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Alec Chapman
United Kingdom
South London
3m3.posterous.com - a "lovely bunch of wafflers"
The 10:100 system is not a personal attack on you!
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In Small World, your civilisation is expanding across an entire continent, conquering territories and wiping out opposing forces as it goes. At some point, there'll be nothing more you can do with the current civilisation so you consign them to history and start afresh with a brand new, nascent people. Then you dump them too.
What deep, complex rule system does one need to keep in mind to do all this?
2 + 1 * n = No of tokens required.
2 plus one for each piece of cardboard on the target space. That's all you need to know by heart to play Small World, bar how to decline a civilisation (you flip it over and start again - tough!)
One of the few games that has four whole maps tailored to different numbers of players, Small World has also got tonnes of variety and imagination capturing combinations in its races and powers. one of the upsides of being an expansion addict is that Small World has so many options it can easily last the 100 games I've randomly decided on.
In fact, the hardest part about this game for me is remembering to award yourself the points for each round. At least two games have been played where forgetting to do this has cost me 20 odd points and obviously, therefore, any chance of victory.
While the reinforcement die does exist to add a bit of fun random element to the otherwise purely mathematical conquests, it's not exactly your common or garden war game and players of all skills seem to pick it up well.
It does have a very silly theme, but as you can see from the rest of the list, this doesn't really bother me much. In fact, I like to think of myself like the Gods in the Iliad during this one, toying with the fates of entire civilisations just to gain personal kudos.
It's also been surprisingly good fun, so I'm adding it here without remorse.
I wrote a review of Small World years ago, so I won't bang on for hours longer here.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/395522/ooo-baby-baby-its...
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