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  • From Making Epic Decks Part 1 of 3 – Geektopia on Ki-Adi Mundi

    […] think we could capture that in a deck.  Shaak Ti crowd fights, plus has some interesting tricks.  Ki-Adi-Mundi leads clones into battle.  Director Krennic sets up his one big […]

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  • From JAG18 on Making Epic Decks: Part 3 of 3

    This is really cool and well done. In lieu of spending hours reading all the material at the forums on this subject this is a pretty good substitute and hopefully becomes the starting point for future deck makers.

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  • From Zubb on Epic Duels

    Hi!
    Were Do u Get those miniatures, like Kylo ren, beckett ++
    Cant seem to find them

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    • From roman on Epic Duels

      Hi Zubb, thanks for your interest.

      Please be specific about which figures you’re looking for, because there are different answers. Start by looking at the individual pages, such as the Kylo Ren page, and you’ll see what figures I’m using. If the answer isn’t there, that’s the best place to ask.

      Anyhoo, for Beckett and Enfys Nest, I don’t have any ideas right now. You might see what kind of merchandise Disney is making available. You probably won’t get Epic Duels scale figures but as long as they fit on the board, they’ll work. You can let me know if you find anything!

      For Kylo Ren, I would see if you can find a Star Wars Monopoly that came out after The Force Awakens. I bought it new for $20 or $25 so used, it should be even less. You’ll get figures for Kylo Ren and Finn. Rey and Poe can be covered by Leia Bounty Hunter and a Rebel Pilot, respectively.

      Anyone pre-Disney probably has one or more Star Wars minis that will work for it. Even minis are getting harder and harder to find…

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  • From Making Epic Decks Part 2 of 3 – Geektopia on Bultar Swan

    […] Offense can be in the form of direct damage or discarding, not just a power attack.  Bultar Swan’s bread-and-butter is actually BLINDING LIGHT, a direct damage card.  Yoda’s is FORCE LIFT.  They […]

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  • From Making Epic Decks Part 1 of 3 – Geektopia on Shaak-Ti

    […] remain very still, then strike in a blaze of motion, and think we could capture that in a deck.  Shaak Ti crowd fights, plus has some interesting tricks.  Ki-Adi-Mundi leads clones into battle.  Director […]

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  • From JAG18 on Greedo

    I don’t know how much you care about stuff like this, but in the new canon it’s official that Greedo hired Ponda and Evazan to help him confront Han. Of course, things didn’t go according to plan and Greedo had to go up against Han alone with less than stellar results…

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    • From roman on Greedo

      Oh cool, well, I’m always interested in stuff that strengthens my case for doing a deck a certain way 🙂

      The group not doing well vs. Han fits this deck pretty well.

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  • From From epic decks to epic games – Geektopia on Yoda was the prototype: Rob Daviau interview Part 1 of 5

    […] continues to expand, like Tobias Beckett and Enfys Nest.  We strive to bring content like the Rob Daviau interview and we appreciate the many who visit this site with Epic Duels as the primary […]

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  • From Parker Haskin on Gollum

    I made a Gollum/Smeagol deck that I really liked. It involved a card that allowed you to pick the personality that you wanted. In doing so, you had to discard the specials and power cards of the personality you gave up, but keep all their basics and gain health points. If you didn’t choose then it made it easy to destroy both personalities if you played against it. Gollum was doing more damage and Smeagol was more utility but the increase in damage from Gollum’s basic deck made it worth taking Smeagol and being able to keep Gollum’s power combat cards and specials plus adding Smeagol’s health made taking Gollum worth it as well.

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  • From Parker Haskin on Sauron the Dark Lord

    I’ve tried making a Sauron deck and I used him as the only character. I included the One Ring as well but it exists without any HP and only has Normal Specials to play so it continues after Sauron’s physical form is destroyed. It doesn’t do damage so if it were the only thing left then the other team would be able to claim victory. Just my two cents. I love all of these decks on here and I discovered them after making about a dozen of my own LOTR decks lol but great alterations came of my discovery so thanks so much.

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    • From roman on Sauron the Dark Lord

      Hi Parker, thanks for your interest. We’d love to see your LOTR decks! You should upload them to the Wiki and I’ll create a section for them.

      There’s a LOTR board game, I think it’s called the Lord of the Rings board game, where each player controls a hobbit, and you play cooperatively to defeat Sauron. The game comes with an Eye in the Tower piece that I’d love to see a deck for. Perhaps you could convert your ideas to fit Sauron as an Eye, where this version is intended to be the Sauron from the very start of the FOTR movie.

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  • From Board game roundup: Games with high do-something ability – Geektopia on Let's be Vikings: A Feast for Odin Review

    […] Another Uwe Rosenberg game, you grow your Viking tribe, build boats, go on raids, and bring back trophies.  You also explore various new lands like Iceland or Greenland and conquer them.  Ultimately, you emigrate your people to new lands, like Led Zeppelin’s The Immigrant Song.  Read the full review. […]

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  • From Board game roundup: Games with high do-something ability – Geektopia on Deck Building Meets Worker Placement: Orléans Review

    […] that stated, Orléans is one of my 3-4 favorite games of the past five years or so, as stated in my review.  It’s that good.  I feel about it much the way I feel about Puerto Rico, except there is […]

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  • From Board game roundup: Games with high do-something ability – Geektopia on Terraforming Mars Championship at GenCon Aug 2-4

    […] no secret this is one of my favorite games, to the point where I’m running a GenCon Tournament for it.  I’ve gushed about it in a review, and included it among my favorite Solo Games.  […]

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  • From Board game roundup: Games with high do-something ability – Geektopia on Biggest Battle Maybe in Epic Duels History

    […] Star Wars Epic Duels I’m not going to write more about this game than I already have, but when it’s at it’s most fun, it feels like a cinematic battle unfolding, and if you want to get really epic, you can do 20 vs 20. […]

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  • From Board game roundup: Games with high do-something ability – Geektopia on And all the hotness: Gloomhaven Review

    […] It’s a different kind of do-something, but as covered in my review, Gloomhaven is some top notch monster slaying.  Through cooperation, you can set up and execute […]

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  • From Battle of the Underground: Caverna Cave vs. Cave review – Geektopia on What Are the Best 2-Player Board Games?

    […] covered the best 2-player board games a while back, and tweeted it out.  Mountaintop Games in Madison, WI (@mtntopgames) replied with […]

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  • From JAG18 on Tobias Beckett

    Maybe this is the perfect opportunity to bring the Demolishor deck from the Transformers game into SW Epic Duels?

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    • From roman on Tobias Beckett

      I’ve been thinking this over. Beckett isn’t really a “loose cannon” — he’s calculated in what he does. At the same time, the deck could fit him in that he’s only in it for himself. It’s definitely a fun concept to install but it might a forced fit here.

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      • From JAG18 on Tobias Beckett

        Yeah, I was just throwing that out because I would really like to see that deck in SWED.

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        • From roman on Tobias Beckett

          Actually yeah, I think this is a good idea after all. I’m not all that interested in playing this deck without a little more “do-something”. Beckett is a gambler, so his using a dice roll makes sense, and you kind of never know what he’s going to do next.

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        • From roman on Tobias Beckett

          I put a little flavor of it in there.

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  • From Justin Jacobson on Rob's new games: Rob Daviau Interview Part 4 of 5

    FYI, it’s Whosit?, not Whoozit. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2406/whosit

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  • From roman on Yee-haw, I reckon it's time for a review of: BANG!

    Not only is Bang! a classic, but there really aren’t many good games for 7 players. Caverna and Secret Hitler are among the few I can think of that even allow for 7.

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  • From roman on Geektopia turns Dystopian: Warhammer 40K 8th Edition Review

    Those painted minis are truly awesome! Great detail, and great photos of the detail.

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  • From Dirk on Imperial Officer

    An interesting deck for sure, I actually have at leas one major question: What is hold the line supposed to acomplish? I beleive the wording is not totally clear (at least for me). Does this mean all adjacent Troopers gain an additional 2 on defense for the rest of the game? This would be the only interpretation that comes to my mind that makes sense.

    Have you playtested this deck a bit as I’m not sure if it really works the way it is right now.

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    • From roman on Imperial Officer

      HOLD THE LINE would be played as a defense by a single Stormtrooper. The defense value of the card is increased by 2 for each Stormtrooper adjacent to the defending one, just that one time when the card is used. There is nothing in the wording about adjacent Troopers gaining any benefits.

      We’ve played this a handful of times over the years so I don’t really know how well it works without more feedback, but I have seen it both win and lose so I think it’s fairly balanced. If you play it, let us know how it goes for you.

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      • From Dirk on Imperial Officer

        Of course you are absolutely right, somehow my mind made it more complicated than necessary. 😀

        Okay, I’ll try it out. I was just afraid that the troopers just would die like flies because they have so little defense and staying power but it’s possible I’m wrong.

        Thanks for the quick response.

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        • From roman on Imperial Officer

          I think they probably will die like flies! But there are 4 of them. Just a couple of them need to stick around to give the deck a chance to win. It’s not supposed to be very powerful, but just having 4 minors should make him a good 2v2 teammate.

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  • From roman on Yoda was the prototype: Rob Daviau interview Part 1 of 5

    It just occurred to me that the third Star Wars game that Rob Daviau was working on, DID see the light of day. The Queen’s Gambit! Shame on me for not reminding him.

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  • From JAG18 on Keep at it: Rob Daviau Interview Part 5 of 5

    Yeah, the more I think about it the more I come around to agreeing with you that healing is fine as is. Probably the only thing Epic Duels really needs right now is more players. 😛

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  • From JAG18 on Keep at it: Rob Daviau Interview Part 5 of 5

    Just throwing this out there, but is healing really so important that it needs to be in the game? I mean it’s clear that healing was included only as a solution to what to do with those dead minor cards. Why not have have a rule that once per turn if you draw a dead minor card you can reveal it, discard it and draw a new card? It’s a big change, but it would have the effect of speeding up the game (where as currently healing drags it out).

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    • From roman on Keep at it: Rob Daviau Interview Part 5 of 5

      I think it’s probably fine the way it is. I like the penalty of getting weighed down with minor cards, and the strategy of beating a player by first taking out his minor. For example, that’s about the only way you’re going to beat Gandalf in LOTRED is by taking out Pippin and hopefully water down Gandalf’s draw. If we changed to your suggested rule, you’d no longer have that strategy available. As it is, heal is a pretty weak use of an action but it does come in handy at times, like when facing an opponent who relies on more direct damage.

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  • From JAG18 on Keep at it: Rob Daviau Interview Part 5 of 5

    First, thanks so much for doing this Roman, I’ve certainly enjoyed reading it! I especially liked that now we know what that ED sequel was about.

    The only thing I have more than a few thoughts on is how in part two, he mentioned that ED was intended for 8-10 year olds and so they didn’t fuss over little things like trying to find a better replacement for the heal rule. I sometimes wonder what an “advanced” ED would look like, you know if it was re-made, but this time for an older audience and with more strategic depth. I think Mike Maloney has made some great decks that add a lot of strategy to the game without changes the basic mechanics, but that’s not quite what I’m thinking of. Probably it’s just better to let ED be a fun, fast shoot ’em up and look in other places for deeper games.

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    • From roman on Keep at it: Rob Daviau Interview Part 5 of 5

      Glad you enjoyed it! I am pretty pleased with it. It was actually fun to go back and listen to it, rewind, and sort of unpack it all.

      Well, we could literally make the heal rule 25% more effective by allowing a player to play up to 2 cards at a time and heal up to 2 instead of 1. But, do you really want to make the games longer, and to drag out what might be the worst part of the game?

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