tablut revised

So last week we got to test are iterations for the board for my iterations I feel that they worked well and need a little more balance added. so my iterations (although I won't go into detail ) were to add a king piece (this was the one that worked well) and a barbarian army (which needs tweaking).
this blog is going to be a short one

A break from work a trip to the British Museum

Last Thursday we went on a class trip to the British Museum which is located in London the purpose of this trip you ask well the trip was to look at the existing and used board games mainly Sennett and Ur however they did have various other game pieces. what was even more interesting is that we were guided around by Irving Finkel who is an Archaeologist   and assistant keeper of the middle east department of the museum. So after that whirlwind tour around the game pieces we were left to our own devices and wondered around the museum I spent most of my looking around the exhibits mainly the witchcraft and Japanese exhibits which were both quite interesting(however there were still so many exhibits that I wanted to have a look at but never got round though...) although this was the first time I had been to the British museum i found it lacking something (I think this mainly due to the fact that I have stronger interest in natural history and science.) overall it was a good trip and it reminded me that there is only so much you can get from reading  you  need to go out and preform your own reaserch take this as advice  to anyone who  has ( unluckily)  stumbled across this blog

escape sennet

Last Thursday we played a reiterated version of Sennett called escape Sennett. This  version was different as it introduced a new mechanic of a monster piece and what this did was changed the mechanic of Sennett from being a competitive game to being more of a cooperative game because instead of playing against your opponent you now play against the monster piece. So what does the monster piece do well the monster piece is very limited when it comes to movement moving 1 along the first row an then move half of what the die had rolled and can't get past the river square. the other pieces objectives is to get of the board this can be done individually so that one piece move each turn or it can be stacked on to an opponent's piece meaning both players can move that piece. also 3 pieces of the same color will prevent the opposite color piece from moving.