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EU board game - Development Diary #6 - 12th of February 2019

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I'm hyped for this game, but a little scared about the duration of it.
Most important questions: will there be player elimination? Will there be the possibility to just forfait the game and go away?
I hope that there isn't Player elimination and that I can just walk away if i'm losing hard in a game, I don't want to realise at the 2nd hour of play of the Grand Campaign scenario with 5 players that I will lose and that I will be forced to play for another 5 hour just to not ruin the game to other people (Through the Ages has a similar feature).
 
Why would anyone play this instead of the videogame?
I mean, board games are nice when having a aprty or something involving ppl around, but a board game of 6-7 hours each game? Prf
 
This sounds brilliant. The main issue with such a system is that it will be difficult to have a player-non-player war, without other players controlling their armies, hinging conquering states around you on your opponents having significantly high levels of diplomatic power - or you doing the same and drawing the correct cards.
 
Cago said:
Why would anyone play this instead of the videogame?
I mean, board games are nice when having a aprty or something involving ppl around, but a board game of 6-7 hours each game? Prf
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Because of many factors:

1 - Even if the BG get inspiration from the VG they are 2 totally different games (just look how much the mana is important in the BG)

2 - The VG is in real time, the BG is turn based strategy game

3 - Play around a table with friends is really different from playing through internet

4 - Even playing with physical objects gives you a different feeling

5 - Even the longest game of the boardgame is shorter than the shortest game of the videogame

But I understand that 6-7 hours of play can scare many people that are not used to boardgames and/or wargames, even I'm not totally sure about that, but there are a bounch of scenarios much shorter than the great campaign. I'm sure it will be worth it at the end
 
6-7h is not a major problem, I remember we played a Great War at Sea game that spanned for almost a week. I do like how the games develops. As a huge fan of miniatures I love the concept of changing the standard pieces into soldier figurines. Can we expect that their design would vary from country to country. IIRC something like that was done for Crusader Kings, although I'm not sure.

I also wanted to ask about a technicality, I subscribed to the newsletter but I'm not getting any information on this project. I checked my spam filters and they shouldn't be a problem.
 
King Thomas I said:
Can we expect that their design would vary from country to country. IIRC something like that was done for Crusader Kings, although I'm not sure.
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Yes, I can confirm this, I̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶i̶n̶i̶a̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ I bought the game and followed the development.
 
I noticed that there are several of the province tokens / spots that are bigger than the normal ones. What is this meant to represent? Are they harder to take (peace negotiations) or siege? do they provide more income / manpower?
 
Mr Longbottom said:
I noticed that there are several of the province tokens / spots that are bigger than the normal ones. What is this meant to represent? Are they harder to take (peace negotiations) or siege? do they provide more income / manpower?
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All of those, yes. They are large Provinces, with higher development.
 
Cago said:
Why would anyone play this instead of the videogame?
I mean, board games are nice when having a aprty or something involving ppl around, but a board game of 6-7 hours each game? Prf
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Because have a piece that you move with your hand can be very satisfying. You only need to play a simple game of chess or checkers or even risk to know this. Also the board game was made sometime before or during 1997 (80s perhaps?) according to a review on board game geek. I don't even know anything much about computers during or before 1997 during the 90s, but I'm willing to say that you probably had to wait a few years for computers to improve for the first EU to come out in 2000. And I'm not even sure how complex that was at the time since I was way too young to have the patience or understanding to play anything like EU.
 
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