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 jreilly89 wrote:

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
My buddy has a great time playing 40k Maelstrom with his 9-year old child. Or rather, his kid loves Maelstrom. Especially with the common modification to remove "impossible" cards. His kid wins a bunch of games that way, so the "Maelstrom is for 10-year-old kids" is an absolute fact.

Man, there's awful lot of salty people here. Seriously, I've seen a lot of sour responses because people like Maelstrom over Eternal War. Who's the child here?

Some people have trouble expressing preferences in a mature manner

That result is interesting considering the salt maelstrom gets.

I like flip a coin to choose each game. I do prefer maelstrom (or kill points) because the whole game counts, I find eternal war missions are usually decided by the last turn.

 IllumiNini wrote:

 kronk wrote:
My preference:

1. Modified Maelstrom
2. Maelstrom
3. Not playing
4. Eternal War

No "Modified Eternal War" on there?

Fine!

1. Modified Maelstrom
2. Maelstrom
3. Wonderfully Modified Eternal War
4. Not playing
5. Poorly modified Eternal War
6. Eternal War



But you'll have to sell me on some modifications to make it good!

The AdeptiCon events I played in emphasized kill points and random objectives enough to make it interesting.

Maelstrom is certainly flawed but I still prefer that style of play.

The Cities of Death cards and the Tactical Supremacy cards are better than the original set.

 DarkBlack wrote:
That result is interesting considering the salt maelstrom gets.

I like flip a coin to choose each game. I do prefer maelstrom (or kill points) because the whole game counts, I find eternal war missions are usually decided by the last turn.

I do find it entertaining when people brag about how powerful their 'alpha strike' is, then complain their opponent who got second turn 'only won the game because they moved onto the objectives immediately before the game ended'.

I far prefer maelstrom. It is random, I'll admit, and it's possible to be boned by a bad draw.

But eternal war missions are a bit boring. Everyone basically ignored all the objectives until turn 5, and then everyone zips to the closest one to try and secure it before the game ends.

I prefer the game that actually utilizes objectives rather than ignores them until the game end. I will admit that eternal war is more balanced, but maelstrom is much more interesting.

Some people enjoy chess or go, some people enjoy dance dance revolution or twister.

Still standing by vanilla. Maybe with sprinkles.

The random patterns amuse me.