First play of one of James' Christmas presents: Phalanxx, the new game from Bernd Eisenstein (of Peloponnes fame). The game pits the players against each other as the successors to Alexander. Starting with a city and an oasis each, players collect cards featuring different types of soldiers, leaders and equipment, and explore and attack new areas.
Taking actions is controlled by a cunning dice mechanism. Players have three home dice and in their turn, roll the three "travelling dice", and carry out different actions depending on how those dice compare. The dice come in three different colours and playing particular cards might require a player to have two of the same colour for example, so the dice get changed, including stealing from other players.
Quite a lot to think about in the first game but it was a lot of fun, and very close. In the final scoring, extra points are scored for all sorts of things, including the sets of infantry/archers/cavalry you've collected, and only then the players scores started to spread out,
Final scores: James 55, David 54, Stuart 48 and Andy 42.
Taking actions is controlled by a cunning dice mechanism. Players have three home dice and in their turn, roll the three "travelling dice", and carry out different actions depending on how those dice compare. The dice come in three different colours and playing particular cards might require a player to have two of the same colour for example, so the dice get changed, including stealing from other players.
Quite a lot to think about in the first game but it was a lot of fun, and very close. In the final scoring, extra points are scored for all sorts of things, including the sets of infantry/archers/cavalry you've collected, and only then the players scores started to spread out,
Final scores: James 55, David 54, Stuart 48 and Andy 42.
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