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posted by janrinok on Tuesday February 14 2017, @11:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the set-your-inner-giant-free dept.

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[In gaming, t]he area control genre—troops, creatures, or cubes seeking majorities on a map—is a cramped and crowded one. Though well-regarded titles like Cry Havoc, Inis, and Star Wars: Rebellion all arrived in 2016, the calendar keeps turning and the plastic miniatures keep coming. This time, though, they're positively enormous.

In Assault of the Giants, a horde of titans descend upon Faerûn, the prominent continent featured in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms setting. This Andrew Parks design takes a conflict-oriented thematic chassis and bolts a smooth Euro-style engine to its frame. The game is a hybrid of schools, delivering carnage and tremendous 5" plastic miniatures to satisfy your eyes as well as your brain. The fact that it plays in a cool 25 minutes per player is just wax on the hood.

Game details:

  • Designer: Andrew Parks
  • Publisher: WizKids
  • Players: 3-6
  • Age: 14+
  • Playing time: 90-120 minutes
  • Price: $79.99 Standard Edition (Amazon)/$129 Premium Painted Edition (Amazon)/~£80 Standard Edition

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/02/assault-of-the-giants-a-great-dd-game-with-5-mega-miniatures/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @07:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @07:11PM (#467063)

    Parent here....

    You speak truth. If I remember right I spent $38 including tax for the AD&D version 1 DM Guide and Player handbook, and that would have been somewhere between 1982 and 1984. I found them in a B. Dalton when we were on vacation in Flagstaff, Arizona. That was something around a month plus of my allowance and it was 100% of the money I had with for the three day camping trip with my folks (it was a KOA about a mileish or two from the Flagstaff Mall.) But I used those two books for the next ten years and got lots more enjoyment from that than the Basic set I had. (My best friend had the blue Expert set.) And there was also the revolt of Tunnels & Trolls as well to counter the "buy ten books" mindset of TSR.

    I hate to think how much money I've spent on gaming over the years. IIRC a lot of board titles then were in the sub-$20 range, though, and the cream of the crop around $30. And I've painted lots and lots of lead and pot metal and enjoyed the hours spent doing so - I was out by the time lead was phased out and plastic came to rise. (Done lots of plastic models over the years too...)

    Anyway, you hit the nail on the head - the true measure is value received for what's paid. And I enjoyed shelling out way too much money for the Firefly game, for example.... But it seems to me that the investments were proportionally cheaper back then. That, though, is likely just my rose colored glasses of nostalgia I suppose. It is still hard to wrap my head around paying $80-$130 for a board game.

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 14 2017, @09:58PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday February 14 2017, @09:58PM (#467118)

    Just played Conan a few times with some friends. Love the mechanics, but at $125 (early), and $250 (retail), that sure feels steep...
    Value for the money, plus fun with friends, compared to most other silly entertainment? True, but dang it's hard to imagine spending that much for one game... (AD&D 2nd did it nicely and progressively, not as the entry cost)