In my experience, light pressure when cutting into the foamcore is best, gradually increasing to neatly slice through it. For cutting the foamcore you’ll want a steel ruler at the very least to measure and guide the cut, and a very sharp blade. I use PVA (craft) glue, with small map pins to hold things in place until the glue sets. Planning is important, which is why I made two! Thinking I may have to glue the bottoms down. Great game - I can see it being a lot of fun.ĭoes anyone have any experience making foamcore internals for their boxes? I tried making one and it’s uneven and the pieces slide out the bottoms. I’m hopeful that next game I complete the tutorial level, and then after that I complete a normal scenario… and hopefully then I will know enough to possibly bring someone else into the fold to play it with me. With that being said, I didn’t get any items, or wounds on my hero (my units got wounded), or had any spells, or attacked any keeps or mage towers, or… I had a little confusion around mana tokens vs mana crystals (they appear as the same thing, but the language used to acquire them seems to determine whether they are a token or a crystal) My first round I discarded my entire hand at the end of my turn, rather than keeping unplayed cards and drawing back up to 5.I didn’t play on a big enough table, so that became frustrating.Still, I was able to defeat a few orcs, hired a couple of units, got some advanced actions, explored a couple of tiles, and generally had a good time with it. This is what ultimately made me shelve it for today - as after two rounds I realized that going from turn to turn was kind of pointless without the pressure of another player clearing their deck and declaring the end of the round. Normally when you play solo, it recommends that you play with a dummy player… but since I was a complete noob the game recommended playing without a dummy player so you don’t have any pressure. I only played the tutorial scenario (recon).

The warnings about the complicated nature of the game were well warranted, but I actually didn’t find it to be as bad as I feared. It is clear to me that once I figure out all the in’s and out’s, the game is going to be something I pull out all the time and play. My first impressions of the game are extremely positive. I will now let it sit for a few days or a few weeks so I can absorb the basics I learned and watch some videos on YouTube. I didn’t give up because I was frustrated, I gave up because I was tired of learning the rules. I use finished in the loosest possible manner, because it is more that I gave up about 1/2 way thru (solo) I ‘finished’ my first game of Mage Knight a few minutes ago.

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