New Redemption Grab Bag now includes an assortment of 500 cards from five (5) different expansion sets. Available at Cactus website.
Monopoly is still one of staple games when I can find people to play. I have these two t-shirt with the Monopoly Dude saying "Thats How I Roll" and "You just got Own'd". Monopoly is my blood.
Frankly, I considered the Redemtion community I knew, including the national tourney people, too be of similar ilk. All seriousness and can't even so much as make eye contact let alone say a friendly word.
The game ended for me after Warriors. I loved the inclusion of artifacts and the angels plus the new abilities. While I still bought into Apostles, that was what killed the game for me. It became too serious with its uber-detailed special abilities and deeper stratagem. I like games with deep stratagem but Redemption nose dived for me with its insistence of needing a Pharisee, Sadducee, Elder of Jerusalem, etc. This enhancement works only if the character once knew a guy who talked to someone who once saw St. Paul...and is female. It just slowed play down for me and led to too many discussions over rules. Out of the Cactus games, I enjoyed the Mission the most as it used discipleship, evangelism, and church planting concepts. Anywho, all just my opinion.
Is it a testament to how long I've been out of the tournament circuit or to how different the SE is that I am utterly baffled at descriptions of Redemption tournaments/players being leveled on this thread?
Wait, he's from PA? Maybe I should have paid 75... I didn't want to go that high without knowing who he was... No offense to XIII, I'd rather be safe than sorry since Redemption is just a game anyway.
1999, that was it. I was at the King of Prussia. Man...that was ages ago. Anyways, don't take anything too much to heart. I'm from a by gone era of the game in which almost all my deck is out of print and probably not considered tourney playable. But if you want to know what that time was like, Warriors had just broken the scene and brought game changing stuff. Redemption went from a rather dull game to exciting and people were nuts about getting cards. I saw adults twist kids arms to get all the good cards from their collection. Trading little 10 year olds a bunch of uncommons for their Michael the Archangel or something. That was my tourney experience. Some nice chaps, though. By the time Apostles came, some new people joined my Redemption community and shared the same attitude of a no fun, serious gaming attitude.Most of you new players dont even know what the game was like back in the day. The super awesome game winning cards were anything with a special ability or being over 2/2. Womens and Warriors brought fun but after that the game changed too much for me and I didn't want to compete with the players who kept buying more and newer. Rares, Ultra-Rares, mixed brigades, fortresses, etc. etc. etc. All with players who would do anything to get the best, be the best. There was no going back to the simpler times. But you seem like a cool cat Jordan. So I'm glad you can have them. So many years spent playing it. Kind like selling a part of my childhood. Hence why I did hold back two cards...two nonsignificant cards. Stephen and Sarah. My fiance and I's names. I'll keep them for my kids one day to show them what daddy use to play with when they tell me to buy them a PlayStation 8 or something.
No, I'd say that is probably exactly how you played. From 1999 through 2006, with variations on which defense to hammer the opponent, that's how nearly everyone played.
