For those of you whom don't frequent the gungi thread, here's Jutsu Vs Nish animooted.

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I love how the game is calm and slow while you both are setting up - Nish's setup being similar to yours, haha - and then Jutsu attacks and all hell breaks loose.

I'm glad you enjoyed it =D

I'd like for more people to get into Gungi, and I'm accepting new challengers now.

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Jutsu Vs Nish (Click to Show)

For those of you whom don't frequent the gungi thread, here's Jutsu Vs Nish animooted.

oh to be young and to lust after Nish's paolini.

You got your fucking ass stomped ahahahaha

actually I was the victor.

None of you were the victor.

AMERICA is the true victor, no matter who wins.

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None of you were the victor.

AMERICA is the true victor, no matter who wins.

I'm American thus I win by osmosis.

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Has anyone here played Stratego? I'm not very good at it but I always loved that game.

I played Stratego just once, and it was a lot of fun. That board game seems to be so rare though, and I don't know many strategy-loving folks on top of that so that's all I've ever done.

Also Jutsu, I'm going to finally read through all the rules of Gungi ;) Just a fair warning though, if the game lasts until the weekend is over I'll only be able to post once/a few times a day probably because work and stuff

Oh shit, nevermind then.

I was kind of hoping Nish would've beat you on his first game.

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Also Jutsu, I'm going to finally read through all the rules of Gungi ;) Just a fair warning though, if the game lasts until the weekend is over I'll only be able to post once/a few times a day probably because work and stuff

The rules in my let's play gungi thread only say that we must make our move within 24 hours of each other. And that rule is lenient, if you're late because of working I'll understand bro.

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I played Stratego just once, and it was a lot of fun. That board game seems to be so rare though, and I don't know many strategy-loving folks on top of that so that's all I've ever done.

Stratego is a lot of fun, I really enjoy playing it. It can be a pain to play though because setup can take a while, but hey, it's not Risk with setup times of 3 days.
Stratego takes about a half hour to an hour per round, although they can last to as short as around 10/15 minutes (depending on placement of the flag)
I was going to make a quick description of the game but it's a bit long to explain so nevermind that (for people who haven't heard of the game or don't know about it)

I'd love to make a stratego thread like jutsu is doing with gunji, but that would be quite difficult seeing as the game is reliant on not knowing your opponents pieces. It would require a 3rd party to referee which just sounds too tedious to be worth it.

I used to play stratego, but I don't remember anything about it except that it was fun.

Stratego was much better than Risk.

Risk is the perfect example of a really bad strat game. It's got all the perfect elements and scale, but it's essentially a raw numbers game. You could just attack every turn and rely on the rolls and win/lose based on that. The only "Strategy" involved is deciding which territories to mass units in and when to stop attacking. Even basic strat elements like spacing out your units doesn't even apply here.

You either have rock-paper-scissor games like Diplomacy, where unit X will always kill unit Y, or random games like Risk, in which it's a dice roll.

IMO, Tactics II had a perfect system, where each unit was assigned points, and when they went into combat, the results of your rolls were determined by the difference in the two unit's points. Armored units had like, 2 points and Infantry 1, and you'd destroy the fuck out of Infantry with Tanks, but if you massed 3 infantry, you'd stand a chance at the tanks, but there was still a huge potential you could still lose.