Review: Civ Board Game

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

reference: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=861

Eagle's pretty good at making huge boards. Attack!, with the expansion, has a board easily 6x2... FEET.

Anyway, what's so bad with the money chips? do they not stack? Do you just have too many of them?

[Entsuropi]

Good review Jam. We've discussed this in our gaming group. One member mentioned that Civ was actually based upon a board game to begin with... so this is the board game of the computer game of the board game...

[JP Dogberry]

The only thing wrong with them is that they're crappy little circular bits of cardboard. The sort that fall to pieces just handling them. Using something a tad more substantial and easy to read is just better overall. They stack, but then you can't see how much you have. And yeah, there's a bunch of them.

I love the game, but I played it once and don't see myself having the right conditions to play more than once every three years.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I play Attack more often than that, b ut maybe I'm just in a different scenario than you. After all, I live in big houses, and you live ina  dorm. THat instantly gives me like, 100 times as much space as you, even if I share it with 7 other people.

[JP Dogberry]

I don't live in a dorm. I live in a Suburban house with my friends family, which is a two hour trip to the city where I work/go to school/game on a daily basis. And I don't have the money to buy the game, nor friends who I can actually get all in the same place at one time.

[stacer]

By the way, did I ever mention that I've played this once? When did this version come out? I played it at BYU, probably 5 or 6 years ago. I lasted about an hour. We had started about 7 pm, and I left at 8:30 or so, having been completely wiped out (first time playing, and nobody was really interested in helping me out)--I got bored watching them play, so I left. I heard later that they went to about 3 or 4 in the morning. It takes FOREVER. I don't remember well, but I think one of the Nates (can't remember which he is--Prometheus?) was in my ward at the time and was one of the players.