Has it been two weeks already? Elliott reviews Consensus Movie Edition from Mindlogic Inc, and Legions of Darkness from Victory Point Games, while Jeff reviews Lock ‘n Load Forgotten Heroes Vietnam from Lock ‘n Load Publishing and Fast Action Battles: Sicily from GMT. All this plus the latest table top gaming news and our usual sprinkling of random nonsense…
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Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media, Jeff tackles any and all sorts of games but has a special fondness for strategy, conflict sims, and roleplaying games. Plus, he's certainly never at a loss for an opinion...
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Please, please, please, join me in stopping the use of the word “Fiddly”. Michael Jackson was fiddly. I don’t think the adjective should be applied to boardgames. It sounds totally nerdy and reminds me of a sex molester or and uncoordinated person fumbling with counters, or just not smart enough to comprehend the rules (not that all rules are well written). There are many other ways to describe a game, its rules or its mechanics other than by just saying it’s “fiddly”. I know I’m not the only one who cringes when they hear this word applied to boardgames. I know it was an English term originally but seems to have been brought into the boardgaming world and is used very extensively mainly by Eurogamers when describing wargames. Only YOU can prevent forest fiddlys. Other than that, I really enjoy your show.
Please help.
Thank you!
Wade (wargamer for over 40 years)
Actually I use the turn fiddly to describe rules that will be interpreted differently by different players. I mainly used the word in the FABS review simply because the previous Fast Action Battles title, Bulge, had an unofficial name given to it by players: Fiddly Action Battles.
I’d say we probably say wonky (as in we’re not sure why the rule was written the way it was) much more frequently than fiddly. That said I think wonky pops up every couple of shows or so.
Ha! Your remarks about the wooden cube, farming/building/job assignment Euro-games are spot on. What a bunch of brown dreck most of those games are. Great podcast again, gents. Hermann
Gosh Hermann, why not tell us how you really feel? 😉 There are plenty of Euros out there that I like but, unfortunately, about 85% of the titles I’ve run across have left me cold. One aspect of many that doesn’t thrill me is the lack of interaction with other players at the table. What’s the point of getting together with friends if everyone is just going to be a drone?
Also, I normally find what the Euro designer likes to call “elegant” is actually “simplistic” in my book.