Gaming on Friday, 1 Sep 2006
Anyone interested in getting together during the day on Friday the 1st of September? Euros, Ameritrash, wargames, or whatever all sound good. I'm hoping to game during 1000-1600 that day.
I'm going to be in North Carolina all week, so I won't yet have my redux version of Dune put together. Still, we can play with factory original if we get six together.
Games I'd throw out as preliminary ideas:
- War of the Ring (either Battles or expanded base game)
- Wilderness War (I'll teach anyone who is interested)
- Axis and Allies (any version)
- Dune
- Shifting Sands (I heard rules were in circulation...)
- Miscellaneous Euro/Party Game-Fest
posted by Ben @ 9:23 AM
21 comments
21 Comments:
Dayna's back at College Station, so I'm probably a go (especially if Dune will be laying around).
I've been bit by the Dune bug again...so I wouldn't mind trying that one out
I can make it there at 10am
10am too.
10am for me too.
Woo hoo! Sounds like we have a good group set up. If anyone needs the Dune rules, just send me an e-mail.
I will have to decline as I will be busy doing the Holiday Weekend thing. This is too bad because I have really been wanting to try (or at least just look at) War of the Ring.
I suppose I need a copy if we are playing that in the morning. If not, I'm always up for a 5 player A&A, or basically any other random game.
I just sent the rules, player aid, and semi-official rules clarifications to the four interested parties.... I make #5; do we have a #6?
What's the schedule for Friday?
I can't make it during the day, but if gaming will continue into the evening....
Or will things wind up sometime in the late afternnoon so as not to conflict with gaming at Brian and Jacqui's?
Assuming I get out of North Carolina before the tropical storm hits, I'll be there at 10 AM and play until around 4 PM.
I would never intentionally double-book Brian's recurring Friday gamefest.
BTW, if you're interested in getting this game, a few French versions are available here in Canada at a very reasonable price, given market value on E-Bay for an unpunched, in-shrink edition:
http://www.imaginaire.com
Not for me man...
"English M*********r, do you speak it?!"
The French edition includes English rules... of course, so does the Internet.
$65 is still a lot for one game...
How much does it cost to make the new pretty one at the printers?
I'm going to try to hit Kinkos after I hit the ground in SA tomorrow... I suspect you'd put in about $65 in time and effort to make your own, plus the French version includes the expansions.
Incidentally, before I found my copy, I monitored a copy of the French edition about a week ago which sold for around $125 on E-Bay, and it wasn't in shrink...
That line was from Pulp Fiction just in case...
I think I would go with the supped up home-brewed one. Looks amazing.
What?
*gun shot*
DOES HE LOOK LIKE A B....?
Well, sir.... I just received two quotes from local print shops, and it isn't pretty. $40 to print and $20 to laminate. Kinkos wanted $100 for the job! Ha!
I need to call in a favor from a friend with a large format color engineering plotter, which I think I can do... I'll still have to pay for the lamination, but I think its worth it.
We'll be playing on the official board on Friday....
My verdict on self-producing Dune now having examined my copies: The components are simple enough that it is probably the way to go, especially if you have a master copy to work from so you know what some of the components are supposed to look like (e.g., the player shields for instance).
I think the combat wheels may be a pain to produce, but I've seen these sold individually on E-bay...
The homemade map file we have is about 1000% better than either the AH or Descartes versions.
I'm going to replace all the army markers with glass gemstone-type markers. I'm still trying to decide how to replace the spice markers.
I'm going to add a traitor deck and upgraded spice deck to my set. I need to do some experimentation with printing via my ink jet...
If ever a game needed the Fantasy Flight treatment, its this one!
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