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Anyone here have both Cthulhu Wars and Blood Rage? I was a backer of the Cthulhu Wars Kickstarter and love the game. I've been hearing great things about Blood Rage, and have been considering picking it up when it hits retail later this month, but want to know that it plays differently enough that it would be worthwhile owning both games.

 Gomez wrote:
So, I just got my BR box in the mail the other day and a couple of us broke it out tonight for a three player game... All I have to say is, HOLY CRAP is this game fun.

First of all, vikings, giants, Ragnarok, etc. Duh.

Second, all the different vectors of success mean that everything - literally, every single action - matters, and you are still in the game no matter what. Wow, not had this much fun on an initial playthrough of a board game (or similar) in a loooooooong time. Two thumbs up for sure.

Great to hear! The official release is on November 28 and we will be running a Blood Rage launch contest on social media! Play with your family, post some photos, and have a chance to win a prize or two!

Got my blood rage stuff! WOW oh WOW! This is awesome. The minis are so finely detailed! Very nice! The game itself is also very very very good too!

Game is on sale for cybermonday at www.tabletopnow.com

http://www.tabletopnow.com/search?q=blood+rage

Blood Rage: Mystics Of Midgard Expansion
Blood Rage: 5th Player Expansion
Blood Rage Core Box
Random Mayday Sleeves

Subtotal: $ 100.86
- $ 15.00 (CYBERBLACK discount code worked for me)

Total: $ 85.86 including free shipping.

That's a superb deal.

Woohoo! I just got my shipping confirmation email.

It arrived in November, but still

 DrunkenBoxer wrote:
Anyone here have both Cthulhu Wars and Blood Rage? I was a backer of the Cthulhu Wars Kickstarter and love the game. I've been hearing great things about Blood Rage, and have been considering picking it up when it hits retail later this month, but want to know that it plays differently enough that it would be worthwhile owning both games.

I have both and they are significantly different. Cthulhu Wars, the factions all play different from the start with predetermined options. This can make it easier to pursue a particular strategy from the start of the game. Blood Rage you customize your faction with your card drafts and have to adjust your strategies based on those drafts rather than going into the game with a preset plan. Cthulhu Wars can have games which are heavily influenced by bad or great dice rolls, where everything is card based in Blood Rage, so it has more consistency when using a particular strategy. The card based combat system, the three rounds of card drafts, and the fact that you all start off with identical factions and customize them with your drafts is what really stands out as different to me.

I just found out my wife ordered me Blood Rage as a gift. Miniatures look great and I'm sure I'll use them in D&D at some point, not to mention taking great pleasure out of painting them.

Anyone have any first impressions on the game? Is it any good? Easy to pick up and play with casual gamers?

The game is a lot of fun, but fairly deep. Figuring everything out on the first play through is tricky unless you have some fairly experienced gamers (playing Chaos in the Old World helps a fair bit.) What throws most people I have played with is knowing when you want to get into a battle with the intent of losing and when you want to make sure you win. Sometimes just showing up to lose is a big benefit, but that is super counter intuitive for a lot of people.

Euro-centric BGG *loves* this game, which is unusual for the usual "Feh, KS Exclusives" sorta attitude. The designer, Eric Lang, has extensive experience in hybrid games, which combine Euro and Ameritrash elements. Do ask your question about casual play on BGG. Casual gamers should pick up the mechanics easily, but strategy, as Wehrkind noted, may sometimes be something entirely different!

EDIT: fwiw, Army Painter posted a painting tutorial on posting a Viking miniatures product. http://admin.thearmypainter.com/files/downloads/articles/VikingWarbandPaintTutorial_Article_SignedOff.pdf

Yep. It'll be interesting to see the first tournaments at conventions where lots of experienced players get to duke it out.

I played this at a game night last night. Wow. Lots of fun. Wish I hadn't missed the Kickstarter. Maybe once interest dies down a bit I can pick up a few of the monsters for a semi reasonable price. I got the base on a daily sale so it wasn't too bad but would be nice if there were expansions coming out with more monsters to lessen the blow of missing the KS. I think Eric Lang was quoted saying there would be none. I missed the first zombicide KS but after the second I had so many survivors it didn't matter. Hopefully it's successful enough to make him reconsider

I'm not sure I'd expect it. Adding new gameplay elements, even simply monsters, would take a considerable amount of balancing and playtesting. It would perhaps not add enough value when it boiled down to cost-benefit analysis.

Or anyone know the base sizes or possible proxies?

Thor0298 wrote:
Or anyone know the base sizes or possible proxies?

Truth be told, base size doesn't really matter. They're going to be taking up the same spots when you're conquering. I'm pretty sure there aren't any cards that depend on base size....

If you're at any conventions that CMON attends, there's a good chance you'd be able to pick up a few there.

got my copy plus the gods expansion a couple weeks ago. My buddy is currently painting them, probably not another week or so til i get them back.

I cannot wait to play!