Thanks for bringing your addled butt in to teach and play this Alan.

It's a strange one, where there are deep, brain-burning things to think about--punctuated by wild and crazy Events. Wha?! Not sure what I think yet.

For a fairly thinky and AP-prone game, the random elements seemed really out of place, especially how extreme they can potentially be. (I don't think any of them were insane in our game, but they definitely could've been.) Has some interesting ideas, but overall I'm not especially impressed. (In other words, it's not too bad and I'd play again if someone wanted to, but I wouldn't seek it out.)

More like Schmee Schmarvest.

This is the first time I've played this game where I felt like it really "worked." When you have players that are aggressive with pricing plots without being ridiculous, the end result is a very interesting and tense game. One thing I think this game has working against it is that you really have to play it many times to be able to develop strategies that work. Lots of games are like that, but this one takes a long time to play and until you "get it," it's not quite as fun. When you're looking for a mid-heavy 2-4 player euro, you have a lot of choices. For me this is a good game that I might choose sometimes if I am with 2-3 other players who at least have experience with games having a "set your price" mechanic, but it's not a sure thing I'll pull out every time.

edit: oh yeah, this game should have come with components to help you keep track of who owns what parcels, so that you don't have to be continuously looking around. This would be an excellent PBEM game as you could just overlay all the boards.

Played two games of Donald and Kenny versus Jason and I. I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever get to play any other big games again. When I've arived lately this is the one thing that seems to be starting. Oh well..it's a good game.

D&K won the first game, was a slow start then they took off..but we came back a bit near the end. J&I won a kinda quick second game as we ran away with it.

1035 to 65. Good job, partner!

Heh...Kenny usually can't make it these days since he has a leadership thing at our church most Tuesdays, so I'm not surprised he and Donald took the opportunity for a few games of Tichu :-)

The main problem with this game is that it can get really convoluted (and thus, very AP prone - not just for me), and it's a light enough 'screw-your-neighbor' sort of game that this is rather out of place. Didn't see how this specific game went, though.

Yeah, not my type of game. There's not enough "there" there - no real content to make it worthwhile.