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Author Topic: Aliens : ANother Glorious Day in the Corps  (Read 16739 times)

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on: February 24, 2021, 02:41:24 PM



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Reply #1 on: February 24, 2021, 02:46:10 PM
I've not seen it before.

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Reply #2 on: February 24, 2021, 02:53:32 PM

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Reply #3 on: February 24, 2021, 03:11:56 PM
Martin and I just covered this very game in the latest episode of Solosaurus:



Bottom line:

Fantastically thematic
Aliens minis are a right pain in the arse to assemble
Fun gameplay

Overall, it's a must-have for any Aliens fans out there, IMO, despite the 'assembly required' on the minis.

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Reply #4 on: February 24, 2021, 04:15:47 PM
Excellent. Are the expansions worth the money?



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Reply #5 on: February 24, 2021, 04:21:23 PM
There's also a Facebook group on this game that has a lot of good info in it.

Are the expansions worth it? Personally, I would buy them, but they're insanely expensive to barely reasonable here. The Facebook group has nothing but praise for all the expansions. I have the base game but not the expansions. It'll have to be something that waits for a birthday or Christmas, just because of the cost.

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Reply #6 on: February 24, 2021, 04:31:29 PM
Yeah. I've just watched a video and they don't add a massive amount. The Get Away From Her You Bitch is a similar price to the base game and had 3 additional missions

But I'm going to get them. I love the Aliens franchise and the game's oozing tension



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Reply #7 on: February 24, 2021, 04:33:40 PM
Excellent. Are the expansions worth the money?


let's see what Moe thinks....


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Reply #8 on: February 24, 2021, 04:38:54 PM
Well...I haven't watched that yet...but I've bought them so I hope he approved  ;D



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Reply #9 on: February 24, 2021, 04:52:39 PM
Seems he liked it



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Reply #10 on: February 24, 2021, 04:53:39 PM
My friend bought the whole thing when it was first released and we gave it a whirl (virtually), last week.  It was fun and some of the mechanics are neat.  I like the way your accuracy goes down the more you fire in a turn.  Made me think of Hudson losing his shit and blazing away at everything right before he got pulled down through the grating.

I'd call it a solid, but not great game.  I haven't seen the physical copy myself so I can't be totally sure but from what I've seen, the models from PRODOS's Aliens vs. Predator are much nicer than the Glorious Day ones.  Same goes for the map boards.  The other components in Glorious Day seem better though.  (card art, tokens, accuracy wheels, etc). 

I enjoy both AvP and this one but both have niggling little oddities in the rules that prevent me from wholeheartedly recommending them.  I'd like to try the skirmish rules for AvP but I still haven't finished painting the minis.  (The backlog just keeps growing....)

I also enjoyed the hell out of the Legendary Encounters: Alien deck building game from Upper Deck but found that one suffered from an issue of scaling.  The more players you added, the harder it got.






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Reply #11 on: February 24, 2021, 04:53:43 PM
Will you be painting the figures, JD?  ;)

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Reply #12 on: February 24, 2021, 05:09:51 PM
There's a fair amount of discussion on the Core Space forum over the two Aliens games (Glorious Day and AvP) and which minis are better.  Seems like a lot of people are opting to swap out the minis from Glorious Day in favour of those from AvP.  TBH, the level of detail on the AvP minis is astounding.  It also makes them a bitch to paint and, because they're resin, they break easily.








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Reply #13 on: February 24, 2021, 05:29:24 PM
Will you be painting the figures, JD?  ;)
That's the plan. Be rude not to



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Reply #14 on: February 24, 2021, 05:30:51 PM
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