You’re my favorite board game reviewer on KZitem .
@krisvanbeurden5059
4 ай бұрын
Absolutely!
@krisvanbeurden5059
4 ай бұрын
I actually like it that Agis is a bad choice for opportunism as he was a Spartan King :).
@krisvanbeurden5059
4 ай бұрын
Regarding the battle cards remark you made: I would say the battle cards from Hannibal are purely tactical regarding that particular battle. The battle cards of sparta! are strategical, where you need to take the entire flow of the game into account ( for example that Heroic Leadership you keep not using because you want your leaders to hang around).
@krisvanbeurden5059
4 ай бұрын
For a time, Athens was controlled by a pro Spartan oligarch faction while the war was prosecuted from the ionian coast :)
@krisvanbeurden5059
4 ай бұрын
You may send any envoy to your capital instead of its normal target if you desire. The envoy to metropolis could have gone to athens instead or argos if you wanted to.
@krisvanbeurden5059
4 ай бұрын
Last actions … i think Athens should not have attacked in hellespont ( it wasnt doing anything) and should have deployed from megale hellas to syracuse. That could have taken sicily away from sparta and would not have given sparta the favours it needed to discard its card.
@krisvanbeurden5059
4 ай бұрын
Just as a brief comment about the campaign, I totally understand where you come from and what you would have preferred ( from a history point of view). I designed the campaign and the interphases from the idea that the campaign would only really progress if both sides were still somewhat balanced - the interphase is not really designed to rebalance but more to open some space again ( so, not really reducing the leader, just reduce both sides equally).
@calandale
4 ай бұрын
So, I'm not just looking at it from the history pov, but also from the peculiarities with which I approached the concept of gameplay. I hit on the historical aspect more, because that's not subjective, but had the history been a stronger guide in dealing with the interphases, I still think that as compelling a game could have come out of it. Even with a simple binary winner/loser this would be possible by taking best 2 out of 3 scenarios, or by assigning weighted per-scenario values to a final scoring, in order to preserve an enhanced importance to that final one. It would also be very possible to maintain a (probably still ahistorical) lesser lead going out of each interphase in order to prevent an early blow-out like I think I'm seeing this time (it didn't look this bad after my first non-videoed attempt).
@krisvanbeurden5059
4 ай бұрын
What I could have done ( and did in A Flight of Arrows, my upcoming game about the 100 years war) is have each scenario provide a campaign victory point, and seriously rebalance in between scenarios during periods of peace and truce ( similar to your stated desire and also approach w.r.t. scenario wins in this playthrough).
@calandale
4 ай бұрын
Oooh....I have to keep an eye out for that one. Love 100YW
@krisvanbeurden5059
4 ай бұрын
@@calandale That one is really designed to be played in scenarios and campaign mode together (in Sparta, as you rightfully pointed out, the campaign is definitely secondary compared to the scenarios which are the main game) - it has 4 scenarios, one about the early Edwardian war (ending with the treaty of Bretigny), one about the reconquests by Charles the Wise, one about Henry the V and then finally one about Joan of Arc. Each of them are a game in itself, but the interphases are much more about balancing the setup to have the next scenario be a good part of a campaign game (with scenario wins counting as campaign VPs).
@krisvanbeurden5059
4 ай бұрын
Something that is mot entirely clear whether you know it or did it in a previous video already, but you may mobilise more than one thing per turn. Especially in the last ionian turn where athens had more leaders and more money, she could have overloaded sparta with attacks to which sparta could not have all reacted…
@calandale
4 ай бұрын
I think I was aware at one point, but it slipped my mind.
@krisvanbeurden5059
4 ай бұрын
@@calandale I hope you read my comments on your videos as an additional guide to other people who watch them rather than any kind of critique :). I see them as kind of the director's comments you can get as an extra on a DVD ...
@calandale
4 ай бұрын
I like to put them into the vids themselves, because most people probably don't see the comments. I think corrections and the like are important. It's wonderful that you're taking the time to give these. If I sounds cranky while making corrections or such....well, I'm just a cranky old man. :D
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