Who here has played the Civilization card game?

[BTB]

Seeing as there's no forum for it... I guess off-topic is where this question belongs.

I picked up the Civilization boxset from Amazon the other day for 27 bucks, and I'd say that the card game alone is worth it. Very awesome, and it does a great job of capturing the feel of a civ game, straight down to taking for f-ing ever to play.

 

[BTB]

...anyone?

I'm surprised. I'd figure this board would be full of people who bought the boxset.

 

[Masquerouge]

I you like Civilization and long boardgames, this is what you should play:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/25613

 

[Truronian]

I imagine the fact we are all civ fanatics is the very reason we don't have the card game... IIR it came in Chronicles which we didn't buy because we, as fanatics, already owned all the games in it.

 

[Abaddon]

Also, to play it I would have to find several RL people as geeky as me.. and i'd rather not.

As long as I can expell all my geekyness here, i can appear to be relativly cool IRL.

 

[mrtn]

I've only played Avalon Hill's Advanced Civilization. Used to play it all the time 15 years ago, but nowadays it's harder to get 8 hours free with more than three people.

 

[Narz]

I haven't played it. Can I come over and try it?

 

[BirraImperial]

Seeing as there's no forum for it... I guess off-topic is where this question belongs.

I picked up the Civilization boxset from Amazon the other day for 27 bucks, and I'd say that the card game alone is worth it. Very awesome, and it does a great job of capturing the feel of a civ game, straight down to taking for f-ing ever to play.

I haven't played it yet. Is it like Risk or something? I already own all of the games so I didn't buy Chronicles. Maybe they should sell the board game separately.

 

[Masquerouge]

I've only played Avalon Hill's Advanced Civilization. Used to play it all the time 15 years ago, but nowadays it's harder to get 8 hours free with more than three people.

Advanced Civilization, or "how to ruin an excellent base game with a useless and poorly designed expansion".

 

[BirraImperial]

Advanced Civilization, or "how to ruin an excellent base game with a useless and poorly designed expansion".

I used to play that game on my PC back in 1996 I think... I thought it could be like a Civ II but of course, it ended up being a huge disappointment.

 

[Masquerouge]

I used to play that game on my PC back in 1996 I think... I thought it could be like a Civ II but of course, it ended up being a huge disappointment.

Well yeah, if you expected Sid's version... but the boardgame is a very good game. The expansion (Advanced Civ) basically fixed a lot of things that were not broken.

 

[BTB]

Everyone here IS aware that the board game is separate from the card game, right?

As for the card game, it plays very much like a Civilization game. It feels very true to the original game (in card game form, of course). I strongly suggest anyone here that has the opportunity try it, as it is a lot of fun.

As for whether or not I already owned the boxset... I got it off of Amazon for 27 bucks. The card game alone I feel is worth that much. The fact that I didn't already own Civ 1, Civ 4, Civ 3 complete (just vanilla), and that I lost my copy of Civ 2 was just icing on the cake.

 

[Phlegmak]

I bought the boardgame. I played it a total of 3 times and never completed a game. It's actually a poor boardgame. I've never heard of the card game. BTB, can you provide actual information on it?

 

[h4ppy]

I have not played it.

 

[Masquerouge]

I bought the boardgame. I played it a total of 3 times and never completed a game. It's actually a poor boardgame. I've never heard of the card game. BTB, can you provide actual information on it?

Which boardgame?
Civilization
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/71
Advanced Civilization
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/177
Sid Meier's Civilization: the boardgame
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3633

I guess 3 but I just want to make sure

 

[cthom]

i bought chronicles because my original civ 4 disc vanished into the black hole that is my games room. (i *know* it's still here, somewhere..).
i haven't played the card game against anyone, but it looks like it could be cut-throat depending on the deal.

 

[Phlegmak]

Which boardgame?
Civilization
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/71
Advanced Civilization
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/177
Sid Meier's Civilization: the boardgame
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3633

I guess 3 but I just want to make sure

Number 3.

 

[BTB]

I bought the boardgame. I played it a total of 3 times and never completed a game. It's actually a poor boardgame. I've never heard of the card game. BTB, can you provide actual information on it?

It was a card game designed by Soren Johnson and crew for the Civilization Chronicles boxset.

More info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_(card_game)

 

[BTB]

Just got done playing my first-ever four man version of the game...

It tends to change the dynamics in that you have more people you need to defend against, plus it tends to wear the building pool much thinner. I never even pulled any walls, whereas in a two-man game you tend to get them very early on.

I am thus far completely undefeated with only one exception, and part of that was due to exceptionally poor shuffling of the cards.

 

[Narz]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_(card_game)

Nothing there!