{"id":626,"date":"2006-11-12T18:32:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=626"},"modified":"2006-11-12T18:32:17","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T18:32:17","slug":"bggcon_sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"BGG.CON: Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\"Game<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

\nBalam<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nLast night, Mike told me to try out Balam. He had liked it. So, when I saw
\nit in the library, I checked it out. And for the first thing today, I sat
\ndown and started puzzling out the rules. Luckily, two people came by and I
\nconvinced them to play the game. There were English rules, but the translation
\nwas really, really, bad. It lead to a lot of confusion. But we persevered
\nand finally figured out how the game play went.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe first city that I built was simple (two villages and a palace). The
\nnext city was placed on a 4 spot obsidian tile and built two villages and
\ntwo garrisons. This immediately caused a reaction as the other players
\nscrambled to build garrisons as well. I was not going to provoke a fight
\nyet. However, Nightmare<\/a>
\ndecided to attack me. I was a little suspicious when she picked me and
\nnot her boyfriend. But I could see that my city was undefended and his
\nwas not. She rolled a two and got to destroy my palace. I realized that
\nthis effectively took me out of the game since I could not move the goods
\nthat are produced into my king’s personal finances. Which meant that I
\ncould not build buildings anymore.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo, after we had discussed this all out, I retaliated and picked one of
\nher undefended cities and rolled a 3. This destroyed her palace and a
\nvillage. Two people out of the game on turn 3. And upon a reread of the
\nrules, I notice that we missed the “Leniency of Chaak” bit where we get
\ntwo more corn goods on each round before the Eclipse.\n<\/p>\n

\nWe decided to call the game at that point. I was happy that I played it
\nthough. That play certinally took it off of my buy list. Because I have
\nheard that the bad events are really nasty in this game. Maybe it just
\nneeds the proper mindset from the start to plan for catastrophies or
\nwars to turn it into a better experience.\n<\/p>\n

\n\"Game<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

\nMu<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nWe tried a hand of Control Nut and then moved to the game of Mu. Marty went
\nout looking for a fifth and found Lewis. So we taught the game to him. I was
\nsuccessful in my powers of suckup. He picked me twice as a partner because
\nof the cards that I was displaying. Unfortunately for us, we failed our goal.
\nI was also more agressive in bidding in this game. I made one goal and lost
\nanother (to Gravitt of all people ;).\n<\/p>\n

\nMinor regrets:\n<\/p>\n