{"id":730,"date":"2012-12-20T10:59:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=730"},"modified":"2012-12-20T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T19:22:33","slug":"history-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"History of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=735\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-735\" alt=\"pic287451_t\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/pic287451_t.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe week Mike showed us how to play <em>History of the World<\/em>. Oh, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve played this games lots of times over the years, but this week Mike took it to a whole new level.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;s turn two score and continue on. Had we not discovered our error when we did, the world would have ended day sooner.<\/p>\n<p>My game was going fine even though I could not seem to win an epoch and thus get a special \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I won an Epoch Counter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 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&#8217;ve all heard of Chola right? Exactly. No one has ever heard of them. That&#8217;s because they suck! My points for the epoch dwindled.<\/p>\n<p>On epoch 6 Mike got the 2\/2 Incas and Aztecs and still rockets up the scoring track to 179 scoring 42 points.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a chart of our point progression throughout each epoch. As you can see\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 What? You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see a chart? Then complain to Mike why our site won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let my upload images! [Edit: See my constant whining worked. Here&#8217;s the chart.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=734\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-734\" alt=\"History of the World\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/History-of-the-World-300x259.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/History-of-the-World-300x259.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/History-of-the-World.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u00e2\u20ac\u201dway dead last. He had 175 points. This fulfilled the prophecy he proclaimed at the beginning of the game where he claimed First Loss.<\/p>\n<p>Chaos Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week Mike showed us how to play History of the World. Oh, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve 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 [&hellip;]<\/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":[18],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boardgames","tag-history-of-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}