Hi guys, I'm new around here, started playing Britannia only recently but I like the game very much. In the files section, I saw rules and a map for a...
Welcome, I put together the BritExtra files a couple of years ago, but I've never found the time to playtest it, so for the moment I've left the question of...
Thanks for your fast reply. I think I'll try to stay close to the Britannia numbers of included units for the existing nations and try to come up with...
These are probably covered on the Geeklist, but I can shed a little light on two. Antike is a Civ Lite with two boards: one with a traditional Mediterranean...
Long-time lurker, second-time poster. I've been hoping to get Brevissima on the table for a while now, and it looks like I'll finally have my chance this...
Some of the expert players have suggested that Green is inherently the weakest of the colors, because changes in point allocations--I don't even remember why...
I've been looking at my copy of Italia. Where I've been striving for greater simplicity, this goes the other way. There are 624 pieces (for two somewhat...
Lew; Granting that this might be a green / purple sort of thing, at what point does simplicity render a game so abstract that it is not about anything? My...
Lew I like Italia. It is a good game. It takes the Brit system and moves it up a notch or two in complexity. Neither simplicity or Complexity make a good...
I agree, Euro games typically seem to have nothing to do with any reality, or any model of reality. I don't see how any simplification of a sweep of history...
I didn't say it wasn't a good game. From a practical point of view, it's much harder to market a complex game than a simple one. Look at the sales of Euro...
Well I went two steps backward, one forward with BritExtra, in that I increased the turns to 32 and the nations to 25, but I simplified the scoring somewhat in...
Account of a game of Barbaria (formerly Dark Ages), Epic version. On this scale it's easy to see how internal problems and poor leadership stopped nations from...
... usually ... In what time period? You'd be shocked at how few games many Euros sell. I know of a Top 20 game (on the BGG) that only sells 5,000 units a...
Why is Sweden impassable? In my HOTW I definately have the Varangians as a nation starting in Sweden and ultimately founding the Rus along he Volga. Perhaps...
Oh, just look under History of the World in files. In the nations database some "nations" are listed twice, this is because some can "convert" to settlers and...
In the time-frame (game ends 1250), Norway and even Denmark are essentially impassable to any but Vikings. However, I wanted to give the Vikes origin spaces,...
Figures are hard to come by, but I know that most Euros don't sell more than 10,000. OTOH there are the ones that sell 250,000 and more, unknown for any other...
... OMG, what a great map! I love the detail and the terrain. Plus, I love any map with Kamchatka, and as an eighth-generation Ohioan now living in exile, I...
... Lancaster PA: http://www.boardgamers.org/#wbc ... Yes, for now. They try to limit it to 100 games, with the exact 100 based on interest. Here's hoping...
I take it you mean the Hasbro edition? It's very similar to the old AH/Gibsons, but with lots of plastic minis. Actually I have no problem with Essex, Mercia...
At WBC I wasn't able to get other people to playtest games, partly because I had to leave Friday afternoon just as more people were showing up, partly because...
Hi Lew, ... Not really. With players who know Italia it doesn't take very much more time than Britannia. It's shorter than Chariot Lords, Hegemonia or...
Lew Having read the account it confirms what I previously thought, I would purchase the game and enjoy playing it. Jim **************************************...
The pseudonymous "Adam Smith" wrote, in "Wealth of Nations", about the invisible hand "to illustrate how those who seek wealth by following their individual...
... Actually, it was the original Adam Smith. I think the pseudonymous Smith was George Goodman. ... Does this imply that the game is unbalanced for new...
The original Adam Smith was a pseudonym for an unknown person (unless someone has figured it out recently). Designers try to balance the game for newbies; but...
Well, 5 hours is 25% longer than 4. But not as much longer as I've seen implied. Thanks for the time comparisons. Because Italia has many fewer turns than...
