I have been wanting to play Glory to Rome for quite a while, I purchased it back in August in a little gameshop when I was in Capinteria for a conference. They have a new edition out that is really nice, but I got the old edition with cartoon graphics. GTR has gained quite a popular following even though it was cheaply produced, and is supposed to have great strategic gameplay. In a word it is fun. We almost got all the rules right, but even then we were able to see the deep strategy and possibilities in this game. It is a simple card game where you are trying to rebuild Rome using order cards that have multiple uses, and you must decide what they will be used for: as a role to take actions, as a building to build, as materials to add to a building, as a client to give more actions, or as victory points in your vault. When used as buildings, once completed they gave you extra abilities to then use. Lots of variety and lots of decisions, how I like it.
The group was also craving a cooperative game, so we also played Forbidden Island, a lite version of Pandemic. It still has the genius mechanic of re-stacking cards on a pile to effect similar areas in the game, this time to remove tiles from a sinking island that you must retrieve 4 treasures from and escape by helicopter before you go down with it. Each player has a different role selected at the beginning so that you need to work together and maximize talents to win the game. We won with only a few dicey moments, but we were only playing on the beginner level. It was still fun and gave me a taste to want to play Pandemic again.
There were again quite a few people so we also played a few rounds of Ultimate Werewolf. It worked pretty well this time, I was of course the moderator and on our second game it whittled all the way down to two people and the werewolves won.
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