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To me the problems are the "micro rules", those that apply to very specific circumstances and are very hard to remember.
These kind of games get also obliterated by those with a short ruleset but same type of depth.
I'm thinking of Azhul, 7 wonders duel, century. Those 3 are very deep, but the rules are barely a few pages comoared to the 40 pages of mage knight.
Granted that i do like mage knight, committing to it is problematic to say the least. And I have a board game table to keep it out!
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To me the problems are the "micro rules", those that apply to very specific circumstances and are very hard to remember.
These kind of games get also obliterated by those with a short ruleset but same type of depth.
I'm thinking of Azhul, 7 wonders duel, century. Those 3 are very deep, but the rules are barely a few pages comoared to the 40 pages of mage knight.
Granted that i do like mage knight, committing to it is problematic to say the least. And I have a board game table to keep it out!