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Flashback Friday - A Game of Thrones - Love It or Hate It? Do You Still Play It?
Love it or hate it? Do you still play it?
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I do want to try the newer expansions that convert it into a proper 4 player game.
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It's a pretty good game. I'd certainly rather play it than diplomacy, but there are other probably better contenders for that crown too.
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1st edition was way more flexible if you had the expansions. You could easily get a good game with anywhere from 4-6 players. Second edition felt like a huge step backwards, you really needed the full 6 to make it work. Plus the warping on those early copies was inexcusable.
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I've played 1st edition, 2nd edition, 2nd edition with Feast of Crows, and 2nd with Dance of Dragons.
Feast of Crows is actually pretty good. It turns it into a shorter 4 player game with hidden objectives which nullifies the whack the leader, get the other guys problem that the main game sort of devolves into.
Dance of Dragons is just new starting positions and a bit crap really. Not played the new final expansion.
I like the order tokens system, and the fluff around the edges with character cards and competing for the iron chair and the chicken etc are sort of fun but it boils down to telling people to attack someone else. A lot of games do this kind of thing, but games like Dune or TI give you more material to wager with. Here it is just board position and do you like/trust me.
I think as a Game of Thrones themed game it sort of works. It does bring out the wargame aspecs of the books/tv series, but the real substance of Game of Thrones was really its characters which in this game are just picture cards. In a sense the theme did sort of play out if the players brought their own preexisting personal relationships and background to the table. In the TV show no one should trust Walder Frey, at the table no one should trust Mark, etc.
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As far as gameplay, it felt pretty Diplomacy flavored, with that LIFO stack thing going on that would always mess with you. I won once (and only once) by stabbing a friend for the 7th stronghold, and he wouldn't stop bitching about that for a year.
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