Risk: Dune

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• The most expensive game that I own is frankly a huge anomaly in my board game collection because that's Foundations of Rome.
• It's a showstopping game. It does something fantastic, which is it's a huge box, but it doesn't make the setup any longer to be bloodily long to set up.
• To me, that one game was an investment that I'll have probably for the rest of my life and I'll be able to play and enjoy.
• Is $200 worth of components and value and craft in this game? Maybe.
• The price per evening at that point gets lower and lower until you're thinking, 'Wow, this game gave me a month's worth of Nights Out, but spent in playing the game for $5 a pop.'
• Foundations of Rome is in my top 10 games of all time.

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• Area Control — Conquering territories like Australia or South America.
• Dice Rolling — Rolling to attack and kill opponents.
• Troop Movement — Moving troops and repositioning them.

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• There's some games that just don't seem like they fit on the table. Sometimes, literally.
• The digital space, the game doing that for you just makes the experience better in my opinion.
• This is a good example of where becoming a board game can go drastically wrong.
• The math and the scoring algorithm at the end of the game was complex enough we didn't want to learn how to do it.
• So, I think this and and most versions of Risk should be digital.
• Half the game is spent doing management of the systems that you're trying to explore through.
• The experience of play is taken down a notch due to the degree of management necessary, which is a theme we see across the board in many areas.

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• Area Control — Players control regions on the board and can attack adjacent regions. Troops can respawn in available sieges for the Atreides player.
• Card Drafting — Each player has a hand of six cards, chooses three, puts them in order, and then reveals them back and forth. Then draws back up to six.
• combat resolution — Attacks are resolved by rolling dice, with the attacker assigning hits to enemy troops. Different units have different combat values and dice rolls needed to defeat them.
• Dice Rolling — Combat involves rolling dice, with different troop types having different kill probabilities. Players roll up to five dice in combat.
• Siege Destruction — The Harkonnen player wins by destroying all sieges, which removes respawn points for the Atreides forces.
• special abilities — Unique abilities are unlocked via the tracks, such as the Thumper for attacking troops, Dreadnought for bombarding sieges, and special character abilities for Paul, Lady Jessica, and Lady Fenring.
• Track Advancement — Players advance tokens on tracks (Vision track for Atreides, Oppression track for Harkonnen) to unlock abilities and special actions.
• Unit Activation — Players play cards to activate specific troop types (Harkonnen, Sardaukar, Fremen, Fedain) or special units like the Dreadnought and Thumper.

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• I think this game's a lot of fun which is why I was getting the video but there's a couple of things that are a little bit Loosey Goosey
• To me it played very intuitively, very viscerally and you know it was quick and snappy
• It's a lot of fun, it's super fun
• If you're going to pay that much like you'd kind of want a little bit more
• It's hard to hard to recommend that with that component quality the rule book sort of you know it's not super clean

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