http://fortressat.com/ Wed, 22 May 2013 10:33:32 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://fortressat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1493#josc15963 Yeah - I never fell into recognising the hybrids thing as it all just comes straight back to how you define certain types of games, which no one ever agrees on. My opinion was most games people called hybrids in the last few years were still just euros with something else added in. Southernman Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:46:32 +0100 http://fortressat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1493#josc15962 Chaos in the Old World definitely fits your Hybrid criteria. It is about 50% (Die-based battle, Event cards, Take That Action cards) mixed with Euro-y things (Majority scoring, Majority scoring, Action Point Allocation, and multiple Victory Conditions.) moofrank Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:52:09 +0100 http://fortressat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1493#josc15959 To me, 'hybrid'' has always been a silly buzzword which simply describes advancement in game design. Mr Skeletor Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:13:37 +0100 http://fortressat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1493#josc15958 I don't know if hybrids no longer are made, but maybe we're now so comfortable with different genres intermixing that we hardly notice anymore. And part of the decreased interest in hybrids can easily be that the hypetrain has moved on to the next buzz. Maybe hybrids are only more in the middle of the space between ideal type euros, wargames and Ameritrash than games before and after the 'Golden Age of Hybrids'. But I don't think we've seen the last of them yet. The mixing of mechanisms has eloped from Pandora's Box. Jur Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:24:06 +0100 http://fortressat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1493#josc15957 I haven't played it yet, but it sounds like Chaos in the Old World is poised to be the latest Hybrid du jour, borrowing equally from El Grande and Dune. It's also interesting (to me) to note that Imperial and Shogun are relatively old designs. I don't think Gerdts and Henn purposefully set out to design a hybrid with those games. I think Gerdts actually began working on Imperial as far back as the 80's, but I could be wrong. clockwirk Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:33:27 +0100