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Wow, and I thought our 8 hour games of Axis & Allies or Shogun were epic. I do remember one game of A&A which went for 3 days once. But a big factor of all th
by cyberferret 9y ago
Wow, and I thought our 8 hour games of Axis & Allies or Shogun were epic. I do remember one game of A&A which went for 3 days once.
But a big factor of all those games was the banter and chatter that took place in between the play rounds - which easily took up >50% of 'game time'.
Discussions about famous war heroes, tactics, politics, geography and purely made up stories to rationalise our game play was what made those sessions special, and stand out in my mind FAR more than the die rolls, cards or token that we had...
- jbattle 9y agoShogun was the best and the worst of those gamemaster games. I thought the flexibility of the rules (bidding for turn order, the ninja, experience for generals, etc) was way ahead of its time. But in our games, whichever player left the early game with the right side of the board was almost guaranteed to win.
- cyberferret 9y agoI always found that an odd number of players yielded best result with Shogun. With 4 players, it always became a 2 on 2 situation. With 3 or 5, there was far more interesting conflict and changing of fortune. I loved that every game was so different, but yes, the initial random deal of starting provinces could make or break the entire game. Also found that it made a huge difference if you went first in the first round, then last on every round afterwards. But even with all that, Shogun is still one of my favourite board war games ever. Still have my original set from >30 years ago, back when I think it was still a Milton Bradley game(?)