No problem Gereon, I’m interested too. We will never get that overhere, sadly.

Our best feature is still the community itself and the report function.
I'd like to add that as far as i've seen our interface is much better too.

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Would it worry anyone about the site continuing? I'm still bitter they got chantry closed down when the same guys brought out Twilight Struggle

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For everyone, looking to play Boardgames online: try the Tabletop Simulator. it has absolutely everything and is quite fun to play on.

And yes, you can play Gloomhgaven AND Frosthaven on it lannie

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Just retired my Brute and will play with my new character but he will be missed, the frontline animal that he is. Playing a new one which is the opposite of him but won’t spoil offcourse. It’s that spiky guy with the angry face.

Frosthaven will be next but we luckily still have a long way to go. Think I played 20 scenarios or so.

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Release date is announced - 3Q 2020
Full info and screenshots are available on Steam page https://store.steampowered.com/app/1075190/A_Game_of_Thrones_The_Board_Game__Digital_Edition/

vassal mechanics from MoD is implemented for base game
you can fight against AI
ELO ranking and leaderboard

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Preorder is available
Release date: 6 Oct 2020

Hi, sorry i'm late, but i figured this would be helpfull;

The game will launch at 6 October, and there is a current pre-order discount of 20%

here is the link:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1075190/A_Game_of_Thrones_The_Board_Game__Digital_Edition/

Somebody to have any expressions? i already played there

It's a pretty good implementation on release. There are some bugs (as you might expect on release) but if they support it properly it could become amazing. The fact they have the vassals inplemented is massive for me because it lessens the obvious imbalances that Tyrell and Lannister experience.

I really hope to see the full MoD at some point, and I'd love to see the alternate cards added so I could remove Balon...

I posted this in a similar thread in the Off-Topic forum, but apparently nobody looks at that so I'll post it here.

So I preordered this and have played it a little over the few days I've had it. I figured I would organize my thoughts cohesively.

Side note - I do not claim to be good at this game. I do, however, play a lot of video games and figured I had at least a little knowledge to break this down with.

Graphics

I've played the beta and the graphics are really bad to the point that you can't tell the board's state unless you focus hard on individual units, and even then footmen and knights are still hard to distinguish.
As noted by jasongraph, it is difficult to see what units are in what area. I've gotten used to it, but it is still hard to see what's in an area.
There is the inclusion of a 'Strategic View' which offers an overview of the whole board including area control and area strengths.
Personally, I don't think that the graphics are 'bad', per say, I think that they're just too game-y. This is a board game, not a video game, and I think the inclusion of an optional setting to have physical game pieces (such as when playing on TTS) would be nice.

The art is quite nice, and the housecard images are zoomed in a bit. Still not sure if I like that.

Performance

I have a crappy W10 laptop and the game runs beautifully on high graphics. There is almost no stutter and I think that the game could be run on almost any machine.

On low graphics, the shadows are terrible. I played with low graphics for about 5 minutes before switching.

Content

It has the main game (including MoD vassals & optional ToB), 3 different AI levels, and a series of challenges with different win conditions. At the time of writing, there are no challenges for Stark & Martell, but 2-3 for each of the other Houses.

Disclaimer: As stated above, I am terrible at this game.
[Disclaimer over]

When all the AI are on easy, I don't find the game to be very difficult (although I haven't won as Tyrell yet). Medium is a good challenge, and I haven't touched Hard Ai yet.

I've noticed that Stark always seems to get crushed, as Baratheon almost always seems to go after the North instead of Martell/land. Between Greyjoy and Baratheon, Stark has finished all the games I played (unless I was playing as Stark) with no more than 2 castles.

There is theoretically a chat, although I haven't played any online games yet so I don't know quite how it works. You can make alliances with other players and request support from them, and it works how it would at the table (i.e., other players know you have an alliance but they don't know the terms). You can also warn of threats that other players pose.

I hope that they start to add the expansions (even as paid DLC), as otherwise, I don't think the game has enough to last.

The game has a tutorial. It's not quite as good as the FFG tutorial, but it does a good job of introducing players to the game as well as the digital version. It took me about 30 minutes(I did it just to familiarize myself with the program), but I wasn't entirely focused.

There's achievements as well, which I don't think are too hard to get. It is a bit of an incentive to keep playing, but I'd love if they added more.

Interface
The interface is clean and smooth. Turn order/wildlings at the top, current action at the bottom, influence tracks on the bottom right, player stats on the left. Everything can be found quickly, and organized/subdivided rules can be found in the pause menu.

One thing I don't like is that you can't see who you have an alliance with without going into the alliance menu and scrolling until you find it. This means that a player could sometimes forget who they've allied with and accidentally break it.
Also, warning of a threat counts as breaking an alliance. I do think that's kind of dumb, but I see why. AI, though, don't break alliances when they warn of threats. That is really annoying.

Conclusion
There's barely any players online at any given time, and only a few games open at a time. Granted, the game's only been out a few days, but so far I don't think the game will survive.

The game looks nice, even if it can be hard to take stock of things, and runs well. There's some content, but I think the DLCs will need to be added to pad it out. The UI is clean and easy to use, and the AI is pretty good.

tl;dr, I think that it's worth what I paid ($15.99), but a little lacking in content and graphics that are a bit too game-y for my tastes.

Anyone else have any thoughts?

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No, I'm just bad at the game.

I kind of agree with your comment on the graphics and it being a little hard to differentiate between footmen and knights.  That said, I do think you'll get used to it with repeated plays.

Vassals is the feature that really makes this stand out from the others. I don't think I could easily go back to 6 player GOT (without vassals) simply because Lannister and Tyrell are at the whims of RNG and other player decisions to even have a chance at surviving.

MoD gives the star from Baratheon to Tyrell and that helps a bit, but MOD isn't fully implemented in this version yet.

I've played several hours during beta. I didn't manage get used to the overview. You can't get a good overview at glance.
The developers treated this game like Age of Empires, instead of a chess-like game. Instant overview didn't seem to be important for them.

Even against hard AI, it's not difficult to win for me. The AI doesn't 'understand' the concept of turtling, supporting surrounding areas from 1 central area. The AI doesn't understand the importance of some strategic sea areas. They programmed some opening moves, but the AI doesn't make use of the new position.

Expansions
A Dance with Dragons and Mother of Dragons would be a reason to buy the digital version. But I would strongly prefer to play with people I know. I don't wanna spend hours and see people leave.
I think the AI will fail miserably at Mother of Dragons, the strategic choices are more subtle at that version.

The missions are kinda fun, and some are not easy to complete. But there are just a couple of missions per house, to me they're not a reason to buy this game.

If I would be a new player at this game, I would probably buy the online game and play a lot of games against AI to practise the basics.

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Yeah it sounds like it being designed for new players from what I read. Hopefully those will like it.

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