{"id":3880,"date":"2003-09-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2003\/09\/19\/session-report-review-19-09-2003\/"},"modified":"2003-09-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-19T10:00:00","slug":"session-report-review-19-09-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2003\/09\/19\/session-report-review-19-09-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Session Report & Review 19.09.2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

Session Report & Review 19.09.2003<\/h2>\n

Author<\/b>: Moritz<\/p>\n

at the table<\/b>: Peter, Hans, Loredana, Moritz<\/p>\n

on the table<\/b>: F\u00fcrsten von Florenz, Titan \u2013 The Arena, Bluff<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. <\/a>F\u00fcrsten von Florenz (Princes of Florence)<\/a><\/b> \"Princes
    \n

    Some thoughts about strategy<\/h4>\n

    It was interesting to play this game again, after Peter and me had thoroughly
    \n“overplayed” it while training for the German boardgame championships two years
    \nago. Peter’s big shock came when his supposedly foolproof tactic of playing with the
    \n“Gaukler” strategy was successfully countered with an astonishingly flexible
    \nand unforeseeable strategy by the winning the player in the championship.<\/p>\n

    “Fuersten” has been a bit out of the spotlight after a similar but perhaps
    \nslightly superior game, “Puerto Rico”, has appeared on the scene. In both games
    \nthe fascination lies in the joy of developing a purposely “unbeatable” superior
    \nstrategy, only to discover that there is no valid basic strategy, as any successful
    \nstrategy has to be adaptable to the circumstances. In both games you have only relatively
    \nfew actions available in the game, and the player who most successfully uses these few
    \nactions to his own benefit will be the winner, not the player who stays with his strategy
    \nno matter what happens.<\/p>\n

    \"F\u00fcrsten<\/p>\n

    In “Fuersten” the “Gaukler” tactic is, theoretically, foolproof.
    \nYou buy a lot of entertainers at the beginning of the game, as well as
    \n“Abwerbekarten” and additional “Personenkarten”, to shock every other
    \nplayer with a barrage of successfully accomplished works in the last 3 rounds (usually
    \ngoing for around 8 works in the whole game). But if the other players know this tactic,
    \nthey will make you pay dearly for your entertainers, and beyond a certain sum (1.200 Fl.
    \nin our opinion), they simply don’t become viable anymore, as you’ll end up having
    \nserious money problems (in our game, by the way, this tactic DID work, and gave Peter the
    \nvictory).<\/p>\n

    We also speculated about a “Baumeister” strategy, which successfully carries
    \nthrough what many players try to do unsuccessfully in their first game, buying three
    \n“Baumeisters” and plastering your court with 7 or more buildings for additional
    \nvictory points, also buying as many bonus cards and prestige cards as possible to achieve
    \n2-3 monster works for additional benefits. These two strategies have a good chance of
    \nwinning when playing with players who have a disorganized approach to the game. The
    \n“Baumeister” strategy could even coexist with the “Gaukler” strategy
    \n– both players would follow completely different goals and not even once conflict in the
    \nbidding phase.<\/p>\n\n\n
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