Why haven't you joined the Age of Rivals alliance?

I had the coolest win against hard ai earlier. The way the cards fell, the ai had a much better military than me and my trade goods got jacked up too (my own fault…I had a screw-up when splitting damage during an early war round and put a 2 damage instead of a 3 on a unit, and had to drop the 3 on one of my goods). When the ai got the 10 point culture card in the third round and took a 10 point lead into the final round, I thought I was done.

However, I did have one thing going for me. I had built up my income to 25 and had a significant gold advantage in the final round, plus the moneylender. The ai wasn’t able to buy his bigger hitting military units in the last round (which would have been disastrous for me).

I ended up spending down to 1 gold, but got 3 from temples. The 2 points from gold took me from what would have been a 1-point loss to a 1-point win.

I too would love in as well if there are openings. I’m “LordGek”.

Now there are two Qr3 alliances, and this situation is begging for a tournament. It’s too bad, though, that playing each other requires that both players’ children be taking naps similtaneously.

We have a channel on Qt3 Slack which makes it a lot easier to play vs friends, if anyone wants to join it. Just PM me an email.

Time to jump back in.

Nice, uh, rave review here.

I think price goes up soon, a buck only for the first week.

Sounds like an honeymoon phase review!

The game is really fun in its basic gameplay, but I think its design falls apart if you invest too much time and attention in it. It felt too much luck-based to be rewarding in the long run: luck of the draw; luck of the redraw at the beginning of the 2nd and 3rd round; one of your own special cards taking away that card you were eyeing during your opponent’s turn, thus the card you picked is now suddenly irrelevant and a waste; and I think all this culminates during the ultimate round, which is too random for me in the way the cards are drawn. When I stopped playing it on the PC, winning didn’t feel rewarding a lot of the time, as my opponent would just have had horrible luck in that last round, while losing was really rage-inducing oftentimes (and all that is coming from a Twilight Struggle fanboy, before some @Chappers come to rub it in my face).

Still, it is a fun time-waster that I launch every now and then, and the phone might be the perfect platform for it.

Might be a function of tolerance for some randomness in games. I’m finding it incredibly rewarding and fun to play, but I don’t mind some randomness, generally.

Yeah, there’s definitely a fair amount of randomness, but so far it feels within acceptable limits for a card game. A good proportion of turns have an interesting choice to make, which is a more important metric in my book than how often random factors flip the result.

This amazing game. It’s practically an RTS.

‘Practically’ in this case meaning one out of the three words applies ;p

I’m not sure what goes through your mind as you play, of course, but my mind is doing everything that it does when playing real-time strategy. (Well, when I used to. I give zero shits about them any more. But Age of Rivals seems like an excellent replacement!)

An update came out today that let’s you play offline and also adds screen rotation.

Yup, the community at TA is driving a bunch of improvements. Mid-game save states are also being looked into.

You just made my day. On both counts, particularly the first. Now I can play on the train.

I’m actually excited by the 2nd item because I have a particular way I like to hold my Ipad while playing games in landscape mode and the fact that the screen wouldn’t rotate drove me nuts.

That’s it, I expect a 500-word essay on the difference between turn-based and real-time strategy games, or you’re out of the alliance! After all, what’s the point of being the leader if not to be a pedantyrant?

Haha – I think you actually would read it!

Right on time for a stupid 12 hours plane trip!
I feel like I’ve won the lottery!

Somehow I missed hearing about this game initially but found out about it yesterday since Tom has it in his “most surprising games of 2017” list. I then read Tom’s game review and immediately bought it. I’m glad I did. If you like CCGs, this one should probably be a must buy for you.

It’s been released since summer so it’s pretty polished up at this point. The tutorials are good. You can play completely off-line if you want. The AI is good. No drafting and you get new card packs as unlocks just by playing the game. It’s like a wish list of everything I like in a CCG. The only minor niggle I have is I was they had more sound volume settings than on/off. Like I said, minor.

On sale currently at 50% off, it certainly deserves a lot more attention than it gets.

Great game that definitely deserves more attention. I have a post in the ‘Streaming, podcasting…’ thread a month back or so with the link to my Youtube videos on this game if you want to watch a full match play-through with rules and strategy explanations.

I love that you can jump in and bang out a match in 15 minutes. It’s one of my go-to games when i don’t have a lot of time to commit.