Emma HunneyballDo you #BoardGames folks love Castles of Burgundy? I don’t have it but I’ve heard it described as a modern classic. Tell me why you love it, and why you recommend it.
CTD@emmahunneyball it is a kind of weird fish TBH but the whole is greater than the individual parts. Usual Feld point salad but the various mechanisms tie together reasonably well. I like it but the children hate it so it doesn’t get out much. File this under not very helpful or illuminating replies!
Grayson@CTD @emmahunneyball Bingo. it's possibly his best point salad game and it scales relatively well (tile luck is an issue at 2, and down time is an issue at 4p, but those are slight problems compared to scaling in other games IMHO). I had it and played it a lot for a while and then got rid of it when it fell out of fashion in my group.
I'm a big advocate that everyone should play a great designer's "best" game at least once. If for nothing else, it would give you a reference point. For Stefen Feld, that's CoB.
I'm a big advocate that everyone should play a great designer's "best" game at least once. If for nothing else, it would give you a reference point. For Stefen Feld, that's CoB.
Six Possums In A Trenchcoatit's possibly his best point salad game
You might be right if he hadn't made Trajan, which has the audacity to use mancala as an action selection mechanism. Nothing can beat that. It's perfect.
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Trajan *is* quite good. I dare say I like it more than CoB, but that's not a widely held view in my experience.
Also, Trajan (to me) benefits from more players which is also a harder sell.
Trajan *is* quite good. I dare say I like it more than CoB, but that's not a widely held view in my experience.
Also, Trajan (to me) benefits from more players which is also a harder sell.