The best game I played this past weekend would be, without a doubt, Thurn and Taxis. I'd never played it before, here are my comments from the "new to you" geeklist:
"Thurn and Taxis (played with Thurn und Taxis - Der Kurier der Fürstin expansion) I never dreamed I’d have fun simulating mail delivery in 1490 Germany! ;-) Shares some qualities with Ticket to Ride, but this one is definitely a step up in complexity. Having played it once and gotten a feel for the game’s rhythm and strategy, I’m eager to try it again. The Der Kurier expansion works seamlessly with the game, I like how it gives extra incentive to visit places that no one has been to yet, and gives more flexibility on your turn with extra official actions. It’s interesting to me how much thought has been put into the theme – historical background in the liner notes, actual landmark drawings for each town, wonderfully detailed art; but yet, the theme to me feels abstracted from the game play and mechanisms, much more so than, for example, games like Power Grid, LOTR- the confrontation and Mission: Red Planet. Not that that’s a bad thing – among my favorite games are abstracts, games with perfect theme-mechanism match, and in between. Just an observation. I unexpectedly left game night having learned some interesting history about the invention of the mail system!" I also really enjoyed Polarity (the magnet game), which was also new to me. I'm not huge on dexterity games in general, but this one I had a great time with. I got the hang of "leaners" (leaning your disk near another one, so the first disk is kind of floating) but didn't quite learn how to "lie the leaners down" on my next turn - which was OK, b/c my partner got really good at that. This is the best magnet game I've played (not that there are a whole lot of them, I can only think of Rattlesnake off the top of my head). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
