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Alex Doppelgänger<p>This evening Phil Eklund's crowning achievement (or at least one of them) is back on the table! High Frontier 4 All is a complex, complicated, pretty long to play game, with a steep learning curve. But it's extraordinary! A "realistic space exploration in a box". Why do I love it so much? I wrote about it a few months ago on my website:</p><p>🟢 <a href="https://alexdoppelganger.com/high-frontier/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alexdoppelganger.com/high-fron</span><span class="invisible">tier/</span></a> 🟢</p><p>❗ (1/2) ❗ </p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/HF4A" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HF4A</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/HighFrontier4All" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighFrontier4All</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/HighFrontier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighFrontier</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universe</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/SpaceExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceExploration</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/JAXA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JAXA</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Cosmos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cosmos</span></a></p>
LexTenebris<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dice.camp/@GoblinQuester" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GoblinQuester</span></a></span> I love dice, but Twilight Imperium puts the players directly at odds a little too much. Not because I don't like combat or war games or any of that. A good 30% of my library wouldn't exist if I hated war games. Actually, 30% of my writing credits might not exist if I didn't love war games. </p><p>Twilight Imperium just seems to push away from any opportunity to cooperate, even when it would be mutually advantageous. </p><p>When it's truly spread out and it's full panoply and everybody is hitting on all cylinders, it's a great game. It's just a really heavy, meaty, and sometimes not particularly creativity inspiring game.</p><p>Creative construction doesn't really play a part, and I quite like that. When I can get it.</p><p>ARCS looks like a really good modern board game which fits closer into the kind of experience I would like instead of TI. And I'm hoping to actually get to at least see part of a game of it, if not play in a game of it, at DragonCon coming up. That's on my to-do list.</p><p>In the meantime, I should probably look and see if I can get into a game of High Frontier because that looks as though it will be compelling in its own intense way.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/HighFrontier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighFrontier</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ARCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARCS</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a></p>
LexTenebris<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dice.camp/@GoblinQuester" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GoblinQuester</span></a></span> Well, see to it at Fancy Lad! This sounds like an ideal situation.</p><p>I am aware that the game has a solo play mode, and I do love games that can be played solo. This seems like the sort of thing that would be wonderful perfection for setting up on a really large table and spending a weekend by yourself, pushing rockets through Hohmann transfer orbits with joyous abandon.</p><p>I would much rather play this than Twilight Imperium, I'm not going to lie. The kind of combat that would fall out of the combat module to be truly primo. But I am that kind of nerd.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/HighFrontier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighFrontier</span></a></p>
LexTenebris<p>It's very possible that High Frontier has the most beautiful game board that I've ever seen in my life. Absolutely stunning. All sorts of orbital mechanics expressed in a very singular way. I love it.</p><p>The obvious problem is there's no way that I would find anybody who wants to play this game with me anywhere I go. No one is nearly as obsessed with orbital mechanics and rocket design. This is a sad fact of life.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/HighFrontier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighFrontier</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoardGames</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-rxEIHLYKo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=T-rxEIHLYK</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a></p>
djflippy<p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/GTKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GTKM</span></a> Get to Know Me from some of my favorite <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>boardgames</span></a> and <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/gamedesigners" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gamedesigners</span></a> :<br />Everything <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/martinwallace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>martinwallace</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/powergrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>powergrid</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Lisboa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lisboa</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/vinhos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vinhos</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/FoodChainMagnate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FoodChainMagnate</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/CosmicEncounter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CosmicEncounter</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/MageKnight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MageKnight</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/HighFrontier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HighFrontier</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/DieMacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DieMacher</span></a>, <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Titan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Titan</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/mtg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mtg</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/7thcontinent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>7thcontinent</span></a> </p><p>Been playing since I was a wee young geek; see all of my boardgame reviews at <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/boardgamegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>boardgamegeek</span></a> <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/user/djflippy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">boardgamegeek.com/user/djflipp</span><span class="invisible">y</span></a></p>
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