I think we are just starting to see a small cross over between traditional board gamers, traditional miniaturists and Euro gamers.

I am hopeful that family centred games that have figures may just help the world of figure gaming to infiltrate into more peoples lives. You just need a trigger to press the right buttons and turn a brief acquaintance into a lifetime passion.

OK, what is a "Euro" gamer?  Being in California and about as far away from Europe as I can get (sending this from Pasadena) I haven't heard this term before.

Euro games - things like Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Tigris and Euphrates or Power Grid. There are lots of others.

They tend to be family oriented, not overtly military, all players remain in game throughout and reasonably fast and simple to play.

Usually a fair bit of interaction, though often no way to directly damage opponents.

Usually more strategy and less luck dependent.

Hexes say to me "operational level" for a game, so it's interesting to read you reports at 1:1/skirmish level using them! Dunno why it feels that way so much, as I play and like PBI which uses squares at a 1:1 figure scale!

Keep posting, I enjoy watching rules develop

Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 June 2014, 04:51:24 PM
Euro games - things like Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Tigris and Euphrates or Power Grid. There are lots of others.

They tend to be family oriented, not overtly military, all players remain in game throughout and reasonably fast and simple to play.

Usually a fair bit of interaction, though often no way to directly damage opponents.

Usually more strategy and less luck dependent.

I play the first two frequently but never realised I was a "Euro Gamer". And if you think they're not luck-dependent you've never rolled a die in anger - that's my excuse for losing anyway.

Also often referred to as German-style games, it's not that there's no element of luck just that it's less prevalent than in the likes of the traditional Waddington's games.

I play far more board games than figure games these days so I suppose I've picked up the jargon.

Just bought La Citta, Mousquetaires Du Roy, Priests of Ra and Vasco Da Gama for £9.99 each from The Works online Rio Grande Games sale. These would all count as Eurogames

I hate to think how many games we have between the ten of us who game together regularly.

The usual definition of a Euro/German game is that there's no direct conflict between players. They may compete for limited resources, or may temporarily take control of a nutral/opposition party (like the thief in Catan), but they do not attack one another.

Hello!

I allow myself this little intervention is too a big fan of hexagons, taking a little time, little things to make nice eyes that are even more realistic than-conventional roads slick with gondollent and move all the time , rivers above the levels of the battlefield, and the hills that I have never seen in nature .......
and not to mention the many benefits during the games, more discution mm and angle of orientation, placement or type of land .........

Here are some pictures of my land in progress:





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That is just lovely, thanks for sharing. Did you make the small walled farm yourself?

I like the idea of the tray to contain the game, it looks good, while serving the obvious purpose of locking the styrene hexes into place.

Superb terrain. As long as it looks good I don't mind how a game is fought, hexes, squares, or blank, the idea is to fight and enjoy.

Very impressive 

Quote from: mad lemmey on 07 June 2014, 06:13:23 AM
Superb terrain. As long as it looks good I don't mind how a game is fought, hexes, squares, or blank, the idea is to fight and enjoy.

Yep, I second that. 

Excellent work . I love the flowing river tile and the scratch built farmhouse complex.