Hunger Games sooo ripped of Battle Royale.

Batmeng said, August 01, 2014, 10:22:31 pm

Hunger Games sooo ripped of Battle Royale.

Not really. It's not like Battle Royale didn't invent the concept of teenagers killing each other.

it did however invent the concept of closed off killing game zones where young people kill themselves for a huge award money and a chance of a better life while timed traps keep forcing them to move from one part to another while being provided weapons to kill each other with.

Now I just need to find friends to play "A Game of Thrones: The Board Game" with me !

Can't wait to backstab them !
http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/blog/post/review-game-thrones-board-game/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0XRVTacNxI

Those order tokens are what make Game of Thrones a Devious Bastard’s Game instead of a wargame. Come with me, friend, on a journey into the heart of darkness.

Every turn starts with all players simultaneously assigning orders to their armies by putting a token face-down in each region. These orders can be defensive, offensive, support, raids or the politics-boosting and entirely peaceful “Consolidate Power”. Only when everyone’s placed their orders are the tokens flipped and revealed, letting you see that your peaceful House Stark neighbours are raiding your lands, those Lannisters bordering you to the South have received marching orders while Baratheon aren’t, in fact, supporting your push East. Which is fine, because you probably aren’t doing anything you promised either.

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The rules explicitly state that nobody can show anyone else an order token before they’re all flipped and made public, meaning alliances and cease-fires are at all times based on trust. The horror. Simply put, it’s this order token mechanic that makes Game of Thrones the fearsome, fantastic, entirely faithful game it is. Everything else is almost window dressing.

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The thing is, even after you’ve flipped your order tokens it’s still possible for people to surprise one another, or wrangle new and ever wickeder deals.

One of the cruelest plays in the game is to tell a player you’ll support their attack, reveal a support token as normal, then actually support the other side when the battle is met. But you could go even further than that. Units that lose a battle are tipped on their side and considered “routed”, leaving said colossally odious player free to march on these routed attackers that were expecting your support, delivering the final blow that removes their miniatures from the game even as you conquer their territory.