{"id":765,"date":"2007-03-15T23:59:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T23:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=765"},"modified":"2007-03-15T23:59:40","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T23:59:40","slug":"game_day_03152007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Game Day 03\/15\/2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_3566.jpg\" alt=\"Game #1\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/game\/25613\">Through The Ages<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis night I held a special event.  A four player, full game of Through the Ages.  We even started earlier than normal at 6:00pm.  The game lasted 6 hours though.  And, strangely enough, no one attacked or started a war during the game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis game, while fun, suffers from two problems.  The first is the down time.  The only way to alleviate that is to bring a computer with an internet connection.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe second is randomness of the military cards.  You need a well balanced draw (some tactics cards, some defense cards, some event cards, etc).  It always seems that you can never draw what you need.  I think that this game needs a card rack for military cards as well as civil cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through The Ages This night I held a special event. A four player, full game of Through the Ages. We even started earlier than normal at 6:00pm. The game lasted 6 hours though. And, strangely enough, no one attacked or started a war during the game. This game, while fun, suffers from two problems. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}