The NEW New Boardgames Thread

[11B4V]

Great games and system.

[frunk]

Got my copy of High Frontier 4th Edition on Sunday.  First solitaire game tonight ended with a whimper with me failing two 50/50 shots to claim M Spectral asteroids to get a quick factory.  I ended up getting out to Saturn to get my factory, but by then it was far too late.  I played it safe and FINAO'd all of the hazards, where I'll probably take more risks next time.

I've been playing roughly a solitaire game every two days since I got it.  Tremendous fun, although a lot of the solitaire scenarios need work (definitely check the living rules out).

[bogh]

Hardly a new game by any definition, but I am playing a fair bit of Paths of Glory these days (some in person, some online via Vassal, both against the same opponent). It's just an amazing game, dunno why I never got into it before.

[Maladict]

Hardly a new game by any definition, but I am playing a fair bit of Paths of Glory these days (some in person, some online via Vassal, both against the same opponent). It's just an amazing game, dunno why I never got into it before.

Yes, it is. I really like Pursuit of Glory as well.

[Tamas]

Yes Pursuit of Glory is also awesome but definitely should start with Paths.

Illusions of Glory (with the 2nd edition update) is also pretty nice, but it is not great like the other two, just good.

[Habbaku]

Pursuit is definitely the best of the trio, and the closest to reproducing the history as well. I haven't played Illusions, though.

[Maladict]

Shame the map is so ugly though.

[bogh]

What map is ugly? I am playing the Deluxe Historical map and I think it looks pretty neat.

Sell me on Illusions and Pursuit. From the outside they just look like zoomed in, less epic versions?

[Maladict]

What map is ugly? I am playing the Deluxe Historical map and I think it looks pretty neat.

Sell me on Illusions and Pursuit. From the outside they just look like zoomed in, less epic versions?

Pursuit's map, it looks cheaply photoshopped.

Pursuit is epic, if you don't mind some chrome and lots of special rules. I think it captures very well the (relatively) massive Caucasus front as well as the unnervingly thinly defended lines elsewhere. It feels much more than Paths like a balancing act, where you could be check-mated at any time. Plus I think replayability is better, the games are always different.
I'm not sold on the Russian Revolution mechanic, and the Balkan front feels tacked on. But definitely a great game, I do like it better than Paths.

[celedhring]

Played Paths of Glory many, many moons ago. Left a really good taste.

[bogh]

Pursuit's map, it looks cheaply photoshopped.

Gotcha. That's a shame.

[Tamas]

What map is ugly? I am playing the Deluxe Historical map and I think it looks pretty neat.

Sell me on Illusions and Pursuit. From the outside they just look like zoomed in, less epic versions?

I don't want to sell you on Illusions until you have played Paths and Pursuit to death, they are clearly superior, great games. It's just that if you like the formula, Illusions is worth playing as well imho, but not as much as the other two.

Pursuit has more chrome than Paths so its a bit more complex but also seems to carry far more historical simulation value. Paths is an amazing game but its simulation value dances on a razor's edge, really.

[bogh]

To be honest, I am not bothered by ahistorical outcomes all that much. I care much more about the game than the simulation.

[Berkut]

I am torn between whether I prefer Paths to Pursuit.

I suspect Pursuit is the better game, at the end of the day. But I think Paths will always have a special place in my heart.

I've never beaten Habs at Pursuit. Not once. Which makes me suspect it must have some very serious inate flaw.

[The Brain]

I've never beaten Habs at Pursuit. Not once. Which makes me suspect it must have some very serious inate flaw.

Same.