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Celtic Tribes - MMO

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Celtic Tribes - Real-time strategy for true chiefs Peaceful settlers as well as the battle hungry...

Star Wars: Imperial Assault

7.6 (13 Ratings) Rate It

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Star Wars: Imperial Assault is a strategy board game of tactical combat and missions for two to five...

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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) rated Battle Line in Tabletop Games

Apr 18, 2018

Battle Line

2000 | Ancient, Card Game, Deduction

7.4

(5 Ratings)

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simple game with simple pieces, some flags marking the territories, and then a deck of cards. (0 more)

Great Head to Head travel card Battle

We take this with us on vacations, we don't even bother to bring the flags, since we usually can find rocks or shells or something to mark the locations when we get there. So really it's just a deck of cards. The game is quite simple and elegant, you play a card and draw a card. playing a card sends it to a particular battlefield, and a max of three cards can be played on any one field. if your side of the flag is stronger you win that battle, either 3 wins in a row or more over all flags wins. The cards can be used to make different sets, with a pokeresque hierarchy of sets. we play this one bast 2 of 3, as we tend to finish a game in 10 minutes or so. This is a great little game and is known by several names including Schotten Totten, and I've seen lots of fan made re-skins including peanuts characters and other pop culture icons that would definitely not be legal to produce except for personal use.... what theme would you use if you had the time and energy to make your own version....

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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) Apr 18, 2018

This person made a star wars version.... obviously only for themselves to use.

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Fred (860 KP) rated Aquaman (2018) in Movies

Feb 20, 2019

Aquaman (2018)

2018 | Action, Sci-Fi

7.7

(117 Ratings)

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The best DCEU film so far

It still astonishes me that DC can make such good (or at least decent) TV shows, while they can't do movies too well. So, when I watched Aquaman last night, I was highly surprised. It's a good film. It's a very good film. It's easily the best film in the DCEU so far. Taking a page from Marvel, Aquaman is a fun film, full of action & great characters. Yes, who would think that Aquaman would be the most interesting DC character in the DCEU? I give credit to Jason Momoa. He's funny, sexy (at least that's what my fiance says) & he kicks ass. The story borrows from the tale of King Arthur, and doesn't hide this fact. The movie is full of actors from other superhero films & they all play their parts well. I do wish the film was fleshed out more, but this is a film, not a series. It would have been nice to see the different "fish-people" tribes, instead of just having them as opponents on the battlefield. But I can overlook that because the battle was just intense. Great special-effects throughout as well. If I had one complaint, it would be the film ends suddenly. The battle is over & it's like everyone just stops & says "Arthur (Aquaman) is king! YAY!" and that's it.

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sarah smedley (301 KP) rated Nellie (The Brides of San Francisco Book 1) in Books

Oct 4, 2018

Nellie Wallace is a young widow with two children. In post civil-war New York, the men are scarce and none want the burden of a wife with children. Her dead husband's family is wealthy, and cruel. Desperate to escape their influence, and eager for a home, a husband, and a stable life for her children, Nellie decides to make a new life in San Francisco as a mail order bride.

Saloon owner Blake Malone is a bachelor and likes it that way. He worked hard for everything he has, but the San Francisco City Council won’t approve his plans to build a family emporium unless he is a family man himself. The solution? A mail order bride from New York who will bring him a ready-made family, stability, and the council's approval.

Blake expects his future wife to care for his home and, other than helping him impress the city council, to stay out of his business. He expects life as usual. What he gets is an unexpected desire to win Nellie's heart, a dangerous threat to his new bride, and a rich benefactor determined to steal his new family out from under him. Blake believed his battle for success a hard one. But he will discover that the battle to win Nellie's heart and keep his family safe is going to take everything he's got.

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Deborah (162 KP) rated Stormbird (Wars of the Roses, #1) in Books

Dec 21, 2018

I have a great interest in late medieval and early modern history, so this one was bought for me as a present, thinking it would be right up my street.

Overall, it wasn't badly written, but I was less than halfway through and couldn't wait for it to be over (I'm far to stubborn to give up part way through!). We lurch from one battle, to a nice bit of torture and a bit of violence and some more blood and another battle..... you get my drift! And no, I don't think I have an unrealistic view of the past and it was bloody and those in power would have been what we might call self serving but they would probably though of as pragmatic, but this seemed to concentrate on the violence to the exclusion of just about everything else.

I'm not sure if Iggulden anticipated the reader feeling sympathy with any of the characters, but I found this difficult as there wasn't a great deal of character development, as it tended to get in the way of the blood letting. Everyone seemed to be self serving and the expression 'smug' was used on a number of occasions - not exactly endearing!

I don't think I'll bother with the rest of the series and just go back to my non-fiction books on the period.