Workers' Girder! Getcher Workers Girder!
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rekil
to menny cranks
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
How about an article entitled 'the bomb is mightier than the bic'?I'm obviously exceedingly curious as to who has done that. Love the idea of a split in the fake satirical trot group to produce an alternative satirical trot group. We should denounce them of course.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Some serious fucking people's justice is in order here
Secret tribunals and ruthless purging at the very least, preferably with plenty of neckshot action once the treacherous dogs responsible have been identified.
SpineyNorman
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I suspect that Ken McLeod fella
not enough Posadism or nods to impossiblism ETA - also not enough pro-smoking and pro-GMO stuff.
SpineyNorman
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Whoever it is hats off to em brilliant idea and they definitely know how to write
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
It'll be funny if it's LPWhoever it is hats off to em brilliant idea and they definitely know how to write
rekil
to menny cranks
it would change everything.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
would shiver our foundations etc
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Some serious fucking people's justice is in order here
Secret tribunals and ruthless purging at the very least, preferably with plenty of neckshot action once the treacherous dogs responsible have been identified.
Methinks you protest rather too much. comrade!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Just spotted in some concept art for the planned Nueromancer movie (chinese funding has come 
thankyou chairman)
thankyou chairman)
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
“...a protest against reality, either conscious or unconscious, active or passive, optimistic or pessimistic, always forms part of a really creative piece of work...”Methinks you protest rather too much. comrade!
Idris2002
Christmas Eve, you know?
BigTom
Well-Known Member
So I've got some Trot War card sets printing, and I have 2 to give to anyone here who would like one and will play it with friends and give me honest feedback about the game. You don't have to be in the far-left political scene to enjoy it but it certainly helps and that's the group of people that I think would play this game.
Currently it's between beta and blind playtesting stage but I could really use some help, and also some confirmation that it is a fun game and worth releasing. The beta bit that is left is just balancing the length of the game, all the rules/mechanics are set and the balancing between that side of things seems fine. I also really need some feedback from people who don't (really) know me, to make sure it is actually worth releasing and also worth selling rather than just doing a print and play version.
The game is for 3 - 13 players (best with 5-10) and it's a "party game", so not a deep strategic analytical game, but one meant for a large group of players, and which is more towards the fun end of things than the serious thought end of it.
In the game, you start as individual sects, and through the game you can either try to unite with other players to create the one true vanguard party with which to lead the proletariat into glorious revolution, or you can decide that other players parties are reformist / counter-revolutionary / deformed workers parties and that the real interests of the working class lay in building your own party and selling the paper.
You setup united fronts, organise public meetings, demonstrations and strikes, book speakers and try to keep your annoying members away from events (or send them to other party's events). You can also hijack other peoples' events, and the nature of the mechanics gives rise to the possibility of entryism (which in terms of games design makes me feel like the theme and mechanics work well together).
It's a card based game, with united fronts/events/speakers/hijacks on the cards, which you play out, mostly in a 1 minute timed round (racing against the bosses trying to rob a hard won concession from the working class). Then there is the ideology checks where people decide if they'll unite their parties or go their own way, dividing the party / united front membership amongst them according to weighted dice rolls.
I'm looking for games with 10-13 players to last around 2 hours maximum. Lots of that will depend on how much role playing goes on, as in some of the test games I've played there have been long denouncement speeches upon a split or hijack, and the secterian interventions have been played out too. With 3-5 players, games have tended towards 45m-1hr.
You would need to supply generic components - activist tokens, money counters, dice and a 1 minute timer. You need quite a few activist tokens, but this is where the balancing of the game length comes in - the game ends when all unaligned activists have been recruited to a party, so less activists = shorter game. I started with 10 per player but have reduced this to 8 and would like it if I could bring it down even further. Matchsticks will work for this. I haven't tried playing with a monopoly money set, but it should work except that you'll not need the 500s, and will probably not have enough 1s/5s.
If anyone wants a set, pm me an address and I'll get them in the post to you at the end of next week when I've been told they'll arrive. My aim is to release the game in time for Christmas.
Currently it's between beta and blind playtesting stage but I could really use some help, and also some confirmation that it is a fun game and worth releasing. The beta bit that is left is just balancing the length of the game, all the rules/mechanics are set and the balancing between that side of things seems fine. I also really need some feedback from people who don't (really) know me, to make sure it is actually worth releasing and also worth selling rather than just doing a print and play version.
The game is for 3 - 13 players (best with 5-10) and it's a "party game", so not a deep strategic analytical game, but one meant for a large group of players, and which is more towards the fun end of things than the serious thought end of it.
In the game, you start as individual sects, and through the game you can either try to unite with other players to create the one true vanguard party with which to lead the proletariat into glorious revolution, or you can decide that other players parties are reformist / counter-revolutionary / deformed workers parties and that the real interests of the working class lay in building your own party and selling the paper.
You setup united fronts, organise public meetings, demonstrations and strikes, book speakers and try to keep your annoying members away from events (or send them to other party's events). You can also hijack other peoples' events, and the nature of the mechanics gives rise to the possibility of entryism (which in terms of games design makes me feel like the theme and mechanics work well together).
It's a card based game, with united fronts/events/speakers/hijacks on the cards, which you play out, mostly in a 1 minute timed round (racing against the bosses trying to rob a hard won concession from the working class). Then there is the ideology checks where people decide if they'll unite their parties or go their own way, dividing the party / united front membership amongst them according to weighted dice rolls.
I'm looking for games with 10-13 players to last around 2 hours maximum. Lots of that will depend on how much role playing goes on, as in some of the test games I've played there have been long denouncement speeches upon a split or hijack, and the secterian interventions have been played out too. With 3-5 players, games have tended towards 45m-1hr.
You would need to supply generic components - activist tokens, money counters, dice and a 1 minute timer. You need quite a few activist tokens, but this is where the balancing of the game length comes in - the game ends when all unaligned activists have been recruited to a party, so less activists = shorter game. I started with 10 per player but have reduced this to 8 and would like it if I could bring it down even further. Matchsticks will work for this. I haven't tried playing with a monopoly money set, but it should work except that you'll not need the 500s, and will probably not have enough 1s/5s.
If anyone wants a set, pm me an address and I'll get them in the post to you at the end of next week when I've been told they'll arrive. My aim is to release the game in time for Christmas.
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
However bad you think the British left it, it's nothing compared to the American Left.
'orrible. Grad School Wankers.
BigTom
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Cards have arrived... and for some reason they've made me 12 sets, not ten 
so I still have a couple available if anyone would like one, pm me an address.
I'll be getting sets into the post tomorrow as long as the glue I have doesn't turn out to be counter-revolutionary. It's defnitely shit, some cheap pritt stick style thing. I may not label the rest of them tonight and instead try to get some decent glue tomorrow.
so I still have a couple available if anyone would like one, pm me an address.
I'll be getting sets into the post tomorrow as long as the glue I have doesn't turn out to be counter-revolutionary. It's defnitely shit, some cheap pritt stick style thing. I may not label the rest of them tonight and instead try to get some decent glue tomorrow.
a book length novel you say?
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