To me the issue seemed to improve a bit with each play Gedd. Though to be honest it didn’t grab me as much as a game as I thought it would. I keep trying to trade it for Mage Knight if at all possible but haven’t had a taker yet at BBG.
Legendary for Mage Knight probably wouldn’t fly just from a dollar value differential between the two…
I’ve been eyeing Legendary for a while but I think I might get Legendary Encounters instead. It seems more thematic than the Marvel one
The two times I’ve played it was a friends sheathed copy which is not encouraging, but I think he’s the sort of gamer who sheathes every card game.
Your right that straight up it might not be considered fair and I am willing to chip in more to make it work. I likely will end up just buying Mage Knight and getting rid of Legendary another way.
Gedd
2025
I didn’t really consider sleeving Legendary at first, despite having some minor edge wear after my first game, but the shuffling issues made me think about it again. I’m going to hold off though as there are a ton of cards, both in the base and the expansions, and I really don’t want the extra expense.
RainRaven, thanks for the feedback. I was thinking it might get better as the cards get a little wear on them. I was a little concerned that the game wouldn’t grab me as the theme doesn’t make as much sense to me as a game like Sentinels, but the gameplay is so simple and easy to solo with (even playing two hands) that I think it’s filling a niche in my collection. I’ve got a lot of games at this point I can play solo, but most of them (Sentinels, Eldritch, LotR: LCG) require a good deal of planning for each turn so I can best coordinate things. Legendary’s hands almost play themselves, and most of the decision making is in what to attack and/or buy. Some might view that as a knock against the game, but I’m happy to have something a little bit lighter in strategy and without a lot of the fiddliness of something like Sentinels.
Mark_L
2026
Wrath of the Cosmos question- I am talking about Wager Master and he plays in an unusual way, so do not read if you want to find out yourself.
Okay, say that the condition governing stolen cards is flipped face down, and such a card is at the top of Wager Master’s deck and about to be played. What happens? I LIKE to think the card is played as if from a hero’s hand, representing the heroes “cheating” at the game in the way heroes in this situation always do.
Note that the official ruling on face down cards is that they count as Villain Cards, but are otherwise blank.
Oh I agree that Legendary is a quicker game of sorts with faster hands. I just feel like it is going to waste in my small but growing collection. Right now I feel like Sentinels takes up my comic spot and since my gaming group really prefers that over Legendary I want to free up some room for another game I would put on the table solo more.
In addition, has anyone gotten the crisis expansion decks for Star realms yet? Any thoughts on them?
Let’s go ahead and re-title this thread to, Why aren’t you playing Kanban.
Kanban, is a style of production with an emphasis on time management. The game has players in the role of an employee of a car manufacturer working to meet company goals while working on their own pet projects. At the center of it all is your boss, Sandra. She’ll either reward your work or punish your failures. The theme is so well integrated into every aspect of the game. If you like heavy games like Agricola, or Le havre, if you like worker placement, if you like brain burners with multiple paths to victory and some screw you factor this is a must play!
@Shieldwolf I have been watching some video’s on Kanban but find it hard to really get excited for it. Which is weird because heavy euro worker placement games are right up my alley. I seem to be more drawn towards Panamax or Zhanguo as my next purchase in the genre.
Gedd
2030
I’d love to give Kanban a run, but my game group (which I haven’t been able to make for two months) isn’t really into heavy euros. I’d get it for home play, but I’m really just cracking into Caverna (one solo, and one two-player run), so it’d just sit on my shelves for month. Plus I don’t think there’s a solo option for it, so it fails that test on my purchase checklist.
In other news, I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m really starting to warm up more and more to the Lord of the Rings:LCG. I’m still on the core set, but I’ve been playing through ninjadorg’s scenarios and there’s been a number of really fun runthroughs. Every scenario, except maybe the first, has been a very narrow win.
Last night I was running scenario 4, the Elven Assembly. I had terrible initial hands, so I mulligan-ed with both and had better, but far from ideal hands. In both cases I had a ton of cards for my spirit and lore heroes, where I only have one of each, and very few cards for my tactics/leadership heroes (two of each), so it was very difficult for me to get anything into play. In the scenario you have to fight through a bunch of orcs get through a goblin gate, then rush through Mirkwood forest, and finally make a last stand to finish off any orcs that have followed you. At the end, every one of my heroes except one had one health left. One bad card could easily wipe me out, so I brought out Gandalf and made one last push to get all the progress tokens on my location and the final step of the quest. During questing, I drew a treachery that would have increased the doom of all locations in the staging area, but I was able to cancel it. The other card was a 3 doom location which I was also able to ignore thanks to a lore card. When the final questing tally was done, I made just enough progress tokens to overcome the doom in the staging area, finish the active location, and get through the quest. Revealing those encounter cards was one of the most tense moments I’ve had in recent gaming. As Galadriel said:
The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true.
Well you’ve convinced me just by saying that insane of a theme wasn’t an afterthought. I’ll be picking it up whenever Deus finally gets in shops.
Tom_Mc
2032
I’ve only looked at Vinhos a little bit but I really like CO2, and while these games are very Euro in design theme is very much part of the game.
Tom M
I get it. Believe me, car factories, building cars, and project management is not something I run to in terms of theme when I purchase a game, but this game just does everything right. I get not purchasing Kanban but if you like worker placement and heavy games you really owe it to yourself to try it.
I am not a fan of 18xx games so while I want to try Panamax I’m a little gun shy. Zhanguo looks good too, but for some reason feels like the lighter game China to me even though I know they are entirely different games.
Great write up! I haven’t heard of those scenarios and will have to try them. Base set only, I hope?
Gedd
2035
Oops, just realized I did my writeup in the 2014 thread.
Thanks! I’m only playing with a single core base set at this point. I believe the author of the scenarios mentioned they were designed for the core set, at least that’s what he uses to build the encounter decks. He did also mention that some of the latter scenarios would be very difficult without some of the early adventure pack player cards, but so far I’ve made it through.
I did realize after I finished last night that I made a mistake when I moved to the final stage of the scenario (I used Thalin’s ability on cards the scenario told me to find in the encounter deck which is not actually revealing them, so I shouldn’t have), but I think I had a plan that would’ve gotten me past it without affecting the end result anyway.
