Tom Wright

May the fourth be with you!

The Best of The Avengers.

Cluster Fudge _ Ep.43 Balloon

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Small price for freedom,

Cluster Fudge _by John McNamee

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My hair will never cooperate with me.

Cluster Fudge _ Ep. 42 INNER CONFLICT

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Cluster Fudge _by John McNamee

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Discover the hidden talents of comic book legend Stan Lee as he teaches a very unique acting class. Wait till you see the part featuring. Oh wait, I won’t spoil it for you! Just check it out!

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A melon-dramatic and melon-choly tale of love.

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From Beat Down Boogie:

In celebration of the release of Avengers: Age Of Ultron, we just launched our latest video, Kung Fu Avengers. Imagine the Avengers in an old school kung fu movie. It’s Civil War as Iron Man battles Captain America. Enjoy!

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Also, my Pizza and WiFi shirts are on sale this week! Go get one from the store before they sell out!

by W. Eric Martin

• Here we go again? One of the many titles that Asmodee is bringing to market in 2015 in its role as distributor (and sometime publisher) is The Builders: Antiquity from designer Frédéric Henry and publisher Bombyx. The Builders: Antiquity is a sequel to the 2013 release The Builders: Middle Ages that can be played on its own or mixed with the original game. Here's a description of that original game:

In The Builders: Middle Ages, the cards represent buildings or workers. Players score points (and gain money) by completing the construction of buildings, while placing a worker on a construction site costs money. Each building has four characteristics (carpentry, masonry, architecture, tilery) rated between 0 and 5, and the workers have the same characteristics valued in the same range. To complete a construction, the player must add enough workers to cover the four characteristics of the building.

Each player starts the game with 10 ecu and an apprentice. Five workers and five buildings are placed face-up on the table, with the others set aside in separate decks. On a turn, you can take three free actions, then pay 5 ecu for each additional action. The possible actions are:

• Open a site - Take one of the five buildings, place it front of you, then draw a replacement from the deck.
• Recruit a worker - Take one of the five workers, place it front of you, then draw a replacement from the deck.
• Assign a worker to a building - Pay the cost of the worker (as he won't work for free!), then place him on a building; when the building's needs are met, you earn the points and coins indicated, then flip the building over. The workers return to your pool of available labor.
• Get money - Forgo one, two or three actions to earn 1, 3 or 6 ecu.

Some completed buildings join your labor pool as they can be used to complete other buildings. As soon as a player reaches 17 points, players finish the round so that everyone has the same number of turns, then you tally points, with each completed card having a point value and each 10 ecu being worth 1 point. Whoever has the most points wins.

The Builders: Antiquity puts a few twists on the original design, such as the ability to take out loans, upgrade workers (with clear overlays), buy tools (that you assign to workers as you need them), or purchase slaves. These cards aren't shuffled into the worker deck as in the original game, but laid out in stacks that are available to players for as long as the cards last.

At Gen Con 2014, I received a preview of this game, and slaves work similar to workers in that you can assign them to buildings to help complete them, but you don't have to pay them to work since they are slaves. The drawback to using slaves in the game is that they cost you victory points and therefore make it more difficult for you to win — but during the game you can pay the cost printed on the card in order to buy that slave's freedom and convert him into a regular worker.


• Asmodee has confirmed two titles that it expects to debut at Gen Con 2015: Libellud's version of Mysterium from designers Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko and Moonster Games' RYŪ from designer Kim Satô.

Mysterium is due to reach stores in the U.S. in September 2015, and I'm working with Libellud to publish a developer diary on BGG News about what's changed and why in its version of the game. For those who haven't played, Mysterium is something of a cross between Dixit and Clue, with one player serving as a ghost who transmits opaque, dreamlike clues (akin to Dixit cards) to the other players, who must suss out the who, where and with what related to a murder that's been committed.

RYŪ will have its general release in October 2015, starting at Spiel 2015, and rules in French and English are now available on the Moonster Games website. If you don't want to read the rules, you can watch this overview video that BGG recorded at Spiel 2014. Failing that, I'll describe it as a set collection race game with a bidding element and a fair dose of screwage.

• Designer and Zvezda founder Konstantin Krivenko died in July 2014, but his legacy continues with the 2015 release of World War II: Stalingrad 1942-1943, the next title in the "Art of Tactic" line of games. Here's an overview of the setting:

The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 - 2 February 1943) was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union.

Marked by constant close quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians by air raids, it is often regarded as the single largest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare.

World War II: Stalingrad 1942-1943, part of the "Art of Tactic" line of games, allows players to recreate this battle. As with other games in this series, it can be played on its own or combined with any of the other titles. The game includes all of the models needed to play the scenarios in the box, but additional World War II mini kits in Zvezda's product line are fully compatible and can be used to expand the game with additional units.

I'm not a wargame guy by any means, but I can appreciate the terrifying beauty of this cover:

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I’ve definitely made a couple meals which resulted in having to force myself to finish the dish. The only thing worse than a bad-tasting meal is wasting food. Even if the food is like way way way too salty why did I put so much salt on that, jeez.

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Doritos roulette is coming to America, though it has only been overseas so far. So what is Doritos roulette, you may ask? Five out of six chips in the bag are regular Doritos, but one out of six is SUPER SPICY TO THE MAX, and there is no way to tell by look or smell. You just got to sit around and eat them with friends and then laugh at the few people who get the “devil chip.”

Man, I just found my new favorite party food. Cruel and delicious at once.

Editor’s note: They’ve been available in Canada for a few months now!

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JoBlo.com is proud to present a special mashup tribute that is dedicated to the massive cinematic universe of Marvel Studios in honor of the release of “Avengers: Age of Ultron”. Seven years have passed since Robert Downey Jr. donned the famous Iron Man armor in the first of many planned films in the franchise. It was a lot of risk to get to where they are today but the reward was very much worth it.

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Interview skills

It’s been a long time since I wore a suit to work. It’s been even longer since anyone referred to me as kid, mind you. I gave up suited work years ago in order to spend more time doing what I love, and to become more focused on myself. A big part of doing what I love is writing, and in turn, a big part of that is writing comics. A weekly webcomic is a great discipline for any writer, or artist. Despite the stress and literally constant deadlines, it’s absolutely worth it. Nothing teaches writing like actually writing.

I still work. I have a nine-to-five, but it’s work I’m happy with, that suits me better, and allows me time to write. And being able to write is what makes me happy. That’s the funny thing about chasing your dreams, I guess. If you do it right, you don’t even have catch them to be happy.

I did look mighty fine in a suit, though.

 

An experienced gamer

You can’t say that Tiny Wooden Pieces doesn’t bring you to a wide variety of places. Last week we were on location at the exotic Cursed Island! This week, we travel to a . . . well, a pretty mundane office for an interview. But that, I hope, reflects one of things that never ceases to amaze me about board games – that the themes of games can be about absolutely anything and can take you absolutely anywhere. And that the mechanics of a good game can make you care deeply for something that initially seemed like the most boring thing in the world. At the moment, I’m wondering if Panamax would spark my interest in managing a shipping company, but as I’m unlikely to be playing that anytime soon, I guess I’ll just have to settle for regular old city-building and rooting out spies.

We got a bit excited this week about the launch of the Kickstarter for Thunderbirds, designed by our favourite interviewee Matt Leacock. After only a couple of days it has smashed its £20,000 goal – and with over four weeks to go, who knows what the final figure could end up being. The economics of Kickstarter for board games is fascinating, none more so than for the phenomenon that is Exploding Kittens. After raising over $8.7 million, it looks like the creators are set to do very well out of it. But first they have to fulfill the Kickstarter pledge with their 200,000+ backers. These guys have a LOT of work ahead of them.

As regards this week’s comic, playing board games does help you develop lots of skills – and I love the thought of highlighting some of these during an interview. If only that could happen. But the real question for me is, what fictional position do you think Colin was going for? And why, why, why, did he not shave beforehand? Answers below!

Bat love

It’s the romantic undercurrent you always knew that was there.

Not content with releasing a Munchkin version of Love Letter, AEG are making a bid for the game to actually become the new Munchkin, releasing an ever growing number of versions of their now-flagship card game, with different themes bolted on. In addition to the Hobbit, Batman and Munchkin, later this year fans of Archer will be getting their own Love Letter as well. And as far as I’m concerned, this is fantastic. Batman Love Letter might seem an awkward mix, and the theme sure is fairly thin, but it remains the great gateway game that the original was. And with a Batman theme it’s a gateway game that is going to get into the hands of so many more people who would otherwise never have played it.

As a gateway game, Love Letter makes a lot more sense than Munchkin does. Munchkin is great fun, but it relies on players having at least a passing familiarity with the mechanics and tropes of dungeon crawling roleplaying games. This is easy to forget when dealing with players that are entirely new to gaming, and I have often seen players stumped with the workings of Munchkin, spending an entire game with a hand full of spells, weapons and equipment that they have no idea what to do with. Love Letter on the other hand, plays in about the time it takes to explain the full working of Munchkin to an entirely green gamer. I’m not trying to be down on Munchkin here, I do think it’s great fun, but experience has taught me not to use it as a gateway game anymore. So Love Letter usurping the heavily licensed crown of Munchkin is something I’m more than happy to see happen.

I’m not as big into console gaming as I am into board games, and so haven’t yet been willing to make the expensive switch from Xbox 360 to One. It’s going to happen this year, though, and the reason for that is Batman: Arkham Knight and Star Wars Battlefront. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll see where I’m going with this: they are both licensed titles, both providing enough of a hook for a casual video gamer like myself to make a big spend on a console, and get into next-gen gaming (or is it current-gen by now?). I don’t imagine that Star Wars Battlefront will play all that differently to a COD or Battlefield title. For me, the difference is theme. It’s the idea of playing in the Star Wars universe, of flying speeders and battling AT-ATs. That’s what is going to get me back into console gaming, and it’s theme that’s going to do the same for a whole generation of board gamers as well.

Oh hey, here’s Wendell’s face:

 

–OH YEAH–

I redid the mobile stuff for the site. Now, all the comics will stack vertically, which should be a whole lot better for reading on a phone! If you see any problems, lemme know!

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Even Superman think the new Star Wars trailer was better, and Supes is right, I hope Disney leaves Han or Chewie alone in the next movie. If one of them die, I’ll make a total fool of myself at the cinema when I start sobbing uncontrollably in front of the whole audience.

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From the company that spent more time raising you than your parents ever did, comes the same friendship-ruining action from Smash Bros. without all the fun game play to distract you from your hate!

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