Brass is in my top 5. The rulebook (in the first two printings, anyway) may be a slog, but I found the game easy to pick up the first time through. Thematic, exhilarating, challenging. Great game.
On Feb 4, 8:54 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Brass is one of my favorites! Excellent game! > > On Feb 4, 8:52 pm, chomama <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Brass is a great game. Though probably best to wait until the geek > > comes up and look at the other 3000 opinions, which are mostly > > positive. > > > The rules as written are pretty hard to grasp, and plain wrong in some > > places. However the game is fairly unique and adminttedly hard to > > explain. Once you grasp the general idea, along with the 4 or 5 > > trademark wallace-exceptions-to-the-rule, it is pretty easy to pick > > up. Very elegant game. Very well balanced. > > > You can play online athttp://wargamessoc.union.shef.ac.uk/brass/index.php, > > very active site with lots of games going. If your able to download > > and grasp the rules. Geekmail me (chomama) if you like and I can set > > up a 2 player game and teach you over skype or similiar if you like. > > > The one downer with Brass is that the latest printing is distributed > > in the U.S. by Fred distribution, who have price fixed the game at > > around $100 (for a reasonably standard board and cardboard chits > > affair). > > > As for dungeon, do you mean the 1970'd TSR Dungeon ? Your not trolling > > are you ? > > > It is a classic and a pre-cursor to most modern dungeon crawling game, > > but has a very simple role and move mechanic at it's core and doesn't > > compare to most modern equivelents (runebound, descent etc). Heroquest > > is more of a tactical miniatures game. Dungeon is definately not. > > > On Feb 5, 11:11 am, Bigmop <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I like complex euros. is brass worthwhile. > > > > also is the game "dungeon" any good? How does it compare to heroquest? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/BGG_down?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
