Only 3 rivals were around this week, so Kieron dug out a pared down version of the excellent Caylus. Both versions work best with 2 or 3 players to reduce the random factor and allow some element of planning. This is the first blog entry for this game!
Andy spent the evening collecting gold and stone and managed to purchase the best civic building. Kieron ploughed most profits into the castle. Deej played the markets and built lots of his own buildings plus was able to get into the civic buildings right at the death to take the victory.
We must play this again soon.
Final reckoning Deej 52, Kieron 42 Andy 35
Monday, 14 April 2014
Friday, 4 April 2014
Beowulf & Ra - 2 April 2014
We had a second play of Beowulf - bought because although it's a film-tie, the game was designed by Reiner Knizia. It's a three act abstract game with no real link to the saga but the artwork and playing pieces are quite nice. At the end of Act II, it was pretty much neck and neck, but in Act III David played a particularly nasty tile on James, who retaliated with an even more powerful tile that enabled him to swap that nasty tile with a very good one next to several of David's playing pieces, reducing his final score by about a third in one swoop. Not as fun as it sounds ;-)
We concluded that anyone with that tile could have swung the game in such a way to win it. In other words, all the strategy and clever play in the rest of the game gets undermined by these two over-powerful tiles. It is definitely a good game and one we'll replay, but we'll remove those tiles next time. Final scores: James 235, Kieron 187, David 157.
This left us plenty of time to dust off Ra. This never fails to please, with a bit of Derren-ing and a bravura performance by Kieron right at the end. Although pulling out one more Ra tile would end it, Kieron successfully played Reiner Roulette and completely filled the tile track with points, jumping up into first place and winning the game with the last draw of a tile. Final scores: Kieron 40, James 37, David 30.
We concluded that anyone with that tile could have swung the game in such a way to win it. In other words, all the strategy and clever play in the rest of the game gets undermined by these two over-powerful tiles. It is definitely a good game and one we'll replay, but we'll remove those tiles next time. Final scores: James 235, Kieron 187, David 157.
This left us plenty of time to dust off Ra. This never fails to please, with a bit of Derren-ing and a bravura performance by Kieron right at the end. Although pulling out one more Ra tile would end it, Kieron successfully played Reiner Roulette and completely filled the tile track with points, jumping up into first place and winning the game with the last draw of a tile. Final scores: Kieron 40, James 37, David 30.
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