Caylus and other cool games
The boardgames club I go to on Wednesday nights is great fun:
http://www.halesowenboardgamers.org.uk/
You can keep tabs on what we are playing and how I score.
Caylus has been the game of the moment for the last three weeks. It's pretty new and there doesn't seem to be much in th eway of fixed lines of strategy published for it. Boardgamegeek has quite a bit of information on it, with teh general concenus that people need to play it more. The object of the game is to help a king build a castle by donating building materials to him. In return he grants favours by way of victory (prestige) points, cash, materials, or cheap building upgrades. You can build more in the village as well as shipping to the in order to get you more prestige, generate more cash or win more favour with the king.
The castle is built in three stages, timed by the movement of a bailiff through the village (which can be meddled with, should you wish). Game ends at the end of the third stage. There are so many different ways to score prestige points and screw the opponents with vast amounts of money. It's a fabulous game. Takes a bit of time to really get a feel for it but no player is ever rolling in every commodity so it's quite easy to force an advantage and stop a player in the lead from scoring for a turn or two.
Takes a a couple of hours to get through but it's a deep game and there's hardly any down-time between turns.
I've come to notice a trend about games I like playing repeatedly since going to the that i'll elaborate on another time: basically I like games where there are a few different ways to win. Caylus certainly fits the bill. I might have to get a copy.
http://www.halesowenboardgamers.org.uk/
You can keep tabs on what we are playing and how I score.
Caylus has been the game of the moment for the last three weeks. It's pretty new and there doesn't seem to be much in th eway of fixed lines of strategy published for it. Boardgamegeek has quite a bit of information on it, with teh general concenus that people need to play it more. The object of the game is to help a king build a castle by donating building materials to him. In return he grants favours by way of victory (prestige) points, cash, materials, or cheap building upgrades. You can build more in the village as well as shipping to the in order to get you more prestige, generate more cash or win more favour with the king.
The castle is built in three stages, timed by the movement of a bailiff through the village (which can be meddled with, should you wish). Game ends at the end of the third stage. There are so many different ways to score prestige points and screw the opponents with vast amounts of money. It's a fabulous game. Takes a bit of time to really get a feel for it but no player is ever rolling in every commodity so it's quite easy to force an advantage and stop a player in the lead from scoring for a turn or two.
Takes a a couple of hours to get through but it's a deep game and there's hardly any down-time between turns.
I've come to notice a trend about games I like playing repeatedly since going to the that i'll elaborate on another time: basically I like games where there are a few different ways to win. Caylus certainly fits the bill. I might have to get a copy.
posted by mattgreen at 1:42 pm
1 Comments:
I think I mean games that give you more options. CCGs are a good example because your options are nigh-infinite. They only get stale when the all the options have been explored and the 3 or 4 good one are well known and hard to beat.
I haven't managed to win the monthly trophy yet- finished second twice though. I have trouble making it every week because of over-night stays for work. I would have won the other month had it not been for McMulti which was a random pile of crap. Thing is, it's about experiencing new games, not playing the ones you know you are good at. Things are not looking great this month as I scored 'nil pwa' the first week due tio St Petersburg being a one-track game and me not knowing the track. I did win a 5 man Caylus game last week though, so maybe....
We do tend to play some games more than others. The good ones. Sometimes new stuff comes along that sticks. Medici was introduced to us a couple of months ago and Caylus has been played for the last 3 weeks. Depends what people bring along.
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