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WarCraft Board Game Compared, Rated

Posted by simoniker on from the zug-zug-apparently dept.

Thanks to OgreCave for their review of Fantasy Flight's boardgame version of seminal PC RTS WarCraft. The review starts off: "Ladies and gentlemen, WarCraft has left the computer, and this time it's survived", and continues: "Where Eagle's Age of Mythology conversion focused on all the little complex details of resource building, putting the whole game there, FFG's WarCraft makes the crucial change of putting the board back in." He concludes: "Basically, if you're looking for [in-depth, detailed] stuff to chew on, it's unquestionably here, but the focus is on fun, and that's what gets delivered." Elsewhere, there are some additional scenarios for the game already available on the official site.

20 comments

  1. Interesting... by Chexsum · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Kevin Bloody Wilson reviewed it!!!

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    1. Re:Interesting... by Chexsum · · Score: 0

      Bah - I always stuff up my karma whoring - I meant designed not reviewed! ;)

      Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!

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    2. Re:Interesting... by AvitarX · · Score: 1

      hmmm.

      It was moderated +2

      and now you may get yet anopther post modded up.

      You pulled it off perfectly.

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  2. Fantasy Sweatshop by carcosa30 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fantasy Flight is one of the most unpleasant work environments I've ever been in. I doubt I would work there if I were paid 3 times what I was.

    Fantasy Flight: You need to hire a couple of your warehouse people instead of keeping them on as temps. You need to pay for insurance. You should probably pay them a living wage. The fact that "everybody does it this way" is insufficient justification. What's humourous is people there complained that you couldn't keep workers.

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  3. I 3 WC! by stinkfister · · Score: 1

    Warcraft games are the best RTS games ever, IMO. Maybe that actually succeeded in making something other than a PC game...gg blizzard

  4. Are we forgetting the original strategy game? by haxorest · · Score: 1

    Risk?

    1. Re:Are we forgetting the original strategy game? by Catharsis · · Score: 2, Informative

      Are you slow, son?

      You think Risk was first?

      Oh man... If I wasn't too busy playing El Grande, I'll tell you all about how wrong you are.

      Here, start at the 'geek.

      BoardGameGeek

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    2. Re:Are we forgetting the original strategy game? by justinkim · · Score: 3, Insightful

      There are also the Games Workshop Fantasy and SF wargames that both Warcraft and Starcraft take a lot of inspiration from.

    3. Re:Are we forgetting the original strategy game? by gnalle · · Score: 1

      Risk is fairly old, but of course it was not the first board game: history of risk

    4. Re:Are we forgetting the original strategy game? by vaguelyamused · · Score: 1

      Are you forgetting about Chess? It's got a few years on Risk.

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    5. Re:Are we forgetting the original strategy game? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not only wasn't it first (as other people have said), but if you even think it rates a mention, it just proves how ignorant you are. Go back to playing monopoly and keep your head in the sand about real games.

  5. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Someone has a lot of time on their hands when they have nothing better to do than to bitch about it.

    You deserved to get modded down, you egregious fucktard.

  6. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Someone has a lot of time on their hands when they have nothing better to do than to bitch about it.
    Not really, it probably took him upwards of 10 seconds to make that post. You, on the other hand, required three minutes to drop your Cheetos and leave the computer, pull the thesaurus off the shelf, and look up the word "egregious." YOU FAIL IT!
  7. Woohoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is good news. Getting a little tired of risk during all my weekend-long parties when my friends come home from their dorms, I helped my mom order this game and the civilization board game. can't wait for christmas :P

  8. Endless possibilities ... by bitbeast · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... and if this board game is successful, will they start working on a computer conversion?

    1. Re:Endless possibilities ... by Zoshnell · · Score: 1

      And with the successful computer conversion will inevitably come the hilarious sitcom about a gay human footsoldier who roommates with a brutish Orc Raider, a self preening Night Elf Sentinel, and a hilarious Undead ghoul, with sexy results!

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  9. WC Unplugged by davidhan · · Score: 1

    With their country's high-tech infrastructure not as developed as their southern brothers', this must be the version that North Koreans play. I bet they still rule at it!