Re: Chariots

["Benedict" <boycat_oh@...>]

Hi, Mark

I don't have any specific ideas for individual special actions, but I 
was wondering if choice of special actions could be done in a 
different way once you havemore of them. 

If, for example, you have 8 different special actions what if once 
an action has been used by a chariot in a lap it can't be used by 
anyone else? This could be noted by placing the special action 
coins on a separate piece of paper (a special action 'board') next 
to the special action chosen. The first player to choose off 'the 
menu' gets the most choice, and the selection possibilities 
decrease as each one is used up. Once the lap (or movement 
round, or whatever time segment you decide) the sepcial action 
coins would go back to the players and all 8 actions would be 
available again.

You would have to decide how to implement who gets to choose 
actions first from the list - maybe the player in last place could 
get first choice.

This is just an idea I had that could potentially add an additional 
amount of strategy to the race, it isn't fully fleshed out (it is your 
game, after all). I have no clue if it would add or detract from the 
game, as presumably you will want to test out any new special 
actions anyway,

Without having thought about beyond the initial idea, the benefit 
to doing something like this - as long as the special actions are 
fairly balanced (not necessarily of equal value, just nothing 
horribly over- or underpowered) - would be increased angst over 
which chariot would choose which special action(s), an 
additional dimension to the special action part of the game.

The downside I see would be an increase in analysis with 
potentially longer turns, which may be a downer in a race game 
depending on the crowd.

Even without any other changes a game which had people 
rooting for their chariots, especially when the chariots are 
wooden pawns and not cool-looking plastic reproductions of the 
Roman type, this game has got to be a winner to play.

Phillip
 
> I would like to ask for help here.  Everyone please read the 
rules for
> Chariots (current available in the Rule-sets-in-progress folder, 
soon
> to be on www.piecepack.org) and make suggestions for 
additional special
> actions in the game.  I will of course give credit for any 
suggestions
> used in the rules.
> 
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