My family had fun playing Shadows over Camelot for the first time. My wife, who basically only joins me and my two boys (9 and 11) on the simplest gateway games, almost bailed as we thrashed out how to play for the first 45 minutes. But she got seriously into it after a few rounds, and when we all looked at our loyalty cards (houseruled for 4 players to happen after the 4th sword gets placed), things got interesting *really* fast. My younger son pulled the traitor card and figured out a winning strategy rapidly. He accused my wife of being a traitor (which he knew was wrong, but which won him a victory point and sowed mistrust all around) a couple turns later. Then, my character tried to fight off the 11th siege engine to forestall the potential traitor from placing the last and winning -- but I had only a total of 5 fight cards, and I rolled a 6. This killed me off prematurely, as I was down to the last hit point. Then my son delivered the coup de grace and placed the final siege engine, winning the game for the traitor. Fun, fun.
The only thing was we were all only taking one action per turn -- move OR take a quest action OR heal, etc. Rulebook was rather poorly written, so I couldn't figure out whether this is correct, or whether, alternatively, you can take one of each TYPE of action each turn. That really would have helped the Camelot heroes out! Anyone know the answer? Too bad BGG is down, otherwise I'd check the rules discussion in that game forum if not... Other than SoC, we fit in a quick 2-player Memoir '44 game and a 2- player Agricola (40-33, me over my son; ha ha, you see how old age and treachery win over youth and vigor at least *some* of the time, right?). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/BGG_down?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
