Colosseum

[RichardD]

New boardgame from Days of Wonder, designed by W. Kramer.

And it's very good. Similar sort of complexity to Ticket to Ride Europe - ie not too complex, but slightly towards the heavier end of the family game spectrum.

Quite long, though. Our first five-player game took us 2.5 hours.

[netherspirit]

I've been eying it since it was announced, and am definitely intrigued. I hope someone comes up with a good 2-player variant.

Here's some linkage to the game.
BGG Entry (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/27746)
Days of Wonder official Game page (http://www.colosseumgame.com/?rid=&S=80a122054484ba78852059e0672c8296)

[netherspirit]

BGG is giving away 5 copies of the game. You get 1 entry for each of the 5 questions you get right.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/contest/colosseum/

[InfinityMax]

Sweet. I got 'em all. I rule.

[Velenne]

Arg! 4/5.

<---roman fanboy

[AgentX-127]

Thanks for the heads up Richard.

I got 'em all right! (And they say Wikipedia can't be trusted?!?)

[Hahnarama]

You answered 5 questions correctly and your name will now be entered into the drawing 5 time(s) to win a copy of Colosseum. The drawing will be held Thursday May 10th, with the winners announced on BoardGameGeek.com the same day.

Thanks for playing and Good Luck!

[Onacara]

If I win it one of you can have it...I barely have time to play HS...so consider yourselves with 5 extra chances to win

[ninthdoc]

Colosseum is now available for pre-order at DoW's website. It looks very cool, but I'm kind of on the fence. It's due to ship 5/21-ish.

[markwars]

Thanks for pointing that out nether. I've now got five shots at winning it. :)

[ej]

Just for the record... if you get none of them right you'll still get 1 chance entered.

[markwars]

[pats ej on the back comfortingly]

[LilNewbie]

Just for the record... if you get none of them right you'll still get 1 chance entered.

"...if you get none of them right...you should have used a better search engine...."

:D

Newb.

[markwars]

Just for the record... if you get none of them right you'll still get 1 chance entered.

"...if you get none of them right...you should have used a better search engine...."

:D

Newb.

Maybe he was using the poor man's Google.....Froogle. :P

[ej]

I was going by memory. And since I've neither read nor studied absolutely anything on the subject, I can honestly say that my memory did NOT fail me.

[netherspirit]

Winners are announced tommorrow! http://www.fastlanehw.com/forums/images/smilies/fingersx.gif

[netherspirit]

Crap, I didn't win! :(

[InfinityMax]

Me neither. Dangit!

[markwars]

Where do you find winner lists?

[netherspirit]

Where do you find winner lists?

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/165458

[ej]

WOOOHOOOOO!


No, I didn't win either.

[Hahnarama]

Well since Nether just b i t c h e d slapped me because I didn't search the forums..... :P

I picked it up last week and have played a few games. Pretty freaking cool! Even w/o my heavy discount I still would have paid full MSRP. I give it two thumbs up.

[netherspirit]

Well since Nether just b i t c h e d slapped me because I didn't search the forums..... :P

Just doing my job. ;) I gotta say when I get to b-slap you, it makes it all worth it. :twisted:

I picked it up last week and have played a few games. Pretty freaking cool! Even w/o my heavy discount I still would have paid full MSRP. I give it two thumbs up.

Its still on my buy list. I've read the rules and it looks like a good time.

[RichardD]

I mostly enjoyed it, but think that it takes too long for the decisions (and fun) that it delivers. I've not played a game yet that lasted less than 2 hours, and frankly there are other games of that length which feel better.

The problem for me comes down to the way that new assets are distributed - first a rather odd "you can only win one" auction, with rules about passing and who chooses what to auction that can be a bit bizarre. That takes a bit of time. Then you have the trading phase, which can also take a bit of time. Two phases - and mechanics - designed to do the same thing, namely distribute the assets to the players for a fair price.

Frankly if I'd have gone anywhere near the development, I'd have said ditch one or the other, or possibly both (personally I'd have gone with some sort of drafting mechanic, and anyone left making the obvious comparisons to Show Manager would have been told to get stuffed).

A solid - nay, pretty good - game, but ultimately just too long for it's own good.

[Hahnarama]

I mostly enjoyed it, but think that it takes too long for the decisions (and fun) that it delivers. I've not played a game yet that lasted less than 2 hours, and frankly there are other games of that length which feel better.

The problem for me comes down to the way that new assets are distributed - first a rather odd "you can only win one" auction, with rules about passing and who chooses what to auction that can be a bit bizarre. That takes a bit of time. Then you have the trading phase, which can also take a bit of time. Two phases - and mechanics - designed to do the same thing, namely distribute the assets to the players for a fair price.

Frankly if I'd have gone anywhere near the development, I'd have said ditch one or the other, or possibly both (personally I'd have gone with some sort of drafting mechanic, and anyone left making the obvious comparisons to Show Manager would have been told to get stuffed).

A solid - nay, pretty good - game, but ultimately just too long for it's own good.

2 hours? I played a game with 4 new players on Sat and it took just over 1 hour.

I just wish Emperor medals were eaier to get. They are key to wining the game.