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Offline pancakeonions

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Re: Fantasy Skirmish Co-Op/Solo Options..? There's a few, but which one?
« Reply #15 on: 17 June 2021, 04:05:01 AM »
I've tried Rangers of Shadow Deep and Sellswords & Spell slingers and as much as i want to love solo wargaming...  It just doesn't click for me.  I'm never able to get beyond the fact that ...  I'm playing with myself.

I've not found a good AI system and would love to meet one.  So far, no luck!

Offline BZ

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Re: Fantasy Skirmish Co-Op/Solo Options..? There's a few, but which one?
« Reply #16 on: 17 June 2021, 09:10:12 AM »
I've tried Rangers of Shadow Deep and Sellswords & Spell slingers and as much as i want to love solo wargaming...  It just doesn't click for me.  I'm never able to get beyond the fact that ...  I'm playing with myself.

I've not found a good AI system and would love to meet one.  So far, no luck!
Just like me... May be unpopular, but solo gaming for me is pc-gaming...

Offline Bloggard

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Re: Fantasy Skirmish Co-Op/Solo Options..? There's a few, but which one?
« Reply #17 on: 17 June 2021, 09:46:32 AM »
I'm going to give the Elder Scrolls a game a go - not particularly from the point of view of the 'Solo/Co-op' Delves system, but that'll be interesting to try out certainly.
Going by reviews I've read, even those lukewarm towards it in general are complimentary about the Delve mechanics...

Personally I'm attracted by the game's apparent 'crunch' and relative complexity.
But they do seem to have made a hash of the core rulebook (and don't appear to be in any rush to put out a fully-corrected PDF version either, rather just a long errata file which you've effectively got to mentally cut and paste yourself - very self-defeating; bizarrely so really).

got some figures coming soon - and somewhat worried about how difficult I'll find the plastics to put together (apparently the resins are more straight-forward)
« Last Edit: 17 June 2021, 09:48:59 AM by Bloggard »

Offline Sir_Theo

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Re: Fantasy Skirmish Co-Op/Solo Options..? There's a few, but which one?
« Reply #18 on: 17 June 2021, 11:19:48 AM »
Just thinking at tangents- I play a lot of board games, recently I got my kickstarted copy of a game called Destinies, its driven by an app so its a perfect as a solo game as the App does all the hard legwork for the game. I wonder whether this will ever be something that we see in wargaming?

Offline Sunjester

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Re: Fantasy Skirmish Co-Op/Solo Options..? There's a few, but which one?
« Reply #19 on: 17 June 2021, 12:00:15 PM »
 pancakeonions and BZ - These games are co-operative as well as solo, if you have friends you do not have to play all by yourself :D

Offline BZ

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Re: Fantasy Skirmish Co-Op/Solo Options..? There's a few, but which one?
« Reply #20 on: 17 June 2021, 12:52:36 PM »
pancakeonions and BZ - These games are co-operative as well as solo, if you have friends you do not have to play all by yourself :D
I love cooperative games, but cant do anything with solo... For me is essential to have human interaction. If I dont have, then why shouldnt I play on pc? But again, that it isnt for me, doesnt mean anything about solo wargaming in general.

Offline Chief Lackey Rich

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Re: Fantasy Skirmish Co-Op/Solo Options..? There's a few, but which one?
« Reply #21 on: 17 June 2021, 01:08:21 PM »
If I dont have, then why shouldnt I play on pc?

Because pc games don't give you a justification for buying more miniatures?  :)

Although I suppose I did buy a bunch of Doom and Diablo figs back when they (briefly) had licensed ranges, so perhaps I'm wrong. :?

 

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