What's this blog all about?

"Board games? You play board games?" I hear you say... yes, but not unlike any board games you've probably ever heard of. Monopoly? Cluedo? Guess Who? Battleships? No, not by a long shot. One day someone introduced me to a great little game called "Carcassonne" - named after a French medieval town of rambling streets, walls and sections - where the aim is to score the most points using little random squares of road, walls and cities.
I was hooked and so began my, then our - the Bradshaw Tribe, adventure into Euro- and Ameritrash- gaming...

Sunday 2 January 2011

Happy New Year - Another game of 7 Wonders - 6 players makes a long game!

With my mum visiting for a few days over New Year, we decided to play a game of 7 Wonders because she enjoys 'our sort of games'. Now with 6 players, the Age cards had to be edited again to include the 6+ cards - the reason for this is that the Age cards have to be equally divisible by the number players so that everyone gets 7 each. Obviously this means that the number of cards in each Age pack has to be adjusted to the number of players. There is no card holder in the box like Dominion which means a bit of handiwork to find the right number of cards for each Age at the start of the game, but it's not too much trouble.

Being a 6 player game meant that the table was chock full of cards and counters at the end of the game, which means a bit of thought about which cards go where for each player, but this isn't a major game distraction - sometimes its nice to see a table covered in components rather than a few bits and pieces in my opinion; it gives the game some meat I feel.

Although mum found it bit Whats going on at times, in all it was another great game.

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