Joel 
Here is my #review for #NemesisGames, the 5th book of #TheExpanse!
I finished #NemesisGames, another book from #TheExpanse series! Absolutely awesome.
SteveUprising: Curse of the Last Emperor
Managed to kill every single unit standee the salmon colored side (The Herd) has on turn 2. Still accomplished a fair amount; losing units isn't great but surprisingly acceptable in Uprising.
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Managed to kill every single unit standee the salmon colored side (The Herd) has on turn 2. Still accomplished a fair amount; losing units isn't great but surprisingly acceptable in Uprising.
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Uprising: Curse of the Last Emperor, solo
My table has stuff set up on it so I've been doing like 30 minutes of a solo Uprising game here in there in the background the last week on tabletop simulator. As always, a great time. These days I play the highest difficulty with everything thrown in. At that high a difficulty, it's a little bit swingy. I think how swingy Uprising is is overblown, people just don't like mitigating dice risk, which is mostly solved with the Aether addition in the expansion. But cranked up as high as possible, you're put in a situation that is very difficult to even dig out of like maybe 10-20% of the time with some turn 1 tough tile pulls. There's probably a combination using banes and whatnot that tones down some advanced tiles and hordes/legions but I think the game is a blast anyway so I'm willing to put up with the bad beats.
Anyway, they're running another crowdfund coming up... I'll definitely be going in and getting the stuff I didn't get. It sounds like they also might consolidate the rulebooks which is great and, if this game sounds good to you, they're incorporating the risk mitigation Aether mechanic into the base box so even just getting the base box is an incredible value. I'm looking forward mainly to this one and to the Voidfall expansion these days... I think crowdfunding in the US is entering a very rough place with the tariff situation so I'm anticipating having to pay out the nose for an already very expensive game.
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My table has stuff set up on it so I've been doing like 30 minutes of a solo Uprising game here in there in the background the last week on tabletop simulator. As always, a great time. These days I play the highest difficulty with everything thrown in. At that high a difficulty, it's a little bit swingy. I think how swingy Uprising is is overblown, people just don't like mitigating dice risk, which is mostly solved with the Aether addition in the expansion. But cranked up as high as possible, you're put in a situation that is very difficult to even dig out of like maybe 10-20% of the time with some turn 1 tough tile pulls. There's probably a combination using banes and whatnot that tones down some advanced tiles and hordes/legions but I think the game is a blast anyway so I'm willing to put up with the bad beats.
Anyway, they're running another crowdfund coming up... I'll definitely be going in and getting the stuff I didn't get. It sounds like they also might consolidate the rulebooks which is great and, if this game sounds good to you, they're incorporating the risk mitigation Aether mechanic into the base box so even just getting the base box is an incredible value. I'm looking forward mainly to this one and to the Voidfall expansion these days... I think crowdfunding in the US is entering a very rough place with the tariff situation so I'm anticipating having to pay out the nose for an already very expensive game.
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Uprising, solo
Absolutely buried in hordes and legions I can't stop. I would have had a chance but I made the classic mistake to explore too much, which if you have the advanced tiles and cards can do all kinds of terrible things. I spawned two legions on two explores.
I do think it's really important to play through situations when you're behind in uprising; it's baked into the balance. If you quit every time you take a bad beat you're going to think the game is "easy" since you wont play through games you might have won tooth and nail.
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Absolutely buried in hordes and legions I can't stop. I would have had a chance but I made the classic mistake to explore too much, which if you have the advanced tiles and cards can do all kinds of terrible things. I spawned two legions on two explores.
I do think it's really important to play through situations when you're behind in uprising; it's baked into the balance. If you quit every time you take a bad beat you're going to think the game is "easy" since you wont play through games you might have won tooth and nail.
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Uprising, solo
Playing my first 4 turn game. The game probably doesn't need the extra turn without archnemesis, but it is letting me come back from a horrid start with chaos overrunning everything. I haven't quite turned the corner and the end is uncertain, but it has been an uncomfortable game where I've used a lot of tools I've never used before. Both factions I'm using have strong purple dice (magic) I've never leaned much into. Purple often trigger special powers... chaos jumped out so far ahead I needed to trigger the druid card I drew that saps enemy VP from the chaos faction. Uprising has a lot more wrinkles than you think to handle the kind of big swings it sometimes throws at you. Been a wonderfully interesting game.
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Playing my first 4 turn game. The game probably doesn't need the extra turn without archnemesis, but it is letting me come back from a horrid start with chaos overrunning everything. I haven't quite turned the corner and the end is uncertain, but it has been an uncomfortable game where I've used a lot of tools I've never used before. Both factions I'm using have strong purple dice (magic) I've never leaned much into. Purple often trigger special powers... chaos jumped out so far ahead I needed to trigger the druid card I drew that saps enemy VP from the chaos faction. Uprising has a lot more wrinkles than you think to handle the kind of big swings it sometimes throws at you. Been a wonderfully interesting game.
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Btw I am currently on chapter 15 of #NemesisGames, book 5 of #TheExpanse!
Honestly, going great!
Oh right! I don't think I mentioned it here (unless u check my #weeknotes) but I finally started #reading #NemesisGames, book 5 of #TheExpanse
I just finished chapter 8! It's been good so far, loving the new perspectives from the characters here.
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Uprising: Curse of the Last Emperor, solo
Great game with all the advanced stuff today. Pulled out ahead before losing a few battles... Ultimately pushed the Horde back hard enough, emptying its deck, to win. It's not perfect, it's not the most tightly designed in my collection, but it provides so many dramatic moments.
Tried the god faction who only have one unit and use systems similar to your enemy, played as the wolf god. Got a great item combo that made them incredibly strong by bouncing around the map at will.
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Great game with all the advanced stuff today. Pulled out ahead before losing a few battles... Ultimately pushed the Horde back hard enough, emptying its deck, to win. It's not perfect, it's not the most tightly designed in my collection, but it provides so many dramatic moments.
Tried the god faction who only have one unit and use systems similar to your enemy, played as the wolf god. Got a great item combo that made them incredibly strong by bouncing around the map at will.
#uprisingcurseofthelastemperor #nemesisgames #dirksommer #pawelmazur #corneliuscremin #boardgames #tabletop #tabletopgames #brettspiele
Uprising: Curse of the Last Emperor, solo 2nd handed
Reasonably close L yesterday in my solo game of Uprising, one faction got over without help but White (wood elf type faction) couldn't get there. White just got rolled by a number of different fights and ultimately got beat cycle 3 by the tricky Courtesan. I don't have a great handle on their play flow; they have great archers but no money. My biggest sin was not getting enough items to help me with the fights, that's the big strength of the hero I played.
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Reasonably close L yesterday in my solo game of Uprising, one faction got over without help but White (wood elf type faction) couldn't get there. White just got rolled by a number of different fights and ultimately got beat cycle 3 by the tricky Courtesan. I don't have a great handle on their play flow; they have great archers but no money. My biggest sin was not getting enough items to help me with the fights, that's the big strength of the hero I played.
#uprisingcurseofthelastemperor #nemesisgames #corneliuscremin #pawelmazur #dirksommer #boardgames #tabletop #tabletopgames #brettspiele #bgg #boardgamegeek
