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I made rally-the-troops.com and mupdf and some other stuff.
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To me the biggest alarm, and thus the thing worth discussing at all, is the rampant anti-intellectualism of Tom and Zee’s statements in relation to the conversation Amabel is having.
They’re not just saying games are toys—which they can be. They’re saying we mustn’t pretend they’re anything more.
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Hilda!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_(...
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I have determined that Hunt for Blackbeard should definitely be on RTT ... just a matter of when.
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They're the right amount of swingy for me! That Hammer runs a bit longer allows for spectacular come-backs. Luck is not as decisive a factor in HOTS as you would imagine, as evidenced by several of the best players on RTT having win rates near 90%.
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The Crusader Rex rulebook is tough. There are a lot of cases that regularly occur during play that aren't covered explicitly in the rules and require inventive reading and a lot of filling in the blanks.
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If you don't have a physical copy, you can always play the online version I created at rally-the-troops.com/julius-caesar
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Of the Columbia block games, I think Julius Caesar has the best and most complete rulebook. It assumes the least amount of prior knowledge (probably because it's simpler than the others and they didn't have to cut anything to fit the rules onto 8 pages).
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Sounds like you need to plan a visit to www.miniatur-wunderland.com in Hamburg!
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Ho ho ho! :D
Have fun with your new toy! I strongly suggest playing it live (or semi-live) if you can.
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Definitely! There are games there for everybody and every taste, and the player community is generally very friendly and welcoming.
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For getting someone hooked on historical gaming, I always recommend the Columbia block games. Julius Caesar is great fun, very tense, and plays quickly.
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Maybe? Maria is on the tricky side, with a lot of political details and rules that may be a bit much. Friedrich is similar but has fewer political rules to learn and remember.
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Jump in with both feet!
To get comfortable with both platform and game, best way is to create a game and join all sides yourself to play multi-handed solo; then open and play each side in a separate browser tab.
This lets you get familiar with both the user interface and rules at your own pace.
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Yes, please! It would be wonderful if you could make it happen.
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Flawless might be a slight exaggeration, but I try!
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And just in case anyone here is not yet on Rally the Troops, here is what you can play - flawlessly following the rules from your very first go!
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It's hard to get out of the Google/Microsoft advertisement driven search hell-hole, now with added AI bullshit flavour. There are a few other search engines out there which are better in many respects:
search.marginalia.nu
stract.com
kagi.com (paid service)
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Whenever the topic of color vision comes up, I want to point out these two excellent articles that I found very enlightening. There's also a very nice palette of good colors to use hidden in the first one.
jfly.uni-koeln.de/color/
commandcenter.blogspot.com/2020/09/colo...
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Low stacking limit on this tech!
Node server stores all user and game data in a sqlite database. WebSockets to communicate actions and updated view state with browser client. Game state stored as plain data JSON blobs.