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Anthony Boydell
United Kingdom
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Last night we played Industry, described as 7 Wonders: The Board Game by some BGG wags (o! how they josh!). Five 'eras' with 12 auctions in each era. Buy factories and then develop them for VPs or 'to generate a resource'. Syphon the resources (your own, or bought ones from other players) into factories further down the era's. S/he who has most VPs is the winner.
If the auctions don't kill you, the god-awful board layout will - Mr Pillars Of The Earth artist, i think, has painted some wonderful buildings and then they're all 'joined up' by roads, pipelines, railways and a river. Within 5 minutes of the rules explanation, we were asking 'does THAT railway touch THAT factory?' etc. There IS a reference sheet that shows whats connected for each building - would it have pained anyone in the graphic department to lose SOME of the aesthetics in favour of decent, clear game information?
Probably.
It said 60 minutes on the box, but we didn't get much change out of 2 bleedin' hours - THREE of us, that is! THREE PEOPLE FOR TWO HOURS! F*ck my old boots.
Here's to something a little less tortuous this evening.
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