First play of Reiner Knizia's Razzia, bought for David by James for Christmas. BoardGameGeek describes it as "similar to Ra". I'd say "similar" is an understatement. Razzia came out in 2005, six years after Ra but it's effectively the same game but with an Italian Mafia theme rather than Ancient Egyptian - every element in Ra has a corresponding one in Razzia. Indeed the Ra write-up on BGG describes Razzia as a "reimplementation"
The advantages might be that this is more portable (no board or victory chits) and a variation in the theme, but the disadvantage is that it has one element of Ra's complexity removed, namely that there are no "negative" tiles equivalent to drought or destruction. I'd also say the Egyptian theme is more engaging and the shortness of the turns (7 "Ra" cards have to be turned up to stop the round rather than 9) also counts against it.
Given the choice, we'd be playing Ra instead and so expect Razzia to be on eBay or a Bring & Buy stall sometime soon! Final scores were very spread out (unusually for a Rivals game) with David on 33, James 22, Kieron 14 and Andy 3.
Next we brought back out New England which we played last week. James tried a completely different and unsuccessful tactic of collecting men, ships and barns and failed to realise many points from converting his land. The other guys took more balanced approaches and their scores were extremely close, with the garland going to our host Andy (whose only other win recorded on the blog is Emira last September, so perhaps this represents a change in fortune). Final scores were Andy on 34, Kieron 32, David 31 and James languishing on 18.
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