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Gaming chez ironphoenix
Mar. 8th, 2009 03:24 amWent over to ironphoenix's today for gaming, and the bulk order had arrived. I am now the proud owner of Wealth of Nations. w00t!
I started out with a quick game of Ca$h 'n' Gun$, where I lost miserably, getting killed about 1/2 way through. Then I was able to recruit 5 more players for Wealth of Nations. This took us through to dinner time (6:30pm), playing time was probably about 4.5 hours, plus 1/2 hour explanation and setup. (The game box says 2+ hours. I think with 3-4 experienced players, it might come in close to 2 hours.) I took a fairly clean win on this, with donnav coming in 2nd.
Then we went to Brother Wu's for dinner. I dealt three games of Set before dinner.
After dinner, back to ironphoenix's place -- and we pulled out Tigris & Euphrates. I squeaked out a win over ironphoenix. Then a game of Clans (another close win), and 2 games of Bananagrams (one to me, one to soul_diaspora, who joined us for Clans and Bananagrams at the end of the evening).
All in all a good day of gaming, with 2 good serious games, and several quicker lighter ones.
I'm also happy to get some more plays in on some of my new games -- Ca$h 'n' Gun$, Clans, and Wealth of Nations. And, Wealth of Nations -- yes, Adam Smith. It is an economic game, with markets, and trading, and inflation, and specialization, and... yup. I think it may, in fact, be one of the best economic-model games I've ever played.
I started out with a quick game of Ca$h 'n' Gun$, where I lost miserably, getting killed about 1/2 way through. Then I was able to recruit 5 more players for Wealth of Nations. This took us through to dinner time (6:30pm), playing time was probably about 4.5 hours, plus 1/2 hour explanation and setup. (The game box says 2+ hours. I think with 3-4 experienced players, it might come in close to 2 hours.) I took a fairly clean win on this, with donnav coming in 2nd.
Then we went to Brother Wu's for dinner. I dealt three games of Set before dinner.
After dinner, back to ironphoenix's place -- and we pulled out Tigris & Euphrates. I squeaked out a win over ironphoenix. Then a game of Clans (another close win), and 2 games of Bananagrams (one to me, one to soul_diaspora, who joined us for Clans and Bananagrams at the end of the evening).
All in all a good day of gaming, with 2 good serious games, and several quicker lighter ones.
I'm also happy to get some more plays in on some of my new games -- Ca$h 'n' Gun$, Clans, and Wealth of Nations. And, Wealth of Nations -- yes, Adam Smith. It is an economic game, with markets, and trading, and inflation, and specialization, and... yup. I think it may, in fact, be one of the best economic-model games I've ever played.
