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📍The Three Lochs of Glen More, Scotland

An unbelievable sight on an unbelievable day!

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Boardgames in the News: When is a Meeple not a Meeple?

Answer:  When it’s not a Hans im Glück Meeple, apparently.  The term Meeple was allegedly coined nearly quarter of a century ago by Alison Hansel while paying the tile laying game, Carcassonne.  It was a conjunction of “my” and “people” and was used to refer to the characteristic wooden people-shaped pieces.  Since then it has been modified and the suffix “-eeple” has now come to mean game token…

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Boardgames in the News: New Editions that aren't an Improvement

Boardgames in the News: New Editions that aren’t an Improvement

Everyone has experienced a disappointing remake of a favourite film; while we always hope for an improvement, only occasionally do we get one.  Board games have a similar problem, but as with films, things are often not clear cut.  For example, the new version of Camel Uparguably has nicer art and a better pyramid dice shaker than the original.  The Crazy Camel mini expansion and the partnership…

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Boardgames in the News: The Peril of Box Inflation

Boardgames in the News: The Peril of Box Inflation

The increase in the number of games available has increased the pressure on the market considerably in the last couple of years, and as a result, buyers are getting more canny.  Backers are more discriminating on KickStarter, and it is becoming harder to get market penetration with an original product.  As a result, in the last year, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of reprints,…

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Boardgames in the News: Essen Cancelled

Boardgames in the News: Essen Cancelled

This has been a bad year for boardgame conventions, but today Friedhelm Merz Verlag GmbH have finally made the long expected announcement that the 2020 edition of Internationale Spieltage in Essen has fallen to Covid-19.  The next SPIEL will now be 14th to 17th of October 2021.

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Glen More

Today on The Crafty Players, Paddy takes a look at the 2010 release Glen More. How has it held up?

Glen More is an older game – it’s not polite to talk about someone’s age, but I bring up it up is to remind us that it belongs to a different time, a time when the “Euro” and “Ameritrash” genres were more clearly defined, with less “hybrids”. As a matter of fact I think it’s a perfect game to demonstrate the difference in opinion Emmet and I have in relation to theme and its importance to a game.…

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Glen More 2 já mexe...

Glen More 2 já mexe…

Matthias Cramer publicou recentemente duas fotos do seu “novo” Glen More.

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O designer alemão já tinha deixado escapar à comunicação social que preparava uma revisão ao seu primeiro jogo publicado à seis anos atrás e agora, revelam-se as duas primeiras fotos do referido protótipo.

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Ainda não há datas para o lançamento mas muito provavelmente não será…

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Board Game Fridays: Strategize with Whiskey for Your Scottish Clan in Glen More!

2015/04/24

This week we played one of the more complex board games we have played: Glen More. As you may have gathered, it's a Scottish-themed game where each player represents a clan that is trying to expand its village...with sheep, land, and whiskey! As game & gamification designers, we love to see the full breadth of games out there, from simple-yet-fun games such as Sushi Go and Piece O'Cake, to relatively more complex games like 7 Wonders, and now Glen More.  

In the game, players take turns collecting tiles. Each tile represents a village, resource, castle, tavern, or distillery, and they all have varying costs and advantages. Tiles are placed next to existing tiles in your settlement, but there are some restrictions to how they can be laid. For example, some tiles need to align with existing rivers and roads. They can also only be laid if they are adjacent to a tile occupied by one of your clan member figures. Throughout the game you may acquire new clan members, who give you more options for where you can expand your settlement. When a new tile is placed, it "activates" adjacent tiles, generating resources (represented by small coloured cubes) and triggering other actions.  

What's interesting about Glen More is that the theme doesn't necessarily match the game mechanics, but it's important to be able to understand the mechanics and rules thoroughly to form a strategy. The point system is an example. Points are scored a number of ways, based on assets you acquire and the differential between your own and the other players'. Interestingly, players who do not have the least number of tiles are penalized for the differential with the one who does, so keeping that in mind as you go is important—you don't want to take too many tiles!  

It's also a game where everyone may not have the same number of turns. Depending on your choice of tile and where it is in the queue of tiles, you may end up further down the chain in terms of player turn, which means you may take fewer turns and do so less often while allowing players who choose a tile that is nearer to go again before you do.  

The game makers were questing for a high degree of balance with this tile selection mechanic that may penalize the player. If there were no penalty system, the person with the most tiles would always win, and the game can easily turn into a luck-based game. With the tile-selection mechanic, for example, each piece exists to balance out another piece, meaning there is no single way to win. In fact, the winning player might have the fewest tiles but only because they made the best choices of what tiles and when!  

Glen More is a game of efficiency. You want to make it so that every tile you take gets you the best outcome for you based on your current board configuration. It is about adapting to shifting variables according to your chosen strategy and being aware of the available resources and possibilities to change tactics if need be. Now go expand your Scottish clan and distill some whiskey!