I recently started a "gaming" evening for some of the dad's for our local school.
First get together was Risk. Surprisingly won by someone with zero experience of the game. In retrospect, probably caused by the experienced players being too cautious and the unwillingness of anyone to align with them.
This coming week will be Roborally, a game I've played a number of times.
For those not in the know, it's a logic based game, where each player (upto 8) drive a robot from a starting point to 1 or more target points on a map. Making it slightly more difficult:
- Each round has 5 movement phases
- You're dealt upto 9 cards each round, with which to plan each movement and these need to be planned at the start of each round and before any movement begins. Whilst sometimes you get the cards you want for your preferred movement, quite often you don't
- The maps are not just open areas. There are conveyor belts, little turnstiles, holes in the floor etc
- You're competing with upto 7 other robots. If for example one of them pushes you in a movement phase, that's likely to screw up all of your planned movement for the rest of the round
- Robots can find "special abilities" in certain places on the map, allowing them to hinder other players more
- You can use a timelimit, meaning that you can force a player to plan much faster than they might be capable, sometimes resulting in random moves
In short, a simple but brilliant logic game, playable by upto 8 players.
Looking forward to playing again this week.
Highly recommended.
First get together was Risk. Surprisingly won by someone with zero experience of the game. In retrospect, probably caused by the experienced players being too cautious and the unwillingness of anyone to align with them.
This coming week will be Roborally, a game I've played a number of times.
For those not in the know, it's a logic based game, where each player (upto 8) drive a robot from a starting point to 1 or more target points on a map. Making it slightly more difficult:
- Each round has 5 movement phases
- You're dealt upto 9 cards each round, with which to plan each movement and these need to be planned at the start of each round and before any movement begins. Whilst sometimes you get the cards you want for your preferred movement, quite often you don't
- The maps are not just open areas. There are conveyor belts, little turnstiles, holes in the floor etc
- You're competing with upto 7 other robots. If for example one of them pushes you in a movement phase, that's likely to screw up all of your planned movement for the rest of the round
- Robots can find "special abilities" in certain places on the map, allowing them to hinder other players more
- You can use a timelimit, meaning that you can force a player to plan much faster than they might be capable, sometimes resulting in random moves
In short, a simple but brilliant logic game, playable by upto 8 players.
Looking forward to playing again this week.
Highly recommended.
