Comments on: October Catch Up http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/10/october-catch-up/ A minimalist blog, with a pretentious title, about strategy games. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:36:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Iain http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/10/october-catch-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9158 Iain Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:31:08 +0000 http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/10/october-catch-up/#comment-9158 Hi Chris. You're *totally* right about WtP - as usual. My copy of Hannibal is on my shelf and is looking very sexy indeed (for a board game). Can't wait to play it. Hi Chris. You’re totally right about WtP – as usual.

My copy of Hannibal is on my shelf and is looking very sexy indeed (for a board game). Can’t wait to play it.

]]> By: Chris Farrell http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/10/october-catch-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9156 Chris Farrell Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:32:41 +0000 http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/10/october-catch-up/#comment-9156 We the People is one of those diamonds in the rough I think. It's an interesting and worthy game, but it's got a few issues (the battle card one being the main thing ... they just simply don't work at all), and I'm not sure whether it would be remembered as fondly if it weren't for the fact of its amazing successor, Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage. Mark Simonitch was able to take the battle card system, which was a flop in We the People, and turn it into a fascinating sub-game for Hannibal with only a few tweaks. Hannibal is a more complicated game, while We the People is a classic introductory game, but still. Anyway, I do like We the People, but a key to that is that it is such a compact game. Short rules, short playing time, a little depth to the board play, historical interest in the cards ... it doesn't overdo anything, which is unusual (shall we say) for a Mark Herman design. We the People is one of those diamonds in the rough I think. It’s an interesting and worthy game, but it’s got a few issues (the battle card one being the main thing … they just simply don’t work at all), and I’m not sure whether it would be remembered as fondly if it weren’t for the fact of its amazing successor, Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage. Mark Simonitch was able to take the battle card system, which was a flop in We the People, and turn it into a fascinating sub-game for Hannibal with only a few tweaks. Hannibal is a more complicated game, while We the People is a classic introductory game, but still.

Anyway, I do like We the People, but a key to that is that it is such a compact game. Short rules, short playing time, a little depth to the board play, historical interest in the cards … it doesn’t overdo anything, which is unusual (shall we say) for a Mark Herman design.

]]> By: Iain http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/10/october-catch-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9154 Iain Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:45:47 +0000 http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/10/october-catch-up/#comment-9154 Good luck to you. You are definitely the right man for the job. I am enjoying all the card game reviews. I hope you can uncover the best of the best. By the way, I disabled the option that forced all OpenID comments into moderation. Good luck to you. You are definitely the right man for the job. I am enjoying all the card game reviews. I hope you can uncover the best of the best.

By the way, I disabled the option that forced all OpenID comments into moderation.

]]> By: Mikko Saari http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/10/october-catch-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9151 Mikko Saari Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:33:24 +0000 http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/10/october-catch-up/#comment-9151 Finnish, unfortunately. I'm still sending copies to John McLeod and David Parlett for their help, I better write at least the thanks in English. Anyway, the history bits are basically abbreviated version of Parlett's Oxford History and the rules are translations from McLeod's site... Well, I've been collecting rules elsewhere as well, and there's definitely a Finnish angle to it, but still, I don't think it warrants a translation. But it's becoming a good book - I think it's definitely better than my first book, and definitely something that's missing. Hopefully others will see it that way... Finnish, unfortunately. I’m still sending copies to John McLeod and David Parlett for their help, I better write at least the thanks in English. Anyway, the history bits are basically abbreviated version of Parlett’s Oxford History and the rules are translations from McLeod’s site…

Well, I’ve been collecting rules elsewhere as well, and there’s definitely a Finnish angle to it, but still, I don’t think it warrants a translation. But it’s becoming a good book – I think it’s definitely better than my first book, and definitely something that’s missing. Hopefully others will see it that way…

]]> By: Iain http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/10/october-catch-up/comment-page-1/#comment-9149 Iain Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:17:13 +0000 http://cheyne.net/blog/2007/10/october-catch-up/#comment-9149 Mikko: Good to hear from you too. It's been too long. Will your new card games book be in English or in Finnish? I will buy an English copy for sure. Please get a photo of him playing Funny Fishing! It looks very nice. I might have to pick it up. Mikko: Good to hear from you too. It’s been too long.

Will your new card games book be in English or in Finnish? I will buy an English copy for sure.

Please get a photo of him playing Funny Fishing! It looks very nice. I might have to pick it up.

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