EC Game of the Month - On Holiday

[reikja]

Games-of-the-month History:

January 2006	Caylus	Emerald (unofficial)
February 2006	OFUA	Tongiaki
March 2006	Medina	Mueterer
April 2006	Attika	Fuersten
May 2006	Manhattan	Manitou
June 2006	CCJuS	Verraeter
July 2006	Settlers	Caylus
Sept 2006	Puerto Rico	San Juan
Oct 2006	Clans	Ra
Nov 2006	Säulen der Erde	SchrilleStille

Hello, fellow Munchkins!

These are my suggestions for February's Game of the Month:

• OFUA
• Verräter
• Meuterer
• Paris Paris

and

• Caylus

Most votes get it - as usual : )

reikja

[Jocelyn25]

*votes for Meuterer*

if someone can teach it to me  

I think neither Caylus nor OFuA really do qualify for game of the month that early, since we want to push the games least played, or?
ParisParis does get played from time to time and is more a 2p game in my opinion. So i had to decide between Verräter and Meuterer, but since i am in EC i havent seen anyone playing Meuterer. So that gets my vote. I hope I find a few munchkins willing to teach me *ggg* I think i even remember Esterio offering something like that...

Jocy, who almost had to activate her SplitPersonality to answer in both of reikjas threads

[reikja]

well, that's only because of this f** machine we use at the office. : )

so - once again, single thread and here is my vote:

OFUA

@Jocelyn: ParisParis is getting worse if you play it with more than 2 players. Things get interesting, soon...

[Nicias]

I played OFuA a few times in person (It is Citadels right?) and I quite like it, I had hated it the first time I played, I had it catogrized as a "serious" game, and now have it categorized as a "light" game in my mind and it is a lot more fun

[Lardarse]

@Jocelyn: ParisParis is getting worse if you play it with more than 2 players. Things get interesting, soon...

?

Caylus has already had January...

[PaulW]

Caylus has already had January...

Yep and had 148 plays in the first two weeks, so I would skip that.  OFUA and Paris Paris was game number 18 and 23 at the end of the year on the total games played list and do have a following (I will always play OFUA, we just had a 7 player game of OFUA at the last EC day).

Verrater and Meuterer are near the bottom of list so either one of those are ok with me.

How about we start at the bottom and work our way up?  The least played game in EC that we have a game room for is....

Tongiaki

Anyone for that?

Also, I would like to learn Doppelkopf.  icetrey, Alexfrog, Esterio and Hanno played this game quite a bit (1880, 457, 281 and 279 respectively) in the past.  Another 8 Munchkins have played this game 30 to 90 times.  So, it seems like a number of us have liked the game in the past.  However, no one plays it now (9 plays in the last 7 months).

It is a costly game too (in terms of taxes) so it would likely generate a lot of resources for us.  Anyone for Doppelkopf?

[Esterio]

Since I will be away most of February, I would prefer seeing Tongiaki as February Game of the Month, so that we keep games I enjoy, like Meuterer, Verräter or Doko, for months when I'll be here.

Another thought (which rather leads in the opposite direction): I think we should avoid having Verräter and Meuterer GotM on consecutive months.

Esterio

[Don_Quijote]

I would like to learn:

Tongiaki
Meuterer
Doppelkopf

any of these are fine.

I would like to see being played more:

Verräter
Medina

DQ

[Lardarse]

Since I will be away most of February, I would prefer seeing Tongiaki as February Game of the Month, so that we keep games I enjoy, like Meuterer, Verräter or Doko, for months when I'll be here.

Another thought (which rather leads in the opposite direction): I think we should avoid having Verräter and Meuterer GotM on consecutive months.

Esterio

Ok, how about Tongi in February, and then Verraeter, then i'd like something in April that I can teach. (It's also the Olympics that month, start another thread for those discussions please)

LA

[ratpfink]

What about Emerald, in the newest game room?

Otherwise I'd vote for Meuterer or Verräter.

[Elttil]

I think we should have two games-of-the-month each month, just to give us a little variety. So far, our games for January have kind of been Caylus (because it's the hot new game and we know the designer;)) and Emerald because we have a new room for it.

I like Paul's suggestion of working on games that get little play. By having two games each month, we can do that plus pick another game that's perhaps more popular.

Here's my list in no particular order:

• Attika
• Doppelkopf (I assume this is Doko)
• Clans
• Fuersten
• Medina
• Meuterer
• Ra
• Tongiaki
• Verräter

Based on the posts so far, if we go with two games then perhaps Tongiaki and OFUA would be a good start, then Meuterer or Verräter the next month paired with something else.

[Don_Quijote]

• Doppelkopf (I assume this is Doko)

Your assumption is correct

Tongiaki and OFUA would be a good start

Sounds good.

I think we should have two games-of-the-month each month, just to give us a little variety.

I am not sure if two games will blur our focus again, but I guess we just have to test what works best. I think one game, rarely played and not well-known by Munchkins would be enough. But let's try it out with Tongiaki and OFUA and rediscuss it.

DQ

[PaulW]

I am not sure if two games will blur our focus again, but I guess we just have to test what works best. I think one game, rarely played and not well-known by Munchkins would be enough. But let's try it out with Tongiaki and OFUA and rediscuss it.

I agree with this, but like DQ said, let's try it out.  I was looking at the 'Game of the Month' to see if we can find some 'forgotten gems' from the past.  Which is why I'm really wondering about Doppelkopf.

That being said, maybe it is better to use GOTM with more popular games.  Let's see how it goes!

[reikja]

ooooookkkkk, close to the next month - which will be February and a short one with a few people absent or busy - here we do have a result for our first GOTM games:

TONGIAKI and OFUA


Let's have fun, munchkins! reikja

[Elttil]

Only a couple more hours.

I know many of us play Ohne Furcht und Adel (OFUA, English name Citadels) so we should have little trouble finding teachers. For anyone who hasn't played, the rules are available on Bruno Faidutti's web site Note that the BSW version doesn't have the expansion characters nor did they implement the 2-player and 3-player rules.  

English rules for Tongiaki are on the BSW pages.

As with all games, more info can be found at BoardGameGeek.


I hope having two games-of-the-month works out, but if we find it better to have just one I think it'll be fine to do that next month.

/Elttil grabs a paddle, puts on a grass skirt, and contemplates who to stab in the back.