Post Birth Gaming
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005Things have been quiet since the birth, but not totally dead.
Canal Grande
I played this with Vanessa at the hospital. We used Bruno Faidutti’s variant of adding more building cards to reduce the proportion of special cards. This improved things, but it felt more ponderous than I remember and the card art is still fugly. I will probably not bother with Adlung games again.
Downgraded to 6/10.
Age of Steam Scandinavia
This is a nice map. I really like the new coastal goods movement action, but I wish it had been explained better.
Wallenstein
I still like this, but I wish movement was more dynamic. I miss the drama of sweeping into Asia with hordes of troops, as in Risk. This slowness makes it much more difficult to peg back an early leader. I wonder if the basic setup rule that distributes players evenly over the map would be more fun, especially as it would cut game length?
Downgraded to 8/10.
Age of Steam Korea
I just finished a long PBEM of this. The map was very unpredictable, due to the variant movement rules. It might just make an intelligent game a little too clever.
Blue Moon
Christo from the BoardGameGeek suggested we meet up because we live close by, so we arranged to play Blue Moon at a pub.
We had a great time, and not only because this is an excellent game. I will have to buy a complete set and connect with Christo again soon.
Rating: 9/10.