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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Doug » Fri Apr 30, 2021 1:39 pm

It applies during actions, anytime you have more than 12 resources you must immediately discard down to 12

What do you mean, "buy" Breaking Ground
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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Khaos » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:09 pm

im guessing he can discard three conspiracies to get the breaking ground ability

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by the_zoomies » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:55 pm

Khaos wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:09 pm im guessing he can discard three conspiracies to get the breaking ground ability
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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Khaos » Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:00 pm

with our powers combined we can stop this game from ever finishing

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Khaos » Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:19 pm

i don't think you can take the west. you could take the east though :morph:

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by the_zoomies » Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:33 pm

@khaos - the ability gives me resources based on your voters without any impact to you.

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by the_zoomies » Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:40 pm

Khaos wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:00 pm with our powers combined we can stop this game from ever finishing
How does the game end?

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Doug » Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:43 pm

The moment all districts have scoring votes, the game ends instantly

Theoretically, if the game were to go on long enough, everyone would have every ability -- I'm pretty sure the abilities that gain you votes far outpace the abilities that destroy them
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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Ashenai » Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:44 pm

No dragging out the game, please!

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Doug » Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:46 pm

Also eventually everyone's income reaches 12/turn +2 from Supremo +1 from Capitalist
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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Khaos » Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:47 pm

the_zoomies wrote:@khaos - the ability gives me resources based on your voters without any impact to you.
i dont know that anyone knows what you're talking about but it is your turn

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by the_zoomies » Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:12 pm

Khaos wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:47 pm
the_zoomies wrote:@khaos - the ability gives me resources based on your voters without any impact to you.
i dont know that anyone knows what you're talking about but it is your turn
Doug hasn't resolved my purchase ability. :rts:

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Doug » Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:33 pm

Uh, I asked you what you meant

I hope this is what you mean

The_zoomies play Singularity x 3, which gives them any level 5 ideologue power, permanently. Singularity x 3 also can't be countered by spells or abilities.

They take Breaking Ground?
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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Khaos » Sat May 01, 2021 12:33 am

the_zoomies wrote:
Khaos wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:47 pm
the_zoomies wrote:@khaos - the ability gives me resources based on your voters without any impact to you.
i dont know that anyone knows what you're talking about but it is your turn
Doug hasn't resolved my purchase ability. :rts:
you can just do things all at once

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by the_zoomies » Sat May 01, 2021 12:37 am

Evict 3 khaos voters west
buy both 2 voter packs
Grab all four west votes
Thoughts and prayers to ashenai on west (do I get to choose the 6 resources?)

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Khaos » Sat May 01, 2021 12:41 am

why do you think you get resources

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Doug » Sat May 01, 2021 1:18 am

the_zoomies wrote: Sat May 01, 2021 12:37 am Evict 3 khaos voters west
buy both 2 voter packs
Grab all four west votes
Thoughts and prayers to ashenai on west (do I get to choose the 6 resources?)
This is all good except the last part, but for one thing -- when you buy votes, you get to pay 1 fewer resource, twice per turn. Which resource are you not paying each time

Also, you may not have figured Going Viral into your calculations

Also also, I don't know what you mean by that last part
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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by the_zoomies » Sat May 01, 2021 4:00 pm

Doug wrote: Sat May 01, 2021 1:18 am
the_zoomies wrote: Sat May 01, 2021 12:37 am Evict 3 khaos voters west
buy both 2 voter packs
Grab all four west votes
Thoughts and prayers to ashenai on west (do I get to choose the 6 resources?)
This is all good except the last part, but for one thing -- when you buy votes, you get to pay 1 fewer resource, twice per turn. Which resource are you not paying each time

Also, you may not have figured Going Viral into your calculations

Also also, I don't know what you mean by that last part
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I don't know what you mean by that second part

The last part, I thought I got one resource per voter in a contested area for a given player?

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Khaos » Sat May 01, 2021 10:10 pm

going viral means you get 2+1 votes, then 2+1 votes

you dont get resources for breaking ground

i have no idea if you can place your second 2+1 votes in the west since there's not enough slots there. doug can clear that up

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by the_zoomies » Mon May 03, 2021 4:41 am

okie dokie. Thanks

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Khaos » Mon May 03, 2021 2:28 pm

doug how does
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i have no idea if you can place your second 2+1 votes in the west since there's not enough slots there. doug can clear that up
work?

also when juice ends his turn i take the west and end the game kthx

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by seathesee » Mon May 03, 2021 3:26 pm

gg everyone. wp khaos. thanks for running this doug. its a cool game.
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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Khaos » Mon May 03, 2021 3:27 pm

i still kinda wanna see my turn out because i might be able to get another 6 points from you or ashe

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Khaos » Mon May 03, 2021 6:57 pm

looks like you can hold your voter cards and place them all at once at any time later in the turn. we werent playing this way but whatever

also it looks like if you use your 2 voter card in a zone with only 1 slot, you lose the extra voters

juice, what do you wanna do

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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Doug » Tue May 04, 2021 1:20 am

Hi, guys, I was out of town but I have returned. It looks like you ended the game? Congratulations to Khaos!
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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Doug » Tue May 04, 2021 1:22 am

Khaos wrote: Mon May 03, 2021 2:28 pm doug how does
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i have no idea if you can place your second 2+1 votes in the west since there's not enough slots there. doug can clear that up
work?

also when juice ends his turn i take the west and end the game kthx
There were four vote slots available in the West after the zoomies used Breaking Ground. The zoomies then wanted to buy a 2 and a 2. But the zoomies have Going Viral. Here are the legal options:

a. Simply don't use Going Viral either time, and buy and place the 4 votes
b. Use Going Viral the first time, placing three votes. Then, when buying 2 more votes, they can't be placed in the West because there's only 1 slot left, and would have to go somewhere else. Going Viral could be used this time as well
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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Doug » Tue May 04, 2021 1:25 am

Khaos wrote: Mon May 03, 2021 6:57 pm also it looks like if you use your 2 voter card in a zone with only 1 slot, you lose the extra voters
No, the designer said on BGG that if you influence a voter card and a district doesn't have enough open slots for that voter card, you can't place any of them there. So if a district only has 1 open slot, you need to influence a 1 card

This was surprising but didn't get any pushback
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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Doug » Tue May 04, 2021 1:26 am

seathesee wrote: Mon May 03, 2021 3:26 pm gg everyone. wp khaos. thanks for running this doug. its a cool game.
I'll run it again

We played it IRL this weekend. In person, it's much easier I think to play aggressively, and everybody used abilities and cards on one another nonstop
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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Doug » Tue May 04, 2021 1:28 am

Something's become clear to me

Much like how in Cthulhu Wars while the nominal object of the game is to score 30 doom, the "effective" object of the game is to get your six spellbooks, in Shasn while the nominal object of the game is to win districts, the "effective" object of the game is to give question answers in as few colors as possible, quickly getting some 3 and then 5 abilities

The next time I teach the game I'm overtly going to tell the person that they want to answer in only two colors if they can. This isn't always possible but a person can try
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Re: Shasn Game Aquarius

Post by Rylinks » Tue May 04, 2021 1:29 am

Doug wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 1:26 am
seathesee wrote: Mon May 03, 2021 3:26 pm gg everyone. wp khaos. thanks for running this doug. its a cool game.
I'll run it again

We played it IRL this weekend. In person, it's much easier I think to play aggressively, and everybody used abilities and cards on one another nonstop
can i make a card deck

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