\nNimm’s Leich!, Bluff<\/p>\n
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- <\/a>Star Wars – Epic Duels<\/a><\/b>
\n
\nDiesmal spielten wir Epic Duels zu sechst in der Variante “dunkle” gegen
\n“gute” Macht, d.h. es spielten 3 (Walter, Basti, Hans) die gute Seite und 3
\n(Peter, Moritz und ich) die dunkle Seite.<\/p>\n![\"Epic](\"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/Ressourcen\/star-wars2.jpg\")
Peter begann das Spiel und hatte mit dem Imperator gleich gute
\nSpezialkarten zur Verf\u00fcgung, die er sofort gegen Walter einsetzte. Der verlor damit alle
\nseine Handkarten und war schutzlos, ohne \u00fcberhaupt am Zug gewesen zu sein. Als Peter dann
\nin seinem zweiten Zug dies ausnutzte, um Walters ersten Charakter zu t\u00f6ten stand Walters
\nMeinung \u00fcber das Spiel fest: keine M\u00f6glichkeit, das Spiel zu beeinflussen – man wird
\ngespielt. Hier spielte sicherlich eine Rolle, dass wir zu wenig als Team spielten, um uns
\ngegenseitig zu sch\u00fctzen.<\/p>\nDie \u00fcbrigen Spieler lieferten sich einen spannenden Kampf, der letztendlich nach 30
\nMinuten Gesamtspielzeit mit dem Sieg Peters und damit der dunklen Seite der Macht endete.<\/p>\nBis auf Walter waren alle der Meinung, dass “Epic Duels” ein spannendes,
\nkurzweiliges und sehr stimmiges Spiel mit ausgewogenen Charakteren ist, das wir gerne
\nwieder spielen werden.<\/p>\nWestpark-Gamers-Bewertung: 7.75<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
- <\/a>\u00d6l f\u00fcr uns alle<\/a><\/b>
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\n![\"\u00d6l](\"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/Ressourcen\/oelfua_t.jpg\")
In the 1960s I played this game quite often and I remember
\nthat I liked it a lot at the time.
\nRavensburger<\/a> published the first release in 1960 (apparently in co-operation with
\nBritish Petrol) and decided to re-release it in 1976. The second issue came with large
\nseparate boards for the oil drilling and market value markers but overall I liked the
\n1960 material better – it delivered a less abstract flair to the game (I particularly
\nliked the little oil drilling towers, which although a bit fiddley to use were a lot
\nnicer than the abstract plastic pawns used in the 1976 release). We played the 1976
\nrelease of Hans, who has equally good memories about the game as I have.<\/p>\nBasically, this a business game about oil exploration and transportation. Players roll a
\ndie to move their pawn across a track on the main board. The space they end their move on
\nindicates an action they can or must make. Some spaces trigger actions just when moved
\nover – these actions apply to all players. Possible actions of the first kind are buying
\nthe next available oil drilling right and to start drilling for oil, or to take one of
\nthe two kinds of event cards. A possible action of the second kind is that all oil wells
\nbelonging to players produce oil, which increases the level of oil in the storage tanks
\nof each well.<\/p>\n![\"\u00d6l](\"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/Ressourcen\/oelfua_a.jpg\")
Once a player has moved his\/her pawn (s)he may charter a
\ntanker to transport oil from a well’s storage tanks to a refinery. Two types of
\ntankers with different capacity (and charter price) are available and no ship may be
\nchartered if there is insufficient oil to completely fill it. Tankers move one space
\nacross the world map on the board per player’s turn. Shipping routes have different
\nlength depending on the location of the well and the chosen refinery. Whenever a ship
\nmoves the owner has to pay operating costs, which are on top of the initial charter cost
\nfor the tanker, making it important to always have sufficient money available – so
\nplayers have to carefully watch their cash flow. Once a ship reaches its destination the
\nrefinery pays the current market price for that location and the price drops one step
\nthereafter. This is a simple mechanism to simulate supply and demand.<\/p>\nPlayers start with one working oil well and may start as many oil drilling operations as
\nthey like – provided they end their move on the appropriate space and have sufficient
\nmoney to buy the exploration rights. Drilling for oil is a chancy business and will fail
\nor incur additional costs in about 40% of the cases.<\/p>\nThe game ends once the first player has successfully completed 10 oil deliveries to the
\nrefineries.<\/p>\nAll the good memories about the game disappeared during playing for about 90 minutes
\nafter which we aborted the game. The conclusion was that it would last at least another
\n90 minutes if not a lot longer. This in itself would not have been a problem if the game
\nprovided at least a minimum of player interaction. Instead, players have to wait
\nendlessly for the other players to complete their moves without being able to plan ahead.
\nMost of the time players would be able to plan and perform their moves completely
\nindependently of each other as hardly any of the player’s choices has an impact on
\nthe other players. Even the oil price changes due to supply and demand variations were
\nfound to be of little tactical implication as shipping routes are too long to be able to
\nseriously plan ahead. So the game comes down to the simple principle: start an oil
\nexploration whenever you can and ship oil whenever possible using the shortest possible
\nroute, and most importantly “beat” your opponents when rolling the die. Not
\nenough substance for a game that lasts 3 hours or more…<\/p>\nWestpark Gamers Score: 2.34<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
- <\/a>Der wahre Walter<\/a><\/b>
\n
\nFata Morgana<\/a>, the publisher of this game is best known in the English
\nspeaking parts of the world by their game Kreml<\/a>, which was
\npublished in English with slightly modified rules by Avalon
\nHill<\/a> under the name of “Kremlin<\/a>“.
\nMany Fata Morgana games are card games (like their famous “Anno
\nDomini<\/a>” and “Tichu<\/a>“) and “Der wahre Walter”, too, comes as a set of
\n156 cards with 3 statements each on either side of the card. Each of the statements
\nrefers to the person reading it to the others (the Sphinx). A keyword of a statement is
\nblanked out by the word “Walter”.<\/p>\nThe game works like this: in sequence each player for one turn resembles the
\n“Sphinx”, takes the next card from the shuffled deck, selects one side of the
\ncard and reads the 3 statements to the other players. Example: “Having won a million
\nin the lottery I would Walter<\/i><\/b>.” Using their knowledge about the person
\nplaying the Sphinx the players (including the Sphinx) write down what they think is the
\nmost appropriate replacement for the word “Walter”. This can be a single word
\nup to a complete sentence.<\/p>\nOnce all players have written down their “Walter” words the Sphinx collects all
\nnotes and reads them (including her own) in random order to the players. The players (of
\ncourse excluding the Sphinx) then guess what the Sphinx’s “Walter” words
\nmight have been. Players who guessed correctly receive a point (the Sphinx also receives
\na point for each correct guess of another player). In case a player guessed wrong the
\nplayer who wrote down this (incorrect) word receives a point.<\/p>\nBasically the game implements the same principles as the lexicon game or the German
\n“Nobody
\nis perfect<\/a>“. The only difference is the more personal touch by having to guess
\nwhat the Sphinx will write down. The Sphinx will try to write down something that is
\nlikely to be guessed by the others and the other players will try to write down words
\nwhich sound convincing to all other players in order to trick them into selecting this
\nword. So it is of some benefit to know the person that plays the Sphinx quite well.<\/p>\nAll of this is by no means a new idea or principle – it works fine all right but does not
\nhave a “lasting effect”.<\/p>\nWestpark Gamers Score: 5.67<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
- <\/a>Nimm’s Leich!<\/a><\/b>
\n
\n![\"Nimm's](\"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/Ressourcen\/nimmsleich_t.jpg\")
Although already 5 years old this is the first time we played
\nthe game. The title is a pun using the German idiom for “Take it easy” and by
\nremoving just one letter changing it to the equivalent of “Take a corpse” –
\nwell…<\/p>\nThe game uses 6 different “Leich” cards which are shuffled and placed face up
\nin a line on the table. One end of the line is marked as “top” by turning the
\ncard (the highest ranking “Leich”) by 90 degrees. Each player receives 6 cards
\nfrom a deck of 36. Each of these cards has 6 spaces for a representation of a
\n“Leich” card. The distribution of “Leich” pictograms on these cards
\nvaries significantly, some show only 2 different “Leichs” but each of them 3
\ntimes. Others show 3 “Leichs” each of them twice and so on. Each player takes
\nthe first card of his\/her deck (which lies face down in front of the player) and the task
\nof the players is to make a bet on how many “Leichs” of a particular kind are
\nrepresented in total on all of the players drawn top cards. The start player makes the
\nfirst bet. The next player now has three choices: either raising the bet for that
\n“Leich” by at least one, or quoting a new bet for a higher-ranking
\n“Leich” or challenging the bet of the previous player. If a bet is challenged
\nall<\/b> players vote on this bet by simultaneously showing a “thumbs up or
\ndown”. Those choosing “thumb up” believe in the bet, those with their
\nthumb down disbelieve it. The cards are then revealed and the players who guessed
\ncorrectly discard their card, the other players take back the card and place it as the
\nlast card in their deck.<\/p>\nTwice in the game each player has the opportunity to ask two players to show him\/her
\ntheir card. This must happen before a bet is challenged, though.<\/p>\nThe game ends once a player has discarded all of his\/her six cards.<\/p>\n
If all of this sounds familiar: yes, the principle is very similar to “Liar’s
\nDice” or “Bluff” as it is called in Germany. In comparison, we much prefer
\nBluff – it plays faster and is a bit more predictable with respect to the odds, and last
\nbut not least the suspense of the fact that the number of dice (and players!) is
\nconstantly reduced is unsurpassed.<\/p>\nWestparkgamers Score: 4.5<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
- Hence we decided to play our favorite “last game of the
\nevening”:
\n\n<\/li>\n- <\/a>Bluff<\/a><\/b>
\n
\nAfter having some extreme results regarding the number of dice showing the same value
\nlast time round, this round was more of the usual matter. Our first round was slightly
\noff the usual as it showed an surprisingly fast reduction of dice during the first few
\nturns.<\/p>\nWestparkgamers Score: 7.58<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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