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We got through one game, he paid attention, didn't make up all his own rules (Which is quite amazing for him) and had fun!
Next week its Nexus Ops.
Friday 22 February 2013
The new guy.
What to do with a 4 and half year old who is bouncing off the walls bored. Well teach him his first board game is the rather predictable answer. Somewhat inspired by Sam's success in getting Stan to the table I thought I might see how Ashton faired with one of my more simple games. Even though it has quite an extended set up time Agricola seemed like the natural choice but then I thought "Hang on, Ashton specifically said he hated 17th century agricultural worker placement games" so Hey That's My Fish it was with it's little penguins and that.
We got through one game, he paid attention, didn't make up all his own rules (Which is quite amazing for him) and had fun!
Next week its Nexus Ops.
We got through one game, he paid attention, didn't make up all his own rules (Which is quite amazing for him) and had fun!
Next week its Nexus Ops.
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Great stuff Ashton. (we all hate Agricola too)
ReplyDeletebut who won?
ReplyDeleteWHAT! Agricola is a classic....A heavy mind boggling classic!
ReplyDeleteLets not get bogged down with who beat who, the games as they are are made to be enjoyed as an experience and if we start to keep the score then the next thing will be some sort of table to reflect my edged win.
Oh yeah it's not Agricola I object to, it's the certainty of losing to Adam, who is always the person who suggests it. Although last time I played it was a two-hander against Andrew, who pasted me as well.
ReplyDeleteI've had lots of fun times playing with Stanley (and Joe) where I try and keep things in the balance by playing 'to win' in a sense, but not with the same intensity or concentration that I would bring to a GNN night. So they end up hard to predict who'll win. We play Ascending Empires with the following rules:
There is no research or technological developments.
There are colonies and cities.
The game end is triggered when any one player owns a planet in all of the colours (for which they get a 3pt bonus)
Then we score
1pt per planet (plus an extra point if it's not in your home quadrant)
1pt per colony
2pts per city
We also play simplified versions of The Adventurers and Alhambra and full-rule Carcassone, Galaxy Truckers and String Railways. It's amazing what they can play, given a bit of coaxing through it.
Sorry that's quite a lot of detail but I'm stuck at home coughing my lungs up, so time is creating a vacuum...
Hey I appreciate it :). For HTMF I gave Ashton his choices and emphasised what might be a good one so it was close. I didn't extend the same courtesy to Jacquie however! She said she didn't like that game though. Likes settlers though, that will be my families game of Frustration that I played with mine. With less pock-kik though. (The sound of the covered dice roller).
ReplyDeleteI coughing my lungs up too!
It's a rotter isn't it, I've been out of commission for a while now. Sally likes Biblios and Pompeii (like being a relative term) but she hasn't played Railways yet...
ReplyDeleteMatilda has always loved Agricola - it's certainly her favourite game, though we play the family version not using occupations or minor improvements.
ReplyDeleteLast week she and I played Hunters and Gatherers a couple of times, which is effectively Hey That's My Fish!
Well it's actually Hey That's Reiner Knizia's Rip Off of Hey That's my Fish!!
It's fun though, more of a supermarket trolley dash and less strategic than HTMF, since it's harder to cut areas off completely. Neither Matilda nor Bea have really got into HTMF itself, though I think Martha and I played it fairly recently.
My kids love bluffing games; they love Coup and Resistance, and Matilda likes Love Letter, though Bea said it "wasn't strategic enough"!
I find myself being, or at least trying to be, careful about what games I introduce them too, because if I pick the wrong game at the wrong moment they will be very reticent about trying it again. I really think they'd like Stone Age, but they played a couple of rounds about two years ago, Matilda pronounced it "too competitive" and they have refused to retry it since.
Oh and Ticket to Ride and Alhambra both go down well, though the latter can run a bit long.
We also all four of us played Long Shot recently, that was great fun. Games with a lot of luck fair well, basically, because they don't like to plan strategy, they like the thrill of a lucky roll of the dice. I do wonder about Lords of Vegas, I reckon that might be a goer.
I should probably phone Gambler's Anonymous, see if I can pre-book for a few years time.
Oh I've played that, it takes too long though and you have to introduce yourself before every round...
ReplyDeleteRe Stone Age, we did try Libertalia but it was definitely a bad 'un, I hadnt thought ahead about all the text! Having said that, the boys seem to enjoy it. I guess in the same way (little) Joe enjoys throwing his tea across the room.