Viktory II

I’m seriously considering it.  I’ll let you know.

Cheers

No promises  :wink:

@Brain:

The Monopoly house joke was very funny :-D

Indeed it was.  And that was the first thing I thought looking at it too!  :D

Tile based games confuse me generally though.  And WOW are those pieces bright!  ;)

I’m looking at purchasing this game in the next six months. I like the idea of the variable hex map similar to Settlers of Catan & his customer service can’t be beat.

@Brain:

Sometimes with small companies like this, if you don’t order when you see it, it might not be around when you want it.

I agree with that!

I own a copy of this game…  it is well done for a small company release.  It combines AAA type dynamics with those of Catan.  If you read his blog on how he created the game he gets into this.

My only complaint was the small size of the Hexes.  But I fixed that by playing the game with Hexes from Settlers of Catan (more space for units etc…

The rules are abit complex but if you are a hard core AAA player it is nothing you can’t swallow.

Over all I would say great game, made by a hard core gamer FOR gamers.

(and my Hat off to him for going it alone and producing this…  his blog and story are an inspiration for those little companies out there  :wink:  I know how hard it can be to make and produce something from scratch on your own dime.)

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the heads up,just sent off for the game/extra pieces!

Copy cat Risk/Catan pieces-looks like a joke :lol:

Got the game and extra pieces.No time to check out he game but the componets are great!
Anyone needing a good ship of the line in 1/2400(or a little larger),probably a 74,look no further.Very fast service!

The pieces are much better than risk, like 3 times better

I have seen a copy and the bits seem to be very high quality & detail.

I have a copy.  The inf, arty, cav, and ships are extremely well-done  (sculpting and casting).  The two sizes of houses (for towns and cities) are very clean, too, but quite “plain.”

Read the game design notes at the site and follow the link to the pics of the pieces and you can see good close-ups.

You build a world of hexes, different size worlds for different number of players, and start with a town, which gives an infantry unit.  Move and start new towns, and upgrade towns to cities, which give an inf plus one other unit (inf, art, cav, ship…depends on type of land hex the town/city is on).  Number if towns and cities owned is always directly related to number of units you have.  Once all possible town/city spaces are occupied (cannot be adjacent) the fighting starts in earnest.

Okay combat system.  The most interesting thing to me is the shift in power when a town/city changes owner, because there is a loss of units to one side and a gain to the other.  If you lose units in combat, but don’t lose your town/city, they get replaced because that direct relationship between cities/towns and units is always maintained (kind of a reset every turn).

NOTE:  I have only played this solitaire!

There are LOTS of pieces…in his game notes on the site, he states that he studied how many of anything anybody could (reasonably/mathematically/statistically) ever need, and he supplied that many in every color!  I think it’s available for four or six players, with more pieces and more hexes (for a bigger world) in the big set.

If you want Napoleonic looking pieces, it’s worth it just for those.