and two infantry units with antipersonnel and destroyed the local "turtle your mech with surrounding infantry until you get a slight point advantage and run out the clock" meta for the low cost of about 20 bucks. Wish I still had those things, but I gave them all to my nephews to augment their army men toys with giant robots and cool futuristic tanks.
 
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I played the Wizkids Mechwarrior game for about a year and the investment didn't seem nearly as steep, but then I was also really lucky and pulled this beast on a blind tournament:
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Fuck balanced armies in a 300 point game, I plonked down this 267 pointer and two infantry units with antipersonnel and destroyed the local "turtle your mech with surrounding infantry until you get a slight point advantage and run out the clock" meta for the low cost of about 20 bucks. Wish I still had those things, but I gave them all to my nephews to augment their army men toys with giant robots and cool futuristic tanks.
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So similar idea to using the Storm Golem in Mage Knight.
 
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