Starlit Citadel Reviews Eclipse

Starlit Citadel reviews Eclipse, with Kaja Sadowski and Joanna Gaskell.
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[Mohd alshemmari]

It would be awesome to see a top ten of a the year. Or even best ever video

[StarlitCitadel]

We will be doing a "Top 10 Games of 2012" video later this year, probably in early November.

[LaBambaMan]

I actually prefer this to Twilight Imperium. It gives me all my galactic exploring, interstellar combat, diplomacy and the likes without taking an entire weekend to play. T.I. is fun and all, don't get me wrong, but it just takes too bloody long to be any fun for me. After about 4 hours I lose interest and just start dicking about.

Still; quality review as always.

[StarlitCitadel]

Yeah, I've come to realize that I'm in a minority when it comes to TI, in that I've got a group that plays it regularly and still has fun even at the 8-hour mark. It's definitely a game that is too long for a lot of people -- and then Eclipse is a great alternative.

[dont normally]

Well-made review; I appreciate your writing and editing style.

[Alexander Göbel]

Eclipse is the ideal game for people who are intimidated by the sheer content and rulses of TI3. But Eclipse has something for everyone I think. If You want to build up your empire, so it. If You want to make the coolest modts badass ships in the galaxy, do it. If You have the desire to go to war with other players, do it. If You just want to explore, do it. And I LOVE the mechanics of bookkeeping in this game, like You said, it runs kinda automatically and YOu can focus on the game.

[BlackRazor54]

I have Empires of the Void and its a really good 4x game and we played a 4 player game of it in under 3 hours to a conclusion, its really fun. TI3 looks too daunting to me, Eclipse looks fiddly.

[gaozhi2007]

But I like to play with myself...

[Jack Gardner]

Great review! You should keep making these! I'm currently designing a boardgame and these videos help me a lot by seeing other games' pros and cons. It's going to be a sci-fi game and you take the role of a god. And the best part is that there are no dice rolling or card drawing in combat!

[Seboss38]

I've seen enough players pulling an unexpected victory after really crappy exploration draws to believe the randomness really isn't a problem. There are many ways to score points and to prevent others from holding on theirs.

Reputation tiles reward early and risky combat, when games like TI punishes the players for going to war. Sure, sometimes you get a lucky 4pts draw after just one fight, but in the 30 games I played, I rarely saw the combative players scoring less than 10-15pts from tiles.

[Becki Kaze]

Looking forward to this list! Maybe you find the time to review Mice & Mystics, Zombicide and ESCAPE - The Curse of the temple.

[StarlitCitadel]

Ah, that makes sense. I think it's a matter of expectations -- I went into the game expecting a fairly thematic 4x game (it got pitched to me as "Twilight Imperium, but lighter"), and was a bit surprised by how much of a Euro it is. If you expected a pure Euro, I can definitely see the randomness being offputting. I consider Eclipse a hybrid between Euros and Thematic games that skews towards the Euro side, and so the randomness fits for me.