Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Kickass Board Games.

I really can't explain this one that much, you just have to take my word. This site offers a few games to play, all of which are simply amazing. Actually, maybe you've all heard of one of the games on the site. It's called Settlers of Catan. I'd explain how one plays the game, but my descriptions suck ass. So, I'll just link to it's Wikipedia Article. Settlers of Catan.

Sure, that only talks about the actual Board game, but the game, in Java form, no download required, only a simple registration, is on AsoBrain.

Of the games there, though, my personal favorite is Toulouse. The game is actually pretty simple. The players must place tiles which have various pictures on them, one of which is the front of a castle. The point of the game is to start the construction of Roads, Monastaries, Pastures, and Castles, then, place your players in them to claim them. Once one of the above is finished being built (By adding onto it using various differnt tiles) the player will gain points. Two of the tiles, though, one being a Monastary and one being a grassy piece of land, only award points to the players if they have tokens on them till the end of the game. there are three special tokens, one of which I have no idea how to use..it's just a larger verion of your player tokens. One looks like a tower, if placed in an incomplete castle that you own, when finished, you'll recieve double points. The other token is a pig, which, like the tower token, you place in a space occupied by one of your player tokens, the only difference, however, is you place the pigs in pastures rather than castles. At the end of the game, it will add up some random bonuses that you might've gotten along the way. The game also has Cloth, Barrels, and Lumber (I believe) and I have yet to figure out what those do. In the end, it's fun to see what wacky castles you all might've created.

P.S. Sorry if the description I gave for Toulouse was...erm..confusing. Also, as you can plainly see, I like Toulouse a little more than Settlers of Catan, why? because it's simpler, and don't get me wrong, Settlers of Catan is a freaking amazing game.

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