Apropos of nothing, has anybody on Oppo played this?

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 10/13/2014 at 14:12 • Filed to: None

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I recently got !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . It's probably my favorite 12 hour board game. Because Risk is for weenies.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/13/2014 at 14:17

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I'm still mesmerized by the amount of things on that table.

Snooder87 > CalzoneGolem 10/13/2014 at 14:26

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And that's without the expansion.

A buddy of mine in college got the game. We used to get together once a week for game nights. The first time we got together after we spent the entire time just breaking out all the little pieces.

Agrajag > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/13/2014 at 14:41

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That looks intense.

Have you ever tried Heroclix? That is the only game I've played that has come close to 12 hours. It's normally played on paper maps, but I've a friend who made a giant papercraft city.

Nerdometer pegged.

Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull > Agrajag 10/13/2014 at 14:47

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I'm loosely familiar with heroclix, haven't played it, but I have a few I use as minis.

Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull > CalzoneGolem 10/13/2014 at 14:50

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Military units, both space and ground forces, action cards, objective cards, politics cards, system managing cards, technology cards, activation counters, resource tokens...

It gets a tad out of hand, yes.

CalzoneGolem > Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull 10/13/2014 at 14:52

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We used to play strip risk. Only probably not the way you're thinking.

Crank up the heat and put on 3 layers of clothes. Take off clothes when you take a territory and add one when you lose one.

CalzoneGolem > Agrajag 10/13/2014 at 14:53

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Yes. So much fun.

Agrajag > Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull 10/13/2014 at 15:01

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It's good fun, but can get expensive fast. The company that started it folded a few years ago and was bought by NECA. They do a good job with it, but do too many releases. That, coupled with the fact of schedule changes has rendered my 40lbs. of Heroclix dormant.

Agrajag > CalzoneGolem 10/13/2014 at 15:06

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Sadly, I don't get to play as much lately. Do you still play/collect?

CalzoneGolem > Agrajag 10/13/2014 at 15:12

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I played briefly when it was first released. Then my buddy got a Thor and it rendered my teams basically useless. He was more into it and bought a Sentinel. The Sentinel was fun to battle.

Agrajag > CalzoneGolem 10/13/2014 at 15:13

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Yeah, with every release they pretty much make the previous ones useless.

CalzoneGolem > Agrajag 10/13/2014 at 15:14

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POWER CREEP!

Long Live the Longdoor > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/13/2014 at 21:40

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Sweet, how does it play? I've been really interested in it ever since I saw the Shut Up and Sit Down review ( link ). I've been hooked on playing Elderich Horror as of late.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/13/2014 at 22:55

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But does it destroy relationships the way Monopoly does?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Long Live the Longdoor 10/14/2014 at 09:09

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It plays really well. Just don't be surprised if you find yourself choosing to change it up by pairing people playing it up - it doesn't hurt to have one person planning technology and politics while another person plans military and units on a side. It takes longest when people are still learning, which is very long indeed.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/14/2014 at 09:13

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It depends. Introducing a law prohibiting the building of War Suns right in the middle of an SO's military campaign? Cancelling the X'cha's trade agreements so they have no reason to interfere with an invasion of your SO? Secretly planning a betrayal with the aid of the L1z1x Mindnet player? Yeah, there's some backstabbery - just longer-simmering than Monopoly.