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Nemesis or Nemesis Lockdown? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My local board game shop sells Nemesis lockdown and I'm trying to decide if I should buy it or not. The game looks awesome, however, it's a little pricey.

Heard some people state that lockdown was a little harder to learn, and then they'd recommend newer players learn the original prior to getting the lockdown version.

I did have a few other questions about it though. Do the expansions work with lockdown? Is there any additional player expansions that you can add on to it? We have a gaming group regularly with 5 to 7 people, it'd be really nice if we could fit those additional two people on.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't played OG Nemesis, so take this with a grain of salt... but Lockdown wasn't all that difficult to learn. The rulebook is pretty good and there are decent how to videos out there. From what I understand there are some additions that make Lockdown more complex, but if you're used to games of this complexity it's completely doable.
They're both expensive games, so I likely won't buy Nemesis, and don't really agree with buying the original for simplicity's sake prior to buying Lockdown (if you were leaning toward Lockdown). Of course if you know/think you want both at some point, go for it.