Luke McKinney wrote:Risk is worse for family game night than incest. It simulates all the boredom and relentless repetition of trench warfare, but at least people really dying on the Eastern Front wished they were home with their beloved family. You are home, and now you hate the bastards.
The worst part of Risk is victory by excruciation. A well-designed game has tactics and skill building to a climax, a thrilling race to victory, and when someone has clearly won, it's because the game is over. In Risk, someone can win hours before it ends, and they will not let you just admit it and leave. They spent hours carefully planning this victory, and by God you are going to sit there and patiently lose for just as many hours so that they can enjoy it properly. They've turned having fun into a zero-sum game.
This is the same psychopath who can be in control of two-thirds of the entire world and still whinge about how unfair it is that people are ganging up on them. The one who insists that there are more tactics than "Take Australia and try not to succumb to dice-rolling repetitive strain injury."
I've had games where there is a ridiculous glut of brick and hardly any wood. Sheep seems to be universally unwanted, which is why the sheep port is so kick ass.
cool article both for showing off some interesting games I hadn't heard about and also for reinforcing my geek cred, have 3 of the good board games.
Baron Von PWN wrote:I've had games where there is a ridiculous glut of brick and hardly any wood. Sheep seems to be universally unwanted, which is why the sheep port is so kick ass.
cool article both for showing off some interesting games I hadn't heard about and also for reinforcing my geek cred, have 3 of the good board games.
AOG you slander Diplomacy heinously.
wtf I didn't slander Diplomacy. I love Diplomacy too. I'm saying it's a better version of world domination (or, well, European domination) than RISK.
Baron Von PWN wrote:I've had games where there is a ridiculous glut of brick and hardly any wood. Sheep seems to be universally unwanted, which is why the sheep port is so kick ass.
cool article both for showing off some interesting games I hadn't heard about and also for reinforcing my geek cred, have 3 of the good board games.
AOG you slander Diplomacy heinously.
You and AoG and whoever y'all play against seem to not understand trade.
Baron Von PWN wrote:I've had games where there is a ridiculous glut of brick and hardly any wood. Sheep seems to be universally unwanted, which is why the sheep port is so kick ass.
cool article both for showing off some interesting games I hadn't heard about and also for reinforcing my geek cred, have 3 of the good board games.
AOG you slander Diplomacy heinously.
You and AoG and whoever y'all play against seem to not understand trade.
Usualy it ends up being. "you have 8 points, therefore I refuse to trade with you" either that or through a fluke of the board there is only one decently productive source of a resource. Which of course has been hammered by the robber mercilessly.
It's not that we don't understand trade, it's that trade is not always win-win in catan, sometimes trading will result in I win you all lose.
Baron Von PWN wrote:I've had games where there is a ridiculous glut of brick and hardly any wood. Sheep seems to be universally unwanted, which is why the sheep port is so kick ass.
cool article both for showing off some interesting games I hadn't heard about and also for reinforcing my geek cred, have 3 of the good board games.
AOG you slander Diplomacy heinously.
You and AoG and whoever y'all play against seem to not understand trade.
Usualy it ends up being. "you have 8 points, therefore I refuse to trade with you" either that or through a fluke of the board there is only one decently productive source of a resource. Which of course has been hammered by the robber mercilessly.
It's not that we don't understand trade, it's that trade is not always win-win in catan, sometimes trading will result in I win you all lose.
Communist!
(yeah, I understand, but can a ninja get a table dance?)
