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As some of you know I dabble in Warhammer. Yes the table top miniatures you paint and have fantasy battles with (here’s a picture of my corpse cart).
Anyway my girlfriend started to take an interest in Warhammer and what she would call more complex games. She knew she liked party games such as Catch Phrase and Apples to Apples so she thought maybe she would enjoy some of the stuff I enjoyed. Obviously we couldn’t start her off with Warhammer so I picked up a game that neither of us has played which seemed like a nice gateway to Dominion. The Settlers of Catan, wait for it, card game!
The game is simple enough and it introduces some concepts of deck building games such as resource management, card purchasing and so forth. A game lasts about 20 minutes and she loved it. I enjoy it as a solid card game that is less complicated and time consuming as a game of dominion. The game has some issues as each game essentially ends the same way with a fight over knight and road cards and there may be some balance issues such as a card that allows you to bypass one resource requirement with any other resource. Despite its flaws, it’s a lot of fun, quick and simple. It is great way to get someone who hasn’t had much gaming experience into your world of card and boardgames. After a few days of playing this I decided to graduate her to Dominion and that’s where the next blog post will pick up.
