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Board Game: Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer [Average Rating:7.21 Overall Rank:246]
Steve Bauer
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Owners / Plays / Plays Per Owner
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Ebayed. Another game I did not really want to sell. I played a few times at bgg.con a few years ago, and enjoyed it each time (though I got schooled each time). I had sleeved each card in the nice Ascension sleeves, and took it with me for months to game night - never a nibble. So, I decided it had to start paying for itself.
 
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You slay Gods!, Must have!, its like Dominion but not as good or the same but a bit different. Infact thinking of it I might have this on the ipad and hated it?, oh well doesn't matter, its only money (at cost remember) and space!!!
 
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Used. Includes the Ascension: Box & Sleeves combo. Box is showing wear. I have the original big box which you can also have if you like.

Starting Bid:$22
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Played this with the gaming group this weekend. SO likes it a lot thumbsup
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Games Played in March 2012
Game Qty
Ascension: Return of the Fallen 113
Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer 71
Don Quixote 20
Backgammon 15
Lords of Waterdeep 15
Memoir '44 10
Forbidden Island 8
Zooloretto Würfelspiel 6
Ascension: Return of the Fallen - Kythis, the Gatekeeper Promo 4
Bagh Chal 3
China 3
Fortune and Glory: The Cliffhanger Game 3
Founding Fathers 3
Homesteaders 3
It's Alive! 3
Just4Fun 3
Ora et Labora 3
Timeline: Inventions 3
Alien Frontiers 2
Amyitis 2
Balloon Cup 2
Carolus Magnus 2
Cleopatra and the Society of Architects 2
Dominion 2
Dungeon Twister 2
Fire and Axe: A Viking Saga 2
K2 2
Kingdom Builder 2
Lancaster: The New Laws 2
Magnum Sal 2
Middle-Earth Quest 2
Money! 2
Nuns on the Run 2
Power Grid 2
Ra 2
Thurn and Taxis: Power and Glory 2
Timeline: Events 2
Troyes 2
Valdora Extra 2
Vikings 2
Wallenstein 2
Alba Longa 1
Alien Menace 1
Archaeology: The Card Game 1
Ascension: Storm of Souls 1
Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedrals 1
Carcassonne: The River 1
Connect Four 1
Cyclades 1
Dominoes 1
The Downfall of Pompeii 1
Dragon Rampage 1
Dragonheart 1
Egizia 1
Family Feud 1
Feudality 1
A Few Acres of Snow 1
Flash Point: Fire Rescue 1
Le Havre 1
Jamaica 1
Jenga 1
Just4Fun Colours 1
Louis XIV 1
Medici 1
Metro 1
Mondo 1
Power Grid: The First Sparks 1
Risk Legacy 1
Roll Through the Ages: The Late Bronze Age 1
Rosenkönig 1
Saint Petersburg 1
Scrabble 1
Star Trek: Fleet Captains 1
Stone Age 1
Thurn and Taxis 1
Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries 1
TieBreaker 1
Timeline: Discoveries 1
Valdora 1
Zooloretto 1
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That's over 24 games a day! I take it you don't have kids (or maybe even a job).

 
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tssfulk wrote:
That's over 24 games a day! I take it you don't have kids (or maybe even a job).



Three sons, grown and gone. Semi-retired. Three game groups. And lucky to have a wife who plays games!

And your math is off, not 24/day. Ascension numbers do skew things quite a bit! 189 Ascension, 185 of all other games.
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Now I see. That was your name (skifreak737). I thought it was a copy & paste formatting problem and the # was your plays for the month. Still lots of games!
 
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I figured that's what happened, so I edited and removed my user name.

Yeah, I spend way too much time. That will change this month...
 
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Board Game: Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer [Average Rating:7.21 Overall Rank:246]
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Angie, Sarah and Shaun
 
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I was involved in this One with Angie winning.
 
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Jody Ludwick
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My son and I have been playing this deck-building card game w/expansion for the past couple of months, and never seem to tire of it.
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Does not include original box but does include all cards being sleeved in Ascension card sleeves and comes with the smaller yellow Ascension box and the original game board and pieces.

Also included is the Expansion: Storm of Souls in the box but opened and unused.

The expansion also comes with the Soul Collector promo and I'd like to point out that the top right corner of the very front page of the rulebook was torn off - it's about an inch-wide triangle that's missing and doesn't affect the legibility of the rulebook.

Soft Reserve: $30
Buy-it-Now: $49.99
Shipping: $12

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$30
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$37

Arghhh. The game is afoot once again.
 
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Sorry for the mix-up, I hadn't refreshed. Looks like Mike wins after all!

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Sorry for the mix-up, I hadn't refreshed. Looks like Mike wins after all!

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Doh! I was thinking of bidding again but you may have saved me from myself!
 
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Tim Vojta
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Ascension pack! Includes base game and Return of the Fallen and Storm of Souls. All consolidated conveniently in one box. Cards and honor crystals neatly boxed.

Ascension: Return of the Fallen

Ascension: Storm of Souls
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$35 - Ascension!
 
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$36
 
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$41 - Ascension!
 
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$41 - Ascension!


Winner thank you!
 
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Maybe I'm going blind but I didn't see this anywhere on the list. No idea how it was missed, it's a very good deckbuilder for 2 (or more) players.
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Is there any combat between players or is it a multi-solo?
 
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It's mostly multi-solo, but unlike Dominion there are a limited number of cards to acquire/defeat at any time, so it's a race to get the one you want before your opponent does. There's some limited 'inconveniencing' of other players in terms of forced discards or card stealing, but no direct combat.
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just picked this game up myself, can't wait to learn and play it
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Its a great, fairly straight forward, deck builder that isn't too heavy. The iOS app is great and a good way to get introduced. Recommended.
 
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MIN: $35

BIN: $60

Includes:
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40$ local pickup
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Board Game: Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer [Average Rating:7.21 Overall Rank:246]
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A couple years ago, I fell off the wagon and start doing Magic drafts again, which quickly became buying starters and boosters and collector's sets. I had to give it up.

But I did miss having a card game for a friendly game or a quick time filler. I got Ascension. It's a fun game, and because it's single player I can play a game any time I want.
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Bought: on release
Version: iOS
Price paid: $5.99 (I think)

Was it worth it? Yes

I spent a lot of time with this game when it first came out. The BGG run tournaments were a big part of that (Even though I got shellacked!).

Let's admit it, the game is fun to play and I think handels the transition to tablet form very well. Online is rock solid although it could use some features like rankings.

I haven't played much in months, but I certainly got my money's worth!
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One of my opponents from a BGG tournament have had a continuous series of games even since our tournament match. Probably my most played app.
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just got this for $4.99

being a fan of deck drafting games like dominion and quarriors, i was excited to play this.

after playing it about 10 times times, i find it to be way too easy.
i enjoy the game, but i destroy the AI every time i play.
 
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just got this for $4.99

being a fan of deck drafting games like dominion and quarriors, i was excited to play this.

after playing it about 10 times times, i find it to be way too easy.
i enjoy the game, but i destroy the AI every time i play.


Sounds like it is time to play online vs. humans!
 
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A bunch of folks came together around the same time, so we got a 6 player game of Ascension going. I think there was an expansion involved as well, but I didn't write it down. Vicky is new to deck building games so Karl walked her through a number of things she could do. I think she got the hang of it just fine.

Vicki - 66
Karl - 64
Scott - 63
Mark - 62
Mike - 62
Nikki - 57

I was pretty impressed with the grouping of the scores.

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Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer + RotF (54)

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Only played iOS games last week. Kind of sad and not very exciting but I never really had opportunity to game with either of the groups I usually game with. I should be getting some gaming in this Thursday. I'm hoping to play some combination of these: Ora et Labora, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game (I recently picked up the Greyjoy & Martell deluxe expansions and want to try this with 3 - 4 players), Neue Heimat, Chronicle, and/or German Railways. I suppose if my order shows up tomorrow or Thursday, there could be the possibility of Wiz-War (eighth edition). My order that I'm expecting contains:

Wiz-War (eighth edition)
Gosu: Kamakor
Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Alliance
Rex: Final Days of an Empire
Carcassonne: The City
Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer, 2nd Edition

It's possible but unlikely that Age of Steam Expansion #1: England & Ireland & Age of Steam Expansion #2: Western US and Germany will arrive from a trade I made. If it does show up by Thursday morning, Age of Steam Ireland could be a possibility for the night.

Also, I think I will be doing a large auction for the things in my trade list. I'm hoping to have it up before Thursday. If you're interested in something, please message me asap and maybe we can work out a trade or a price.

Sorry that I'm so late posting this meager offering. My mother's been in the hospital since Saturday and I've also had to work. She has pneumonia and there seems to be some issues with her kidneys. As of yesterday she's better than what she was when she first arrived. I'm going too go and visit her again tonight.
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Geez, sorry to hear about your mother. Hope she bounces back soon.
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You need to stop being a tease and play Neue Heimat already.
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I hope your mother recovers quickly, best wishes.
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For quite a while now, I've been avoiding playing Chaos in the Old World. Getting four is tough so it hasn't been that hard to avoid, but even if I did have the group and and suggestions to play it, I would suggest something else. Even last month I had considered trading it! Crazy, I know! What could have lead to such a thing. Well, while the base game was balanced it felt a little stagnant in that you had a choice in upgrade cards but if you wanted to be competitive, you didn't really have a lot of choice. Also, some of the chaos cards didn't seem to be worth the action points, so there wasn't a lot of angst it how to divvy it between figures and cards. Despite these issues the game was fun and pretty well balanced. Well, along came the Horned Rat expansion, which was both a blessing and a curse. It was great in that it had new and interesting upgrade/chaos cards, a new god to play which allows up to 5 to play, and a design focus to give Nurgle the option to try and win by dial and Khorne the option to try and win by points. What ended up happening, is debated about having ruined the balance of the game. Apparently the Khorne upgrade for their Warriors is so OP that it's an auto-pick and can allow Khorne to simultaneously try to achieve a dial and VP victory... most gods usually had to choose between the two paths. Nurgle has been given many cards to help him get dial ticks. Sadly, his dial is so long, that apparently even with these cards he can't really go for a dial victory. What's worse is that since his cards and upgrades mostly relate to this, it's hard for him to even win through VP and he's supposed to be the god that has the least chance of winning.

I've long been a proponent of house rules and tweaking games (ie removing PL from RFTG: BOW, only using bits and pieces of BSG, limiting the come-from-behind mechanism in Gosu etc). Most people seem to like the tweaks I make and find that it improves the game play. Anyway the CitOW expansion rulebook said not to mix the original set of upgrade/chaos cards but since the balance was completely thrown out of whack with the expansion and the upgrade/chaos card choices were a little stagnant in the base game, I decided on mixing the sets! So, I spent all of last night mixing the two sets with these design goals in mind:

-1 Cultist, 1 Warrior, 1 Daemon and 2 general upgrades/God
-24 Card deck of Chaos Cards/ God
-Keep the approximate same number of magic symbols for each god's set of cards, averaging when they aren't the same number
-Keep the approximate same number of cards (based on cost) for each god's set of cards, averaging when they aren't the same number
-Slaanesh & Tzeentch can go for dial or VP victory, Khorne focuses on a dial victory, and Nurgle is going for VP only.
-Try to create combos that could only happen by mixing the sets
-Try to keep some combos that were available in each of their respective sets
-Most importantly: Try to make the gods balanced. That said, I didn't give all gods their most powerful cards/upgrades to try and make balance. This leads into the next point...
-Second most important: Make the decisions regarding which upgrades to choose much more difficult. Make the decisions on using action points between figures and cards more difficult.

I can only hope I succeeded in my attempt. Even if I haven't, I have succeeded in one thing: I want to get Chaos in the Old World back to the table BADLY!! If it turns out that my mixed set isn't too good I can always tweak things. I will, however, play with my set multiple times to see how the balance looks. I do consider combo building games to be one of my favorite niches within gaming so I think I'm up to the task of creating a good set over time.

Edit: Just noticed that the card backs for the expansion and base set are different. Grrr. I guess I'll have to slip paper on the back of the sleeves since I don't think they have mini-chimera sleeves with an opaque back.
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Edit: Just noticed that the card backs for the expansion and base set are different. Grrr. I guess I'll have to slip paper on the back of the sleeves since I don't think they have mini-chimera sleeves with an opaque back.

I say don't sweat it. It worked fine for Innovation having mismatched backs. How much information can you truly intuit from differing card backs? If someone's hand holds both, they could have any card. If they are missing one card back, you might know they don't have some certain card -- assuming you know there cards well enough to worry about just one card and remember which back it has...
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Most of my solo play is on the iPad app, but the expansion adds a pretty simple solo variant that's easy to tune difficulty-wise.
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A two player game between my wife and I. It had been a little while since either of us had played, so I made the mistake of having us play until one of us reached sixty honor rather than having us reach sixty honor between the two of us!

This did have the effect of seeing what it would be like when one player went mechana heavy and got a ton of constructs out.blush Still, we had fun with it, even if the hadron cannon was even more death starish than usual!
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Doom. DOOM to your mechana constructs. That was insane.
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With our visitor from Japan. He seemed to enjoy it.
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Very much so - adds some fun elements to the whole deckbuilding genre. THANKS, SAM, SUE, AND DAVID!!!
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Soft reserve $10.

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$10 ascension
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I feel like we should be having a pleasant conversation or something while doing this bidding war...so hello!
 
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Hello, sir ^_^ Not much of a war though. I must concede. Congrats!
 
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This was set up in the Arena, I'm not sure how many rounds happened.
 
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