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Shogun 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,
by jbattle 9y ago
Shogun 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(?)