Re: A couple questions about cards.

[aramis]

Mayday Games has a database of sleeve sizes and numbers needed for
various games.

http://maydaygames.com/sleeves.pdf

On Jan 1, 3:05 pm, notop <tim.burns4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone. I was looking to buy some sleeves for a couple of my games
> with cards as major components, so I was wondering a couple of things;
>
> How many cards does Twilight Imperium (third edition) have, including the
> two expansions?
> What are the dimensions of said cards in Twilight Imperium? (I think they
> are 63.5mm x 88mm, but I'm not sure)
> What are the dimensions of the cards from Dominion? I'm planning on buying
> 1,000, simply because my group does not play with more than one expansion
> at any given time, and there's fair warning beforehand.
> Are the promo cards for Dominion worth it? (The Black Market, the Stash,
> the blank cards [obviously meh, but still], the Governor, the Envoy, and
> the Walled Village)
> What are the dimensions of the Ticket to Ride cards? The board game, not
> the card game.
> And then, the sleeves I'm looking to buy are the Mayday Games sleeves. I've
> found them at what I think is a pretty good price ($1.58 per 100). Does
> anyone have experience with them, and can suggest them or something else?
> And better prices are always preferable.
>
> Anyway, sorry for all of the questions, I usually wait to visit BGG until I
> have a lot of things that need to be answered. Thank you all very much!

[lacreighton]

Den onsdagen den 2:e januari 2013 kl. 01:05:29 UTC+1 skrev notop:

Hey everyone. I was looking to buy some sleeves for a couple of my games with cards as major components, so I was wondering a couple of things;

According to Mayday games own website, Twilight Imperium has 425 cards, Shattered Em... has 305 and Shards of Th... has 342.  Mayday wants you to put them in (mini USA Mayday yellow). They are 41 x 63 mm.

Domininion cards are 59 mm by 92 mm.  (Standard Euros.  Mayday blue)
TRR (The USA edition) has 144 44 x 67 mm cards (Mini Euros) (Mayday light blue).

I have lot of experience with sleeves.  I will never buy Mayday sleeves.  The quality control is awful.  Often you get pack after pack that does not fit.  When you go to sleeve the expansion you buy next year you discover that, sure they fit, but the difference in width is such that everybody can tell which cards are from the expansion at a glance. 

 

[shigadeyo]

But don't buy Mayday sleeves. Go with FFS/FFG, UltraPro, or similar instead.

[aramis]

I've had almost no problems with mayday sleeves, and always wound up a
sleeve or two extra. And the one pack that had some issues, they
replaced the defective sleeves no problem.

I've had more problems with UltraPro sleeves than Mayday's...

[Michael Wayne Chapel]

I've not had any luck with Mayday sleeves, the quality is really bad, and would suggest going UltraPro.

[Kartigan]

I use Mayday almost exclusively for my sleeving and have never had any problems.  Yeah they aren't as high of quality as some other sleeves but for most cards it just isn't necessary to have that high of quality.  So I'd recommend Mayday for TI3.  Now if it is some deckbuilder or some other deck that is shuffled\abused a lot, then yes get better sleeves (I like FFG ones for that).

[notop]

I can't hardly look at that list. Every game on there I want to buy. :/