{"id":3803,"date":"2004-07-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2004\/07\/20\/session-reportspielbericht-20-07-2004\/"},"modified":"2004-07-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T10:00:00","slug":"session-reportspielbericht-20-07-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2004\/07\/20\/session-reportspielbericht-20-07-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Session Report\/Spielbericht 20.07.2004"},"content":{"rendered":"

Session Report\/Spielbericht 20.07.2004<\/h2>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Fliegen\"\/<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Designer<\/td>\nPhilippe des Palli\u00e8res<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Publisher<\/td>\nAsmod\u00e9e
\nEditions<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
released<\/td>\n2003<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Players<\/td>\n2 – 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spielzeit<\/td>\n30 minutes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Fliegen<\/a> (Commes les mouches)<\/h2>\n

Philippe des Palli\u00e8res and Herv\u00e9 Marly (lui meme – games) made a first appearance with
\ntheir successful “Die Werw\u00f6lfe von D\u00fcsterwald<\/a>” at Essen 2003 (a variation of the
\nparty game “whodunit”). This is their second game, also coming in a small and
\nhandy box with only a handful of cards, but this time also with 27 very realistic plastic
\nflies!<\/p>\n

The game plays like a variant of “Liar’s
\nDice<\/a>” – there are 12 bidding rounds (one for each of the 12 cards that can be
\ngained). Players are “lords of the flies” who try to land their flies on
\nvarious objects depicted (very realistically) on the cards. These can be old camemberts
\nor even cow dung (which brings the most points). Each player starts with 5 flies. You can
\nbid any secret number of flies (even zero) by putting them secretly in your hand. After
\nevery player has selected his number of flies, the starting player now begins his bid by
\nstating how many flies he thinks the players have bid in total, then the other players
\nfollow, in any order (sometimes it is good to wait a little, especially if you have many
\nflies in your hand). Then the flies are revealed, and the player with the exact or
\nclosest guess gets to have the card. If there are several players who guessed exactly the
\none who bid the most flies wins. All flies bid are lost to the players, but each exact
\nguess “regenerates” one fly.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/<\/p>\n

Most cards to be bid on are positive victory points, but there are also some negative
\npoints that you can place on other players (a slightly unfair “kingmaker”
\nelement that could be remedied by making the negative cards positive as well). There are
\nalso 3 “special” cards, the fly spray, the eggs and “Mireille”, the
\nsly fly. The spray lets you eliminate flies held in one particular hand (after the bid
\nbut before revealing), the eggs give you as many flies as players as a bonus and Mireille
\njoins your other flies in your hand, but can be removed after revealing them to change
\nthe end result if necessary.<\/p>\n

After 12 rounds the player with the most points wins (unused flies also count as one
\npoint!!!).<\/p>\n

\"\"\/<\/p>\n

After explaining the rules the experts of the Westpark gamers looked quizzically at
\nme. You have 5 flies, there are 12 bidding rounds, only very few points to gain (after
\nsubtracting the negative points) and unused flies each give a point? So why actually bid
\nflies at all? And this is what happened – we were all reluctant to use any flies in the
\nfirst rounds, and so “0” was the most common successful guess, which made the
\nfirst few rounds pretty boring. Then it became a bit more interesting when the higher
\ncards appeared, with some players daring to use 1 or (god forbid) even 2 flies! But most
\nof the time we were all pretty greedy with the flies, and rightfully so.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/<\/p>\n

We wondered if the decision to have only 5 flies per player had to do with the small
\nbox and lower production costs… there are very few design reasons against more flies
\nper player, which would make for a more dynamic and less calculable game, but as it is
\nthis game is good as a small, short diversion, but nothing that will wow you or keep your
\ninterested in the years to come.<\/p>\n

One particular card (see picture) looked very funny when turned upside down – was it
\ndone on purpose? We leave the interpretation to your imagination… those French…
\nalways something dirty on their mind :-)<\/p>\n

Game length: 30 minutes (tested with 4 players)<\/p>\n

Explaining the rules: 5 minutes<\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Magdar\"\/<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Autor<\/td>\nKevin Wilson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Verlag<\/td>\nFantasy
\nFlight Games<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
erschienen<\/td>\n2003<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spielerzahl<\/td>\n2 – 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spielzeit<\/td>\n45 Minuten<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Magdar<\/a><\/h2>\n

Ein weiteres in der Reihe “kleiner” Spiele von Fantasy Flight, von denen wir
\nschon viele auf dem Tisch hatten (“Orcz<\/a>“,
\n“Arena Maximus<\/a>“, “Drakon<\/a>“).
\nAllen diesen Spielen ist gemein, dass sie typisch amerikanische Fantasythemen mit eher
\n“deutschen” Spielmechanismen verbinden, mal mehr, mal weniger erfolgreich.
\nDiesmal sind die Spieler Zwerge, die versuchen Edelsteine und Mithril aus einem Berg zu
\nsch\u00fcrfen, bevor der b\u00f6se “Balrog” (hier aus Lizenzgr\u00fcnden: Magdar) sie
\nerwischt.<\/p>\n

Jeder Spieler besitzt zwei Zwerge, die jeweils eine Aktion haben. Das Spiel besteht
\naus maximal 32 Gel\u00e4ndepl\u00e4ttchen in 4 Reihen, die in einem Rechteck angeordnet werden. Auf
\nder einen Seite lauert “Magdar”, auf der anderen Seite befindet sich der
\nH\u00f6hlenausgang. In einer Aktion kann ein Spieler 1) seinen Zwerg entweder auf irgendein
\nbeliebiges freies Feld oder den Ausgang bewegen (damit die Edelsteine\/Mithril in
\nSicherheit bringen), oder 2) nach Mithril sch\u00fcrfen (\u00fcberall m\u00f6glich, wo noch nicht nach
\nEdelsteinen gesch\u00fcrft wurde) oder 3) nach Edelsteinen sch\u00fcrfen (\u00fcberall m\u00f6glich, wo man
\nsich maximal 3 Felder von Magdar entfernt befindet und noch nicht Mithril gesch\u00fcrft wurde
\n– die gefundenen Edelsteine sind um so wertvoller je n\u00e4her man sich an Magdar befindet).
\nMithril sch\u00fcrfen dauert zwei Z\u00fcge, Edelsteine k\u00f6nnen bis zu einem Wert von “32”
\naufgewertet werden (in den Schritten 2,4,8,16,32).<\/p>\n

Nach den 2 Aktionen (pro Zwerg eine), wird f\u00fcr Magdar gew\u00fcrfelt. Auf allen
\nH\u00f6hlenpl\u00e4ttchen befinden sich W\u00fcrfelsymbole, zum Beispiel “2,3,4” oder
\n“1,6”. Der Spieler kann nun jeweils das Magdar am n\u00e4chsten befindliche
\nH\u00f6hlenpl\u00e4ttchen mit dem von ihm gew\u00fcrfelten Symbol entfernen, auch wenn ein Spieler
\ndarauf steht (dieser Zwerg kommt zur\u00fcck zum H\u00f6hleneingang). Hiermit r\u00fcckt Magdar immer
\nn\u00e4her bis letztlich keine H\u00f6hlenpl\u00e4ttchen \u00fcbrig sind und das Spiel endet. Nun gewinnt der
\nSpieler mit den meisten Edelstein-Punkten – der Clou ist allerdings, dass Edelsteine nur
\nin der Kombo mit einem Mithrilst\u00fcck etwas “wert” sind, sonst z\u00e4hlen sie
\nnicht.<\/p>\n

\"Magdar<\/p>\n

Wir spielten auch sogleich mit den Fortgeschrittenenregeln, die folgende zus\u00e4tzliche
\nAktionen erlauben:<\/p>\n