Wanted: Twilight Imperium 3rd edition Expansions

@taamvan:

Can you elaborate on some of the improvements, so that I may hopelessly convince myself to buy it, knowing i’ll never play?

Ti3/Ti4 Comparison video

https://youtu.be/yiH57dZieso

@Baron:

I will not buy anything for now, but if we play more often, I will try to add something for Fortresses.

Monopoly hotels really work?

Not just ANY Monopoly hotels… as you know, Monopoly comes in many, Many, MANY different themed versions… the Monopoly Hotels I used were from LotR Monopoly… and yes, the hotels from LotR Monopoly are basically Middle Earth fortresses perfectly suited in size and sculpt for use in LotR Risk… as I mentioned earlier, by default they come in a semi-translucent white, which can be used for all sides… I went one step further and painted mine to match the four army colors for further clarity. If you search E-Bay, you can probably find someone just selling the LotR hotels for cheap… I didn’t spend much, and a lot cheaper than buying the whole game just for the hotels.

When I followed the BGG link and found a picture of the game box, I recognized it as something that I saw last year in a local game shop.  It didn’t catch my fancy because it looked inspired more by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade than by A&A.  But I didn’t look at it very closely.

TI III, well…a matter of taste really, but what you should try to get your hands on is TI II and its extension, Hope’s End. At least the players I know prefer TI II by far.

Its out of print, but worth the effort.

Anyways, have fun with the game!

Twilight Struggle has to be one of my favourite board games.

The mechanics are fairly simple, per se. However the real strategy lies in using and timing your use of cards well.

Plus, it is incredibly fun to throw down a card and yell at your opponent:

MISTER GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!!!

So, Twilight Struggle. Great game, or awesome game?

Seriously, one of my very few friends in the area who plays wargames introduced me to it a month or two ago, and I can’t get enough of it. It’s relatively easy to learn to play, but deceptively difficult to get good at (I think I’m improving, but I still lose 8 out of 10 games at least). Anyone else ever played it? (And for that matter, anyone want to arrange to play a game or two either over Vassal or wargameroom.com?)

I have played TI3 many times. But now my gaming group had enough of it for a while. The thing is that you spend most of your time building up an empire (even with simulated early turns), then get into a war and al is won or lost with a major battle, in which both sides spend all their extreme action cards. Then one side will have won that battle and their is no reason whatsoever to stop the war and let your victim live. Except if others attack you in the back.

We also play a lot of Napoleon in Europe (Eagle Games) and there you always have the opportunity to sue for peace. Sure, you’ll lose a couple of provinces, but you may not get DoW-ed by the aggressor for a year and your army is intact.

It sounds awesome.  I’ll try and check it out and give it a go sometime.  I’d still like to get into Hearts of Iron more, but like I said, it takes a while to complete something.  The farthest I got was playing as Spain and basically carving France in half with Germany.  And we were just getting into 1940…