As far as I can, I'm introducing the game to family and friends. So last Sunday evening I played 3 games with my wife, brother-in-law, sisters-in-law and father-in-law.
In the first game we only used the base set because some of the folks were only playing for the second time. It all went well, the guys learned the basic rules and my brother-in-law, who was just playing for the second time, won.
In the second game, we used also the King and Scout, Cult, River #1, 2 sets of River #2 and I&C expansions. K&S made a lot of success because everyone tried to make the longest cities and roads that they could get. My brother-in-law had the chance to close a 7-tile city, but didn't because to get the king he needed a 8-tile city. Unfortunately (for him
) he didn't succeed and the city remained opened until the end. The cult expansions didn't quite succeed because as I stated on other threads some of my family don't like to play aggressive and avoided challenges. Only one was started (of course begun by me) but didn't come to an end because the right tile didn't come out. Pity! Pity! Anyway we had more 5 cult places than the usual 6 cloisters. Interesting. To play with a long long river is fun, because it's like playing two games: the river and the rest. People like the river a lot, maybe because it's different gameplay. As soon as I get my blank tiles I'll go for the Fisherman expansion. I can hardly wait. (Well... first I'll plant some forest
) The I&C also did good mostly because of the inns extra scoring and the big meeple management in order to still cities from each other. One of my sisters-in-law who didn't understand most of the game rules was helped and in the end she won by a lot of points. Needless to say that she now loves the game and knows the basic rules. My brother-in-law just called me to say he was going to buy the basic set.
In the third game nothing special came up, except for the fact of the hanger of my father-in-law because he was waiting to get a city closing tile and only got road tiles. Well... at least he got the Scout.
It's funny how I rarely win a game in spite of knowing the rules and strategy better than the others. But because of this fact people help each other and play against me.
Anyway I get better results when I play agressive and the others don't like it at all) I think that's why.
This game is making a lot of success among my folks and I think it's because of me.
