[thechat] Re: Beervolt Edinburgh

[Martin Burns]

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 02:29  am, Martin Burns wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 08:51  pm, Terry Fowler wrote:
>
>>> Your place for LOTR Risk! ;)
>>>
>> My 12yod got this for me for Christmas*; we spent most
>> of an evening opening the bags of pieces and setting
>> up
>> our armies and reading the directions and then we were
>> too tired to play. Still haven't played it! We were
>> still not clear on which "way" we wanted to play and
>> such, so any tips would be welcome.
>
> Yeah. Start early.
>
> We've just finished a game that started about 9pm UK time, and that 
> with an honourable draw once we'd got down to 2 players.

Oh, forgot to mention. That's Risk with the normal rules, played on the 
LOTR board.

The LOTR rules mean that it's time-delimited (you have to end when the 
Fellowship leave the board). Normal Risk on a normal Risk board is 
shorter too iirc.

cheers
Martin