Longest boardgame
Which boardgame did you take the longest time to complete?
Some games can be very long if followed traditionally e.g. Monopoly and Risk where the standard way of completing the game is to have one single winner. Others can be completed in a short time especially if players are experienced e.g. Blokus.
I don't usually time the boardgames I play. If I ever play games such as Monopoly or Risk, I would only play them with some house rules so as to speed things up e.g. the game ends when 1 player goes bankrupt in Monopoly.
That was until I played Eclipse recently. That took around 3 hours, 4 hours? I couldn't remember because that quickly was overtaken by the next game: Mage Knight. Three of us took a glorious 8 hours to complete the full conquest scenario @_@
Ok, ok. To be fair, we were all fairly new players to that. It was only our 4th time for Ban and I and the 3rd time for a friend of ours. But still...
Mage Knight is a game where you play as a conqueror in a fantasy world. You start of with a deck of 16 basic action cards (1 of them is unique to that character) and then you build your deck subsequently with addion of advanced action cards and spells through leveling, purchase and conquest. Along the way, you can also purchase units to help you with your battles in most areas.
Regardless of the scenario selected for play, there is always an end to the game in spite of the progress made by each player i.e. the game will still end even if players fail to achieve the scenario's objective. So what really determines the length of the game is the time taken for players to plan and execute their actions.
In our opinion (Ban's and mine), the rules could be simplified a lot more and yet still retain its richness. Some rules are just unnecessarily complicated.
Despite this, we enjoy playing this game thoroughly.
Some games can be very long if followed traditionally e.g. Monopoly and Risk where the standard way of completing the game is to have one single winner. Others can be completed in a short time especially if players are experienced e.g. Blokus.
I don't usually time the boardgames I play. If I ever play games such as Monopoly or Risk, I would only play them with some house rules so as to speed things up e.g. the game ends when 1 player goes bankrupt in Monopoly.
That was until I played Eclipse recently. That took around 3 hours, 4 hours? I couldn't remember because that quickly was overtaken by the next game: Mage Knight. Three of us took a glorious 8 hours to complete the full conquest scenario @_@
Ok, ok. To be fair, we were all fairly new players to that. It was only our 4th time for Ban and I and the 3rd time for a friend of ours. But still...
Mage Knight is a game where you play as a conqueror in a fantasy world. You start of with a deck of 16 basic action cards (1 of them is unique to that character) and then you build your deck subsequently with addion of advanced action cards and spells through leveling, purchase and conquest. Along the way, you can also purchase units to help you with your battles in most areas.
Regardless of the scenario selected for play, there is always an end to the game in spite of the progress made by each player i.e. the game will still end even if players fail to achieve the scenario's objective. So what really determines the length of the game is the time taken for players to plan and execute their actions.
In our opinion (Ban's and mine), the rules could be simplified a lot more and yet still retain its richness. Some rules are just unnecessarily complicated.
Despite this, we enjoy playing this game thoroughly.
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