Comments on: Boarding Party: Part 2 of 2 http://www.sinistersoups.com/2010/03/boarding-party-part-2-of-2/ Serving Musings On Game Development and Play Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:07:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Platypus http://www.sinistersoups.com/2010/03/boarding-party-part-2-of-2/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Platypus Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:50:35 +0000 http://www.sinistersoups.com/?p=340#comment-49 I play Arkham with 2 other people, and even with 3 it's brutal. Sometimes we add on one of the expansions and each play two characters. It makes what is already a long game take even longer, but with the extra characters you have a lot more options. I'd recommend playing 2 characters each if you're only going to play with 2 players. Race for the Galaxy is awesome. Even if you don't win you can have a ton of fun. One game I started as Old Earth, and promptly settled Earth's Lost Colony and New Earth. Then, I formed the Pan Galactic League so that all of humanity could have a say in interstellar politics, regardless of location. Unfortunately this isn't even close to a viable strategy, but the shear luckiness of drawing all the cards to play thematically correct made it awesome. I play Arkham with 2 other people, and even with 3 it’s brutal. Sometimes we add on one of the expansions and each play two characters. It makes what is already a long game take even longer, but with the extra characters you have a lot more options. I’d recommend playing 2 characters each if you’re only going to play with 2 players.

Race for the Galaxy is awesome. Even if you don’t win you can have a ton of fun. One game I started as Old Earth, and promptly settled Earth’s Lost Colony and New Earth. Then, I formed the Pan Galactic League so that all of humanity could have a say in interstellar politics, regardless of location. Unfortunately this isn’t even close to a viable strategy, but the shear luckiness of drawing all the cards to play thematically correct made it awesome.

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