So recently my husband and I started attending this interest meeting every week that's for people who enjoy board games. We were introduced to so many fascinating games! I grew up with American style board games, like Candyland, Monopoly, and Operations. However, there's a whole different genre (for those of you that don't know) called euro games. They are -completely- different from American board games. I'd like to know if any of you have played this type of game, and if you could tell me a bit about them so we can look into them.
Some of the ones I have tried are Ticket to Ride, Thieves of Baghdad, and 7 Wonders.
Thieves of Baghdad was my second favorite, but 7 Wonders is by FAR my favorite euro game I've tried so far. My husband even went and bought it so that we could play it more.
In case you've never played it, in 7 Wonders, you are randomly assigned a legendary city which has resources unique to it, and unique 'wonders' you can build. Two things I really like about this game are that everyone plays their turn at the same time, so gaming time is minimal if you're in a rush; and each city card has an 'easy' side and a 'difficult' side so that you can choose how much you wish to be challenged.
There are cards with three ages on them, and the first round is played with the first age cards, which are split between all the players. Each player considers the cards in his or her hand and picks one they wish to use. These cards might give you extra resources, allow you to buy resources at a cheaper price, obtain 'victory points' which are used to win the game, or build an army for the battle phase. Some cards are free to build while others might cost you some of your gold, or a resource.
Once you've picked your card, you pass the remaining cards to the person next to you, so that every time, you have a new set of cards to pick from! Everyone turns their cards over at the same time to reveal what they built. This is important because you can trade with the person to your right and to your left.
You keep doing this until you are through with the first age, and then you enter the battle phase, where the person the biggest army wins. You battle with the person to your left and to your right, but nobody else, just like buying resources and trading your hand. You get victory points if you win the battle and lose victory points if your opponent wins.
Then, the rounds are repeated again, but with the age 2 cards, and finally with the age 3 cards. As the ages progress, the cards become more expensive and t becomes harder to pick cards which will be useful. The last age doesn't even have any resources that you can build.
Once all three rounds have been played, you add up all your victory points and the person with the most wins.
Of course, there are many other small details to the game which I left out for the sake of being succinct. For example, there is an aspect of scientific research which can get you points, or 'leader cards' (which I haven't been taught how to play yet.)
Anyways, the game is TONS of fun, and I highly recommend it to anyone that likes board games. The average play time is around 30 minutes. So recently my husband and I started attending this interest meeting every week that's for people who enjoy board games. We were introduced to so many fascinating games! I grew up with American style board games, like Candyland, Monopoly, and Operations. However, there's a whole different genre (for those of you that don't know) called euro games. They are -completely- different from American board games. I'd like to know if any of you have played this type of game, and if you could tell me a bit about them so we can look into them.
Some of the ones I have tried are Ticket to Ride, Thieves of Baghdad, and 7 Wonders.
Thieves of Baghdad was my second favorite, but 7 Wonders is by FAR my favorite euro game I've tried so far. My husband even went and bought it so that we could play it more.
In case you've never played it, in 7 Wonders, you are randomly assigned a legendary city which has resources unique to it, and unique 'wonders' you can build. Two things I really like about this game are that everyone plays their turn at the same time, so gaming time is minimal if you're in a rush; and each city card has an 'easy' side and a 'difficult' side so that you can choose how much you wish to be challenged.
There are cards with three ages on them, and the first round is played with the first age cards, which are split between all the players. Each player considers the cards in his or her hand and picks one they wish to use. These cards might give you extra resources, allow you to buy resources at a cheaper price, obtain 'victory points' which are used to win the game, or build an army for the battle phase. Some cards are free to build while others might cost you some of your gold, or a resource.
Once you've picked your card, you pass the remaining cards to the person next to you, so that every time, you have a new set of cards to pick from! Everyone turns their cards over at the same time to reveal what they built. This is important because you can trade with the person to your right and to your left.
You keep doing this until you are through with the first age, and then you enter the battle phase, where the person the biggest army wins. You battle with the person to your left and to your right, but nobody else, just like buying resources and trading your hand. You get victory points if you win the battle and lose victory points if your opponent wins.
Then, the rounds are repeated again, but with the age 2 cards, and finally with the age 3 cards. As the ages progress, the cards become more expensive and t becomes harder to pick cards which will be useful. The last age doesn't even have any resources that you can build.
Once all three rounds have been played, you add up all your victory points and the person with the most wins.
Of course, there are many other small details to the game which I left out for the sake of being succinct. For example, there is an aspect of scientific research which can get you points, or 'leader cards' (which I haven't been taught how to play yet.)
Anyways, the game is TONS of fun, and I highly recommend it to anyone that likes board games. The average play time is around 30 minutes. |