- Posts: 393
- Thank you received: 276
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.
Let's Talk The Cube Tower (Shogun/Wallenstein)
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Chapel wrote: Don't forget the "Cosmic Hockey puck" from Andromeda. Which is much eviler than the Tower of Shogun
Aslo there is a third game the Shogun tower is used. A game called Im Zeichen des Kreuzes
Never heard of Im Zeichen des Kreuzes, did it ever come out in the US? Was it prior to Wallenstein?
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Mr. White wrote:
Never heard of Im Zeichen des Kreuzes, did it ever come out in the US? Was it prior to Wallenstein?
It came out just prior to Wallenstein. I've not played it yet, but you may ask Barnes, as he's owned it and played it.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Mr. White wrote: Does Shogun play well with 3?
Yes.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Haha, I thought the same thing. There are 10 battles a fucking turn in those F:AT games. Good lord. How else do you take someone's stuff? What are people even doing? Do they stack the deck for Church Peace every round?Ska_baron wrote: Was about to say the same thing, Doctor. Like many DoaMs, it's all about the group playing. Rivers run red when FAtties play.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
- Michael Barnes
- Offline
- Mountebank
- HYPOCRITE
- Posts: 16929
- Thank you received: 10375
IZdK isn't nearly as good as Wallenstein, but it's pretty good. Everybody takes on the role of a crusade (if you can take on that kind of role). Each Crusade is represented by a wooden shield piece. You have to actually get to the Holy Land to duke it out with Saladin and his people, which means you have to make your way through Europe and across the Mediterranian to get there. Along the way, you might recruit troops, pillage treasures or burn down the places you visit. Seriously. This game really captures that crusaders were really just a bunch of marauding brigands. Battles, are of course, throwing cubes into the tower. There really isn't any PVP.
It's more of race. Because when you get to Jerusalem, you have to lay siege and win a bunch of battles there. It's kind of an endurance test at the end. Pretty fun. There's lot of event cards and so forth that randomly fuck with you, so it's obviously not some kind of head-down strategy game or anything like that. If I recall correctly, you moved with card activations.
Never released in English, my copy had old timey paste-ups on all the cards and the rules translation didn't make sense. I sold it for a lot, I think like $100...but this was maybe 10 years ago, I don't remember.
Strikes me now as the kind of game that could be touched up and revised a bit for a new edition. But it is kind of not-PC, what with all the looting and fighting Muslims.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.