My 3D printer has seen a lot of action since I started using it again, a few months back.
Mainly it’s been used to make terrain for Marvel Crisis Protocol and a ship for sci-fi gaming.
Tag Archives: Superheroes
Shallow Rabbit Hole
There’s just too many miniatures out there. Period.
Though I did buy a few. As I do. But believe me when I say that after my first expansion choice, it took me a couple of days to decide to actually get others, and then decide which ones.
You can play with the core set as is, I just wanted a little variety. Plus, painting miniatures is fun.
Marvel Burnout and Rebirth
I’ve played Marvel Champions maybe a half-dozen times, mostly with Spider-Man and Captain America.
I’ve played solo, and I have yet to play this with my gaming group.
I bought too many expansions which have yet to be played, so I stopped buying every expansion as it came out. That was the completionist in me.
When this game came out, another Marvel game came out as well, one that I was interested in but didn’t want to get into, because miniatures were involved, which is bad for my completionist tendencies.
Setup and take down
The biggest issue I have with games like Imperial Assault is the setup and take down time.
Though I think I simplified the issue with IA by separating the different tile sets. I may end up placing no more than 2 expansion tile sets in a single box.
Of course, I’m only currently playing through the solo player app on my iPad, so for now it’s only been requiring map tiles from the core set.
But I messed up something in my campaign yesterday, and decided to abandon the campaign and will start over at a later time.
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Conversely, setup and take down of Terraforming Mars is a snap, especially for solo play.
It was the first time I got to try this game solo, and I followed a set up video online, but I didn’t need to. I’d played once before, and solo setup is similar to regular setup.
It’s the game play that’s rough. I didn’t come close to terraforming in the allotted time. Though I did manage to smash an ice asteroid and the moon Phobos into the planet’s surface.
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Since I finally got the expansions for Marvel Champions that I was waiting for, I’ll probably go back to that game fairly soon.
Stand by!