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Pax Pamir 2nd Edition
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I was again struck so hard at how no bullshit this game is from a pacing perspective. It dives straight in during your first or second turn. It's possible you could see a dominance card in turn 3 or so and you could lose the game if you haven't been doing a little work on the board. Just absolutely to the point. It emphasizes the thematic element of political and tactical opportunism.
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We had a super early first Dominance card (like probably the earliest position available).
We had a weird start as well with very few patriots and a lot of unaligned tribal leaders out there. It was kind of a dash to get some cylinders out for that early check.
I took advantage of a lull between checks to go cash-poor and block-rich, then relentlessly taxed from my Kabul stronghold to get back into the game and build war chest. Lurching towards the end, it was really hard to get faction points other than gift buying, so I was pretty well positioned to jump out in front on the third check and end it. The cards I bought on turn 1 were really crucial to that game.
It was super fun to play with people that know it (but I bet it might have been a hard first game), and we clocked the whole thing in 90 minutes, including some remembering how the weird startup order works.
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With all this Eklund shit recently I looked at buying again so I can just make it the standard Pax game in my house (one day) but they don't ship down under, However there are PnP files so I'm going to make myself a copy. Just have to figure out what to do with the armies and roads.
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mc wrote: With all this Eklund shit recently I looked at buying again so I can just make it the standard Pax game in my house (one day) but they don't ship down under, However there are PnP files so I'm going to make myself a copy. Just have to figure out what to do with the armies and roads.
Cole said on BGG they'd be putting up a Pamir tier for their kickstarter coming up at the end of this month for John Company 2nd edition if you want a copy from the next printing, they'll almost certainly distro to Australia for the KS... they don't distribute the game in normal stores much and keep a pretty limited amount of non-KS copies on their website.
Pax Ren on the other hand... I guess I'll still with my 1st Ed, I already gave Eklund the money on that. I've decided I'm done buying any of his games too.
And yeah, some of us play TTS these days, but others stick with vassal etc too. Real nice module. I've found I can't keep track of games any more asynch and have to reorient every time I reopen the file which is too many cycles for me. I used to go hog wild on asynch games, I feel like something in my brain changed.
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