The week Mike showed us how to play History of the World. Oh, we’ve played this games lots of times over the years, but this week Mike took it to a whole new level.
The game started normally with all of us vying for the best empires of the current epochs. Points were scored, names were taken, enemies noted. At the start of the third turn Mike realized we hadn’t changed the point counters on the territories after the first epoch. Crap. That meant our scores were off. After some memory gymnastics we were able to recalculate everyone’s turn two score and continue on. Had we not discovered our error when we did, the world would have ended day sooner.
My game was going fine even though I could not seem to win an epoch and thus get a special “I won an Epoch Counter†worth extra victory points. Things went completely south during the fifth epoch. The defining moment was when Ben gave me Chola for epoch 5. You’ve all heard of Chola right? Exactly. No one has ever heard of them. That’s because they suck! My points for the epoch dwindled.
On epoch 6 Mike got the 2/2 Incas and Aztecs and still rockets up the scoring track to 179 scoring 42 points.
Here’s a chart of our point progression throughout each epoch. As you can see… What? You don’t see a chart? Then complain to Mike why our site won’t let my upload images! [Edit: See my constant whining worked. Here’s the chart.]
As I mentioned earlier, Mike took the game to a whole new level by winning it with 246 points. Ben slithered by me to take second with 198 points. I was third with 195 points. Owen was last. Well not just last—way dead last. He had 175 points. This fulfilled the prophecy he proclaimed at the beginning of the game where he claimed First Loss.
Chaos Steve
2 Comments
This is an excellent post! Except for the completely incorrect numbers on the chart, it’s an excellent post!
I only had 10 the first epoch. I only got 4 pre-eminence markers from the last 4 epochs so I could not have been leading in all of them. Ben had 2, Owen had 1.
Maybe next time lets graph the number of troops as well so we can show how I won by so much with the fewest troops! :D
All I can say is that I have written proof of my numbers from an unsubstantiated source who chooses to stay anonymous. I do agree with you that you had 10 on the first epoch though. Darn unreliable unsubstantiated sources!