Reply To: Hobby Weekender 10/05/19 A bit of gaming philosophy this time

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Ok, late to the party so retrospective question responses:

1. Is a hard tabletop boardgame necessarily a good one? – I’d say it’s a necessary but not sufficient precondition. Ifa a game is ‘easy’ then it’s going to be short on replayability, and that’s personally a key component for my considering a game ‘good’ 🙂

2. Do board games based on a computer game work? Or do they get muddled up in immitating the game’s style translating directly into a tabletop game and suffer? – Never really played but I have a friend of mine who is an avid board gamer and she has many game apps on her phone and will merrily flick through a few turns of Dominion while the action has stopped so people can look up rules in D&D or similar – she seems to think they work OK.

3. Do games have too much accessories? Yes and no. Some games (notably FFG ones) seem to come with a lot of tokens and components, but they are all necessary for gameplay, and this necessity sort of means that they are therefore not ‘too much’ as they are the right amount to play the game? I will concede sorting them all back into various bags and boxes at the end of a game can be painful though…

@crazyredcoat meh, songs in English are overrated 😉 Surprised I am not fluent in German through osmosis yet… Have all the mins painted? Surely you jest 🙂

@sundancer yeah agree X-wing seems to have a lot of tokens. Once they are all on the playing surface it does sort of break immersion.

@robert more terrain is always good 🙂

@wolfch wow thats a huge amount of BRS! how long would it likely take to get through a game with that many planes aside? They have turned out great BTW.

@limburger oooh gratz on getting the Batman game in hand 🙂

@horati0nosebl0wer nice score on the Clan War 🙂

@warzan a basing marathon is an ingenious way to work off a hangover. Nice looking work! BTW going to steal your idea and upscale slightly and use some ruined wall sections and broken rubble as drop-in terrain sections of difficult terrain. I like the narrative idea that a strategically important location ,may have been fought over generations before and that there may be ruins form a previous engagement which have almost completely crumbled over time. was it DAS clay used with the rolling pin? How did you find using it? I’m trying to find a less expensive alternative to greenstuff or Knead-it… wow, had no idea  that the shop had scaled up that far already. well played 🙂 Test pieces look really good with a bit of paint and aquarium plants.

@woldenspoons enjoy the hobby break! Hope your gaming batteries recharge 🙂

@dawfydd Infinity looks like a nice change of pace, as well as a chance for you to paint in something other than a blue/grey shade 🙂 . Love the variation in the bases.