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Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:25:16 +0000, usenet@trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid
> (Trooper) wrote:
> 
> >Is anyone playing this?
> >
> >I'm giving it a go and throughly enjoying it so far.
> >In case you don't know what it is, it is a tactical card game based on
> >WoW lore.
> >
> >http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/
> >
> >Seems reasonable well balanced and there are a lot of deeper tactics in
> >play once you start getting into it.
> 
> Yep, I got into the closed beta a while back, been having a lot of fun
> :-) I'm still not very good at it, but I can win a fair number of
> games anyway, and really enjoy trying to come up with tactics - often
> doesn't work out but it's the kind of game where it doesn't really
> matter what level you're at since in theory you get matched with
> people around your own level. That doesn't always work out so well,
> but most of the time it feels fairly balanced, at least if I'm playing
> a class I'm not too bad at!
> 
> Love how polished the game feels, all the animations, and little
> details in the game boards, for a game that could have been done
> really simply, you can tell they put a lot of time and effort into
> making it jst right. Ok, still a few bugs to be solved, but overall,
> it's really good - although I have to say I spend far too much time
> playing with the board, firing catapults and seeing what noise comes
> after is funny (love hitting a murloc lol :-P), or tormenting the poor
> gryphon by clicking on it ;-)

The interactive boards are great, and the game as a whole is giving my
my WoW fix now I no longer play :)

I did struggle to start with, and I picked a mage class to play first
off, which turns out is probably the worst basic card set after it got
nerfed recently, so lost pretty much all the time.  Switching to other
sets saw me win 8 games on the trot.  Yet last night I won one game out
of 6.  It does have a lot of luck involved, but there are tactics you
can use to push that luck to your favour.

T.