{"id":374,"date":"2011-04-07T17:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T22:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=374"},"modified":"2011-04-07T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T22:06:29","slug":"rise-of-empires-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Rise of Empires"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week Owen brought Rise of Empires<\/em>, so we settled down to play it. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve tried this game two other times and liked it both times. You can read about our previous games here <\/a>and here<\/a>. The game started out normally enough, we all jockeyed for position trying to gain resources, gold, people, and victory points. We caught Ben cheating a dozen times, and Mike once or twice. A couple of times we had to backup and redo actions that we realized broke the rules. This mostly happened during the combat action. I sure this action has a better name in the game, like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153expansion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153exploration\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, but to us, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153combat\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. It seems hard for us to remember the rules concerning how you expand your empire. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to remember those rules, as I hardly expanded my tiny empire anywhere.<\/p>\n

We had a really good time during the game with lots a good natured ribbing and finger pointing. I like this kind of management-type game. I also suck at this kind of management-type game. And the reason I like is the same reason I suck at it. You have lots of options and choices available to you. \u00c2\u00a0I invariably choose the wrong option or make the wrong choice. Give me a straightforward game like Roborally<\/em> and I can speed across the factory floor while pushing my opponents into bottomless pits\u00e2\u20ac\u201dby accident of course. In these management games, my decisions border on disastrous.<\/p>\n

So how did our game end? Well we made it through 2 of the 3 eras in about 2+ hours. Not bad. Towards the end of the game it was obvious that Mike and Ben were the contenders for the win and Owen and I were contenders for not-being-last. I cemented my position in the game by making a huge blunder on the last turn. I was last in victory points which meant I got to choose what position in the turn order I wanted to be. In the previous round, going last was good, so I chose it. Had I only realized that now, going first was much, much better. It cost me 10 victory points and 3rd<\/sup> place. I came in last. Woe is me. As for the less important first place position, Ben took that. Mike was second and Owen was third.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure when the other guys read this they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll wonder \u00e2\u20ac\u0153why didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you mention this funny thing or that great quip?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve forgotten them all; just like I want to forget this game\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6that I hope we play again soon.<\/p>\n

Chaos Steve<\/p>\n

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This week Owen brought Rise of Empires, so we settled down to play it. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve tried this game two other times and liked it both times. You can read about our previous games here and here. The game started out normally enough, we all jockeyed for position trying to gain resources, gold, people, and victory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boardgames","tag-rise-of-empires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}