So what do you think about this game? Is it a good pick as a casual LCG? Is FFG doing a fine job with expansions...

So what do you think about this game? Is it a good pick as a casual LCG? Is FFG doing a fine job with expansions? Do you need to buy 2 core boxes like with GoT LCG?

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3, Actually.

Though, I will say: They did the first entire cycle in two months, which helped out the game immensely in terms of not getting boring.

They seem to be aiming for far faster expansions and far more support for organized events, so we'll see if that holds and turns out well.

As far as the game itself goes, I love it. Lots of decisions to make, and a lot of strategy in the game beyond just deck building.

>3, Actually
Jesus, I was torn between buying two core boxes or one core box and three dynasty packs

To be fair to FFG, the core box has all 7 clans in it. That's a shitload of factions to try and fit in one box.

Oh, it's out? How is it?

Is the whole buying multiple core boxes thing just for people to have duplicates of certain cards for multiple decks, or is it required for something like games with more than 2 players? Never got into any of FFG's LCGs but I've been thinking of picking this up and a bunch of the dynasty packs at my LGS. Probably won't go out and do tournaments or anything, just play some kitchen table format if I can get some friends into it.

Pretty fucking dead. My local scene doesn't play it, doesn't stock it and doesn't intend to due to lack of interest. Up until a few days ago there was a general thread on Veeky Forums for not just the card game but for ALL of L5R and it was regularly sitting on page 10 being salvaged by just a handful of dedicated posters (mostly the RPG guys). That being said, Jigoku can typically yield you some games.

It's shit and the pink theme looks atrocious.
Rules are boring and setting is just a lame retcon.

>muh mono no aware

What threw me off the boat was needing two core backs at bare minimum. I had played Netrunner with one core and packs, and went back for an extra core when I decided i liked it enough to go competitive with it. Having to dunk that much money and a 'maybe' put me off pretty badly.

>Is the whole buying multiple core boxes thing just for people to have duplicates of certain cards for multiple decks
Correct. You get one copy of most clan specific cards in the starter box for every clan, but you can put a maximum of three into your deck. Hence why people suggest buying three starters.

Right now the starter cards are still relevant and regularly played, which is why that's suggested. In time that will probably be less of the case, with newer packs inevitably replacing some of those cards in most tournament level decks. Packs give you three copies of each, so in the future it'll probably be cheaper to get into than it is now if you intend on being faction loyal and do your homework.

Gotcha. Thanks user.

>General threads on chinese cartoon porn forum are indicator of anything
X-wing and Armada confirmed as dead games

>Armada
Is on life support. Only X-Wing sells.

Just because you play it in your basement doesn't mean it's alive and thriving. Nor does it have to be. There's no reason to take offense when somebody points out that a game doesn't have a very active community outside of their kitchen table.

Just because you don't play it in your basement doesn't mean it's dead. There's no reason to take offense when somebody points out that a game has a very active community outside of their kitchen table.

You could probably get away with 2 cores and the dynasty packs.

In addition to the 1x of all the clan cards, there are some neutral cards that still appear in most decks and most of those are 2x. Competitive decks definitely need 3 cores, but you can probably get an enjoyable brewing and casual play experience out of 2 cores and some carefully chosen dynasty packs for whichever deck you want to play.

AEG L5R was a shitshow in the end but I bet it sold better than whatever this abomination is.

LE FFG BETTING MECHANIC LMAO

The honor dial is the only thing about the new L5R that I don't like. The rest seems like a general improvement upon, or at worst comparable to, the old L5R.

As someone who plays a pretty good amount of Magic, YuGiOh, PTCG, and Vanguard but has no experience with LCGs or the previous iteration of LotFR:
Game's fucking baller and easier to learn than it looks. Thing is our game using the precons in the core box took an hour and a half. Probably could shave half an hour off of that with experience, but compared to what I'm used to that's still a chunk of time. The friends I was with finished two games of Magic and one of YuGiOh in the time it took us to play through one game.

No idea what the local scene for it is like, my buddy picked up the box on a whim and I mostly just play kitchen table with some friends.

The problem I've found with the honor dial is that opponents have this idea that they need to match your bid, every time, and refuse to take any sort of risk, what so ever.

You beat people on the fact that they won't bid for higher cards.

at the end? it definitely didn't, Ivory was weak as hell.

It's worth noting you CANNOT make a legal deck with just one core. You can theoretically make up for this with the dynasty packs, but you won't. This isn't Netrunner or AGoT, the extra cores are not suggested or elites only. Entry fee is 3 cores, 2 for absolute casuals.

Despite this, game is incredibly popular. I can walk into any store in town and get a game even on non-organized play days.

Though substituing some dynasty packs works in a pinch

It is worth saying that while the Champions in the core box are very powerful, some of the big cards in the dynasty packs are just as good.

I used to play the old one it's based, I bet my cards are worthless now though.

I'd honestly play this and the new dragonball game if they had online app versions, i aint got the room to be collecting cards again

Worth noting that as an LCG, there's really no collecting involved.

Yes, the Core box really needs you to buy 3 sets, yes, but after that the Dynasty packs will come with every card you can use in a single deck.

So the initial cost is kind of high, but there's no real collecting cost, and basically zero secondary market(beyond some deals that come with 3 of for core sets, instead of just one).

There's also here:

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It sounds good

How is the meta going?

Is there a Spider Clan? Only reason I ask is I was a Spider Clan player and we pretty much got chased out of AEG L5R's cause all the clans didn't have a generic horde baddie to beat up anymore and we actually won some stuff

No therr isn't a spider clan.

No, but perhaps maybe.

Right now, only the seven great clans feature, with neutral cards getting most(but not all) of the Imperial cards.

The next major expansion is supposed to feature Mantis, however, so the odds of the secondary clans showing up in the future aren't impossible.

It sorta stood up and then flopped. Game feels kinda eh and boring to play if I'm honest, just another poor man's magic but this time you have blue and red fights!

I'll stick to Netrunner which FFG seem to be activley working towards making good again, I can see L5R sitting at about the same popularity as GoT and never making it big like some people were thinking. Mainly due to the 3 core requirement just to build an actual deck and the fact that the game is bloated and not very exciting

I see thanks, I will probably hold out till spider then