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Board Game: Britannia [Average Rating:7.32 Overall Rank:214]
Mike Welker
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Excellent condition

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Which edition?
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rrodrick wrote:
Which edition?


The pictured reprint.
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Mike Welker wrote:
rrodrick wrote:
Which edition?


The pictured reprint.


Again, which edition? There have been two Fantasy Flight editions.
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First FFG edition, AFAIK
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"Why, you speak treason!"

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The adventures of Robin Hood.

Love me some Robin Hood. Every one.
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Dale-not-Chip wrote:
The adventures of Robin Hood.

Love me some Robin Hood. Every one.


You are correct, Good Sir!
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Very cool.
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Board Game: Britannia [Average Rating:7.32 Overall Rank:214]
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1 - Steve Parkins
2 - Mark Kennett
3 - Will Johnson
4 - Rob Lewset

Comment - A long six hour game!
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You learn that while it is true that Great Britain has not been successfully invaded since 1066 before that everyone and their brother successfully invaded the place on a semi weekly basis.
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Board Game: Britannia [Average Rating:7.32 Overall Rank:214]
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Love this game in how it ebbs and flows. Blue definitely has an advantage in how the scoring goes but it's still a fantastic game.
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Maybe the wargame that I've played most times (except for C&C:A because its quick plays). I love the metagame that evolves in each game between experienced players. Very self-balancing multiplayer game.
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Very self-balancing multiplayer game.

And, much to my surprise, someone recently recommended it to me as a great solitaire game. I've ignored it all these years because I figured I'd never have enough players (guess it's best with 4). But maybe I should try it after all.
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Patrick Carroll wrote:
Jose-san wrote:
Very self-balancing multiplayer game.

And, much to my surprise, someone recently recommended it to me as a great solitaire game. I've ignored it all these years because I figured I'd never have enough players (guess it's best with 4). But maybe I should try it after all.


I have the Avalon Hill one and never tried it since I thought you needed four players. Like you I will give it a go. I may try to get my son & his friend to play it.
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sherron wrote:
Patrick Carroll wrote:
Jose-san wrote:
Very self-balancing multiplayer game.

And, much to my surprise, someone recently recommended it to me as a great solitaire game. I've ignored it all these years because I figured I'd never have enough players (guess it's best with 4). But maybe I should try it after all.


I have the Avalon Hill one and never tried it since I thought you needed four players. Like you I will give it a go. I may try to get my son & his friend to play it.


It's best with four but not bad solitaire.
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Britannia was the game I'd signed up to teach. I wasn't sure there would be enough players, but we actually ended up with 5. I don't like it much with 5, but I also didn't want to lead a 4+ hour game and not actually be playing, so we did a 5er. It was pretty fun, but the factions aren't really that well balanced; not anything like 4-player, which runs like a well-oiled machine. I won't probably ever play this 5-player again.

I came in 3rd, I think. Well behind 1st and 2nd.
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Board Game: Britannia [Average Rating:7.32 Overall Rank:214]
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The first of the Gibson printings used purple for the Romans etc. (yellow in the FFG edition).
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FFG One. Perfect Condition. Unplayed.

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Board Game: Britannia [Average Rating:7.32 Overall Rank:214]
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We played a long 4 player game of Britannia.

Final Scores:
Steven Sheasby (RED) 242
Mark Woodson (YELLOW) 232
John Boone (BLUE) 218
Kent Wayne (GREEN) 203


From the numbers it looks like,
Steven's Saxons did really well.
Mark's Scots and Romano-British did above average.
All of my factions with the exception of the Angles did well.
Kent's Welsh did well.

Kent, Steven, and Mark:


Turn 6:


Turn 13:
Steven's Saxons would dominate with the elimination of the Angles. The Saxons took the Kingship 3 out of the 4 opportunities. Prior to that the Angles and the Scots were Bretwalda.


Turn 16 start
William would claim the Kingship on the last turn with the elimination of all other claimants.
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Great writeup and illustrations, JB.
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FYI: the last time I recorded playing this was in Sept of 2009.
Here are the scores I recorded:
Mark Woodson - Red - 263 points (Saxons - 185 pts)
Steven Sheasby - Yellow - 261 points (Romans - 147 pts)
David MacAlpine - Blue - 200 points (Picts - 74 pts)
John Boone - Green - 142 points (Welsh - 74 pts)

Another 1, 2 finish for Red and Yellow followed by Blue and Green.
I really sucked as Green! If I remember correctly, I don't think I submitted
as the Welsh.
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Looking at this game, the difference between first and fourth is 39 points. That's pretty close. In that 2009 game, first and second were over 100+ ahead of fourth and 60+ ahead of third.

So, we all played somewhat close to average. Everyone was within 20 point of the average score for each color.
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I know it went long, but now that I kinda know what I'm doing, I want to play again. As green.
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odd_texan wrote:
I know it went long, but now that I kinda know what I'm doing, I want to play again. As green.


Speaking for the Irish, I might have an issue with that. You kept throwing me back into the sea ... which was not very nice.

 
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I've played a lot of games solitaire. The one that I probably enjoyed the most – that wasn't designed as a solitaire game in the first place – was Britannia (the Avalon Hill version).

You really need exactly four players to play this game, but I never could convince my ASL- and Magic Realm-playing friends to give it a try.

It is, however, fascinating to play solitaire. Aptly described as a "sweep of history" game, 16 historical factions ebb and flow across a map of Britain over the course of nearly 1000 years. I never tire of watching history play out this way.

It's extremely simple for a wargame, and each of the 16 factions has very specific victory point requirements that drive the action along historical lines. I think that some players believe that this makes the game feel too "scripted," but it works well for the solitaire player as you can just jump into the role of each faction in turn and "go for it." I suspect that there wouldn't be much negotiation or diplomacy in a real multi-player session, because each faction is so constrained in what it can do... and this also works in the solitaire player's favor.
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Now, there's a game I'd never have thought of playing solo! Thanks for the suggestion. I used to like History of the World, and I've wondered how similar Britannia is to that.

Is it similar?
 
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It is similar, but the victory point conditions of each faction are very specific and are more thought-provoking - no generic "continents" for points like I remember for history of the world. But I played that game at least 15 years ago...
 
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But I played that game at least 15 years ago...

So did I.
 
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I managed to win my game of this classic with my high scoring Welsh.
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My Irish were a constant thorn in your side though!
 
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Is this the 2006 or 2008 version of the FFG game?
 
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Countries play on fixed order.
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I know. This one is not only Scotland. But it does have a strong Scottish theme, with Picts, Caledonians and Scots having an important role in the game.
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So, does Britannia rule?
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This is my favorite game and, after playing it, I read some books about the fall of the Roman Empire in Britannia.
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About 25 years ago. The thing is I asked for the D&D basic set for christmas, but my parents couldn't find it and they got me Britannia instead. To this day, I still play it.
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I first played Britannia 25 years ago as well and I still do. It tops my list of 10 favorite games here on BGG.
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0) Britannia again. Still one of the hardest ones to get to the table.

1) I haven't. This reflects how little attention I have been paying, rather than the quality of projects.
2) Pathfinder RPG.
3) To try to procrastinate less.
4) Again, probably Pathfinder.
5) Race For The Galaxy: The Gathering Storm replaced Race For The Galaxy, which replaced San Juan. Usually it's not as straightforward as one game directly replacing another; games fall in and out of the mix on their own merits or by chance.
6) I don't use apps really. I have a smartphone because those are the phones they hand out for free.
7) Probably Legos.
8) Against. Jacks up the price, and I have a thing against single-purpose electronics, given that we have computers.
9) Probably not.
10) I think pre-specifying a number, e.g. "1", is unnecessarily limiting.

11) Is there a viable way to reduce the power of money, so we can turn our society into something sustainable that actually works reliably for people? (Or to do that second one without reducing the power of money?)
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Rule Something! Rule the waves… (9)


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