by kswingruber
LoreChase wrote:
Ariel: Silver I there it goes, Silver!
The event is organized in collaboration with Pagano Events with the aim of promoting the Cash Game Poker, during these 9 days dedicated to the cash games, there will beseveral tables dedicated to Texas Hold’em No Limit Buy-in different to provide the opportunity for everyone to participate.It starts with a level of about € 0.82, corresponding to 1CHF to reach up to a maximum of CHF 20 with Pot Limit Omaha tournament. The event will include a number of Italian pokerpro, as it means a better offer or an event to which one can not help but participate.
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by bkunes
Related Item: Memoir ’44
I’d like M44 to be at the top of my list! 
RftG only climbed my list #2, 31x due to finally introducing my wife to it in Dec and she surprisingly really liked it and we played a boat load in a few days time.
I got Space Alert for my birthday and enjoy it, the challenge (similar to M44) is finding others to play.
Summoner Wars is on my want to play/buy in 2012 list!
by SeahawksFan
I have enjoyed it so far, despite the fact that I have been trounced multiple times.
by metalchorus
An item Board Game:
Survival Camp
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by kryyst
Interpret it the sentence however you like but the rules don’t change it won’t work. If your guard is the target of a successful tackle he’s downed and no longer can use his guard skill. Guard only works if another person is tackled. A standing linemen can use his guard skill to take the hit.
Since the cash games were legalized in the Italian poker room, the collection of funds at the end of the month is significantly increased, apparently the Italian player, on average, prefer to focus on cash games and tournaments.
According to statistics, it seems that at the end of September were 904 million euros in winnings in cash games as opposed to just 102.7 million euros for the tournament. The cash game has already grossed more than $ 895 million in August, so an increase in the month of September was to be expected.
The market leader has PokerStars, as always with 23.05% followed by Microgame are 21.13% and 14.93% with Pokerclub in third place. As for the tournament but there was a decrease of 58% compared to 245.2 million euros collected in September 2012.
Even for Pokerstars tournaments are in the lead, which confirmed the above by saying that players in this last period, namely from June to September, he prefers to engage in cash games and tournaments, after years and years of waiting for their legalization, is the minimum!
by snailien
Anuviel wrote:
This is the common approach to most TCGs and I don’t see why it wouldn’t work in an LCG.
A ban list seems silly for a cooperative game that will probably never have tournaments.
Actually my group and I had a discussion this after playing for a while trying to anticipate how long the “large map games were going to go. Unfortunately we hadn’t kept track of how long our previous games had run.
For perspectives sake we unboxed the game at around 4 – 4:30ish in the afternoon and broke at around 11:30. One of us having read the rules from the FF website we were prepped with a little fore knowledge. In around 7 hours we unboxed setup and played (with 3 players) Emergence (one time win), China Shop 3 times (two losses one in the first level one in the second and one victory), and Belly of the beast (one time win). I would put that with three players player 4 complete games (countign the two losses as roughly the length of one full game) at about 100 minutes apiece. How ever I can say that the the first mission took longer than it probably should because we were hashing out the rules and the third mission (Belly of the Beast) went much faster because once you get a good feel for the AI system the game flows quickly.
That said I then played two solo missions back to back (Emergence and China Shop both played full scenario length to wins) in about an hour and a half including setup and put away.
So to summarize my answers to the OP’s question:
- Number of Players does matter for time to play (though IMO the jump in time has more to do with player interaction and individual decision speed)
- The rules are smooth enough that familiarity/comfort with the system significantly decreases the time required to play.
- I would say with good rules knowledge you will average around hour and half for the first 4 missions and I’m guessing longer for the last 3 because of sheer length
- As long as one player knows the rules well you can sped through most of the play quickly as it is easy to pick up
- And as for your comment about “D&D” games if you are referring to Descent, Hero quest, or other “exploration” games it’s my opinion that the comparison stops at the visual level. This game has far more in common with Pandemic, Space Hulk and card driven war games.
by paperfred
Related Item: Poker
Just this year I decided to start logging my poker plays. Each session may be hours long but I still count each session as only a single play. I also log them under Traditional Card Games. I log almost any card game I play under Traditional Card Games since there isn’t an entry for all the card games I know. Even poker could be subdivided further into different types of poker games. So it seems right to me to leave it under Traditional Card Games.