We bought Laura a game for her birthday - Axis and Allies. It is a strategic game of World War 2 and since Laura is a World War 2 history buff, so we thought she would enjoy the game. We hadn't had a chance to play it since her birthday, so we thought we would take a little time today to give it a try. Todd opened it up last night to read the instructions and we realized that it would take more than just a little time when he looked at the last page of the instruction booklet and it was page 31... He read the instructions and then we found a 1 hour video online (broken up into 4 segments) about how to play the game. We got started and 2 1/2 hours later we had gotten around the 5 players... 1 time... Laura, Abigail, and Charlotte all think they will enjoy the game - Todd thought it was fun... I had glazed over eyes by the time my turn came (I was player #5) but I think it will be a good game and will go a lot faster after we get all of the steps and exceptions to the rules figured out. (Kris R. - if J & H are interested in playing some day let us know (it is a lot more involved than Catan but if they like strategy games they will probably enjoy this - they might want to watch the YouTube videos of the 1941 edition first - we'll try to get it figured out better too - it is a relatively realistic set up of the war)
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| Trying to figure out how to set up the board |
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| Moving her troops |
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| Fighting a battle |
Sounds like Risk. And your reaction sounds like mine. Scrabble and Monopoly are tooooooooo long and boring for me, too. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the invitation, but shoot. me. now.
ReplyDeleteAnita - kind of like Risk, but more complicated, I think... I've never actually played Risk, but Todd and some of the kids have... for hours!
ReplyDeleteKris - I won't make you play, lol