Shogun - A Five Second Board Game Review

I played far too many games of it where one...

Read more...

You ever played Wallenstein? How does it compare in terms of people getting left behind?

Matt Thrower wrote: You ever played Wallenstein? How does it compare in terms of people getting left behind?

I have not, I intend to at some point, but with them being the exact same system I’m not hopeful, I have a hard time envisioning geography changes being enough

Immortals tried to redo it and when I read the rules it seemed clear all of the changes were geared towards fixing my issues, but sour reviews have turned me away for now, I plan to get to that one eventually though

Wallenstein is two hours of everyone yelling, "Don't bump the tower!" at each other.

We should organise another game of Wallenstein online at spielbyweb. We have played a lot of F:AT games, many of them hilarious and exciting. I'm too lazy to make an analysis of al our games, but a cursory glance suggests the leader after year 1 is far from the automatic winner (e.g. ozjesting's win after being 3rd with 17 points after year one (against 20 and 23 by two other players) and then finishing year 2 with 36 points (against 28 and 18 by the other two). Funny enough that was my comment at the time: "Damn, shitty end game for me and proves again that you should avoid - if possible - to be the leader after the first year."

Let me know, if you are interested. I'm sure we'll manage to get 5 people together here.