John B and I stopped by the Vainglorious Games booth and talked with the designer of Hibernia and Cambria, Eric Vogel. First Eric gave a quick overview of Cambria and then played a complete game of Hibernia with us. He was also kind enough to offer me some tips for getting a game I've been working on published. Really nice guy. I bought Hibernia and John bought Cambria. John taught Cambria to some other guys later that day, and John, John C, David and I played Hibernia the following day.
Eric Vogel, the designer taught me this one and though I didn't buy it, I know that one of my friends did. It is a quick playing attacking game where you roll a die and attack one region with the die color and one region of your choice. The unique part about the game though is that the track around the board, on which you are trying to be the first to complete a lap, is has spaces with 4 different colors that aren't evenly distributed and you can't cross over a space unless you have that color.
The designer, who also did Cambria, also explained how this one worked, though we didn't play it. I didn't get as strong of a sense of this one, particularly the scoring mechanism.
One thing that was amusing was that both games used the same size and color of wooden cubes, and that the supplies got mixed up inadvertently, giving the designer more cubes than the rest of us when we played Cambria. An honest mistake, but still very amusing. :-)
Played this with the designer at GenCon. The different colored scoring track was a unique way of doing things and it really encouraged attacking instead of holing up. I liked the game and would play it again.
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Got to agree with with Wulf - Ireland isn't part of Britain.
The same issue comes up for items 97 - 101.
To get really serious about it, Great Britain is the island encompassing England, Scotland and Wales, Lesser Britain (Britanny) is the wedge-shaped part of France immediately to the south. Which means you can include every single wargame about D-Day.
And as a practical consideration, there's plenty of games about Britain, and almost certainly enough about Ireland to form another themed night if anyone wants, so mixing the two together into a British Isles theme seems unnecessary.
The new professionally published editions of Cambria and Hibernia are on the market now (at least in the US and Canada) and should be available internationally soon. DIY Hibernia and Cambria fans consider buying one now maybe?
This excellent little self-published iron age war game features a scoring track that is colour-coded. On your turn, you score one point for each territory you control, but only if the colour of your territory matches those on the track in front of you. So I might control red-green-blue-blue, but if the next step on the scoring track is yellow, I would score zero points that round. As a result, each player's position on the scoring track has significant influence on the battles which they will undertake. Very clever.
This was an intersting multiplayer abstract. It is similar to Shear Panic in that it's difficult to plan out future turns because you can't really perdict what others will do. The die roll can seriously limit what you can do.
Huh, who brought this one in? I played it once many months ago with the actual Game Creator and found it pretty fun but simple. Cool to see indie games spread abit.
That would be a unique theme....
