It will be interesting to see what people think about 1865 - Sardinia once it
is published and thus more available. I played it at ChatCon and found the new
mechanisms to be fascinating. But I can see that some people might not like it.
David, I think that is a good general rule but I think some games rise above it if players percieve real value buried beneath the confusion. 1841: Sometimes I...
The drastic differences that make it so hard to get into an 1860 (or perhaps a '41, haven't played it) are probably necessary to create the very high status...
Hey, look...every designer is entitled to a game like that--one which incorporates everything he ever wanted to put into a game and a bag of chips. Mine is...
... I didn't intend to suggest in my message that 'only' serious 18xx players enjoy 1860 (and I think on re-reading you'll agree it didn't). I think what I was...
... For a few years I kept track of the games I played. This seemed too much like hard work, so I started keeping track of just the 18xx games I played. Then...
David, I have no stats to offer. But I suspect 41 and 60 would be games that people would rank either highly or lowly in a list of 100 18XX titles. I do not...
It will be interesting to see what people think about 1865 - Sardinia once it is published and thus more available. I played it at ChatCon and found the new...
All perfectly reasonable and sensible. But you'll notice that your taxonomy is almost entirely based on how the game plays *as a game*. As we've discussed...
Too many unique rules. Basically, just as you're getting used to the rules, there's a phase change and now it's all different. The game has the feel of a...
I like 18US. Maybe it does have too many unique rules - it's a devil trying to remember them all - but I still like it. It is a bit on the long side, but at...
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Ian D Wilson ... I think what he is referring to is that it is less elegant to get the behavior you are wanting by having a...
Ohley told me by e-mail that his group manages to play 1880 faster than 1844. In my 3 matches so far, this has not been the case, though if one has hundreds of...
... There are some points here that I agree with entirely. But there really aren't that many special rules in 1841. The biggie--that companies can own ...
"If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse" -- Henry Ford If we just want more games that are mostly familiar variations...
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