On invading Asia Minor and other subjects
Jan. 2nd, 2004 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shirenomadLate as it was, thanks for the card, Fritz. Very nice.
Ear finally cleared up this morning (after an extra-heavy dose of peroxide the night before). That is SO MUCH BETTER...
It's become a bit of a Christmas break tradition, with my brothers and parents and I all home, to break out the old Avalon Hill "Civilization" board and spend an entire day trying to conquer each other's butts. For those who have never played (note: this is NOT the Sid Meier computer game), you've got multiple nations expanding through the Mediterranean region over the course of the pre-Roman era. Build cities, trade commodities, gain technology, then tally up the score at the end. I drew Crete again this year, which I dislike because it means building and mantaining a navy is a requirement from the start. Despite a civil war that handed me all of Thrace's (Andrew's) southern territories, most of which I held of the rest of the game, I wound up fourth place out of five. He still came out first (no matter how much he griped about the civil war "ruining him"). :P Egypt (Jonathan) stretched itself from Carthage to Damascus, only to realize it had spread too thin... when Assyria (Dad) and Italy (Mom) objected to the east and west borders, respectively, the Egyptians found themselves pushed back quickly... not enough to knock him out of second, though. Dad was third... Mom, dead last. Don't think it was because of inability, though; she crushed us all like bugs a couple years back.
Ear finally cleared up this morning (after an extra-heavy dose of peroxide the night before). That is SO MUCH BETTER...
It's become a bit of a Christmas break tradition, with my brothers and parents and I all home, to break out the old Avalon Hill "Civilization" board and spend an entire day trying to conquer each other's butts. For those who have never played (note: this is NOT the Sid Meier computer game), you've got multiple nations expanding through the Mediterranean region over the course of the pre-Roman era. Build cities, trade commodities, gain technology, then tally up the score at the end. I drew Crete again this year, which I dislike because it means building and mantaining a navy is a requirement from the start. Despite a civil war that handed me all of Thrace's (Andrew's) southern territories, most of which I held of the rest of the game, I wound up fourth place out of five. He still came out first (no matter how much he griped about the civil war "ruining him"). :P Egypt (Jonathan) stretched itself from Carthage to Damascus, only to realize it had spread too thin... when Assyria (Dad) and Italy (Mom) objected to the east and west borders, respectively, the Egyptians found themselves pushed back quickly... not enough to knock him out of second, though. Dad was third... Mom, dead last. Don't think it was because of inability, though; she crushed us all like bugs a couple years back.
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Date: 2004-01-02 08:59 pm (UTC)And, heh, I used to play that game in middle school ;)