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Polish Ameritrash?
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Awesome, incredible game. Post-apoc combat with freaks-from-Hell armies of mutants, facist militaristic humans, and wasteland barbarians. Each unit has it's own "stat line", in this case icons on their tile, a lot of different troop types. Combat and movement depend on drawing the appropriate tile, a little like a chit-activation wargame mechanic. Still a little "abstract" though. Fast futuristic combat, plays with experienced players in a half hour. With plastic figures instead of tiles and little character cards this could have easily been something you would expect from FFG.
Oh yeah, it's a Polish game. Maybe Poland is joining Italy as a country that produces good conflict-driven boardgames that have some theme come through. It's the only Polish game I've played though, can't be too sure. Tell you what, it's worth trying. The $60 price tag is worth it to me since it's so much fun. Anyone else enjoying this game as much as I am?
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I've heard it through the grapevine that they're looking at adding terrain tiles and possible a 5-6 player expansion.
The Poles also put out a pretty neat little card game called ZOMBIAKI...it has some of the same design ideas as NH, but it's a zombie siege thing. It won't set your world on fire or anything, but it has a strong theme and is a fun 15 minute time waster.
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The game is fun, fast and easy to learn, because the basic rules are simple and you can just find out what the tiles do as you draw them.
Only (but major) drawback is the endgame. As everybody takes on the leader in the game, point loss mostly results in losing one or two places in the score order. So it is actually better to start as second in the last round. It also gives the losing players too much room for kingmaking.
I met a guy last year in Cracow from a Warsaw game company, who are trying to put out a Hannibal multiplayer game.
Btw I found a few hex and counter games (Grunwald/Tannenberg 1410, WOII East Front and others) from Polish publishers Taktyka i Strategia on the shelves of a book store in Cracow. If I remember correctly they retailed at $24. I think there were no English rules with them. Apparently these are boxed versions of games that appeared in the magazine.
Have a look at
www.boardgamegeek.com/publisher/6912
taktykaistrategia.pl/?lang=english
Production values were not very high, but that is maybe too much to expect. The same goes for Polish miniature design and quality. But their advantage is that they have a lot of energy and ideas and a lot of scenario's, battles and themes that are relatively unknown in western Europe and the U.S. I wouldn't be surprised if the Polish (and Czech) gaming scenes develop positively in the next couple of years.
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Worth picking up I think.
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Skeletor, I don't know your gaming likes but if you're into combat you'll like it.
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We'll give that a try sometime.
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I had a lot of fun 2 player but it fell really flat with 3 - you're probably better off doing the "count damage to other HQs instead of toughness" variant in that case.
Can you explain the variant a little more?
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I fail at all foriegn languages.
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Can you explain the variant a little more?
Instead of putting everyone's counters at 20, you put them at 0 and increment whenever you damage an enemy HQ. You said you have the second edition, its right there in the rulebook.
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I'll second Michael's recommendation of Zombiaki (which is also reprinted).
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Z-Man Games has just announced they are going to publish Neurshima Hex this summer. Perhaps it will result in a lower price?
I don't see why Z Man would sell it for $60. Honestlly, the components are what you'd get in a $30 (at online store prices) game. I hope the component quality goes up. The 2 Z Man games I own (1960 and Pandemic) have pretty good production values, the 2nd edition NHex have doesn't. Tiles really worn quickly, board doesn't lie flat and has white creases on all folds, paper is seprating from it a little. Really fun game, might end up as one of my all-time favorites but I got jacked on the price. No one held a gun to my head to buy it though.
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