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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.

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  1. this story has been up 30 mins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and not one post.

    so here you go.

    suck my fristy prostness |314tc|-|35.

  2. Wow by dtfinch · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Someone has a lot of time on their hands and an amazing interest in playing board games based on video games, when they already own the video games.

  3. 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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    Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
  4. Wow! Now people without computers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    can support the DMCA-wielding jackbooted thugs at Blizzard. No thanks.

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