J C Lawrence
United States
Campbell
California
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We've been playing this variant for some time now (well over 20 games) and have found it to provide greater depth, more tension and turn angst, and far more interesting play. The changes are as follows:
1) The game no longer ends when a player had placed all their dolmens (square blocks).
2) When an area is compleatly surrounded it is scored immediately and the scoring dolmens (square blocks) are returned to their players. Returned dolmens may then be placed in the normal fashion on future turns.
3) The game ends when any player has placed all of their stones (octagonal prisms), with each other player having one more turn after that point.
That's it.
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Burster of Bubbles, Destroyer of Dreams.
United States
Sunnyvale
California
Just imagine the red offboard up here. I'll create it Real Soon Now...
Yes, I know a proper 18XX tile should have a tile number.
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I've watched you teach this game twice now without mentioning that what you were teaching was a variant, not the official rules.
Good to finally know.
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J C Lawrence
United States
Campbell
California
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Damn I'd forgotten that. Thanks. My bad.
FWVLIW the English rules, at least the translation I have in the box, are fairly ambiguous. It took Aaron Lawn pointing this out. He'd played one way, I'd played the other, so we played a few back-to-back games in both ways before coming down on the above side.
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After a handful of games now, I feel confident saying this is the only way to play.
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Maarten D. de Jong
Netherlands
Zaandam
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garygarison wrote: After a handful of games now, I feel confident saying this is the only way to play.
How come? I can guess a little, but it'd be nice to see some confirmation of my suspicions  . (And do you play with open blocks?)
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Don't play with open blocks, but that might be the next step. With block cycling, the game plays a bit longer, allowing fuller use of the board. Also, the incentives are a little more tricky, as scoring an area gives involved players a chance to put out that 4 block again.
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Posted Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:37 pm
