Eventual Completion

This evening's main accomplishment was the completion of a game that was bought back in March. That evening we got as far as unpacking the pieces and looking confused at the rules, and that took us an hour. We then put it away again as we'd ran out of time to understand the game.

This evening, as we had a large amount of time, we decided to give it a go again. It again took around an hour (or slightly more) to take the various pieces out of the packaging and set them out on the board. The board, while impressively put together, is an arse to actually balance the various components on. With the experience of one game under our belts, we now know that at least the majority can be held in reserve and so don't need to be set out from the start.

Once we got under way, the game itself requires us mostly consulting the rules as to exactly how we went about it. The slow progress we made was enjoyable and I think, with more famliarity with the rules and the ability to move a bit faster, we could actually play properly. It may've been a fun game - it certainly had lots of nuances and potential for lots of different ways to win - but as we weren't quite sure what we were doing, neither of us knew who was winning until the end.

I apparantly had won convincingly. I had thought I was losing most of the game. I think reviewing the victory conditions at the start would help with planning a strategy for future games.

We've left the board up for tomorrow - after that setup effort, we might as well get two games' worth out of it - so we'll see how we do under more familiar conditions!