Something cheesy this way comes - July 13th, 2008
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I had a newbie civilization game yesterday - there were seven players, and I was the only one who had played before. My intention was to broaden the pool of prospective players for future games, and perhaps shake up the crowd a bit. I think it was a smashing success - I suspect that many if not all of the players would like to do so again.
I played Africa (I was going to do either Asia or Crete) because we had two last-minute cancellations - I filled Illyria's spot but wasn't able to get a second new player quickly. Unsurprisingly, I won, but I was pleasantly surprised at how close the game was - if the last turn had gone differently (and I hadn't gotten rid of Iconoclasm & Heresy) I could easily have come in third. Awesome!
We didn't get as far in turns as in other games, and I attribute that to the rule explanations - we were just getting into the Iron age, and only three players ended in it.
Scores:
Africa 2304
Italy 1884
Illyria 1334
Thrace 2153
Assyria 1870
Babylon 1535
Egypt 2048
We put Civil War and Civil Disorder back to their original positions, and I think that worked VERY well - in fact, I think I'm going to recommend going back to that approach for all of the games. Interestingly, it came up three times, and the first time, the victim had the most units in stock, so no calamity happened. The other two times, the victim only had about 39 total points on the board, meaning that he only lost 4 - so not so bad, all told. I got nailed with superstition four times (!), and at the end of the game the barbarians/pirates were substantially stronger than the rest of us: eight cities which could have been fully supported (!).
There was a strongly amusing moment where one person who was extremely calamity-averse (Babylon) had said that the whole trading thing wasn't going to be worth it at all - this ended up being an object lesson in the virtue and value of free-trade, and that player had to be reminded that the isolationism in the 2008 presidential race was coming from the Democrats (the player is a staunch Republican)...
Illyria basically got himself into a bind right at the beginning, because Italy and Thrace divided up Europe much the way that Spain and Portugal divided up South America, and he wasn't in on the negotiations. He ended up effectively locked into Southern Greece.
One substantial note: I've got to start making seudah shlishit plans - I keep getting to mid afternoon, and realizing that I hadn't planned for anything else to eat.
And there was a casualty: the lid to the magic crock pot cracked and broke. :( That crock pot has been to a huge number of places, and I think I can get a replacement lid, but it's surprisingly close in price to just getting a new pot entirely.
Current Location: home
Current Mood:  happy
Current Music: States of Melba, "Lost Innocence"
Tags: civilization
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