Reply To: Do you know the rules?

[Sane Max]

We tend to go like this – person x buys the rules, likes them. tells person b they are great, gives him a game, person b likes them, buys them, points out all the mistakes person a made running the game., they try again, person c watches buys the rules, likes them and plays person b pointing out all the…. well you get the idea.

After about what, 10 years playing Hail Caesar occasionally, I finally bothered the read the quick reference guide at the back and discovered half a dozen mistakes we had all been making all along, often on the assumption it was the same basically as Black Powder and Pike and Shottttte.

I will also never forget the time, playing Kings of War (not my thing, but you have to make an effort) when I declared a number of charges. My oppo, who thought he had me on the ropes was ‘no, you can’t do that’ – i forget what it was precisely, but he, and all the others playing it, had assumed you had to declare all charges at the same time so couldn’t charge a unit out of the way and then charge the unit that cleared to charge IIRC – only to discover to his HORROR i was correct, just because I had not played before and had read the rules with an open mind.

Maybe it’s me, but I am really crap at remembering rules. I suspect I play too many very similar games.