Kingsburg

Date: 18-07-2010

Venue: Mage Cafe

Description: A 3 players (Phang, ET & me) game of "Kingsburg", takes time around 30 minutes to finish this. Phang never play this before, so Ryan (shop owner) teach him how to play. Ryan wanted to join us for a 4 players game, but too bad there are so many customers came by at that time and he have to work. Phang always hated games with Dice Rolling for the main mechanic due to its heavy luck based, but he give it a shot anyway. "Kingsburg" is a moderate luck and light strategy game, you have to manage your dice rolled result, make good use of it even it is a bad rolled, this is where the fun came in. This is mostly like a gateway game to the casual gamers who haven't try out modern boardgames. For us, this is just a filler game while waiting for Max to drop by.

Results: Me (red/winner) - 24 pts, Phang (green) - 18 pts & ET (blue) - 16 pts

The board is just so colorful and the arts are just nicely illustrated, this really attracted me to play it.

Phang is trying to figure out how to make good use of his bad dice rolled.

My Building Sheet at the end game. 10 buildings constructed.

End game scores: me - 24, Phang - 18 and ET - 16.

Kingsburg

Date: 11-07-2010

Venue: Mage Cafe

Description: It seems like Max is still on his RPG quest after we finished our 2 players "Agricola" game, so I pick up "Kingsburg" and teach ET how to play it. After 10 minutes of rules and gameplay explanations, we started to play it. This game didn't have an end, we stop playing it and wrap it up at year 2 when Max came over and say he wants to join in. I decided not to starts a new round, I said we should try some new game instead. So, next up, it's "Colosseum" time!

End game result: The game didn't finish.

The board of a 2 players game of "Kingsburg".

Kingsburg

Date: 09-07-2010

Venue: Mage Cafe

Description: I'm the earliest person who arrived at The Mage Cafe, so I used the time to finish up the rulebook of "Kingsburg", although I've watched a tutorial video earlier on on the net, it was just a brief overview. When Max arrived, we started to play a 2 players variant game. Half way through, Jeremy arrived, so we cancelled the game and started a new one. Now it's a 3 players game. "Kingsburg" is a light/gateway Worker Placement mechanic based board game, combined both luck & strategy well (balance and fun), works out well with any number of players (2-5). It was fun to block off what your friends really wanted during the game, and yet have to balance out what you needed. We really have a lot of fun with this. In the end, I lose to them. :( I'm sure this game will hit the table very soon, if with the right group.

End game scores: Jeremy (Green) - 54 pts, Max (Red) - 43 pts & me (Black) - 35 pts

Nicely illustrated board.

This is the whole board and we used our rolled dice to do the worker placement phase.

My Building Sheet, can't finish building all 'cos not enough turns for me to do so. Only 5 years game turns, each year consist of 4 seasons (8 phases).

End game result.