Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Weimar

A first play is always a learning exercise, but this game based on the politics of the Weimar republic played well and gave a good feel for the political challenges of that period in history.

It's a four player game.  Richard was Zentrum (centre right), Peter DNVP (right), Russell KPD (left) and I was the SPD (centre left).  The two centre parties start as the Government  alliance.

Each player has a stylised counter, distinguished by colour and hats.
My guys wore bowlers or perhaps more correctly, Homberg's.


Not a great image, but the debating track (top left), social issues (top right),
 zones of influence (cities) and the seats in parliament can all be seen,
along with the unique player cards for Zentrum and SPD.

After three turns (about halfway through, although there are numerous sudden death and automatic victory conditions that can occur) we called an end as our time was running out.  At that stage I had 28 VPs, Zentrum 23 and the "fringe" parties 15 each.  We had just gone through an election and change of Chancellor and so had worked through most if not all of the game's mechanics.

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