Front Page

Content

Authors

Game Index

Forums

Site Tools

Submissions

About

KK
Kevin Klemme
March 09, 2020
35156 2
Hot
KK
Kevin Klemme
January 27, 2020
20835 0
Hot
KK
Kevin Klemme
August 12, 2019
7426 0
Hot
O
oliverkinne
December 19, 2023
3980 0
Hot
O
oliverkinne
December 14, 2023
3505 0
Hot

Mycelia Board Game Review

Board Game Reviews
O
oliverkinne
December 12, 2023
2078 0
O
oliverkinne
December 07, 2023
2586 0

River Wild Board Game Review

Board Game Reviews
O
oliverkinne
December 05, 2023
2256 0
O
oliverkinne
November 30, 2023
2498 0
J
Jackwraith
November 29, 2023
3019 0
Hot
O
oliverkinne
November 28, 2023
1973 0
S
Spitfireixa
October 24, 2023
3696 0
Hot
O
oliverkinne
October 17, 2023
2625 0
O
oliverkinne
October 10, 2023
2462 0
O
oliverkinne
October 09, 2023
2291 0
O
oliverkinne
October 06, 2023
2508 0

Outback Crossing Review

Board Game Reviews
×
Bugs: Recent Topics Paging, Uploading Images & Preview (11 Dec 2020)

Recent Topics paging, uploading images and preview bugs require a patch which has not yet been released.

× Talk about the latest and greatest AT, and the Classics.

Diskwars

More
12 Mar 2018 21:42 - 12 Mar 2018 21:43 #265518 by repoman
Diskwars was created by repoman
So a few years ago Fantasy Flight released Warhammer Diskwars. I played it a couple of times and liked it. But then it disappeared from my gaming circle.

So, I was browsing around today on BGG and found that the game originally came out way back in 1999 but the information I could find on it is really quite scant.

What do we know of this original game? Was it any good? Was it broken and then reissued in a revised edition. If a person wanted to get a copy should I be only looking for revised bits?


Attachments:
Last edit: 12 Mar 2018 21:43 by repoman.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
12 Mar 2018 21:50 #265520 by drewcula
Replied by drewcula on topic Diskwars
IDK anything about vintage Diskwars, except that cover. That cover is awesome.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
12 Mar 2018 22:38 #265522 by hotseatgames
Replied by hotseatgames on topic Diskwars
I never played it until the Warhammer edition, and from what I recall, they revised the rules a bit, so I'm not sure the versions are compatible. I think there was quite a lot released for that earlier version though.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
12 Mar 2018 22:41 #265523 by Colorcrayons
Replied by Colorcrayons on topic Diskwars
It used to be a blind buy game. They had a couple different theme pack "flats", like their Midnight setting, and even Legend of the Five Rings. I sold those all a few years ago. FFG even had those available until 2010ish I believe.

It was ok. The idea is novel enough honestly.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
12 Mar 2018 22:48 #265525 by Shellhead
Replied by Shellhead on topic Diskwars
I played one game of the vintage Diskwars. It was fun, but the ranged attacks felt out of place, as you would drop these little arrow tokens out of a tube from a certain height and hope that most of them landed on your desired target. And spells were weird, in that you had to pre-select the order in which your chosen spells would be cast during game setup. I might not be remembering this game correctly, at I played it in 2000.

A local game shop had Legend of the Five Rings Diskwars on clearance back around 2004 or so. I picked up enough of the base game and the expansion pack to run 8 different armies. Unfortunately, my L5R campaign had already wrapped up and most of my other gamer friends weren't interested in either Disk Wars or Rokugan.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
13 Mar 2018 00:50 #265535 by Michael Barnes
Replied by Michael Barnes on topic Diskwars
I would strongly advise that any Diskwars sojourn stick to the Warhammer version- there are notable revisions and improvements and you can buy all of it for probably under $50 these days.

Also note that this is actually a Tom Jolly design.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
13 Mar 2018 08:37 #265543 by charlest
Replied by charlest on topic Diskwars
The new one is better but I loved the dexterity range thing in the classic version.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
13 Mar 2018 11:24 #265556 by Michael Barnes
Replied by Michael Barnes on topic Diskwars
You know there was also a Star Trek Diskwars game, Red Alert. I had a bunch of it, it was pretty fun. I believe there was a TI version too that flopped.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
13 Mar 2018 11:47 #265564 by Almalik
Replied by Almalik on topic Diskwars
Also a Deadlands\Doomtown version that was ok.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Moderators: Gary Sax
Time to create page: 0.508 seconds