I’ve been a big fan of Race for the Galaxy ever since it came out, and I’ve bought both expansions – however, it has been somewhat difficult in the past to find opponents.
All this has now changed, thanks to listening to the last episode of The Dice Tower podcast.
On this show, they were talking about Race for the Galaxy, and playing it solo against ‘robot’ opponents.
I followed this up on BoardGameGeek and came across the following site:
This is a full version of Race for the Galaxy (approved by Rio Grande) that allows you to play the game solo on your PC against up to 5 AI opponents, and includes the original game and both expansions.
It does the job for me, and allows me to scratch my RftG itch. A game plays in about 10-15 minutes, and this program would also be good for teaching others how to play (without all the hassle of card drawing and shuffling).
In this, Episode 4 of the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Edition of the Incoming! Video Podcast, my weekly retrospective includes new releases from Reaper Miniatures, West Wind Productions, Critical Mass Games and Taban Miniatures.
Last night saw the first play of Conflict of Heroes – Awakening the Bear!
Bob & I played quite a leisurely game – chatting through the rules as we went and discussing various aspects of the game.
We played the first scenario – Partisans – and started to play the second – The Gap – when we ran out of time for the evening.
Bob is a veteran Squad Leader and Combat Commander player – the idea was to play the game to see how the mechanics worked, and how well it compared to these other systems.
This was my first experience of this sort of game – let’s just say it was a learning process!
The game ready for play - even with a single board we managed to take up quite a bit of room!
The starting position for Scenario 1 - the Russians lie in wait...
The first thing to note is the artwork of the boards and the chits – the boards are simply beautiful, and very high quality. The chits are nice and big – all the information is clear and does not look cluttered, even with the unit artwork.
The only downside was the turn/victory sheet – having counters of the same colour as the background did cause some issues (especially as Bob is colour blind)
The end of scenario 1 - it's not looking good for the Russians...
The verdict? This looks to be a really good game. I think it will take a few plays for me to get my head around all the game concepts (group movement caused some issues) but I’m certainly looking forward to playing again. The first scenario poses some challenge, but you can immediately see as soon as you start the second what a difference the cards make to the game – so I think we will be concentrating on those scenarios in future.
Will it convert to a miniatures game? Most certainly!
Welcome to the second episode of the Sci-Fi & Fanatsy edition of the Incoming! video podcast.
This show features new releases from w/e 11th September 2009, and includes new figures from Cipher Studioes, Mithril Miniatures, Freebooter Miniatures and Dream Pod 9.
Welcome to Episode 17 of the Incoming! Video Podcast
In this show I feature new historical miniature releases from w/e 11th September 2009 – including figures from Imprint Models, Warlord Games, Eureka Miniatures and Alban Miniatures
Sun, 13 September 2009
I’ve produced two new episodes of the Incoming! video podcast this week: Episode 17 of the Historical Show and Episode 2 of the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Edition.
I’m having some problems uploading these to YouTube at the moment, but I have posted the mp4 versions of the show onto iTunes.
Incoming! now has it’s own iTunes feed – you can find it here.
Alternatively, you can go to the Incoming! blog site and download the mp4 directly.
As soon as the videos are available on YouTube, I will post them on this blog…
OK, I know I’m slow on the uptake sometimes, but whilst I was browsing through the ‘Coming Soon’ pages on the IGUK website, I saw the above cover and thought ‘that looks like a Warjack’, which was quickly followed by feeling along the lines of ‘I want it…’
OK, so whilst I used to play Warmachine, I never came across this rules variant – and now it looks like Privateer Press are producing a full board game of Grind using some new plastic Warjacks.
The initial impression is that Privateer Press are producing their own version of Blood Bowl – but basing the game on 5-a-side football, rather than American Football.
Though the £48 price tag is certainly not cheap, if the models are of the same production quality as their metal versions (or even close) then this is certainly worth a look.
It’s slated for a 30th October release, and I must admit that this is yet another game that has my fingers twitching…
Talking of Blood Bowl, I’ve still got my 3rd Edition of that game (the one with the Astrogranite pitch) along with Dungeon Bowl, around somewhere (I think they are in the shed) I will have to fish them out, as I did like that game – and I’m sure Josh would be interested.
I’ve been a big fan of Race for the Galaxy ever since it came out, and I’ve bought both expansions – however, it has been somewhat difficult in the past to find opponents.
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Last night saw the first play of Conflict of Heroes – Awakening the Bear!
