Yeah, actually the calamity cards are a lot of fun to watch as they travel around the table. All of them are terrible at keeping straight faces, while others have a tough time not verbally reacting before realizing that if they kept quiet they could trade it away. The game has been fun and I think they've learned something from it.
The guy with the big smile is in the lead playing Babylon, but has run out of good land areas to expand into. He has tried to avoid building in flood zones and was complaining that the large area for the Arabian desert should have a higher rating to allow more tokens. But when I asked him why he thought it was low he looked at the board and explained to me that the desert would make farming difficult because of the dry climate and that he knew that it should be a 1 but wished it could be 5 or 6.
There're plenty of starving people in famine zones that wish their arid homelands were lush 5 or 6 rated verdant fields. As Sam Kinison said, "Sure, we've got deserts in the U.S., but we don't f-ing live in 'em! MOVE!!!"
Great picture by the way. I tried to play AdCiv with the HS gaming club that I supervise, but with only 90 minutes for the after school activities session before the bus comes to take the kids home, it's very tough to get very far into the game.
I've been sponsoring a "Strategy Games" mini-course (sort of like a club) for about three years. I meet with the kids that sign up twice a week for an hour. I usually rotate games every marking period. This is my first time using Adv Civ but I've used Diplomacy and Circus Maximus from AH too. The kids usually get into it. Next up is going to be Wings of War.
Wish there were teachers like you, when I was in school. We had one guy, who sponsored our club, but we had to convince him, and it was really only a meeting space.
There're plenty of starving people in famine zones that wish their arid homelands were lush 5 or 6 rated verdant fields. As Sam Kinison said, "Sure, we've got deserts in the U.S., but we don't f-ing live in 'em! MOVE!!!"
Los Angeles is a desert. Last time I checked, people "lived" there.
There're plenty of starving people in famine zones that wish their arid homelands were lush 5 or 6 rated verdant fields. As Sam Kinison said, "Sure, we've got deserts in the U.S., but we don't f-ing live in 'em! MOVE!!!"
Los Angeles is a desert. Last time I checked, people "lived" there.
I heard there are people living in the Mojave desert, a little place called Las Vegas. Perhaps the town just isn't very well known...
There're plenty of starving people in famine zones that wish their arid homelands were lush 5 or 6 rated verdant fields. As Sam Kinison said, "Sure, we've got deserts in the U.S., but we don't f-ing live in 'em! MOVE!!!"
Los Angeles is a desert. Last time I checked, people "lived" there.
I heard there are people living in the Mojave desert, a little place called Las Vegas. Perhaps the town just isn't very well known...
There's the entire "High Desert" and some people seem to live there.
There're plenty of starving people in famine zones that wish their arid homelands were lush 5 or 6 rated verdant fields. As Sam Kinison said, "Sure, we've got deserts in the U.S., but we don't f-ing live in 'em! MOVE!!!"
Sam Kinison was right. Las Vegas is in the dumbest location in the US. Eventually Lake Mead is going to dry up. At the rate it is being consumed vs replenishment it will not take long. Then Las Vegas can return to its former state. A dry, desolate wasteland.
The group meets twice a week for an hour each time. We keep the game set up in a corner of the library. Although the group was skeptical at first they now complain that we don't get to play enough, but yeah 6 hours would be tough. Actually I have hard time getting my adult friends to sit down and play Adv. Civ. because it takes so long.
Yeah, actually the calamity cards are a lot of fun to watch as they travel around the table. All of them are terrible at keeping straight faces, while others have a tough time not verbally reacting before realizing that if they kept quiet they could trade it away. The game has been fun and I think they've learned something from it.
