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That's what you get for raising a family of gamers.
I'd like to get a hold of that game again...there's some really neat stuff going on there.
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There is definitely a lot of cool stuff -- really nice worker placement with never enough actions to do everything you want. Tons of decision points about what friends to cut loose while still trying to maintain combo potential within the family. The only negative for me would be that I think it ends a little arbitrarily.
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Josh Look wrote: Time for me to weigh in on Imperial Assault.
I like it. I like it a whole lot. I like the campaign game. I like the skirmish game.
That's all I've got for you for now.
I would love to hear more about this -- so far, Barnes' take has really taken the excitement level down. I had considered it as a birthday present for my brother, but I don't know now.
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Josh Look wrote: Time for me to weigh in on Imperial Assault.
I like it. I like it a whole lot. I like the campaign game. I like the skirmish game.
That's all I've got for you for now.
I would love to hear more about this -- so far, Barnes' take has really taken the excitement level down. I had considered it as a birthday present for my brother, but I don't know now.
I just googled "Imperial Assault meh" and got 4,450,000 hits. A quick glance at the first page of links, and it was all unenthusiastic reviews.
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reactions to Dead of Winter among readers = largely lukewarm
reactions to Brimstone among reviewers = not so great
reactions to Imperial Assault = mostly bland
sometimes it ticks me off that all it takes is a couple Barnes comments to take the wind out of the excitement for (some) games they are going nuts about elsewhere.
I heard counter arguments about the three listed are all pretty good...
Brimstone i bailed on, DoW haven't played yet... IA, I will make work for me. It's fuckin' Star Wars.
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Including, and especially, forum posts.
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There's just a glut of '____'crawler boardgames lately...and they don't seem to do anything better than what AHQ and the like did 20 years ago.
*yawn*
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Mr. White wrote: For me, it has less to do with Barnes' comments and everything to do with a feeling of 'been there, done that'.
There's just a glut of '____'crawler boardgames lately...and they don't seem to do anything better than what AHQ and the like did 20 years ago.
*yawn*
We're going to have to play AHQ some day. Never even played HeroQuest ...
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