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Im intrigued by the mentor idea. Would be good for new players starting to have someone showing them the ropes and giving them advice on growing what to look for.
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Thanks for the kudos, but this was a team effort. My first few turns in this game were my first few Alamaze turns, and my teammates helped correct a number of potential mistakes by me. I had an overall strategy, but they definitely made sure I also got the mechanics right. My strategy was just to keep taking regions, racing the Ranger, while the Troll and Gnome went 2x1 on the Black Dragons. It did not work exactly that way, but it was pretty close to that. To the earlier question, I think our team communicated well, and helped each other with food/gold/artifacts/orders, exchanging turn results and planned orders, but it was not quite as coordinated as one person running all kingdoms. So JF got an early advantage I think with that kind of coordination and because he had some resource advantages in turns 4-6 because of his southern regions, but we made some good strategy moves and we simply had more orders and emissaries since we had 3 kingdoms to 2. JF made a good run at it, but I don't think this is a viable format generally, though I do like JF's idea of 3v3 with a mentor on each team. Thanks to my teammates and to JF for this fun introduction to the game.
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We have done it before but I think to make it work better give the mentors a wizard kingdom so they will likely play more a support roll to the two new players. Perhaps teams like. WI EL TR vs SO DA BL
or hold off and wait for 3rd cycle could be fun to play zones 1 4 7 vs 3 6 9. Let the players pick which kingdoms to play
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we could probably do a WI EL TR vs SO DA RA in that game. Not sure how easy it would be to put the SO in r3 and the WI in r7 to make it work, but that would sound make for a fun game.
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I am intrigued by this format.
I think I would be interested in being the podium player in control of 2 kingdoms against 3 non-podium players.
How were the kingdoms selected? Draft?
Are there three players interested in such a primeval contest?
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I would be interested in it.
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it really should be 7. 6 regions seems a bit easy to get.
