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Apr. 30th, 2006 03:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progI have come in dead last in four out of four games at the game foo tonight. (I am counting one instance of beating a newbie employing a random non-strategy as the moral equivalent of dead last.) You'd think I'd never played a game before. Or that the people I am playing with are all very good gamers, but it's lazier to blame oneself about these things.
Games played: Cube Farm, Elfenland, Ticket to Ride Europe, Quo Vadis.
I hadn't played any TtR game with five players before; I think the crowded board knocked me for a loop. I made my original tickets only after deploying two stations, since I got completely cut off in so many places, and I had over 15 cars left by game's end. (My card luck was supremely rotten, too.)
Quo Vadis is fun, but I don't think that three players gives you the whole game. I'd like to play it again with a full complement of people. There's great opportunities for role-playing in it, at least if you're the sort of person who roleplays the Bean Game. Which I am. However, much like the bean game, I expect that I cannot actually play this game well, since I am not very good at game-diplomacy; I'd rather just work alone. These games happily allow this strategy, and the other players will ignore you, trade with each other, and rocket ahead.
Elfenland I'm just bad at.
Also came in last at whatever I played on Tuesday. I can't remember what it was now, except for coming in last. I have lately been meeting these crushing defeats with descriptions of suffering anal penetration or anyway hemorrhaging from my opponents, or perhaps by the game itself, but in either case there is just nothing classy about this. I need a new metaphor. Or maybe I should just grow up. I should look into this.
Games played: Cube Farm, Elfenland, Ticket to Ride Europe, Quo Vadis.
I hadn't played any TtR game with five players before; I think the crowded board knocked me for a loop. I made my original tickets only after deploying two stations, since I got completely cut off in so many places, and I had over 15 cars left by game's end. (My card luck was supremely rotten, too.)
Quo Vadis is fun, but I don't think that three players gives you the whole game. I'd like to play it again with a full complement of people. There's great opportunities for role-playing in it, at least if you're the sort of person who roleplays the Bean Game. Which I am. However, much like the bean game, I expect that I cannot actually play this game well, since I am not very good at game-diplomacy; I'd rather just work alone. These games happily allow this strategy, and the other players will ignore you, trade with each other, and rocket ahead.
Elfenland I'm just bad at.
Also came in last at whatever I played on Tuesday. I can't remember what it was now, except for coming in last. I have lately been meeting these crushing defeats with descriptions of suffering anal penetration or anyway hemorrhaging from my opponents, or perhaps by the game itself, but in either case there is just nothing classy about this. I need a new metaphor. Or maybe I should just grow up. I should look into this.
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Date: 2006-04-30 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-30 08:10 pm (UTC)There wasn't any backstabbing, just a lot of quiet blockading. Mostly by me. This is not a winning strategy. I do want to play it some more.
"Ahhh, it'd make a great Volity game..."