The Year of Wallace (III): Brass
Jun. 5th, 2008 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aTonight I played Brass, which is what really got me onto the Wallace kick, but which I hadn't played since late last year, so it hadn't appeared as part of my "year of Wallace".
At the time I considered it a very typical Wallace game, because it's heavy on economics, but I've since seen that it doesn't have another very common Wallace feature: alternative ways to end the game.
This is the first time I've played Brass since I wrote my article, Brass Tacks, and I did my best to apply my strategies from there, particularly by pushing on the high VP stuff late in the game, and ignoring coal and iron opportunities even when they looked very tasty. (Though I'll comment that I could only do this thanks to building a great economic engine early in the game.)
The results were satisfying: a 202-point win in a 3-player game.
At this point, I think Brass is my second favorite Wallace game, eclipsed only by Liberte, and that may well be because I've only played the latter just once.
Next up will probably be Byzantium, since I bought a copy a week or two ago.
At the time I considered it a very typical Wallace game, because it's heavy on economics, but I've since seen that it doesn't have another very common Wallace feature: alternative ways to end the game.
This is the first time I've played Brass since I wrote my article, Brass Tacks, and I did my best to apply my strategies from there, particularly by pushing on the high VP stuff late in the game, and ignoring coal and iron opportunities even when they looked very tasty. (Though I'll comment that I could only do this thanks to building a great economic engine early in the game.)
The results were satisfying: a 202-point win in a 3-player game.
At this point, I think Brass is my second favorite Wallace game, eclipsed only by Liberte, and that may well be because I've only played the latter just once.
Next up will probably be Byzantium, since I bought a copy a week or two ago.