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Re: Battleship Galaxies
Have any of you guys that have the game (mine should be here Monday) noticed missing turrets on the Everest ship? On BGG there have been some discussion in THIS thread about some missing turrets on that mini. As it seemed that it wasn't an isolated incident, I was just curious if people here that have the game have noticed the same issues.
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Got mine yesterday and it looks good. I have a friend coming over tomorrow and I can't wait to play a game.
I noticed a lot of cool stuff about this game. The first is that there's no WotC logo on it. Some of the retailers I saw selling it had it listed as a WotC product but I'm really glad its not. There are a lot of similarities to Heroscape. The hexes are the first thing that stands out to me. The double spaced unit movement is the same too. there are squadrons that act like squads and solo ships that are like heroes. The glyphs seem familiar too, as well as the list of their effects toward the end of the rulebook. I think there are actually more similarities between BSG and Herosape than there are between BSG and regular Battleship. I noticed one really clever thing too. The pegs that represent shields and hull damage can be stacked. At first I thought that the maximum number of hits (for expansion ships) would be limited by the holes in the base, but making the pegs stack gets around that. Its pretty simple, but an elegant solution. Does anyone know when expansions are supposed to be released? |
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It is only being distributed by WotC; it is a Hasbro product.
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If you look at the fact that none of the designers on either BG thread have commented on the topic of possible expansions, and that the blurb on the site title page states that "no expansions are necessary to play," you might conclude that they are going to wait for sales figures on the basic game before producing any for a while.
Expansions do seem to be a logical follow up to the game as described so far. |
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Yeah, but I've read a reports from people that have gotten and played the game and they seem to say that the game needs expansions. Otherwise there's not a ton of replayability. Understandably people can come up with their own customs and make their own scenarios, however there are a lot of people that don't want to invest the time to do that.
I will hopefully get my copy of the game tomorrow, so I can only go off of what others have said thus far. But I would guess that in the long run if there aren't any expansions forthcoming it will hurt sales of the base game because by then it will be more widely known how limited the base game is on its own. A lot of people may be the "wait and see" type and will wait until all the initial release hype has passed over before they see what the general consensus is before they buy. The game isn't cheap, so people will take that and replayability into account before purchasing or buy something else. Hand of fate is moving and the finger points to you ...Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man TUTORIAL FOR RE-BASING FIGURES 3hrs 43mins 32secs = 1242nd of 8808 overall - 1988 Honolulu Marathon |
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Edit: Also from This interview with Craig Van Ness, it seems like there are other factions that have been considered or designed during the design process of the game. Understandably if the game bombs, then there won't likely be expansions. But if the game does well, I can see them busting out some expansions. I'm guessing that Plaid Hat Games had several factions designed already for Summoner Wars when they came out with the initial releases in 2009, and the future of those non-released factions was dependent on the initial SW sales. Now we have 14 factions and reinforcements. Hand of fate is moving and the finger points to you ...Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man TUTORIAL FOR RE-BASING FIGURES 3hrs 43mins 32secs = 1242nd of 8808 overall - 1988 Honolulu Marathon Last edited by Hahma; July 17th, 2011 at 12:20 PM. |
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My game should arrive tomorrow as I waited until after the Battleshipgalaxians.com contest to end before ordering one. I was hoping to win a free set but congrats to Agent Minivan on the win. So I was going to get the game one way or the other as I trust the people designing the game. That said, I also fully anticipated that there would be expansions for the game as well and that was part of my decision to by the base set. I agree that the more encouragement there is for this game, the more chance of expansions. Look at games like Dominion, Thunderstone, Defenders of the Realm, Memoir '44, Settlers of Catan, Carcassone etc. There is a huge market for expandable games and a lot of people have expectations of such. In fact, I would never have bought Dominion or Thunderstone a year + after their releases if I didn't know there were expansions for them. Anyway, I have to go and play a 15mm Napoleonic wargame. Hand of fate is moving and the finger points to you ...Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man TUTORIAL FOR RE-BASING FIGURES 3hrs 43mins 32secs = 1242nd of 8808 overall - 1988 Honolulu Marathon |
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Back to the missing front turret on the Everest mini. From reading over at BGG, the response to some emails was that the picture that was found with both turrets on the front of the Everest was just a promotional mini or something like that. So there will not be replacements for the one missing turret on the Everest. However, there's been people that are missing both front turrets, I wonder what the WOTC response will be to that! Then there's been missing stands for the ships as well
I'm all for supporting the product and all, but this is kind of crappy quality control. They might not have to worry about expansions if people aren't getting the right stuff to begin with. The quality of the components was supposed to help justify the price, but once the quality of the product diminishes, it becomes kind of a pisser. When I get my game tomorrow (hopefully) I can live without one of the front turrets, but I better have all my stands for the ships! Hand of fate is moving and the finger points to you ...Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man TUTORIAL FOR RE-BASING FIGURES 3hrs 43mins 32secs = 1242nd of 8808 overall - 1988 Honolulu Marathon |
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I suspect the people with none may find they have some recourse.
The people with one should shut up and play. It's not a QC issue; it's an issue where a prototype was slightly different from what went into production. A whole lot of nothing, like almost everything else I read at BGG. Lord, some of those people have issues with entitlement. Our own D&D-era Scape whiners have *nothing* on them. The more time I spend there, the happier I am here. edit: Check out this post from BGG; turns out I was right: Quote:
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