{"id":600,"date":"2013-01-20T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2013-01-20T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T01:25:00","slug":"small-world-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/600\/small-world-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Small World: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Small World is a game I’ve been interested in since I saw the first episode of Tabletop<\/a>; it seemed a somewhat complex, but interesting game.<\/p>\n

When thinking up gifts this Christmas, Kristan and I decided that it would be an interesting thing to get for Julie.<\/p>\n

Today, we played for the first time, and it was fun! It was definitely a bit long for the first game — about two hours — but I think it’ll be a lot quicker the second time around. (It’s also a type of game that I could see working well on a computer — the physical interactions with all the options requires a fair amount of interpretation that isn’t trivially internalized.)<\/p>\n

The basic idea of the game isn’t much different from Risk: You have territories. You conquer other territories. As yo are conquered, you lose pieces. Once you lose enough pieces, you pick a different race and start over; the end-game goal is to get as many ‘tokens’ (game points) as possible. <\/p>\n

The race choices you have are limited to five at any given time, rotating through a set of 15; each race gets combined with a special power — things like “Flying”, which gives the ability to conquer non-adjacent territories, or “Mounted” which lowers the cost of conquering Farmland and Hills.<\/p>\n

Since the race + power combinations are random (shuffle the deck of cards), you can get interesting combinations. Bivouwacking gives you 5 extra defense tokens to deploy as you wish, combined with Halflings, whose initial two regions can’t be conquered at all.<\/p>\n

For Alicia, Kristan and I, the game was quite enjoyable and picked up throughout; Julie was a bit slower to pick it up, and lagged slightly towards the end of the game, but that doesn’t surprise me with ~2 hours of back and forth.<\/p>\n

For people who like board games, I think that Small World would be a positive addition to any gaming collection, and I look forward to the chance to play with some friends who might be interested in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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