Re: Re: 2018 Meeple Choice Awards - Final Results

The core of the Blackout board is quite similar to the Elfenland board.
Hmmm.

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 6:01 PM Larry Levy [email protected]
[spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Sure.  But there's such a thing as taking a theme *too* far, Mark.  It
> just makes for a very drab board.  I'm sure a clever graphic artist could
> have come up with something more colorful and still maintain the blackout
> theme.
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> And while it isn't that important to *me*, I've heard quite a few players
> express disappointment that the game reflects absolutely nothing of Hong
> Kong (including the map!).
>
> Still a great game.
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 6:52 PM Mark Jackson [email protected]
> [spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> While I don’t love the art on B:HK... I do want to defend the board. It’s
>> black because no light/power aka blackout. ;-)
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jul 1, 2019, at 1:01 PM, Larry Levy [email protected]
>> [spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I had other issues with the physical production of B:HK, including the
>> drab, non-thematic artwork and the strange decision to have a central
>> display for resource ownership (instead of one on each player mat)....  But
>> none of these things makes the game harder to play, so they don't detract
>> from how much we love it.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019, 3:57 AM Simon Neale ukgamersi-/[email protected]
>> [spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>
>>> Larry, I take your point about Quacks. Personally I can cope with a
>>> little pinch of randomness in my games. Drawing a fist load of poison to
>>> snatch defeat from the jaws of victory can be somewhat hard to stomach but
>>> I just laugh it off. It reminds me a bit of Thebes where no matter how many
>>> digs you do, you can still wind up with handfuls of sand!
>>>
>>> I also really like Blackout but the iconography lets it down. Trying to
>>> see what is in the tiny tiles even if you’re sitting right in front of them
>>> is frustrating. It amazes me how a publisher such as Eggert can get the
>>> graphics so dreadfully wrong.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Simon.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
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