TI-3 pics?

I need some TI3 pics from some FATties. I don't want to swipe any from TOS, and I don't want to deal with hunting them up and worrying about attribution and that bullshit.

Just some good pics of people playing for a TI article I've gotten done.

You're gonna trash TI3 aren't you? You like TI2 better.

S.

I'm not trashing. I'm pointing out that TI2 is a card-carrying Ameritrash 4x space opera, and TI3 is a Space-gricola-ey Euro-ish game where combat is really an afterthought and it's more about "worker placement" in a sense.

But the pics are just to show the differences. My friend didn't take any pics of our most recent TI3 game, and I'm still looking for pics of my last TI2 game...I think that the SD with them was on my old phone.

Suffice to say, this will not be a photo-intensive one.

Here's a game we played last summer. I thought I had one with people, but I can't find it. It's phone quality.

That's the one I need.

Thanks, Chappy! You're the man!

Ah, and thanks to David (DA BiD DaBiD) as well...he sent me one of the most awesome pics ever.

Was anyone injured by that broken chair?

Are you sure you're not interested in some Eclipse pics instead? They ought to be much more efficient and fun.

Schweig! wrote: Are you sure you're not interested in some Eclipse pics instead? They ought to be much more efficient and fun.

Likea dis?

You have no idea how perfect that picture is for one of my paragraphs, Pete. That's awesome!

To quote our favorite WBC passerby -

"Eclipse is 80% of the fun of TI3 for only 40% of the work"....

superflycircus.blogspot.com/2012/08/twil...-because-xxx-is.html

The article. I just don't have any desire to fuck with it anymore, ie. converting back to text, adding the pics in the F:AT blog interface...so here it is. Begin the trouncing.

Why have you written a whole article explaining why TI2 is better than TI3, when in fact Eclipse beats both of them with one hand tied to its back?

Hooray! You chose my review request! It was the very obvious pick, IMHO, if for no other reason than because there are almost no reviews of TI2.

A planet not being able to cast votes because it built a spaceship? It makes absolutely no sense.

Maybe you can't build a spaceship and then cast votes, but you can cast votes and then build a spaceship.

Just like you'd expect, right? :-/

I wholeheartedly agree with the TI3 parts of your review, specifically:

It adds "gaminess" for the sake of adding more rules to create artificial depth. More abstraction, more bullshit.

his personal homage to Puerto Rico into TI3 with the advent of "strategy cards", which are, in essence, a special power that you can use during your turn, while in many cases gives others a weaker version of it.

I WISH! The worst part is that they appropriated the Puerto Rico role system...but didn't *get* what made it work. The Puerto Rico system is easily explained: you choose what everyone gets to do, plus you get a minor related perk. TI3? You choose what you want to do...and everyone else gets something specific to what you chose, but not necessarily related at all. It is SPECTACULARLY unintuitive.

And you didn't even savage the awful Political system as much as you should have: pre-Shattered Empire, if you choose Politics, you flip over the top card of the political deck and vote on that. A completely random law. And you chose a strategy card to do this. W T F? How did that rule make it anywhere near a game? Then Shattered Empire thankfully added a hand of political cards, so you could choose the law to vote on. Too bad the political deck is made up literally every possible effect the designers could think of, without bothering to worry about the fact that > 50% of them are totally lame!

And of course, the original Imperial I think actually holds the title for most broken mechanic ever in a big-name game, way the HELL more broken than any Halifax Hammer shit, because it's something the dumbest bonehead could figure out. I hear the "it's intentional!" argument: is it intentional that if the game does not have a number of turns divisible by 6, then the players later in the turn order have to fulfill an entire TWO extra OBJECTIVES compared to the player who went first? I don't really care that it was fixed in the expansion, because it betrays such obvious ineptitude and lack of thought about the game that it makes you wonder why you'd want to give more thought to the game than the designers.

I'm fine with the "Cold War" aspect, though. I think of it more as a Civ game than as a wargame.