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Started by Jacob, August 16, 2021, 12:02:24 PM

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Jacob

August 16, 2021, 12:02:24 PM
Has anyone here played Pax Pamir: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/256960/pax-pamir-second-edition ?

If so, what are your thoughts on the game?

Tamas

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August 16, 2021, 12:17:45 PM
We had a couple of pbem games of it here. It's a clever and fun system but ultimately I enjoyed Pax Porfiriana more due to less abstraction. No idea about the other Pax games.

The Minsky Moment

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August 16, 2021, 12:59:12 PM
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bogh

#3
August 16, 2021, 01:34:57 PM
I haven't played, but heard great things about it, including here. So I backed the reprint and should receive my copy this fall sometime.

Berkut

#4
August 16, 2021, 02:53:15 PM
Could you imagine how much fun a Languis John Company game would be?

People would be murdered.
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celedhring

#5
August 16, 2021, 03:26:08 PM
Or we'd quietly drop the game after just a few turns  :P

Habbaku

#6
August 16, 2021, 04:51:00 PM
I'd be happy to organize a Languish John Company game provided that people could commit to a 24-hour discussion timer for each position. Each turn would probably take up to a week? A dry run of a potential 6-turn game could be wrapped up in two months, which isn't bad.

The real trick is organizing people in different time zones, as usual.
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Habbaku

#7
August 16, 2021, 04:51:35 PM
Quote from: Jacob on August 16, 2021, 12:02:24 PM
Has anyone here played Pax Pamir: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/256960/pax-pamir-second-edition ?

If so, what are your thoughts on the game?

It's great, definitely the 2nd-strongest in the series for me (Pax Renaissance being the first).

I don't agree that it has more abstraction that Pax Porfiriana.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Solmyr

#8
August 17, 2021, 04:21:57 AM
I have the 2nd edition (was an early backer), it's somewhat different from the 1st (which I think we played here on Languish). I like it and would be up for a game.

Agelastus

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August 17, 2021, 05:46:01 AM
Quote from: Solmyr on August 17, 2021, 04:21:57 AM
I have the 2nd edition (was an early backer), it's somewhat different from the 1st (which I think we played here on Languish). I like it and would be up for a game.

You did play a game on Languish; I remember enjoying reading the thread as a bystander to the game.
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Habbaku

#10
August 17, 2021, 08:37:37 AM
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

celedhring

#11
August 17, 2021, 08:59:37 AM
Yeah, I enjoyed our first bout.
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