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Thoughts on SW: Legions?
Michael Barnes wrote: Hans Solo? Is he affiliated with Bobba Fett?
My second cousin Hans Erickson was a musician who performed under the name Hans Solo, until he got a cease and desist letter from a Lucasfilm attorney.
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Sevej wrote: But every major miniature games are like that? X-Wing, 40k, AoS, Infinity, Bolt Action... Anything comes to my mind doesn't provide enough models to play as intended. And most are more expensive.
I dunno...we played a lot of great scenarios and the full AoS rules with the starter. Seemed like a decent amount to us.
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SuperflyTNT wrote: A line from the impending review: I LIKE THE GAME AS BEST AS I CAN TELL FROM THE LIMITATIONS IMPOSED ON ME BY AN UNDERSTAFFED STARTER SET, BUT THIS UNDERSCORES MY BELIEF THAT FFG HAS BECOME THE EA OF BOARD GAMES, DELIVERING 70% COMPLETE GAMES HOPING TO SELL YOU THE FULL VERSION AS DLC.
I think that's a good comparison. The two FFG game systems that I've bought into (X-Wing and Star Wars: Destiny) were both marketed that same way. Both have incomplete "starter" sets that don't give you enough stuff to field the entire game as designed. It's basically a full-price demo, to continue your EA analogy.
And the worst part? It fucking works. At least on me, it did. Sigh ...
I was a bit surprised to hear you say that Legion does, in fact, deliver the Star Wars-y feel. When I think of "Star Wars," I certainly don't think of "ground troops." I think of lightsabers and spaceships.
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Michael Barnes wrote: Hans Solo? Is he affiliated with Bobba Fett?
Closer than Hands Öle, which is what it keeps autocorrecting to.
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ubarose wrote:
Michael Barnes wrote: Hans Solo? Is he affiliated with Bobba Fett?
Closer than Hands Öle, which is what it keeps autocorrecting to.
They’re both related to Dark Bader.
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SuperflyTNT wrote: If someone wants my copy, PM me
Ugh, too bad international shipping is a killer...
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Sevej wrote: But every major miniature games are like that? X-Wing, 40k, AoS, Infinity, Bolt Action... Anything comes to my mind doesn't provide enough models to play as intended. And most are more expensive.
I dunno...we played a lot of great scenarios and the full AoS rules with the starter. Seemed like a decent amount to us.
Of course, they're frickin $125. Good enough, but really not the full experience.
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Also someone mentioned that Ford owns his own likeness and so the figure can't look like him, yet the cards art is clearly Ford and the other miniatures - Luke for example, look like the actor.
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I dunno. If the models weren't so fiddly to assemble and the box had a full 800 points possible (even with only 1 or 2 configurations) I'd be a little more on board with it. As is, I just cant.
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Michael Barnes wrote:
I was thinking last night that it is interesting, the only real success they've had in terms of creating a proprietary game world is...Arkham Horror. NONE of their other attempts have managed to work. The Android world, who cares about Bio-blob or Haas-Googatech or whatever. Terrinoth...well, there you go. But Arkham Horror has a distinct sense of setting and even characters. The whole Lovecraft-inspired pulp adventure concept...they have that pretty much locked up. Thanks to Richard Launius and Kevin Wilson, who, notably, are not FFG employees.
Snipping this down pretty heavily, all of Barne's thoughts here are correct.
It really is staggering how few original IPs FFG has relative to the amount of games they produce
Twilight Imperium, original
Terranoth, original, but as generic as you can get
Cthulhu Mythos, "original" but obviously not really, and Arkham itself was a remake
Game of Thrones - Licensed
Star Wars - Licensed
Lord of the Rings - Licensed
Android - Licensed? Maybe they own it now, but they didn't create it
Legend of the Five Rings - See Android
Fallout, Doom, The Witcher (lol), Civilization, Xcom - Video Game IPs
Cosmic, Wiz War, Dungeon Quest, Rex - remakes
Then there's stuff like Mission Red Planet and Letters from Whitechapel that they publish but didn't design.
They do have their half dozen RPGs which must sell because they make them, but which I have never heard anyone play or talk about, but otherwise it's just a few small box games. I'm not saying any of this is *bad* per say, it's just weird that this huge company that gets its own wall in a lot of game stores is just a clearing house for licensed product, and was even before it got absorbed by Asmodee.
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I did see some pre orders up for RUNEWARS on the Coolstuff page the other day. I gotta imagine they are just flushing whatever is in the pipeline. Wonder if it makes the Black Friday sale later this year.
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