Re: Need game suggestion
- From: Kevin J. Maroney <kjm@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:28:04 -0400
On 4 Aug 2006 13:19:54 -0700, "Elliot" <eskravitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
What would be a good game to get for him? It should, if possible, be
scalable from 2 (so he can play with his wife) to multiplayer. Good
components would probably be a big plus so he can see the strides made
from the days of the paper boards and cardboard chits of the SPI of his
youth). Easy to learn rules is probably important to, though once
learned he would probably appreciate a game whose strategies for
winning were complex.
Euphrates & Tigris is brilliant for 3 and 2 and pretty good, though
much more random, for four. If he grew up playing SPI games, he should
have no trouble with the rules and it's not hard to teach.
Alternately, Columbia Games has two configurable wargames--Victory, a
generic WWII-like game, and Wizard Kings, which is Victory with
magic--which allow multiplayer as well as two-player play, and which
are light enough to learn easily but offer substantial play.
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