EC Game of the Month - On Holiday

[porcupine]

Attika and Fürsten sounds good to me

-pine
(wodering what month she'll be able to learn RA...maybe in the next rainy season)

[Esterio]

Ra? That's an auction game, should be ok for August. But I'm sure you can find someone to explain it to you before then. Hadn't we a gold medalist in Ra recently?
If no one else volunteers, I could explain it. It is a good game - as long as you appreciate sheer auction games.

Esterio

[PaulW]

Attika is fine by me.  I've played a few times with szwanger and it is a good game.  I don't have a vote for the 2nd game.

[Lardarse]

Ra? That's an auction game, should be ok for August.

So is Fuersten...

But I'm sure you can find someone to explain it to you before then. Hadn't we a gold medalist in Ra recently?

Yip. DamageIncSKB won last month.

Attika is best played with 2. Most people agree on that. Fuersten is best not played with 5. Allow 2 hours for a teaching game of that...

LA

[Lord_Piet]

I've played a lot of Fuersten and it's not really that good with 3 either, too little competition in the game. Attika is one of the games where 3 players are better than 4.

[Elttil]

/Elttil looks over all the posts about April's games of the month, tallys the votes, crunches the numbers, fills in some blank ballots, corrects the votes of some obviously confused citizens, and arrives at a fair and equitable result.

Attika and Fuersten!

As always, you can read about the BSW interface on Boomer's Brettspielwelt Help Server and read about the games on BoardGameGeek.

[Don_Quijote]

/Elttil looks over all the posts about April's games of the month, tallys the votes, crunches the numbers, fills in some blank ballots, corrects the votes of some obviously confused citizens, and arrives at a fair and equitable result.

Attika and Fuersten!

This vote was rigged. An independent exit poll conducted by myself and a recount of the ballot came to the same conclusion:


Monopoly and Chess

DQ
 

[PaulW]

Chess

No, let's play: Global Thermal Nuclear War.

Who do you wish to play?
-> USA
-> USSR

(Sorry, that movie just popped into my head.)

[Elttil]

Monopoly and Chess

Ok, but only if I get to be the car. 

[reikja]

So, with May coming next, I simply pick up some of your postings out of this thread to summarize:

Manhatten for May

and

Verraeter, too,

for April was such a mess and we all could need some practice.. 

reikja

[Elttil]

I like both those suggestions. Manhattan is for 2-4 players and plays fairly quick, while Verräter requires 3-4 and appears to take a little longer (I haven't played it yet).

But just to keep this discussion interesting I'll throw out two other rarely played games that can handle more players: Sticheln, 3-6 players but can get kind of long; and Cartagena, 2-5 players, medium length.

[Lardarse]

Or how about Manitou and Yinsh?

[Jocelyn25]

yeah we wanted to take manitou for city league, if i remember correctly and for the second game, id take either manhattan or yinsh

Jocy

[Elttil]

I forgot about getting Manitou in there. Perhaps then Manitou and Manhattan for May.

We'll obviously have to drop this game name related to month name issue in June. Except for maybe JuS,CC.

[PaulW]

I vote for Manitou and Yinsh as well.