1825, Unit 2. Played a 2-player game over break. Just like unit 1 but with a different map and companies. Actually ran pretty reasonably with 2; we wound up, approximately, with the great western rail empire and the great eastern rail empire, of which the east won. One of unit 1's big problems is that the price-banding rules means that the ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago I wrote about Gold Train, a game-in-a-bag that didn't seem to work so well with two players. narya and I played, and the winner seemed to be the person who drew the gold mines first; nothing else really mattered ( Read more... )

I was dragged to Games People Play against my will! It was terrible! I came away with two small things...

Fjords. A two-player tile-laying game, kind of like Carcassonne with hexes. Each player has four farms which can be laid on the tile just played; it's somewhat more likely that a tile will become unplayable but then you can later play one ( Read more... )

narya, fideidefensor, and I experimented with three-player two-train Iron Dragon yesterday. You get two trains sharing one set of tracks, six contracts, three public contracts. We let you trade loads between trains if they were on the same spot, and you can use your movement dots in any order (but if the train that hasn't moved gets eited by the other train...it ( Read more... )

I played British Rails with narya last night.

Good: having loads on your train to go to both point A and nearby but further point B.

Bad: getting to point A and drawing a "derailment" card causing you to lose your load to point B.

Worse: twice.

Not so bad: only losing by a £150 in the end.

narya did succeed moderately at the "run jute from Scotland for ( Read more... )

After biking on Saturday, I went over to desireearmfeldt's for potential gaming, which eventually attracted cmouse, purplebob, nuclearpolymer, and a post-plumber Mr. Armfeldt. We settled on 1830 BC (the 18xx game of Mesopotamian canal-building), and it finally made a little more sense to me. ( Gory details )

Actually got to relax over the long weekend. This is kind of unique; I seem to spend a lot of Mondays saying "right, I haven't relaxed all weekend". On Saturday, I went into the city without much of a point, but wound up wandering around the South End. The three SW corridor tracks inbound from Back Bay have a three-light-over-two-light type of ( Read more... )

Is anyone doing neither Mystery Hunt nor Arisia this coming weekend, and is interested in playing a game of some sort? Probably longish, though any of 18xx/crayon rails/Die Macher/SFB sound appealing to me.

I got sucked into a game of Titan over the long weekend. In retrospect, this was a total mistake, since I don't like Titan that much and I would have liked to not have my sleep schedule not totally whacked for the weekend.

But at any rate, I did pretty will on the "play Civilization on the Titan map" plot, not that this really wins the game. And ( Read more... )

We wound up playing a three-player game of 1825 again last night. There was one big problem: there are nine certificates in each company, and you probably want to take advantage of every buying turn, so whoever buys the first (spiffy, double-value) director's certificate in a round probably gets the next one too. But beyond that, the game did ( Read more... )