>. The march on York was also funny (we normally move aside and let
> the welsh out just for a laugh - and them stomp on them
after they get the
> points).
>
Heh you must play with the same group of people I do!?
Like I said, its a great 4 player game. Terrible at any other number. But
the greens are a boring side. The greens up the top can't do anything except
breed as far as they can, and hope the norse don't kill them when they have
their major invasion. The welsh also get points for keeping everyone out
(they tell the romans to get the 9 points in scotland instead of jumping in
the mountains). I've never seen the welsh get completely destroyed - those
bloody mountains keep a few of the vermin alive :). But the welsh have a
counter problem, ie at full pop growth they have one extra man they can't
feed, so its a 'I'm going out to kill saxons by myself'. If the wins they he
gets fed, if he dies then its no great loss. The danes come in, kill saxons,
and then leave ('ho hum, we waited all game for that' is the normal
expression). I think the jutes are the other greenies, but they just sit on
the beaches and say 'peace brother', and they are limited to 5 (?) men . I
once played a non-4 player game where my jutes told the saxons 'let me live
on these beaches, and I will help you stop the blue normans' (since in 4
player game thats the normal tactics). It took a while for the saxon player
to realise that the green jutes and blue normans were both being played by
me 
> I remember one game (not sure who did it), but the romans
were killed on
the
> beaches (LOTS of 6's rolled). And the blue nation (forget
who they were)
> that normally get killed by the romans ran out of pieces as
they thrived
on
> the lowland (and not in the swamps as they normally do).Beltae? Something like that - managed to keep them alive
enough to breed
once. They even lasted until the end of the game once...
its the fact they don't get ANY points for ANYTHING (not even being alive)
after a certain stage that upsets us. I think thats a hint from the game
designer to kill off the nation.
Another 'funny' game was the roman-brits wore kilts. Seems when the romans
left they decided to put arthur in scotland (the romans did very well to get
all 3 of the hexes that need up there). That wasn't such a good idea when
more purple people wanted the same area. Due to the strict order in
movement, he sometimes had to attack himself in order to get VP's for one of
his nations. These days we like to have the roman-brits live in a mountain
hex anything BUT scotland.
dune is what we play when we have more than 4 players.
m