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Author Topic: Stellaris - the board game! - coming soon from Academy Games  (Read 27625 times)

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Reply #30 on: March 12, 2021, 10:01:25 AM
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Reply #31 on: March 12, 2021, 02:06:27 PM
They have now stated that there will be no rulebook available during the campaign... and yet the "1000s" (read: 10s) of backers demanding a rulebook or they'd bail has not happened... in fact number continue to climb slowly....  :Loser:

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Reply #32 on: March 12, 2021, 10:31:42 PM
Well I almost held out for two whole days before backing.  ::)  Sigh. 




They have now stated that there will be no rulebook available during the campaign... and yet the "1000s" (read: 10s) of backers demanding a rulebook or they'd bail has not happened... in fact number continue to climb slowly....  :Loser:


At the risk of sounding obtuse, how could it *not* include a rule/instruction book?  Aren't those kinda necessary to know how to play pretty much any board-game?  (I presume I'm missing something here.) 


As for some of the other comments...oy.  I don't think I'll ever understand some people. 



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Reply #33 on: March 13, 2021, 07:36:17 AM
There will be a rule book with the game. They are just not, so far, releasing any copy of it during the campaign for people to read and bitch about.

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Reply #34 on: March 13, 2021, 07:42:40 AM
It would be one thing if it was a first release from a company nobody had ever heard of. But it's not like academy games doesn't have a track record of delivering really good games and generally on schedule.


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Reply #35 on: March 13, 2021, 10:42:24 AM
Yeah, but it is still odd to not have a draft rulebook for a game that you have been working on for 3 years. I have no doubt about Academy being able to pull this off but it is still odd...

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Reply #36 on: March 13, 2021, 06:43:27 PM
I don't know about on schedule either.  I seem to recall CoH: Guadalcanal being delayed nearly a year.



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Reply #37 on: April 04, 2021, 08:18:28 AM
27 hours left. There are $2.4M+ in pledges so far.  :bigthumb:

I dropped my pledge because I didn't think it would get the table time for the cost... but am still waffling...  :idiot2:

Now they have a super All-In pledge level at $300 USD that includes a 46"x33" game map and more minis. Shipping would be about $50 USD to the GWN. And now I'm leaning towards that.  :Loser:

Help me!  :doh:

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Reply #38 on: April 04, 2021, 08:54:51 AM
Help me!  :doh:

Sure.  See attached.  Not sure why you needed helps with that, though  ???

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Reply #39 on: April 04, 2021, 10:12:38 AM
Help me!  :doh:

Sure.  See attached.  Not sure why you needed helps with that, though  ???

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Reply #40 on: April 04, 2021, 02:39:29 PM
Whats you wife think you should do.

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Reply #41 on: April 04, 2021, 03:00:34 PM
Shhhhhhhhh......  :notme:

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Reply #42 on: April 05, 2021, 06:46:43 PM
27 hours left. There are $2.4M+ in pledges so far.  :bigthumb:

I dropped my pledge because I didn't think it would get the table time for the cost... but am still waffling...  :idiot2:

Now they have a super All-In pledge level at $300 USD that includes a 46"x33" game map and more minis. Shipping would be about $50 USD to the GWN. And now I'm leaning towards that.  :Loser:

Help me!  :doh:

I, of course, totally upgraded to the all-in-one edition.  The OCD completionist in me demanded it.  ::)  Sigh. 



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Reply #43 on: April 05, 2021, 07:15:03 PM
 :2thumbs:

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Reply #44 on: April 06, 2021, 09:27:27 AM
In the end I didn't back it.  :'(

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