Recent content by Jericho

An angry beaver with a purple antenna will have to wait another 16 days.

Good to see you back, sir. Atlantisgate was a joke.

I promise you shiny would have gotten a kick out of that.

When you get to Bargaining, I have an Oronde Gadsden I think you'd be interested in.

Shining Path = SPEED

I liked him, which is more than I can say about most people. This one's for you, nerd-brother! :goodposting:

What sequel? There's an expansion called "Battles Of The Third Age"... if that's what you mean, then it's just an add-on, you need the original to play it.As for availability, it's not even available from the Fantasy Flight (the publishers) web store. So it may be temporarily out of print...

Go is a far superior game to Chess. But both of them are way out of my wheelhouse. Learning to play well is non-intuitive and requires study. I don't like my games to have homework.

Give me the reasons why this is your favourite. There are so many board games better than this. Give me some info and I'll find you a game you'll like even more.

I've got a buddy who's trying to get me to play a game of ASL with him. I'm hesitant, because I've seen the rules (they're pretty intimidating) and also because WWII ain't really my thing. And also, I prefer large scale. I'd rather play on a global map than a battlefield map. On a side note...

But there's a counter for the Fellowship blitz. If the Free People blitz, the Shadow just dedicates more eyes to the hunt pool and corrupts Frodo out the wazoo. There's always a counter strategy to any strategy. That's the hallmark of a good game.

Apparently there's a version (I think it's called "World At War") that starts the game in 1939 rather than 1942, and it vastly improves the game. Now the big battles become the climaxes that are built towards and end the game, rather than the start of the game.

Then good for them for making sure the game plays that way. But when does this battle take place? Again, my biggest beef is that if one battle decides the game, that battle shouldn't occur on the second turn of the game, like the German invasion of Karelia or the Japanese assault on Pearl...

It seems Falconeyed is with me on my praise of War of the Ring. Man, I can't say enough good things about that game. What a beautifully balanced game. I've heard people talk about the game being weighted towards the Free Peoples, but I haven't encountered that problem yet. I've won some...

There IS a lot of #### going on. That's why I like it. There's a political agenda, fleet building, invasion combat, random action cards, a Puerto Rico-inspired role selection mechanism, multiple tiers of objectives, limited action points, fleet size restrictions, trading, bribes... #### man...