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[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Kingmaker is a silly game, best played while you're high, or at least drunk.

Urban Ranger's posts are silly. best read while you're high, or at least drunk.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Aramis
That's usually how I played it.
Silly, tho? No, not at all.

It's just slightly less luck dependent than Risk. Like you had the Constable of the Tower of London, and you were going to grab Henry during your move. Unfortunately, just before your turn, plague struck London and killed off Henry.

[Pythagoras]

Well if anyone lives in the eastern US, this might interest you:

http://www.prezcon.com/

Charlottesville, VA. Sometime lat Feb If I recall...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Kingmaker is a silly game, best played while you're high, or at least drunk.

China

[Aramis]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


It's just slightly less luck dependent than Risk. Like you had the Constable of the Tower of London, and you were going to grab Henry during your move. Unfortunately, just before your turn, plague struck London and killed off Henry.

Yeah, I forgot about things like that, it's been so long. Still I recall in college getting three or four people together to play--loads of good backstabbing going on.

[duke o' york]

Thanks GameGeek.

I'm off for a quick peek.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


It's just slightly less luck dependent than Risk. Like you had the Constable of the Tower of London, and you were going to grab Henry during your move. Unfortunately, just before your turn, plague struck London and killed off Henry.

Historical accuracy trumping game balance?

[Urban Ranger]

Being so random, it's great as a social game. Somebody invented Drink Maker, e.g. chug when a royal is killed. I think that's amusing.

[Muad'Dib]

Squad Leader was my first. Still have many of them, but have also upgraded to computerized versions.

To Suie & bfg9000: Greetings from Hazleton, PA.

[Standup]

Purely as a game i always found Kingmaker a bit suspect. Too many random events which affect the game in a big way, combat was weak and i remember we evolved lots of house rules to get around various flaws.

Where it really shines though is as a multiplayer experience. Get the right bunch of sociopaths, liars and people of generally dubious morality and it's great. The player interaction overcoming the shortfalls. Get the wrong group of people (and i often have) and it's tedious.

In the same category i'd add Dune (Avalon Hill), Warrior Knights (Games Workshop), Down with the King (AH) and Diplomacy.

If your opponents have no social skills or sense of fun then i stick to Third Reich and it's equivalents.

[Urban Ranger]

Down with the King is more fun than Kingmaker. However I lost my copy a long time ago and haven't been able to find another copy.

[Jon Miller]

there is an ASL tourneyment this weekend in Maryland

I will probably go for a day or two

JM

[Urban Ranger]

I used to have all the Squad Leader stuff. Actually just like the first 6 expansions. I never had time to really play the game though because I had my hands full with Star Fleet Battles.

[Rasputin]

i had the original squad leader and the next two expansion... i gave up playing it as it was becoming too tedious and involved , i prefer the grand strategy game

[rah]

Better than kingmaker was JUNTA. Talk about a great game for a drunk fest.

Or for the more twisted
"Escape from Auschwitz" where you choose to be one of masses of Jews trying to escape or the Nazis trying to keep them in.