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Girugamesh posted...

Maybe our mistake was playing without Feast for Crows.

The first one was memorable because of a big betrayal at the end which swung the whole game. One time someone dominated the game by investing in ships and basically being able to send their armies anywhere.

Both those experiences sound right. Former would've been one of the epic experiences that made it for me. Latter is not great to me - the importance of ships is immense, and the first person to get a big navy can just maintain that navy by putting support tokens on each fleet, letting them support each other massively.

The AFFC expansion makes it a different game. Still a solid one, but a different one. If you want the same mechanics for different goals, AFFC is cool. But if you want a faster game with the same goals, I believe the Dance with Dragons expansion is the way to go. Never played it though. :(

Edit: Favourite game based on IP is probably Marvel Legendary.

MajinZidane posted...

re: Ascension

I'm a fan of the Cryptozoic-made deck building games, like DC deckbulding, LotR deckbuilding and some others. They're ascension-like game that only use one resource and are pretty fun.

I really like the "impossible modes" where the difficulty is turned up several notches, but all players are working together cooperatively and you all win or all lose. Fun times!

Never played Marvel Legendary, but I did play DC Deckbuilding once and it was... very straightforward-feeling. Nothing objectionable exactly, other than being a little long, but it felt very "buy the best card available." I think playing cooperatively could definitely make it more enjoyable.

These two are definitely examples of IPs that would make the game a bit worse to me, though. I like it, but not enough to branch into non-source-material for it.
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