BCumming
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Unfortunately her ability is garbage. She's still worth playing for stats alone.
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Just now, Ide Yoshiya said:I didn't notice the error on these cards. But my seamstress sure did.
You got your seamstress to start playing? Excellent recruiting job!
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I'm pretty good at remembering who has used what except for Border Riders. Bringing a few extra tokens from other games sorts that out nicely.
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1 hour ago, Ide Yoshiya said:We Unicorn don't use ponies. We use horses.
Pony is a derogatory nickname foisted on us long ago and well before the modern MLP thing. We smiled and made it our own almost as long ago.
To OP: Nice article. You've covered the bases well.
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1) If you're just getting started, try bidding 3 a few times. Decks that care less about their honor can consistently bid a bit higher but decks that really need to be higher honor than the opponent (just Lion really) will likely bid 1-2 throughout most of the game. It gets interesting when two decks that don't care about honor both start bidding high and then one bids low to put honor pressure on the opponent, or when a deck that's threatening honor win realizes they're not going to make it and draws 5 cards for a big push against the opposing stronghold.
2) I'm aggressive with Dynasty cards so I often have 0-2 Fate left over for the conflict phase. That's probably fine for demo games but you'll notice your needs more as you get used to the game. Pay attention to what Rings have extra Fate on them too as initiating a conflict with one of those Rings can mean paying for cards despite spending big in the Dynasty phase.
3) Being at 5 honor and under is low while having 20+ honor means your opponent can't be reckless about giving you more.
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12 hours ago, shineyorkboy said:You monster! Because of you Spider won that season!
I don't think Spider won a Kotei that season, much less the whole thing. But yes because of me the Crab lost their main candidate for Warlord of the Colonies. A shame that no-one ever followed through on their bounties for removing Hida Kaiji from contention, though I did it all of my own volition anyway.
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1 hour ago, Wintersong said:War with the Lion is inevitable so from that front there will be curved blades. And from the Crane front, fans. Koans from the dragon front?
I expect straight fans from the Crane, though our curved fans are better. Not at all worried about getting straight koans from the Dragon.
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4 hours ago, Kuni Katsuyoshi said:Once During a kotei season (I think) the Crab winners picked an elephant and a mutant to receive whatever the prize was. I scratched my for awhile over that one.??
I killed that mutant with my Kotei win! But he got better.
Maybe I'll get the chance to finish the job someday?
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8 minutes ago, Kuni Katsuyoshi said:Being surrounded by politicians and barbarians would get me bent outta shape too.......hey waitaminuite!!??
I knew you'd curve eventually.
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1 minute ago, Cambeul no Oni said:Exactly, maybe the Scorpion Clan uses them on Night Missions?
Making a Night Raid on my Favored Mount is a nice double entendre.
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1 hour ago, Kuni Katsuyoshi said:Bow-legged saddle tramps
Oh please! You must mean curve-legged saddle tramps. Our legs are more curved than others' slightly-curved legs.
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Shoju cares way more about his appearance and mystique than Kisada does.
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38 minutes ago, Kuni Katsuyoshi said:And no more samurai hacking each other to bloody chunks
With curved blades and maybe some not-so-curved blades.
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3 hours ago, Kitsu Seinosuke said:Let every game designer engrave these words into the walls of their house.
Finally! A use for that engraving kit they already have!
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9 hours ago, Foxtrot Four said:- Crab. Enlightenment by Any Means would likely appeal to them as well as the abandonment of Honor as an ideal would appeal as well. [Only downfall is that they already have a Kolat infestation, both in fiction and out of it lol]
I had a Crab Enlightenment deck around Jade Edition era called Enlightenment Through Superior Firepower. Mostly military but could play all the Rings and win by Enlightenment. It was a blast in multiplayer games. Fond memories...
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There's a Facebook group for Wisconsin L5R players ( I'm at work or I'd link it for you). I'll wager that Gnome Games in Green Bay will support the game in some fashion.
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9 minutes ago, RandomJC said:Coulda sworn this was for the Unicorn fiction...
We're outsiders, even in our own threads.
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1 minute ago, KerenRhys said:Not every clan has the same number of characters. Dragon has 1 less than any other revealed clan.
They really need to work on that birth rate.
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9 hours ago, JJ48 said:Is it as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on and is now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning?
So cunning you could brush your teeth with it.
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6 hours ago, Ide Yoshiya said:That seems a little rude. Not everyone has the time to follow every podcast about the game.
That's our Sparky!
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4 hours ago, Isawa Kioshi said:I'm hoping, more than anything, Unicorn and Phoenix become staunch allies soon after release. Shugenja cavalry? Yes please...
I can get behind buddy-ing up with the Phoenix at some point but acting like Cavalry Shugenja needs Phoenix to happen? Such arrogance! Them's fighting words!
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Tournament results that have an immediate impact on the metagame besides providing more netdecks are a fascinating idea. I'm excited to see how it pans out, especially because the same role cannot be selected by the same Clan twice in succession. Maybe Scorpion with Keeper of Fire is the best deck out there but in a few months it will literally be unplayable without bans or errata. Then the deck evolves or gets put on the shelf until the role is available again. Sounds like a good shake-up!
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11 hours ago, Wintersong said:The Unicorn now may is not totally like the Unicorn in old (i.e. maybe they don't care about hiding the meishodo nature). I was hoping for stepping far away from Moto Horde but we will see...
Anyway, so Daiyu is father to Shono, Haruko and Yasamura. Still had time to father Shahai? No more Shahai? Shahai is now someone else's daughter?
Shahai could be Daiyu's child from a different mother. Might be fun to see her as an evil half-sister to the heirs, if she's even around at all.
Stronghold Balance Design Question(s)
in Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game
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Relative starting honor is likely determined by lore of the setting. Lion, Crane, and Phoenix are traditionally more honorable than the others so they should be at the top. Dragon being equal to Crane and Phoenix is odd but not entirely unwarranted, while Scorpion not being the absolute lowest is a bit odd too but it would just let them use their stronghold to steal honor from other Clans right away. If the honor scale were greater then I'm sure we'd see more variation in starting honor. I don't get why Unicorn only gets +0PS as their stronghold is good but not so good that it needs a horrendous drawback like that. My hope is that it was misguided intent to represent the Clan with nomadic tendencies in its past by having weaker permanent structures.