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Let's Talk The Cube Tower (Shogun/Wallenstein)
28 Oct 2014 13:04 #189457
by Josh Look
Yes.
Replied by Josh Look on topic Re: Let's Talk The Cube Tower (Shogun/Wallenstein)
Mr. White wrote: Does Shogun play well with 3?
Yes.
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30 Oct 2014 17:18 #189601
by jeb
Replied by jeb on topic Re: Let's Talk The Cube Tower (Shogun/Wallenstein)
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.
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30 Oct 2014 17:42 #189604
by Michael Barnes
Replied by Michael Barnes on topic Re: Let's Talk The Cube Tower (Shogun/Wallenstein)
Im Zeichen des Kruzes is pretty good, it used the tower before Wallenstein- but it is literally the exact same tower, and in fact the game comes in a box the same size as Wallenstein and with the same insert tray. Queen apparently wanted to do two games packaged the same way like that.
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.
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.
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