I was at WBC (World Boardgaming Championships) the first week of August. I watched 22 B2 games in the tournament (and a bit of one pickup game) as well as...
... [snip] ... In some of our games, Romans just had a bad luck - or rather Belgae had a good luck, so Romans never get to Scotland at all. But generally, the...
I have said many times that I hear from one group who say that such-and-such a color cannot win, or another says that such-and-such a color is clearly the...
... Yes, it's certainly the roads. One of the best players had not played B2 before, and still managed to max the Romans on his first play (though he didn't...
... Notice I did not write like Danes, but instead that invading would be allowed. Just that waiting at sea would not be allowed. This will change the balance...
I think it may be Ewan - he was saying that his midgame Picts and Angles performed well, but he had terrible luck at each end. 338 (169 in old money - but B2...
Gentlemen I was playing Red against Ewan in that game. It is not the first time he has destroyed all his competitors in a game. He is really very good at this...
Greetings Steve, Yup, that was Ewan. Yes, some bad luck at the beginning and end, but essentially that game him the leverage to talk the other players into...
I think the best score of the Defi was around 194 performed by Christophe Dubois at the time (about 5 years ago), with a mammoth 100+ for the Angles. Renaud ...
... I mispoke in my enthusiasm. I already have the English on "must raid only" as in cannot stay on land but must come in somewhere, on R4 in B3. In R5...
Uh-oh. What is this big red circle that just grew on my chest? ... Sort of. It is still taking novice (to B2) Green players a long time to realise how much...
Jim Jordan has been kind enough to allow me to post his excellent account of the tournament: WBC 2006 Britannia Tournament 45 people, more than the tournament...
Roman armies are ordinary in R4 and R5 in B3, though there are likely to be a few elite armies in R4. Moreover, there are many fewer forts (though they...
... I actually meant Irish & Scots, too. Especially Scots tend never to raid (or at most once with 4 unit stack T6), and rather wait until Fergus to make...
Regarding British (i.e. nations starting holding British land areas) revolting against Roman rule, reviewing my BritExtra rules from the files pages I have: ...
... I think that I'm protecting players from themselves in not letting them revolt. It certainly would be interesting to let anyone revolt, but then risk...
... As my purpose is to get these guys to attack the Romans, forcing the Scots to fight will only get them killed. (Of course, in B3 there arne't many Scots,...
Late in the third century, I think, there was an independent "Emperor" in Britain, who was killed by one of his own men, who was then taken out by the...
There are actually several revolts as time passed in Britain. And several times when forces from the continent were sent in to help counteract a particular...
... What about "paying" these emergency troops with victory points? If calibrated properly, this will give an interesting decision. -- Björn Rabenstein ...
Lew, A question came up upon our 2nd playing last night. We were reading about Roman road movement, and it occurred to me that we may have been doing it ...
Well, I'm not always the best person to ask about the rules, because I've got so many different games on the go/in my head, but this question came up at the...
One of the players at WBC had (photocopied, made by hand) maps showing where nations scored at various times in B1. I've seen a set of maps like this for B1...
... Hi Lew, From my experience the rules of Britannia are not that difficult for players to grasp. However, the scoring mechanics take quite some time to get a...
When I was compiling VP tables for BritExtra I began by using B1 scores which were then modified according to the changes I'd made. But as I went on, I...
In the Brit-like games I've been working on for the past two years, the points for all nations can be perceived by looking at the map (or a miniature of the...
... ideas? ... You're right, both kinds of maps are needed, and the individual ones are the easier. A map of "all points for a Round" would certainly need a...
... While I can see why you did this, I think the idea that varying points gained for a particular nation holding a region at different times is an important...
