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Stellaris Nexus is a mini 4x that’s secretly a board game (www.wargamer.com)
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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Aren't all 4x just "secretly a board game"? I say this as a huge fan of the genre btw, they translate extremely well

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I guess even Civilization VI could be played as a board game, since all of its metrics are down to simple point accumulations and everything is turn-based.

But you'd spend an absurd amount of time between turns making everything work. Going through all cities to calculate its production, science, society scores, resources, unit upkeep costs, etc.

You'd also need to keep up with way more info that is reasonable to represent with tokens : unit health and experience, each city's buildings, etc.

It is a computer-assisted board game. Replacing the computer yourself is not impossible, it's just absurdly impractical.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Computer-assisted board games are a growing subcategory. Typically they have a companion app that handles the background number crunch, RNG, and guides you through turns with what decisions are possible in each phase.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Civilization has a board game. It came out in 2010. Here are the rules.

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