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    Colonel M57 M57 is offline now
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    I think The "Hordes!" tag currently placed on the "Anarchy" board is misleading.

    It really has very little in the way of Hordes-like attributes

    • Armies are produced regardless of whether or not the territories held by a player are adjacent.
    • The armies you create are not "in hand".  You don't place them.  They are automatically placed by factories.
    • Unlike any other board I can think of, the armies you create go mostly to your opponents!
    • Conversely, most of the armies put on your territories are placed on them when it's not your turn (especially in the beginning turns of the game).

    In fact, the only hordes-like attribute that I can think of is that there is a lot of production.  I may have confused the issue early on the Dev phase when I attempted to describe the army production scheme as "Inside-Out Hordes".

    I don't have a good suggestion for the correct taggage; is there a "Factories" tag?

     

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    Premium Member Yertle
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    Sounds good, I removed/updated the Board tag for Anarchy, let me know if there is a better set for the board.  (I had used Hordes for a few other Horde-like attributes, but wasn't really sure if it fit.)

    I agree, I think there should be a Factories tag (there currently isn't).

    I'm also always up for updating the tags/difficulties as well, I look at the board a bit and sometimes the games that have been played, but do take a bit of a stab in the dark at some of them just to get the difficulty (so the board shows in the Board list) and a general idea of the gameplay.  Anyone just let me know if anything looks off.

    Thanks!


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    The problem with a "factories" tag is that there's such a wide range of factory functionality. I'm not saying there shouldn't be one, but I tend to use them conventionally (to put armies on the board in specific places), whereas Ed N. tends to use them to produce artificial movement of armies (creating a number of different functionalities and effects).

    Perhaps there could be two "Factories" tags. - Conventional and Non-conventional..? 

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    lol -- "Abstract"

    It should be possible to play WG boards in real-time ..without the wait, regardless of how many are playing.
    https://sites.google.com/site/m57sengine/home

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    Premium Member Yertle
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    I'd group them just like Modifiers, there are different types, but simply Modifier works as the tag.


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