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Phenomenal game. I love the flexibility and toolbox feel. I can finely control the amount of complexity from game to game depending on what I'm looking for or who I'm playing with. Being a dad with young kids, I need a game that plays quickly, has a small footprint, and has a quick time-to-table. FiveCore passes all three with flying colors.
The biggest threat to my gaming is prep time. If I have to build a bunch of unit profiles before I can even get started playing, odds are, it isn’t going to happen. With Fivecore, I don't have to stat up or build my forces to get started. If I’m really pressed for time, I can just grab some minis, use the weapon that the model most resembles, make a couple rolls on the Mission and Deployment tables, and off I go.
The biggest downsides are the production quality and the rules layout, both of which fall down when compared to a similarly priced product like Gruntz. Despite the simplicity of the core system, my first few games had me jumping back an...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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This is the third ruleset I get from Nordic Weasel, the others being Clash of the Fringe and FiveCore, and this is the one that I will actually play. Not because the others are bad, but because it's exactly what I was looking for, and what it says it is: a refurbished version of warhammer40k rogue trader.
The author really is passionate about game design and it shows: the rules are clearly laid, written in a concise, straightforward way that while its not "fun" to read, it makes things crystal clear.
What makes it interesting to me (and probably many other fellow gamers) is that it's full of options, rules for weird situations and guidelines for scenario building that, somehow, manage to convey the "magic" of the old days but in a rule frame that feels more agile and coherent than the ones from back in the day.
All I can say is, thank you!!...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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Rangers of Shadow Deep is a single player tabletop RPG, that also offers co-op up to 4 players.
Create your ranger, pick their Heroic Abilities, Skills, Spells and equip them for their adventure, and finally recruit as many companions as you can afford (the more skills and abilities your Ranger has, the fewer follows you'll be able to bring along).
The rulebook includes an introductory quest to play through, made up of several scenarios, where you will search for clues and likely find yourself fighting off some AI baddies. Then once you've mastered the basics and levelled up your Ranger, you can move on to the full quest included at the end of the rulebook.
The game itself offers great narritive, more like tabletop rollplaying than a straight up wargame, and plays really well. I found it very easy to pick up (though it is a similar mechanic to Frostgrave, which I've played before, as both games are by the same author), where the turn is broken down into activation phases, and lots of...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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Here’s my experience with the PnP version available at Wargame Vault...
While the maps are sized for letter-sized paper, the card files, counter sheets, and rule book are not, they require legal size paper. The backs for the cards are not laid out to align with the fronts; rather than 6 cards x 3 cards (for a total of 18 cards/page), the backs are 3 x 3 (for 9 cards). By putting two layouts to a page, I was able to get the backs sized to match the fronts, but they didn’t align, so a further hassle in cutting and pasting.
Also, the cards are mini-cards (approx. 46 mm x 64 mm). The back graphics are not properly justified and are misaligned. There are no cut marks for slicing the cards apart.
The Victory Condition cards and backs are all on a single sheet (again, legal size), but not aligned in such a way to make cutting & pasting easy. Rather, some of the individual cards will need to be done separately.
Not home printer, home crafter friendly. ...
Rating: [2 of 5 Stars!] |
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