OT: Tabletops

PrinzMegaherz · #1 April 11th, 2006, 05:57 AM

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Vicious Love said:
Does Twilight Imperium count? It's more board game than tabletop strategy game, the upshot being you don't spend your life savings on miniatures, and your weekdays on painting those miniatures.

I recently bought the 3rd edition for 80� (that's the normal price around here) and I am very disappointed. The game is just boring, because after 4 sessions we came to the conclusion, that the game you play on the board (moving ships, conquering planets) has almost no influence on who wins the game, due to the imperial strategy and unfair mission objectives.

OG_Gleep · #2 April 11th, 2006, 04:21 PM

How much would 80*weirdcurrencysign* be in $US. Having no reference, that could be equivalent to two crunchy tachos or a lexus.

Morkilus · #3 April 11th, 2006, 07:21 PM

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OG_Gleep said:
How much would 80*weirdcurrencysign* be in $US. Having no reference, that could be equivalent to two crunchy tachos or a lexus.

$96.87 according to today's Google conversion.

PrinzMegaherz · #4 April 11th, 2006, 07:26 PM

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OG_Gleep said:
How much would 80*weirdcurrencysign* be in $US. Having no reference, that could be equivalent to two crunchy tachos or a lexus.

Never seen the european currency � before? I don't want to sound rude, but it is a common prejudice here that the horizon of the average american ends at the coast...

Reverend Zombie · #5 April 12th, 2006, 01:50 PM

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PrinzMegaherz said:

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OG_Gleep said:
How much would 80*weirdcurrencysign* be in $US. Having no reference, that could be equivalent to two crunchy tachos or a lexus.

Never seen the european currency � before? I don't want to sound rude...

I find that whenever someone says "I don't want to sound _____" that _____ is, in fact, precisely how they intend to sound.

You have succeeded here.

Potatoman · #6 April 12th, 2006, 03:31 PM

On the subject of Twilight Imperium, I highly suggest you house rule the game, because in my experience it doesn't need many changes to fix. My group altered the Imperial strategy card to provide only 1 VP + 1 if you're in control of Mecatol Rex (that giant planet at the center of the universe), allowed players to purchase technologies with influence instead of resources, and made it so that dreadnoughts fired (and removed casualties) first & fighters last. Turned out to be pretty fun!

RibbonBlue · #7 April 12th, 2006, 04:32 PM

I play 40k and fantasy, 40k, eldar, fantasy, lizies and High Elves

OG_Gleep · #8 April 12th, 2006, 11:35 PM

I don't work at a bank, and am not a savant, so I'm sorry if I don't know the currency exchange rates (which are adjusted constently btw).

You do know how many currency symbols there are right? Your telling me you know them all? I sure as hell don't. I don't want to start a huge thing here, but it really bugs me when people make sweeping comments about us. Have you spent any time here?

That and the general comment is just silly. Unless you:

1. Do buisness in a foreign country.
2. Cater to Foreign clients/customers.
3. Travel to foreign countries.

What possible reason would you have to keep track of foriegn currency?

And PS. one generalization that is fair...most Americains are sensitive to the word prejudice and 9 times out of 10 will get offended, especially if its unwarrented.

Vicious Love · #9 April 11th, 2006, 06:00 PM

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PrinzMegaherz said:
I recently bought the 3rd edition for 80� (that's the normal price around here) and I am very disappointed. The game is just boring, because after 4 sessions we came to the conclusion, that the game you play on the board (moving ships, conquering planets) has almost no influence on who wins the game, due to the imperial strategy and unfair mission objectives.

Pretty much agreed.