The NEW New Boardgames Thread

[The Brain]

Grallon?

[jimmy olsen]

http://www.somethingawful.com/dungeons-and-dragons/burn-down-whitewolf/1/

  I know one of the main Exalted writers personally.  I am glad he has nothing to do with any of the art choices.

I never said the art was good.

[The Brain]

That was some of the lamest shit I've seen. You can't have a succubus in a fantasy game!

I masturbated to mind control spells before those fags were fucking born.

[CountDeMoney]

You can't have a succubus in a fantasy game!

[Delirium]

I have some interesting games within arms reach but need some more info before squeezing the trigger gently.

Gamers' Civil War Brigade Series, any good? In particular Thunder at the Crossroads, 2nd ed?

[Berkut]

I've liked them every time I've played them, but I can never get anyone else to play them. I think me and Habs started a couple once but it never seemed to "catch" us enough to really get it going.

[Habbaku]

Yeah, I'm sure it's a fun system and I've heard people swear by it, but it fell under the tidal wave of other, shinier games.

Are you after that specific series for a reason, Del?  I'd strongly recommend the GCACW series if you haven't tried it already.  There's enough game in one box (Battle Above the Clouds or Stonewall Jackson's Way II) to last for a year.

[Delirium]

To be honest, it is mostly because of the Gettysburg myth. I like everything around it. 

I tried Last Chance for Victory, but the Line of Battle system just did not sit right with me, superb game and all, beautiful, exciting components, but not my cup of tea. Playing on brigade level feels like a safer bet (and a bit more manageable).

I am playing a lot of Kevin Zucker's brigade level Nappy series (TLNB) and like the way it works. Of course that says nothing about rules and the particular system mechanics...

GCACW is a blind spot for me and the gamers around me...never heard it mentioned at all. Had a look at the Atlanta preorder game and looks beautiful (Charlie Kibler again, as with Zucker) and the campaign level is appealing too... 

[Delirium]

Hmm, took a closer look at GCACW and Battle Above the Clouds. That is hard to resist, I grant you that.

I have to admit that the fact that it is not a Dean Essig series appeals to me...not saying he does bad games, but I find them all a bit...similar.

[CountDeMoney]

To be honest, it is mostly because of the Gettysburg myth. I like everything around it. 

No accounting for taste.  I'm sure somebody in Europe has a Waterloo hard-on. 

I tried Last Chance for Victory, but the Line of Battle system just did not sit right with me, superb game and all, beautiful, exciting components, but not my cup of tea.

Not solo-friendly.

GCACW is a blind spot for me and the gamers around me...never heard it mentioned at all. Had a look at the Atlanta preorder game and looks beautiful (Charlie Kibler again, as with Zucker) and the campaign level is appealing too... 

That's interesting, considering how popular it is and so many titles are out-of-print.  It has a tremendous following, for righteous bluebellies and villainous confederatards alike.

[Maladict]

No accounting for taste.  I'm sure somebody in Europe has a Waterloo hard-on. 

I declined New Year's Eve invites from friends so I could spend the day all alone at Waterloo instead.
It was glorious, apart from the cold and a fog so dense I didn't actually see anything.

[Delirium]

The myth of the vanquished gallant loser appeals to me. 

Guilty of Waterloo hard-on! Or, I should say, Mont St Jean, as one who thinks the Emperor should have won...

Anyway, I am weak and ordered the one copy of Battle Above the Clouds that I could find at a European retailer.

[CountDeMoney]

The myth of the vanquished gallant loser appeals to me. 

OK, but what's that got to so with the filthy racist ignorant slave-owning niggerhaters and their illegal insurrection?

[Tamas]

Anyone planning on picking this up:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/153728/fields-despair-france-1914-1918


I'd love to pbem it over vassal once there is a module.

[Delirium]

I am cautiously optimistic, I need to see it played by someone before I go any further than that. Not entirely sure the west front is phenomenally well suited for a fog of war aspect that blocks offer but what the heck, it's WW1, hence underplayed.