Chariot Lords Part 2

This past Saturday night, our little group got together and finished the Chariot Lords game we started. One of the guys was unable to attend, fortunately, another guy showed up and was able to take his place.

We had written down all the placements before we finished up our previous game. After a brief rules review for the new guy, we placed our games pieces down and commenced to gaming. As the Assyrian player, odds were in my favor that I was to prevail. However, the gods had other plans. Again, I can't remember all the groups of people that arrived over the game span, but it basically came down to me and the gentleman who was playing the Egyptians and their ilk.

It was touch and go for awhile, and the game went on until it reached almost midnight. When the smoke cleared, I was in 2nd place and the Egyptian player had won outright with the points tallied. Basically, he beat me by grabbing up more land. I had the opportunity to grab more myself, but failed to do so on several occasions. Also, I had made a mistake when totalling up my points for the lands I had occupied. Instead of counting 2pt's for some hilly terrain, for some reason, I only counted them as 1pt each. This had gone on since the first time we played. No excuse though. The rules were clearly explained and written down. I just failed in my adding and I am of the belief, I would have won if I had tallied correctly. We can't go back and change things, so I accept my defeat and look forward to another game of Chariot Lords.

We did come across one problem and resolved it as best we could. During the game, a group of people arrive from off the board and go against the Egyptian peoples. The stacking rules are pretty clear, which seemed confusing. The arriving people had more counters than the rules allowed as written for stacking purposes. They could only arrive on one particular space. We had them come in all at once and battle the Egyptians. However, the arriving group failed to defeat the Egyptians in battle and were forced to leave after 2 rounds of combat. They sat off on the board edge until it was their turn again. The rules did not specify what to do if defeated, so we house ruled the situation and let them try again. They arrived and again were defeated soundly hence ending their short lived regime. The gamer of said peoples was going to e-mail the game designer for clarification.

There is no game this upcoming Saturday, but I still plan to blog down the road.

Until then, Good Gaming and may the dice be with you!