The Burden of Forum Knowledge

TheDukester wrote:

That Universal Head guy is nutty, too ... in a good way.

www.boardgamegeek.com/file/info/22286

He (they?) make some great play-aids. My current hope is that he (they?) like Age of Conan enough to do one of their full-color aids.

Universal Head is a god among geeks!

Will you be following the traditional nomenclature and going with "Schweig!man" or "SuperSchweig!"? Your hunchbacked henchman is named Igor of course. If you're feeling villainous, you could go with "Dr Schweig!". Or have a reference to a very dated, cliched, and best forgotten villain and use "Red Schweig!". And finally, with a nod to Stephen Avery for coming up with the word, your hordes of minions will doubtlessly be the Schweiglings.
I really need to get Mwahahaha! to the table don't I?

played Mwahahaha last weekend, but felt it was bit long for what it tries to do. Will try again some time.

Jur wrote:

played Mwahahaha last weekend, but felt it was bit long for what it tries to do. Will try again some time.

I really like Mwahahaha!, but it does feel like it goes a little long. One thing I do that significantly cuts down play time without really changing the game is using 30 or 35 raw materials card per player (instead of 25), and changing the Mad Scientists' special abilities to "discard two raw materials cards" instead of "draw two less raw materials cards". That way, you have a lot more control over what resources you get and everyone can buy a lot more stuff. It also lets you dump "betrayal!" cards when no one will trade with you.

Aarontu wrote:

Jur wrote:

played Mwahahaha last weekend, but felt it was bit long for what it tries to do. Will try again some time.

I really like Mwahahaha!, but it does feel like it goes a little long. One thing I do that significantly cuts down play time without really changing the game is using 30 or 35 raw materials card per player (instead of 25), and changing the Mad Scientists' special abilities to "discard two raw materials cards" instead of "draw two less raw materials cards". That way, you have a lot more control over what resources you get and everyone can buy a lot more stuff. It also lets you dump "betrayal!" cards when no one will trade with you.

I've played it using infinite resources, and shuffling the discards when the deck runs out. It works pretty well. The whole endgame doesn't really work anyway - it's supposed to be tense because there's no new resources, but it just ends up with noone getting anywhere and the game taking far longer than it should.

Thanks for that; next time I read the rules I'll have to do it in light of adopting your suggestions.

Notahandle wrote:

Will you be following the traditional nomenclature and going with "Schweig!man" or "SuperSchweig!"? Your hunchbacked henchman is named Igor of course. If you're feeling villainous, you could go with "Dr Schweig!". Or have a reference to a very dated, cliched, and best forgotten villain and use "Red Schweig!". And finally, with a nod to Stephen Avery for coming up with the word, your hordes of minions will doubtlessly be the Schweiglings.
I really need to get Mwahahaha! to the table don't I?

I'd go with Prof. Schweig!

Schweig! wrote:
"I'd go with Prof. Schweig!"
AHA! So you're Professor Euro!! It all makes perfect sense now.

Notahandle wrote:

Schweig! wrote:
"I'd go with Prof. Schweig!"
AHA! So you're Professor Euro!! It all makes perfect sense now.

D'oh!