Comments on: Thoughts: Ironclad Tactics.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:13:09 +0000

I know this is a super-old thread, but still: you can pay 1 AP to move your rightmost card to the leftmost position, effectively saving it for a later turn. So you can affect your draw after the first few turns

By: elotar

elotar — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:22:57 +0000

Everything are fine with the RND there – you are controlling the draw by manipulating the probabilities. Finished it in one sitting (3 hours) with less than 10 loses. You are doing smth wrong.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:43:24 +0000

@Hentzau: Solforge, now there’s a game I need to give more of a chance. My initial reaction was that it is a needlessly complicated Spectromancer.*

You’re 100% right about the sudden outbreak of these things. We’ll get sick of them soon enough, but I suspect in 5 years we’ll bemoan the lack of card games and publishers’ unwillingness to make them.

*Spectromancer predates the boom. I’m trying to remember when I first heard about it. It’s certainly rather primitive in terms of presentation and infrastructure; there’s the sense that it was made when “popular digital card game” was an oxymoron.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:38:26 +0000

That’s an interesting way to think about it (i.e. “managing” randomness is the fun bit) – randomness is a decent enough way to add uncertainty beyond not knowing what the other player is thinking, provided the game isn’t so random that it gimps the strategy elements. I like Diplomacy, but the high-stakes backstabbing is less stressful than Risk’s ability to just pile armies through fronts until you run out because of Risk’s random element versus Diplomacy’s deliberate stalemates. And while you can lose to a string of unlucky rolls, it’s normally the case that once the game gets going it’s your ability to take the randomness into account and learn when to gamble that’s important.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:21:08 +0000

The current proliferation of digital card games is interesting. You’ve got your Magics, your Solforges, your Card Hunters and your Scrolls, and even Blizzard is getting in on the action with Hearthstone, a game that I have a sneaking suspicion is going to sweep the free-to-play market whenever it finally gets out of beta. I guess it’s linked to the growing maturity of digital distribution channels finally making that sort of business model possible on a PC (not to mention these games being eminently suitable for tablet play, and there’s about a zillion of those out there now), but it’s still funny how everyone’s rushing to make one now.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:15:08 +0000

I’LL THINK ABOUT IT.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:13:37 +0000

I’m hesitant to dip my toe back into that particular pool since it was addictive but ultimately rather grindy and there’s not much to draw me back after I burnt out on it the first time around. We’ll see, though.

By: Ninja Foodstuff

Ninja Foodstuff — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 06:39:19 +0000

I trust next week will be thoughts on Cook serve delicious?

By: Strudel

Strudel — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:16:29 +0000

Thirded!

By: Ninja Foodstuff

Ninja Foodstuff — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 09:40:12 +0000

seconded!