Cangames - day 3
May. 20th, 2007 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagibbsAnd, today was the last day of Cangames.
I dropped out of Battlelore, deciding I didn't want to spend more time playing a game I really wasn't interested in, and there were a couple interesting possibilities this morning. There was a Diplomacy game with 6 players already signed up that looked really tempting -- but gabriel_le's Afrika II game had only her signed up. As it was a pair of 2-player games (for 4 players), I joined that, so her game wouldn't be cancelled. Afrika II is a chit & hex game, and we only played a couple turns (a couple hours with all the learning), but it was her first introduction to that sort of game, and I think it went pretty well.
We then took a bit of a break from Cangames, and came home and relaxed a bit, and got some more food.
In the afternoon I played Antike, which I quite like (and ended up buying). For those for which this will mean anything, it plays like Civilisation-lite (not Civ the computer game). It is a Mediteranean game of expansion for resources for production for more expansion.
Since gabriel_le had finished her game, I wandered around a bit, and watched Clans being played. We then shopped a bit (when I bought Antike, and Modern Art which gabriel_le had quite liked). Then, wandering back from the Marketplace, I noticed that the Clans game had just finished. So I asked the person at the game if he'd mind playing again, and teaching it, since it looked like a good, quick filler game with a bit of depth to it, and I thought gabriel_le might like it. (Yes, I made her sit down and play, too.) She ended up winning. (In fact, she ended up winning a lot of stuff this weekend.)
After dinner at the Mee Xim, I wandered back to Cangames to find some pick-up games. (gabriel_le didn't.) I saw a couple looking at TransAmerica and talking about trying it, so I volunteered to sit down, teach and play with them. (TransAmerica is identical in game play to TransEuropa, just on a different map.) Then, I got taught most of the rules to Toxic Waste before the owner took the game away. Instead, another person there pulled out Taj Mahal, which is an enjoyable game of hand management and rivalry for a variety of different scoring pips in a series of rounds. An enjoyable game.
I dropped out of Battlelore, deciding I didn't want to spend more time playing a game I really wasn't interested in, and there were a couple interesting possibilities this morning. There was a Diplomacy game with 6 players already signed up that looked really tempting -- but gabriel_le's Afrika II game had only her signed up. As it was a pair of 2-player games (for 4 players), I joined that, so her game wouldn't be cancelled. Afrika II is a chit & hex game, and we only played a couple turns (a couple hours with all the learning), but it was her first introduction to that sort of game, and I think it went pretty well.
We then took a bit of a break from Cangames, and came home and relaxed a bit, and got some more food.
In the afternoon I played Antike, which I quite like (and ended up buying). For those for which this will mean anything, it plays like Civilisation-lite (not Civ the computer game). It is a Mediteranean game of expansion for resources for production for more expansion.
Since gabriel_le had finished her game, I wandered around a bit, and watched Clans being played. We then shopped a bit (when I bought Antike, and Modern Art which gabriel_le had quite liked). Then, wandering back from the Marketplace, I noticed that the Clans game had just finished. So I asked the person at the game if he'd mind playing again, and teaching it, since it looked like a good, quick filler game with a bit of depth to it, and I thought gabriel_le might like it. (Yes, I made her sit down and play, too.) She ended up winning. (In fact, she ended up winning a lot of stuff this weekend.)
After dinner at the Mee Xim, I wandered back to Cangames to find some pick-up games. (gabriel_le didn't.) I saw a couple looking at TransAmerica and talking about trying it, so I volunteered to sit down, teach and play with them. (TransAmerica is identical in game play to TransEuropa, just on a different map.) Then, I got taught most of the rules to Toxic Waste before the owner took the game away. Instead, another person there pulled out Taj Mahal, which is an enjoyable game of hand management and rivalry for a variety of different scoring pips in a series of rounds. An enjoyable game.
